how to record sound on your computer from your computer?

[mizzou]

I want to record some live sounds from some videos that I have. I have tried just putting a microphone infront of my speakers but it sounds so horrible.

Example.

DVD is playing and I hear a sound I want to record and store as a .wav


I have a laptop as well. I heard you can use audio out and then put the output into the audio input (mic) of a 2nd computer and use a software program to capture and record

Don't see why you can' t just bypass that method and just use a software to capture the audio out and just record it right there.


Annnyway, I have searched forever online and can find nothing on how to get this accomplished.

I have Audacity for sound editing and adobe premier for video editing

 

[Rubycon]

Your sound card must be able to have a mixer function that allows you to record direct sound mixes. For example, Creative cards have a "record what u hear" [sic] function. This basically records what is coming out the line out terminals to a wav file of specification set in your editor.

This question would be better suited for the A/V forum

 

[mizzou]

lol, I thought A/V was more for TV's and home theatres,

thanks!

I have a nice creative card, Im guna check it out

 

[Cogman]

, for a dvd at least, the best way to get the sound out is to use dvd decrypter + DGIndex. DGIndex will split the audio from the video. After that you are free to encode it to what ever format you like.

After that, my knowledge is limited. I believe you can get quite a few programs to record the sound coming out or going to the speaker line.

 

[mizzou]

the "what u hear" selection on my REC options for creative card worked fantastic! Can't believe i didn't know about it along time ago.

I have to degrade the sound significantly anyway so I don't really need CD Bitrate quality,

I'm using this to change some sounds in a civil war game that I have

I have a large collection of reinactments and misc. stuff like that which I want to use in game.

Does speaker quality effect the "what you hear" recording or is it just the level of playback used from your sound card?
Obviously the quality of the source is important, just didn't know if the physical specs of your speakers or the sound level they are at made a difference

 

[Foxery]

There are no speakers - it's a direct loop. The quality will be whatever the sound card is capable of putting out.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Foxery
There are no speakers - it's a direct loop. The quality will be whatever the sound card is capable of putting out.

Yes this is true however (especially in the case with CL cards) to get the lowest noise floor possible you MUST mute every input that is not in use. For example if the line in, mic in, cd audio in, etc. are open (unmuted) then you will be recording their noise. In the case with mic inputs, this can raise the noise floor considerably reaching audible levels in lower level passages in music and broadcasts, for example. Speakers and volume level, OTOH, have no bearing on RWUH (record what u hear) inputs.

 

[Stiganator]

If you have the videos, why don't you just rip the audio track from it and edit away?
There is a mac program called wiretap that will do what you want. But I would just load up the video in premiere and crop the audio parts you want then render the audio only.


Am I not understanding something here?

 

[Calculator83]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
If you have the videos, why don't you just rip the audio track from it and edit away?
There is a mac program called wiretap that will do what you want. But I would just load up the video in premiere and crop the audio parts you want then render the audio only.


Am I not understanding something here?

Not everyone is 1337.

If he didn't know how to do what you're suggesting, he'd have to start by reading some Lengthy tutorials. "And most people who use Premiere don't have legal copies" those who don't certainly don't know how to get it.

 

[octopus41092]

Theres some programs that record directly what your sound card is outputting. You can try googling sound card recorder or something like that.

 

[TheMouse]

http://www.totalrecorder.com/

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: Stiganator
If you have the videos, why don't you just rip the audio track from it and edit away?
There is a mac program called wiretap that will do what you want. But I would just load up the video in premiere and crop the audio parts you want then render the audio only.


Am I not understanding something here?

Not everyone is 1337.

If he didn't know how to do what you're suggesting, he'd have to start by reading some Lengthy tutorials. "And most people who use Premiere don't have legal copies" those who don't certainly don't know how to get it.

You can do it in VirtualDub, which is free and not very difficult to use.

 

[TheMouse]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: Stiganator
If you have the videos, why don't you just rip the audio track from it and edit away?
There is a mac program called wiretap that will do what you want. But I would just load up the video in premiere and crop the audio parts you want then render the audio only.


Am I not understanding something here?

Not everyone is 1337.

If he didn't know how to do what you're suggesting, he'd have to start by reading some Lengthy tutorials. "And most people who use Premiere don't have legal copies" those who don't certainly don't know how to get it.

You can do it in VirtualDub, which is free and not very difficult to use.

Yea, I was thinking with VirtualDub too, but VirtualDub is limiting in video formats it handles - I believe if it's not encapsulated in an AVI or not an mpeg file, you're out of luck - please correct me if I'm wrong.

I still find Total Recorder, as I mentioned above, the easiest fool-proof(est) way to do it. Not free though. :-(

 

[Leros]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity can be very simple to use if you just want to record audio.

http://audacity.sourceforge.ne...t/images/recording.png
On the menu, right under the big buttons there is a drop down selection that says "mic" in this picture. One of the options is "What I hear", which will do what you want.