Audio files from movies
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I have a full movie I wanted to edit the audio in. Movie is 1'30'' long. When I do the extract in Logic I get an audio file that plays the entire audio, but it is 1 tick long and pointer indicates a file w/o lenght. I am unable to edit this. I tried extract audio from movie and extract to arrange. Both give me the same file lenght. File is an MP4 file. Is there a way to edit the audio? This is my 1st video attempt.
Thanks
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Thanks Rohan. I will try that this evening. I did buy QT pro, but apple has failed to send # Been going round and round with them for last 3 days on the number. I will post my results tonight after I put upi my christmas light that my wife just told me I am doing .
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Please help me.
I have to play an audio file from applet.When the applet loads it shold start playing .There is a progress bar in the applet it shold alsomove corresponding to that.
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package com.d2e.MyPlugin;
import com.servoy.j2db.scripting.IScriptObject;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.Button;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import org.xiph.speex.*;
import org.xiph.speex.spi.*;
import sun.audio.*; //import the sun.audio package
public class MyPluginProvider implements IScriptObject {
public void JSencode()
throws IOException{
/** Version of the Speex Encoder */
final String VERSION = "Java Speex Command Line Encoder v0.9.7 ($Revision: 1.5 $)";
/** Copyright display String */
final String COPYRIGHT = "Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Wimba S.A.";
/** Print level for messages : Print debug information */
final int DEBUG = 0;
/** Print level for messages : Print basic information */
final int INFO = 1;
/** Print level for messages : Print only warnings and errors */
final int WARN = 2;
/** Print level for messages : Print only errors */
final int ERROR = 3;
int printlevel = INFO;
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final int FILE_FORMAT_RAW = 0;
/** File format for input or output audio file: Ogg */
final int FILE_FORMAT_OGG = 1;
/** File format for input or output audio file: Wave */
final int FILE_FORMAT_WAVE = 2;
int srcFormat = FILE_FORMAT_OGG;
int destFormat = FILE_FORMAT_WAVE;
int mode = -1;
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int complexity = 3;
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int nframes = 1;
/** Defines the desired bitrate for the encoded audio. */
int bitrate = -1;
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int sampleRate = -1;
/** Defines the number of channels of the audio input (1=mono, 2=stereo). */
int channels = 1;
/** Defines the encoder VBR quality setting (float from 0 to 10). */
float vbr_quality = -1;
/** Defines whether or not to use VBR (Variable Bit Rate). */
boolean vbr = false;
/** Defines whether or not to use VAD (Voice Activity Detection). */
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/** Defines whether or not to use DTX (Discontinuous Transmission). */
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//destPath="junk.spx";
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final int HEADERSIZE = 8;
final String RIFF = "RIFF";
final String WAVE = "WAVE";
final String FORMAT = "fmt ";
final String DATA = "data";
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WORD nChannels; // number of channels (i.e. mono, stereo...)
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WORD nBlockAlign; // block size of data
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TargetDataLine targetDataLine;
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// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
public String[] getParameterNames(String arg0) {
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targetDataLine.close();
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