How to get vocal samples from movies

[captain lysergicacid]

Hi!
Newbie question here:
If i have a movie DVD, and i want to sample a voice at, lets say 1:21:34

How do I go about it?

I guess the best quality would be achieved by plugging the DVD Player to an Amp, and from there into an interface, skip to 1:21:34 and record as audio.

But what would be an easier way?

Years (almost centuries) ago, i used a tool called No23 Recorder, which could record all outputs from a computers soundcard.

So this would save a lot of effort, and time, put the DVD into a computer, skip to 1:21:34 and make a record with the tool.

Anyways, what are nowadays techniques?

[Distorted Horizon]

I'd play it with computer and record with Audacity or Ocenaudio (and asio4all drivers).

[thecontrolcentre]

As above, or connect a DVD players audio out to your audio interface.

[Jace-BeOS]

Some audio software will extract DVD audio, including separate channels. This can be very helpful for increased isolation of the center channel audio where speech usually is... if the movie is mixed that way.

Assuming you have an optical drive on your computer...

[Kinh]

why the eff do you wanna extract vocal?

[captain lysergicacid]

why the eff do you wanna extract vocal?

... to make music



Song by Aphex Twin
Vocal Sample from the movie Charlies Chocolate Factory

[zzz00m]

If you can playback on a Windows PC, Audacity is an easy solution.

Set the Audacity audio device preference to Windows WASAPI, and then you should find another item in your recording device options that has 'loopback' properties. For example the recording device choices for my interface are 'Line 1/2' or 'Line 1/2 (loopback) in this mode.

You can record 'what you hear' with this loopback setting, like the old sound blaster cards could do.

Even got some really cool ring tones for my phone that way!