You just downloaded a video clip from YouTube and only need its audio for music mixing. There’s a simple way to cut out the whole audio or a portion of it and export new audio into various audio file format like MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, etc.
With the assistant of the free AV Audio Editor – a handy and fully functional audio editing program, you can input any video file and export the audio part out of it.
- Double click on a AV Audio Editor shortcut; or
![AV Audio Editor](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/mix-effects/ae-shortcut.png)
- Launch Media Player Morpher » On the main menu, select Tools » Audio tools » AV Audio Editor to open the tool.
![Launch Audio Editor](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/open-audio-editor.png)
- When AV Audio Editor open, choose File menu (1) » Open File...(2)
![Open File](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/open-video.png)
- Then locate to your video file's directory, select it (3) and click Open (4)
![Locate video file](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/select-video.png)
- Wait for the file to be fully loaded into AV Audio Editor. It may take longer if the file size is large.
![Video File Sucessfully Imported](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/file-loaded.png)
- On the icon bar, click Save as (5) to save your file as a new audio file » Choose the file destination folder (6) » Input File name (7) and select your favorite audio format type at Save as type (8). Click Save when done.
![Output Settings](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/output-setting.png)
- Then the Encoding Settings window will appear for further settings. If you have no idea what to choose, just leave it as recommended and click Save (9).
![Encoding Settings](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/encoding-settings.png)
And now, you have a new audio file from your downloaded video.
- Drag to select your favorite part of the audio » Right-click and use Cut/Copy function to add the selected range to clipboard.
![Select audio portion](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/select-range.png)
- Create a New File... (10) and paste the selected to the main waveform workplace (11)
![Paste selection to new file](https://support.audio4fun.com/images/stories/VKM/extract-audio/paste-new-file.png)
Note: If you want to enhance the audio or mix it in your own style, do not miss out this tutorial.
- Scroll up to Step 2 for how to save the audio file.