Converting video to audio

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And by that, I mean doing what image to audio “converters” do, but with video.

Is there a program, an app, or a plugin, that can do that?

Thanks!

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MAX/MSP can be made to do it.
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someone posted one in hosts a while back, not sure how good it was, or what it was called.
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Any real video editors will do it.
You just render out the audio only in whatever audio format you might need.

You're basically just stripping out the audio from the video.

For instance Magix Vegas will do that no problem.

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Dirk Diggler wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:48 pm Any real video editors will do it.
You just render out the audio only in whatever audio format you might need.

You're basically just stripping out the audio from the video.

For instance Magix Vegas will do that no problem.
that's not the same as converting images to sound :)
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Dirk Diggler wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:48 pm You're basically just stripping out the audio from the video.
Nope, different thing entirely.

So, for example, this is a hardware version:

http://www.silhouette-synthesizer.de/
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whyterabbyt wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:35 pm
Dirk Diggler wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:48 pm You're basically just stripping out the audio from the video.
Nope, different thing entirely.

So, for example, this is a hardware version:

http://www.silhouette-synthesizer.de/
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For converting a video in audio... I do it with a DAW.
1. I import a video in a DAW (Reaper, Logic Pro, ... all DAWs that know to read videos).
2. The video strem is placed by the DAW in a video track, and the audio related with this video is placed in an audio track.
3. I export the audio track.
Done ! :wink:

My 2 cents.

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Lutin mutin wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:43 pm For converting a video in audio... I do it with a DAW.
1. I import a video in a DAW (Reaper, Logic Pro, ... all DAWs that know to read videos).
2. The video strem is placed by the DAW in a video track, and the audio related with this video is placed in an audio track.
3. I export the audio track.
Done ! :wink:

My 2 cents.
it doesn't convert a silent film in to audio, based on the images though.

he's not looking to extract audio from a video, but make audio from the images in the video
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So its an audio from video generator that's needed? hmmm :?

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thecontrolcentre wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:57 pm So its an audio from video generator that's needed? hmmm :?
yeah, i have seen a good few jpg/img to audio, and as mentioned i did see one video to audio a while back

that link rabbyt dropped above gives an idea of it. it's obviously very experimental/hit and miss, but im sure there's lots to be done with it 8)
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For those without Live/Max, the extended version of Pure Data might be capable.

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Lutin mutin wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:43 pm My 2 cents.
pretty f**king expensive for misunderstanding the question completely.
the OP wrote:by that, I mean doing what image to audio “converters” do, but with video.
ever managed to rip the soundtrack from a static image? nah, didnt think so.
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Thanks guys. I do have access to Max for Live, if that counts. Pure Data, I guess I could look at. Also do have Reaktor 6, FWIW. Um, and Reaper with its own form of coding..

Was truly hoping someone had already done this. Still seems unlikely. Ah well.

And yeah, must admit, it was a weird question. Totally get how it could be misunderstood.

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Did you have a look at Metasynth or Photosounder? At least they can work on images.
They main question is what and how you want to translate which properties of an image to sound. As our visual reception is way slower than our ear (frame rate vs. sample rate) there is space to convert the 2 dimensional image into the one dimensional sound, but it has to make sense…
In Max you could try to interpret the data of a frame into a fft frame for example, and have different parts of the image represent different frequencies. But its likely that this result in some arbitrary noise… Then you could try to quantize it to some sort of overtone structure, but what property of each frame would determine the fundamental?
If you could follow what I describe, you will recognize, that there are so many decisions to be made, that each variant will be its own art work, not a universally usable application…
Its an interesting topic though and could be the core of a complete experimental musical career…

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