When you import a video file into Reaper with audio on it – it comes in as one file / one item.
So if you try and edit the audio – you’ll be editing the video too.
This is the quickest way I have found to work with the audio on a video in Reaper.
- Import video file into Reaper
- Duplicate the track – label the top one ‘video only’ and the duplicate ‘Audio’
- Mute the track you labelled ‘Audio’
- Select the video track, ‘View’ the video (Shift Cmd V) and right click on the footage – choose video properties
- Select ‘Disable Audio’ and OK
- Move the payhead and the video track will lose it’s waveform. Minimise the video track
- If you want to you could hit the route button on the video track and uncheck the master parent send
- Unmute the audio track. We still have video on this track so to get rid of it select the item – right click and choose Glue
- That will convert that item to a WAV file and so Audio Only
- Start editing!
