To Gazorgan: How to Wizard of Oz + Pink Floyd?

[Fairhope]

I saw your post in another thread and didn't want to hijack.

I've heard rumors of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon being in perfect sync with The Wizard of Oz. Interesting reading, but I've never investigated to see if it was true.

How would you back up a copy of The Wizard of Oz, but replace the audio with Pink Floyd's album?

Thanks

[coyote]

I never investigated this either, but this method should work (the word being should)

1. convert the vob's to an mpg
2. Rip the dark side of the moon album to wav's
3. Merge the wav's together using goldwave or another program like it
4. You now have an mpg that contains the video, and 1 large wav file
5. Use tmpgenc to create the proper size video and audio streams
6. If they are supposed to sync up from the very first frame you can merge them immediately, if not, you may want to use a program like dvdmaestro, import the elemental streams, and then start the audio at the frame the dark side of the moon track is supposed to start at.

[adam]

When I backed up my Wizard of Oz DVD I went ahead and replaced the Spanish audio track with dark side of the moon. There are a few famous sync points that really do seem like they were meant to be, but if you take any 100 min movie and loop a ~45 min album to it then you are bound to find a few happy coincidences. Its still interesting to watch if only so that you can watch two classics simultaneously, and they really do compliment each other.

The tracks to DOTM run right into each other with no pauses, so ripping the cd is easy. Just use something like audiograbber or any similar tool and just make sure you don't have it set to append silence at the start or end of the track, like some do by default. Then you will need to combine all the wavs. It would be best to use a NLE like Adobe Premiere but if you are desperate you could even do it in dos. The album is significantly shorter than the movie, so you are supposed to loop the album continuosly for the duration. I just imported the video into Premiere and looped the audio and cut it at the end of the video. Now the most important part is that the audio should not start right away. I believe its supposed to start playing at some time during the 2nd lion's roar of the MGM logo. There are several theories on how to get the sync perfect though, just do a web search on "Dark Side of the Rainbow." I just added silence to the start of the track to sync it, but I don't remember how many seconds I used. If you look online you can find lists of all the main sync points. Just adjust your amount of silence at the start of the track until these scenes sync correctly.

Once you have your wav layed out encode it to AC3 using BeSweet or any other AC3 encoder you have and then author your DVD as normal.

[Fairhope]

Thank you very much.

This will be my holiday project. Great idea to leave the english soundtrack to the movie and replace the spanish with DSOTM.

Later.