Multiple Audio Options

I'm trying to make a DVD with a choice between viewing the primary track and all related stories either with narration on or off. The music will play either way.
When I try to just make two different tracks, one with narration and one without, there's too much data to fit on a disk.
So what's the method for making a with/without narration choice in the DVD menus?
Thanks!

Here you go
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/audioset.php
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Hello everybody
Maybe this is a dumb question, I'm sorry if I'm asking what is obvious for you, but I swear I tried to find on the web and on this forum, but I couldn't find anything.
Well, I made a video using a screen capture software called Dxtory, that provides me the ability to record my PC screen, with multiple audio tracks.
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Then when I import into Premiere, the software just recognize the video track and the first audio track. I can't find the second, with my voice.
I know I can split the clip into 3 files (1 video and 2 audios) but it would take longer. I just want to drop the file on Premiere and edit the audio volumes quickly, because when I talk I would like to low the volume of the PC audio.
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I'm actually surprised that Pr can import this at all--the video is Xvid. Maybe it's some variant that Pr's importers can handle, as Jeff suggested. I dunno--it doesn't play well for me, regardless, and I'm not going to install the Dxtory codec to find out.
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Well I didn't mean to irritate you...LOL And yes, I realize that this is the iM 6 forum but the gist of my question was related to multiple audio tracks in iM and thought I would ask about it in the forum pertaining to the latest release.
I had already posted a question in the GB forum regarding the bpm problem and found no answers so I was pretty much about to shelve that idea and forgo the whole garageband thing; this without knowing about the new "swap" features. I just updated to iM 6 yesterday.
As far as the "on-tape" raw audios: I was working on my movie in iM4. I wanted to add more audio bits but I don't have a proper mic for my G5 so I recorded the audio bits on dv8 tape through my camcorder. I imported the video (the image was the inside of my lens cap!), extracted the audio, took those audio files and imported them into GarageBand. That's when I noticed the bpm problem.
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ah, thanks for that
what irritates me, Prince wrote:
The audio tracks were voiceovers that came from my
dv8tape, imported into imovie4.
... ehm, but this is the iM 6(six) section, as said,
iM 6 allows now "swapping" files with GB3... (I'm way
back in the 90ies.... see my specs... )
so, video is in some iM, and he wants to use the
actual "on-tape" raw audios...
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I remember seeing QuickTime movies where on playback you can select which audio tracks to listen to. Kind of like director's commentary or different language versions for the same video stream...
Is there a how-to guide for making a movie like this in FCP? We have one video file and multiple audio files that we've placed in different tracks in the timeline but when we export to a QuickTime movie they get all merged together. We tried setting it up with multiple audio channels and then control-clicking to get that menu with each audio track and putting them into the different channels, but there must be something we're missing...
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I know how to do this for DVD authoring, but I was wondering if there is a way to do this for web and/or other formats, so that I can put the video on my iphone, or ipad and be able to plug it in and show the client option A, B, C, etc... or at least upload a video online and the client can choose the various audio tracks.
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Hi...
I am working on a yoga video, which is planning to have approx 5 audio tracks for voice (planning to be randomized on playback) so the dialog stays more fresh.
Ok.. Question is.. We also have a director commentary track.. So... Thats 6 tracks...
Then we need to have music on/off options.. so thats now-- 11 tracks (5 tracks with voice-over and music, 5 w/o music, 1 commentary track).
The length of the video for this is approx 55 minutes. Though the dvd will feature other video content with the length of about an hour (but without multiple audio). So-- 11 audio tracks over 55 minutes, and 1 audio track over 60 minutes.
Is this going to be a problem? I don't know very much about the different types of dvds out there, capable of holding more data than others.. So I just am trying to get a sense of what is going to be needed to accomplish this.
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I'm not positive, but I think that 8 tracks is the limit. Perhaps you could think of having music as a random element, giving you 7 random tracks (four that happen to have music) plus the director. Otherwise you're stuck with three random tracks that can also have music turned off (hey, why not have the director with and without music too!). Or get rid of the director and have four random tracks with and without music.
As for whether it'll fit, you want to keep below 8 megabits per second, and for nice sounding stereo music and voice you would use 192 kbps for each sound track. With eight that is about 633 MByte of the disc space. It could be less if you want to use 64 or 128 kbps in the case of there being no music.
Taking the better case, you have about 3.7 GBytes of space for the 55 minutes of video. That's still a high data rate for the video (well over 8 mbps). So the real limit is keeping the total under 8.
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The figures then come out to making the video at about 4.4 mbps, which would still look good.

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Video with Multiple Audio Tracks-- IOS 4.2 Removes Way to Select Them

After upgrading to IOS 4.2 on my iPhone 4, I've found it no longer lets me select from among multiple audio tracks. The option and button is completely gone.
I encode my videos with AC3 audio as the first track (for my home media devices), and stereo audio as the second track (for the iPhone). Now the iPhone will just play the video, with no audio, and no way to select another track. This is extremely frustrating as I've encoded all my DVDs this way, and never had any issue with playback like this on any IOS device going back to the first gen iPod Touch.
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Multiple Audio files on one slide

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Also, these audio files should play when I click on that particular file (which will be placed in a cell in the table)
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this question but I figured its compression/video codec related so someone might have an idea...
I've used Handbrake in the past to rip a DVD with an audio commentary that allowed for multiple audio tracks that could be played back in iTunes/Quicktime (though not on the iPod Classic for some reason... perhaps someone knows the answer to this?)
I was just curious as to whether or not this was possible to do WITHOUT first making a DVD with an 2ndary track? I was hoping to record audio commentary for one of my shorts, and put it up on the web, but wanted to avoid the step of going to dvd first then ripping it.
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ehmjay wrote:
is there any app (be it from apple or a 3rd party tool) that will allow me to add a secondary audio track for switching in quicktime/iTunes? if so could you point me in the direction of it (or even instructions)
I'm afraid I'm unaware of anything - outside of HandBrake - that does encode a second track of audio. But I haven't exactly had my eyes open since I haven't needed to do this for a client yet.
handbrake mentinos that its able to rip secondary audio for use with iPod Classic/Apple TV... however so far it hasn't worked for me. Does this mean that while handbrake is doing it properly its just my iPod itself that's having the troubles (like I said that alt. audio is there in iTunes/Quicktime just not on the iPod itself)
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