DVD sound track

I am burning DVDs that need no sound.
Can you Burn a disk that skips that part of the encoding?
Just want to speed up the encoding.

Well... that would be a no... and yes.
If there's no audio already in your sequence, then there is nothing for iDVD to encode. If you have audio in your sequence, then there is no way to break it out in iDVD short of going back to your editor (iMovie, FCE, etc) and deleting the audio.
However, for what it's worth, I don't think you will see huge time improvements in the compression. iDVD uses uncompressed audio and I should imagine that the math is near the same with or without.
Mike

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Is it possible to capture a DVD sound track while it plays on iDVD using GarageBand or iTunes? Can it be Imported or Copied?

brianfromcross plains wrote:
Is it possible to capture a DVD sound track while it plays on iDVD using GarageBand or iTunes? Can it be Imported or Copied?
You would use a 3rd party application like Audio Hijack to do that, then import into GB:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/

Importing a DVD sound track

Is there a way to import a sound track from a DVD into itunes then copy it to an ipod?

Audio Hijack will work, but it is a real-time process and records all sounds, including system sounds, when recording.
Instead of recording, you can "rip" the audio only from a DVD and convert it to MP3.
It is not a quick process, but it certainly can be done. I have followed this process for several concert DVDs that I own and I am quite happy with the results. Best of all, it can all be done with free software, but there is one small program to buy to give it a more professional touch and amke it much easier on the ears.
First, download OSEx. This will allow you to extract only the audio files from a DVD.
To demux/extract only the audio with OSEx, splitting the audio in one file per chapter (usually equivalent to a song for music videos):
- After starting OSex and inserting your music video DVD, make sure the correct title is selected by clicking on the "TI" button.
- Click on the "VID" button an deselect the video stream(s).
- Click on the "Aud" button and select the appropriate audio stream (usually 2 channel AC3).
- Click on the "Fmt" button and select "Elem. streams."
- Click on the "Seg" button and select "Chapter" to split the audio by track in separate files.
- Click "Begin" to start audio axtraction.
If you have a few songs that span several DVD tracks and have no break in them, you can encode them as one audio track by selecting those tracks together and encoding them as a single selection.
Then, download mAC3dec. This is a program that will convert the resulting AC3 files from OSEx into MP3s. I use the highest bitrate - 320 - so that my audio is as close to the source as possible.
Then - the finishing touch - but one that costs $10.95. It is well worth it. Download MP3 Trimmer. This sweet little program allows you to trim the beginning and ends of files off and even apply a fade in and out without re-encoding the file and eliminating the resulting loss of sound quality. This means that you can cut the applause out of the beginnings and endings of the tracks, and since you can fade in and out, you lessen the "shock" of the breaks in the tracks that can be so annoying.
All in all, it sounds harder than it actually is, but it is well worth it for a whopping $10.95 for all three programs.
BTW, I am not connected with these companies at all and receive no compensation of any kind. It is just a process that I did a lot of research on and came up with these three programs and the steps to create a nice, professional sounding CD from concert DVDs.

Exporting sound track from DVD to Itunes.

I recently purchased a DVD and wanted to put the sound track on my iPod Nano (4th Gen0. Is there is way of doing this ?

If this is a commercial DVD, it's copyright protected and cannot be copied over to the Nano.
If the soundtrack is available in iTunes, you can download and upload the file to the Nano that way.
Carolyn

Multiple sound tracks on a DVD?

Is there any low cost/free DVD authoring software that would allow me to put 2 alternative sound tracks on a DVD? DVD Studio is out of my reach, especially since I am not sure I will need that functionality again.
Mac software would be preferred, but a PC would work (yech) if it can record a disk image.
Thanks-
Vladimir
12" PB 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thank you for all the answers. I have solved the problem with a shareware encoder called FFmpegX.
I had a movie (Battleship Potemkin), and I wanted to add the score that Pet Shop Boys wrote for it, and I wanted to have the original score to be there too, so I could switch between them, depending on which one I wanted to play.
FFmpegX has mux and demux tools, so I created the new sound track in iMovie to make sure it is syncronized with the video, then saved it as an mp2 file, and then used FFmpegX to mux it with the original video. This also allowed me to avoid converting the video between DV and MPEG, so helps to preserve the quality.
The resulting MPEG2 file can be used for DVD authoring in FFmpegX, but it produces really bare bones DVD. I am going to try Toast and iDVD. The tracks are switched by pressing the "audio" button on the DVD player remote, or you can select the track if you use VLC for computer playback. I have not figured out how to swith the audio using the Title menu.
The double video solution is not very desirable, because the movie is over an hour long, and on a single layer DVD I would have to drop the bitrate to half the original.
12 PB 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

From good iMovie to iDVD sound track not playing (let us try this again!)

There was an earlier problem of this posted here...the question was marked ANSWERED...but didn't solve anything for most of us that replied. So let us take it out for another spin...
Created in iMovie...works perfect in iMovie 6...then SHARE with iDVD. Attempting to preview...no sound track is played/heard.
Can someone let us know what is going on...how to fix...and why we users are forced to be beta-testers for RELEASED software? This problem seem like something that SHOULD have been found, tested and corrected by release date.
This product is wasting a lot of user's time and dvd discs.
Thanks

This product is wasting a lot of user's time and dvd discs.
Well I can help you stop wasting disks, at least! Use "Save as Disk Image" to encode the project and create a ".img" file. You can test the final encoding by mounting the .img file and playing it with DVD player in your applications folder. If this has sound, then burn it with Disk Utility.
iMovie will sometimes tolerate both 12 bit and 16 bit audio. iDVD won't - it must have 16 bit audio. Check the settings on your camcorder with the problem DV tape in it. If it is 12 bit audio, there are fixes listed here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61636
http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1001.shtml
http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1000.shtml
I know you say it plays fine in iMovie, but these fixes sometimes help files that work in iMovie but don't work right in iDVD.
If none of this applies, please let us know, and as F Shippey said, let Apple know too!
John B.

I loose both sound tracks of the last chapter when burning a movie to a disc in iDVD

I loose both sound tracks in the last chapter when I burn a project to a disc in iDVD. The sound tracks are there if I play the movie in iDVD before burning to disc, but as soon as I try turn burn to disc the original sound track & the sound track imported from iTunes disappears in the majority of the last chapter.
I'am using the latest version of iMovie & IDVD. The project in iDVD is listed as 96 minutes & 3.9GB & I'am using an LG single sided DVD 120 Min 4.7GB
Any help will be appreciated.
Mike (Australia)

Hi
May be something here.
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
Yours Bengt W

When burning a completed movie in idvd the whole sound track of the last chapter disappears

When burning a completed movie in idvd the whole sound track of the last chapter disappears. When I play the whole movie in iDVD before burning to disc both the sound tracks are their, but when burnt to a DVD the two sound tracks disappear half way through the last chapter, can any one help please.

Mike,
There is an iMovie forum, please click the link and repost your question. I suspect the iMovie guru's may be able to help you out.

Final sound track issue

Using Pre 11, I have completed a wide screen project and exported it to DVD, using suggested AVCHD settings (.m2ts @ 1920-1080i - 30fps) The final video quality is excellent as far as the images and video tracks go, when viewed on a 60" TV screen. There is an issue with the actual DVD starting but it eventually works (my next problem to solve)
Anyway, the sound track (music) plays thru all 5 speakers during playback on a Bluray player and therefore the sound is not very good in comparison to what a 2 channel stereo track, typical for music would be, or the playback in the Elements edit window. It looks and sounds great on a computer that is only stereo, both within Elements and the exported clips to files.
Is there a way to export the video to a DVD this quality, but retain the 2 channel stereo playback?
Or, is the only option to change sound output settings in the Bluray player?
Music source within Elements are Mp3 converted to .wav prior to import.

P1965
Thanks for the reply and glad for the opportunity to clarify my view of the Premiere Elements 5.1 situation.
All the burn to of Premiere Elements are for audio as Dolby Digital Stereo.
However, when you get to export to file save to computer hard drive, things can get interesting. You can
find a few opportunities to export certain files with 5.1 channel audio, but not Dolby Digital 5.1 channel.
In the course of looking into Premiere Elements 5.1 channel opportunities, I ran across a way to import a source
with Stereo and export it as 5.1 channel, not just go from 5.1 channel source to 5.1 channel export file.
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-exporting-1080p50-or-1080p60-file.html
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/07/pe11-exporting-1080p25-or-1080p30-file.html
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/10/pe12-exporting-720p50-or-720p60-file.html
All sorts of Premiere Elements and 5.1 considerations in the above.
ATR

Sound track becomes unsynchronized in PRE12

Using a off the shelf Toshiba VHS/DVD copy machine I converted all my old VHS home movies to DVD. The resulting files are in (.vob) file format.. They play normally with most media player software I have access to. I am editing these videos now for content, adding titles etc. and creating a cleaner more presentable DVD. Using PE12 in expert mode I add the files to the timeline, do my titles and edits and then review the finished product. Sometimes, about halfway through a project I notice the soundtrack will suddenly get out of sync by about 3-4 seconds. Is there a tool or a fix for this ? I am not deliberately or knowingly deleting any part of the soundtrack without removing the same section of corresponding video...PS this phenomenon does not occur in certain other editing software I have tried...but I much prefer PE12....PLEASE help.

The file format appears to be the issue as I tried converting to .mov and so far it worked at least on one file.....Thank you for the advice......
AVR I will try to respond to your questions as it may still be helpful but I am after all a consumer and not a tech..so forgive what may seem two dimensional answers.....
The sound tracks are verbatim from original VHS sound recordings. They were converted to DVD with a over the counter Toshiba VHS to DVD burner/player. I determined the file format was .vob by looking at the files on each dvd I created in this way.....
I have tried to pull or rip files in both manners after I found the sound track issues....first I tried to pull them into PE12 straight from the home made DVD... Noting the same soundtrack issues I then loaded the DVD files to my hard drive and then tried to pull them into my project from there....same sound issue. I then edited the same files and successfully burned a DVD with a normal sound track using the MS Moviemaker software....however this is not the software I prefer....but, using it to convert vob to mov helped me make a file I can use in PE12 now....
Last, the editing I have mentioned is to cut sections of the video/audio out for time, irrelevant material or just bad video...I add titles and subtitles on additional tracks... the original timeline is always edited in whole sections..... never just video or just audio... and...yes I have tried to play the entire video in PE12 before any editing takes place... same sound issues.... it is with out a doubt, a compatibility issue with vob files and PE12.....so converting to another file format should should be OK and only a minor inconvenience.....
PS..something that may deserve another "Topic" or may be relevant here is the "style" option has stopped working in my titles module. I was using it to make very nice shadow letters in my titles and text.... after about three edited videos.... "Style" is now blank. I was thinking of reloading PE12 once my last project is burned and I have no more projects to lose..... suggestions?
Thanks very much for your time...............

How to put and burn two diaporama WITH DIFFÉRENT SOUND TRACK on one D,V,D

I HAD A BIG PROBLEM! I HAVE MADE TWO chapters DIAPORAMA OF a band realated the history of the band. and i want to put them one one DVD .tHEY HAVE DIFÉRENT SOUND TRACK.
My problem, is when i burn the Dvd only one show ? I use 1 video line and sound track and the second chapter on the video 2 and soundtrack 2 .It d'int make a différence .What did i do WRONG ?

towline
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
Lots of possibilities.
What do you mean "My problem, is when I burn the DVD only One Show"? Are you saying that instead of having two separate slideshows in DVD-VIDEO, you
have the two running together as one slideshow?
What menu markers (Chapter markers) are using - scene markers? Are there stop markers?
How are your menu menu and scene menu set up?
One scenario
Timeline content set up....
Slideshow 1 with a scene marker at its beginning and a stop marker at its end
a few seconds gap
Slideshow 2 with a scene marker at its beginning and NO STOP MARKER AT ITS END.
(I put that in capital letters because putting a stop marker at the end of the last item of the Timeline 99.99999% of the time creates project failure.)
With this setup, the viewer is greeted by the main menu and selects from Play Movie or Scene Selection.
a. If Scene Selection is selected, the viewer is taken to the Scene Selection page where he/she picks a slideshow to watch.
Important: If the viewer pick Slideshow 1, Slideshow 1 is played and then it reverts back to the main menu.
b. In this type of scenario, the Play All Button on the main menu becomes meaningless, since selecting it will play only up to the
stop marker ( end of Slideshow 1) and then revert back to the main menu.
Alternately, you could create a main menu with the Slideshow 1 or Slideshow 1 choice (use main menu markers) and do away with the
scene menu. That sounds abstract as written but I can give you how to on that and give you examples.
First let us see if anything that I have written above has anything to do with what you really asked.
Thanks. Clarification always available.
ATR

IMovie sound track

On iMovie, can you play a live music recording keep the sound track playing and add other visuals?
Thanks

Hello, songthief!
Welcome to the discussions!
What format was the commercial CD song? Did it play in iMovie?
You might want to re-record it to get it into a form that iDVD will burn. You can do this several ways. Here are two suggestions:
1. Import the song into iTunes, then burn it to a CD. Reimport the song from the CD back into iTunes in AIFF, then import it into your iMovie.
2. Record the song using WireTap Pro and import the AIC file that it creates into your imovie.
Also, one more tip:
Don't send your iMovie to iDVD from WITHIN your iMovie. Close your finished iMovie, open iDVD, create your project and then drag/drop your iMovie into iDVD's main screen. You will find your movie in 'Media' ->'Movies.' This prevents double rendering of your clips, 'jaggies' in your final burned DVD and other problems.

HELP THE MUSIC ON THE SOUND TRACK IS LOW

I HAVE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 9
I AM USING ON WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM
I HAVE NO TROUBLE MAKING A FILM
ONCE I HAVE COMPLETED THE FILM I PLAY IT BACK AND THE SOUND AND PICTURE IS PERFECT
I THEN BURN IT TO A DVD
I THEM PLAY IT BACK OVER MY COMPUTER AND DVD PLAYER
EACH TIME ON BOTH SYSTEMS THE VOLUME IS LOW ON THE MUSIC TRACK
THE PICTURE IS FINE
THE AUDIO RECORD BY THE CAMERA IS FINE
THE SOUND TRACK ON THE MUSIC TRACK IS LOW
I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO CORRECT IT
I HAVE INCREASED THE GAIN TO PLUS 14 DB
I HAVE MOVED YELLOW LINE TO MAX
I HAVE MOVED CHANNEL MIXER TO MAX ON THE MUSIC CHANNEL
MY MUSIC SOURCE IS MP3
I HAVE ALSO USED SMART SOUND AND THE VOLUME IS ALSO LOW
AUDIO ON TRACK ONE IS PERFECT
SO CAN ANYBODY HELP ME
REGARDS
BRUNO

Excellent!
Every now and then, the Soundtrack and Narration Track (both Fixed Tracks, as they are automatically created, and cannot be Deleted) will act odd, and not work, as they should. These issues seem to be Project-specific, as they might work perfectly in the next Project. Sometimes, it seems that the issues are Asset-spcific, where another type of Asset, or maybe just a different Asset, even of the same type, will work fine.
When either fails to work properly, the "fix" is usually to just Move the Assets to a free Audio Track, other than either of those two.
As outlined in the linked article on MP3's, above, that file type can also be very problematic. I routinely convert ALL MP3's to PCM/WAV, and have never had an issue.
Good luck,
Hunt

Alternate sound track question

Greetings,
I am authoring a DVD which has one track which has 2 different sound tracks (the 2nd track contains a voice over). The intention is that the view can play the movie with 2 different sound tracks (not at the same time). I stupidly thought I could just create 2 tracks with the same mpeg but different sound files. It works great but the project looks at this like 2 separate picture tracks, and it puts me way over the 4.7GB allowed on the DVD disks. I can not find an easy solution in the manual, and suspect there is an easy answer to this. Any suggestions appreciated !!
Thanks !
dberry1950 (DaveB)

Use one video file and add two audio tracks and use stories or other methods to control it
Take a look here for examples (make sure to make audio AC3)
http://dvdstepbystep.com/audioset.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php

PQ DVD sound wierdness

Have any of you using PQ DVD noticed a problem where the sound doesn't match up to peoples lips moving? I have been ripping copies of a movie and if I use any setting above the default the sound track gets off synch. Wierd. Any ideas?

The most I've ever had to do one DVD is twice. I always check for video-audio sync issues immediately after it finishes transcoding. I know it's annoying, and reading around, this seems to be a problem that other people are having. However, I decided to accept it because this application is otherwise so much more simple than the others that people are promoting. I could go on looking at other applications, or I could devote that time to actually transcoding some DVDs.

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