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" !