Can I extract music from a scene?

Author: vivsavage
Date: 30-Jan-2006, 11:11 AM

Author: vivsavage
Time: 30-Jan-2006 11:11 AM
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Is there any way to extract the music from a scene so you are left watching only the dialog/nat sound? I'm 99% sure there isn't, but I thought I'd see if there is some miracle software that can do this (on a Mac preferably).

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Author: MeBeJedi
Time: 30-Jan-2006 6:04 PM
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Nope. Sorry. You can minimize specific frequencies and such, but everthing is otherwise mixed altogether, like an egg in pancake mix. That being said, if you can get the 5.1 soundtrack, some speakers will have certain parts of the mix (center speaker carries most of the main dialogue, stereo speakers tend to have music and effects, suround speakers have music and ambiance.) If you play around a little with them, and possible substitute different sections between the various speakers, you might get what you are looking for, but it will take some work.

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Author: Gillean
Time: 1-Feb-2006 7:31 PM
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Actually it is possible, but you need a copy of the soundtrack mix by itself first. Basically you invert the music and layer it over the full soundtrack. Unfortunately it is usually too hard to get an exact copy of the soundtrack. Another downside is, unless you had a 5.1 mix of the music, the output would be mono.

A similar technique can be used to remove watermarks from images and video.

I haven't used either technique in over four years so I won't be much more help; I might have another go at it this weekend to refresh my memory.

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