Audio for image sequence

Hi all -
I am doing some animation for a tv pilot and need to get the movie file into separate image sequence and audio files to import into my animation software. I was able to extract segments of the movie into image sequence, so that is no problem .... what i need to do is get the audio into a separate file. I tried sound to wav and ended up with a blank file.... i am using win xp .... any help would be appreciated.... thanks....

It "sounds" (no pun intended) like your source file is "muxed". This is the format of Flash and MPEG 1 or 2. QuickTime Pro can't export the audio portion of the file.
You'll need third party software to convert the file to QT formats (DV Stream is best).

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