How to extract audio from Canon DSLR camera footage?

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Canon EOS 7D

The Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac is designed for converting HD videos from HD camcorders or DVs (like JVC, Panasonic, Sony, Nikon and Canon), non-protected HD or Blu-ray movies, DVR files (*.tivo) to other file types for playback on iOS devices and editing in iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere, and so on. On top of that, it supports extracting audio from videos.

The video to audio conversion lets you extract audios from AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save the audio track to MP3/ WMA/ WAV/ AAC/ AC3/ MKA/ FLAC files. With the trimming function, it’s quick and easy to take an hour’s footage and extract only five minutes’ for fun. Follow the guide below for extracting audio from Canon DSLR camera footage.

How to extract audio from Canon DSLR camera footage

Step 1. Load Videos to the Audio Extractor.

Back up Canon DSLR video structure to Mac HDD. Run the software, click “Add Video” or "Add from Folder" to browse to individual .mov files or the source folder. You may also import AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MPG, FLV, MOV, MP4, 3GP videos from local HDD.

extract audio from canon dslr camera

Step 2. Set output audio format from the “Format” bar.

Click on the “Format” bar and choose “Common Audio”, here you find MP3 and various other audio formats (wav, m4a, ogg, ac3, wma, aac, au, aiff, mp2, flac, mka) for you to choose from.

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If you prefer 5.1 surround sound, choose “AC3 - Dolby Digital AC-3(*.ac3)” format, then follow the steps below:

1. Click on “Settings”.

2. In the Settings window, find “Channels” and select “5.1 channels” from its drop-down list.

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Step 3. Extract MP3 audio from Canon DSLR videos.

Click the "Convert" button and the Audio Extractor will convert audio from Canon DSLR video files and output them to MP3 or other desired audio format.

Tip 1: how to trim/extract a section only, instead of full-length audio?

This is a very basic but pretty helpful editing feature. It is very simple to extract partial length of sound track from videos.

To use the Trim function in the Editor, simply select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab. Play the video while setting start time by clicking “[“ and end time “]”.

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