Video to WAV converter
Pull the sound out of any video as an uncompressed, editing-ready WAV — screen recordings, exports, clips. Conversion happens in your browser — the file never touches a server.
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A video file is really two streams bundled together: the picture and a separate audio track — usually AAC inside an MP4 or MOV, or Opus inside a WebM. A video-to-WAV converter throws away the picture, decodes that audio track, and rewrites the samples as uncompressed PCM in a WAV container. WAV is the format DAWs, audio editors, and samplers open natively, with no codec plugin or extra decode step in the way.
People convert MP4 to WAV when they want to edit the sound rather than just play it back. Cutting, denoising, or remixing behaves more predictably on an uncompressed WAV than on the compressed track buried inside a video, and every editor from Audacity to Ableton imports WAV without a fuss. It's the fastest way to lift a clip's narration, music bed, or dialogue out of the video and drop it straight onto a timeline.
How it works
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Drop the video file (MP4, MOV, WebM…).
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Click convert.
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Download the WAV.
When to use it
- Pull the voiceover out of an OBS or QuickTime screen recording so you can trim and clean it up in Audacity before it becomes a track.
- Extract the demo mix from an MP4 you rendered in CapCut or Premiere and drop the raw WAV back into FL Studio or Ableton to rework it.
- Grab dialogue or a sound effect from a MOV clip to load into a hardware sampler or a game engine like Unity, where a plain WAV drops straight in without an extra decode step.
About the WAV format
FAQ
Does converting to WAV improve the audio quality?
No — WAV just stores the video's existing audio track uncompressed. Most video audio is already lossy, so the WAV won't restore any detail; it only gives you an editing-friendly copy.
Will DRM-protected video work?
No — files with copy protection (streaming downloads, some store purchases) can't be converted. Your own recordings, exports, and clips work fine.
Why is the WAV bigger than the original video?
WAV stores audio uncompressed at roughly 10 MB per minute for 16-bit stereo, so a few minutes of audio can easily out-size a heavily compressed short clip. The video looked small because both its picture and sound were compressed; the WAV drops that compression on the audio, which is exactly what makes it easy to edit.
What sample rate will the WAV be, and does it matter for my DAW?
Video soundtracks are usually mastered at 48 kHz (the film and video standard) rather than the 44.1 kHz common for music, and the WAV comes out at a standard 44.1 or 48 kHz stereo. If it doesn't match your DAW project's sample rate, set the project to the same rate or resample on import so the audio doesn't play back at the wrong speed or pitch.
Can I convert a long recording, like an hour-plus stream capture?
There's no server-side size cap since nothing is uploaded, but the whole file is decoded in your browser using your device's memory. Very long or high-resolution recordings can be slow to load or strain RAM, so on a modest machine it helps to trim the video first or work in shorter sections.
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