Extract audio from video save the sound on its own
Pull the soundtrack out of a clip and save it as its own file. Trim first and you get only the section you selected, at the volume you set.
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Useful when the sound is the part worth keeping: an interview answer, a voice memo you recorded on camera, or a live take you want to listen to away from the picture. The audio is taken from the trimmed section, so you can grab exactly the passage you need.
How to extract audio online
Open your video
Drop in the clip you want the sound from.
Trim to the part you want
Set the start and end on the timeline. Only that section is extracted.
Set the level
Adjust the volume in the Audio tool if the recording is quiet. Make sure Remove sound is unticked.
Press Extract audio
You get an M4A or WebM audio file, depending on what your browser can record.
M4A or WebM, depending on your browser
Chrome, Edge and Safari generally produce M4A (AAC), which plays in essentially everything including iPhones and music apps. Firefox produces WebM audio (Opus), which plays in browsers, VLC and most modern players. Neither needs converting for normal listening.
Extraction follows your trim
Set the in and out points first. The audio you get back starts and ends exactly where the timeline selection does, so there is no second trim to do afterwards.
Your video never leaves your device
Most online video editors upload your file to their servers before you can touch it. This one works differently: every edit and every export happens inside your browser, on your own hardware.
Pulling the sound out of a clip means the audio is the part you care about — an interview, a recording of a talk, a take of a song. That is usually the most sensitive part of the file, not the least.
Your browser decodes the track and saves it beside the video on your own device. The recording is never transmitted, and there is no copy of it waiting on a server to be cleaned up.
Extract audio — questions and answers
What audio format do I get back?
M4A in browsers that can record it, including recent Chrome, Edge and Safari, and WebM everywhere else. Both play in ordinary music apps and both can be imported by any editor.
Does it save only the part I trimmed?
Yes. The audio follows whatever selection the Trim tool is holding, so setting the start and end first gives you exactly that section of sound and nothing else. The volume you set in the Audio panel is applied too.
What if the video has no sound?
Then there is nothing to pull out, and the export will not produce a useful file. Clips recorded with the microphone muted, or screen recordings captured without system audio, have no track at all.
Will the audio be as good as the original?
The sound is re-encoded on the way out, so it is a copy rather than the untouched original track. For speech, music and general use the difference is not audible.
Does extracting audio work on a phone?
Yes. It is also one of the quicker exports, since only the sound has to be written rather than every frame of video.
Is my video uploaded to extract the audio?
No. The soundtrack is decoded and saved by your own browser, and the video never leaves your device.
Can I get an MP3?
Browsers cannot record MP3 directly, so the output is M4A or WebM. Both are widely supported; if you specifically need MP3, convert the M4A afterwards in any converter.
Why is Extract audio greyed out or refusing?
If Remove sound is ticked there is no audio to extract, so untick it first. A clip with no audio track at all cannot be extracted either.
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Trim first to take just the section you want, set the level, and save it as its own file.
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