Extract audio from clips 

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Learn how to extract audio from clips and generate new audio source clips in a project in Adobe Premiere Pro. 

You can extract audio from clips and generate new audio source clips in a project while preserving the original source clips. Any source channel mappings, gain, speed, duration, and interpret footage adjustments in the original source clips are applied to the new, extracted audio clips. 

  1. In the Project panel, select one or more clips that contain audio. 

  2. Select Clip > Audio Options > Extract Audio

    Clip menu in Premiere Pro with Audio Options expanded and Extract Audio highlighted, allowing users to separate audio from a selected video clip., Picture
    Extract Audio creates a separate audio clip from the original video, allowing you to edit or move the audio independently.

The new audio files will have Audio Extracted in the file name.