How can I retrieve original videos from a TV DVD made in Adobe PE?

Question

I imported the TV-formatted DVD, that I made, into Premiere Elements 11, but it is just one big file with the soundtrack not separated from the original video soundtrack, and the video files all merged together. Is there any way to separate them? Norman

Answer 1

Norman,
I was afraid of that. Once the two original Audio Streams have been mixed-down, they become one - the camera's Audio + the Soundtrack Audio.
Now, about the closest that one can get, would be to use something like a Karaoke Effect, in an Audio editor. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq_i18n?s=editing&i=remove-vocals
This would remove some of the vocals, from the camera's Audio. Then one could shift the Phase of the Karaoke Audio Track, by 180 degrees, to try and mute the Soundtrack Audio, in the original file. This is a real touch-n-go operation, and might have but a small effect on that mixed Audio file, that you now have. With a bit of Gating, and Filtering, plus some extensive EQ work (available in many Audio editing programs, and with VST plug-ins), one might be able to get close to what you want. It will not be easy, and will require a lot of hand-work, plus critical listening.
It would probably be better to go to that original camera Audio, Import that, then cut it up to match the edits originally performed in the Project. Then, one would add a new Soundtrack Audio. Finally, the ripped, mixed Audio (with the original camera Audio and the original Soundtrack Audio) would be Muted, or Deleted from the new Project. One would have to do a lot of editing to that original camera Audio, and syncing could take some time, with trial and error, but the result would likely be better, than trying to separate the mixed-down camera Audio and Soundtrack Audio.
Good luck, and sorry for the bad news.
Hunt