Case: Editing Audio (embedded) in Movie Maker

I was doing the Intro - Video for Club Robotica, when I had to deal with a video taken from the BBC archives. The video was super cool showing the life style of chinese farmers and fishermen. The background score was super good as well. But, what distracted me was the commentary given by the narrator. I tried to remove it, but to no avail.

Then, I decided to totally mute the audio for that clip alone and add some other smooth audio in its place. But, when I clicked on the Audio Tab (in Windows Movie Maker) to remove it, I found nothing in the Audio Bar. (Audio embedded with the Video or something??? Huh?)

How did I solve the Issue? Read on..

1. I created a movie out of the current clips with the present Audio.

2. Then, used Total Video Convertor, to extract the audio alone from the newly created movie. [Just give the output format as .MP3]

3. Muted the whole Audio track of current movie and added this extracted audio in the Audio Bar.

4. Made a "Cut" before and after the clip for which I needed a new audio.

5. Inserted the new audio (from the Audio Archive I maintained in my local server) in its place.

And walah...I've done what I wanted.

It's just then I pondered, how the very small things ( making an intro movie for the club) we do, teaches us really big technical stuff (which I would not have been able to do on-the-spot in case of an emergency.).

This is what I term as, "Experience" !

Club Robotica - The Robotics Club

Well, I thought of starting the blog off, with a good news. My acumen for Robotics, has grown over the past weeks and my mission of starting a Robotics Club in my College (Easwari Engineering College, Chennai...for those of you who didn't know!) is almost over. We will be inaugurating the Club anytime shortly.

The Club, was started mainly to share my knowledge, with my Juniors, so that they are revved up early in life to achieve something great, without wasting time due to lack of guidance.

The Club would act as a platform, where members (Students of my College) can get together, interact, learn, share knowledge, do projects together, participate in competitions, and get all support they need along the lines of Robotics.

The club is also planned to hold modules on Programming. We are planning to deal with C/C++ /Embedded C as of now. We will be having completely practical sessions, and the college has been kind enough to provide us with the required resources.

We've been busy putting up the posters for about a fortnight now, and the response has been something more than just great. We have received more than 300 registrations so far, from the various departments. But, a bad news comes accompanying the good ones. Due to the overwhelming response, we are in a fix, finding a place to accomodate all the 300 members, for the Club. We are still thinking about a positive solution.

Finally, we are planning to start the Club functionally, very soon, and it's supposed to be conducted every thursday at 4.00 PM.