Mine is on the Desktop, as you can see below. In a separate window, open Finder and navigate to your video file. You should now be looking at a screen that looks something like this: If you read the text on this one, you’ll see drag and drop audio files, which is what we’re going to be doing. Here, we’re going to click the icon with a microphone on it. Once you do that, a new screen will appear. Go ahead and double-click the Empty Project icon.

The first thing you’ll see is a screen asking you to create an Empty Project. Then, type “GarageBand” and press return. To open GarageBand, press cmd + spacebar to bring up Spotlight search. If you don’t have it, you can download it for free from the Mac App Store. It’s free and (I believe) pre-installed on your Mac. GarageBand is the music creation app that comes with Mac natively.

None are necessarily better than the others – it just comes down to what’s most convenient for you. You’ll probably notice that these methods are pretty similar and interchangeable. The third will require third-party software that you probably already have and can get on Mac and PC for free. The first two are going to be Mac-specific you won’t need to download any extra apps. I’m going to be covering three different methods to convert video to audio.

Method 1: Convert video to audio using GarageBand

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Method 3: Use VLC to convert video files to audio files.

Method 2: Convert video to audio with built-in encoding.

Method 1: Convert video to audio using GarageBand.

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