So I came across a Quicktime video today that I really wanted to use the audio track from. However, I came to find out that getting the audio track from a .mov isn't an easy task if you do not have Quicktime Pro.

If you do have Quicktime Pro... then you can simply just export the audio track. However, without it you can't... and here is how I got around the issue:

Copy or Rename the file so that it has a .mp3 extension. Open audio editing software (I did this with Garage band as it was convenient and already installed, but imagine that many other software would work) and open the newly renamed .mp3 file. Note with Garage band I had to drag and drop the file from outside... in.

You can now edit the audio as usual, and then save/export the audio to a new file. In Garage band I used the 'export to iTunes' feature which exports an MP3 or AAC.

Done. I'm thinking there are probably more sophisticated ways, but with no time to search around a lot I really just had to get it working and this was a solution that worked.