Extract audio from video Directly in Mac OS X Lion

2012-05-16 01:12:26 / Posted by Brian Fisher to Video Solution
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Part 1: Extract M4A audio from video in MP4, MOV, M4V and MPG (Lion only)
Part 2: Extract MP3, M4A, M4R etc. audio form any video, DVD, songs (Lion included)

Part 1: Extract M4A audio from video in MP4, MOV, M4V and MPG (Lion only)

Mac Audio extraction now can be very simple if you have a Mac running Mac OS X Lion. The new Mac system gains the ability to extract audio from video files. This new media encoding feature is directly built into the Finder. But this doesn’t mean you can extract audio from all video files but only videos in MOV, MP4, MPG and M4V, and the extracted audio files normally are saved as 256kbps M4A files.

To convert video to audio track directly on your Mac OS X Lion, you can:

Right-click the video you wanna converted;
Select “Encode Selected Video Files” at the bottom of the pop-up menu;
Then you will see an “Encode Media” window, go to Setting and choose “Audio Only”
Click on “Continue” or uncheck “Same as source file” to customize the output destination;

Once you click the button of Continue, you will instantly get the extracted M4A audio track. The new track is named as the same as the original video file. And if you double click the audio track, the file will be opened via iTunes.

If you didn’t see the Encode options, you can

Head to the Apple menu and go to System Preferences;
Click Keyboard;
Go to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab;
Choose Services on the left sidebar and check“Encode Selected Audio Files” and “Encode Selected Video Files”

Part 2: Extract MP3, M4A, M4R etc. audio form any video, DVD, songs (Lion included)

If you wanna extract audio from video files in FLV, AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV and more, even from your DVDs, you can use iSkysoft iMedia Converter for Mac. This Mac app can extract audio from video in all popular formats and DVDs, and enables you to save your audio in MP3, AAC, M4A and more. Both video conversion and audio conversion are supported: