Has Anyone Tried this with a Music Video DVD

[VEBouto]

I Bought some DVD Music Videos and was pretty dissapointed at the quality of the Audio . One Video would be OK , then the next one..the audio would be far too low, some had too much bass not enough treble etc etc etc.
So i thought wouldn't it be good if the Audio on these DVD's was as good as the CD.
So after loading the original Video and Audio VOB file into TMPG Enc Author, I then ripped the Audio track off a CD then reloaded it into TMPG Enc Author 1.5 and this replaced the original, crappy sounding DVD Audio track, still keeping the Video portion.
All i had to do was make sure the Audio i ripped off the CD started at the same time as the original Audio. This was easily acheived in Sound Forge 7.0 by loading the original and the newly ripped audio track in and seeing exactly where they start. Making sure they both have the same starting point and are the same length.

So after making a very nice, crisp sounding, DVD music video compilation i thought to myself..why did i even have to do this when those stupid ass-hole record companys should have already done this. They keep releasing ordinary sounding DVD's that aren't up to scratch and wonder why people have to pirate and copy stuff or even do what i did.
I did it on my home PC, imagine the Equipment they have to work with and how much better it is.
Lazy Scumbags.

[jimmalenko]

I'm impressed.

Could it be a perception thing though ?

[Supreme2k]

Nah. They do release crappy quality music vids. We just got 13 Going On 30. It had "Love is a Battlefield" (decent) and "Jessie's Girl" (horrible and low audio). I had to re-mux it with a copy from a "Best of Rick Springfield"

On a more serious note, this was for the girls, not me

[jimmalenko]

On a more serious note, this was for the girls, not me

I will bet you, at some point in time, on a dark and stormy night, you and the missus will cuddle up on the couch watching it, reminiscing about the good times.

Ahhhh, the 80's....

[DVD_Ripper]

Did it not look on occassion that they were lip syncing?

[jimmalenko]

Without a doubt. In most film clips they were/still are.

[adam]

The producer of the DVD probably only had rights to the videos themselves, not the master audio tracks or the same digital cut released on cd. If this is kind of a rag tag release then I guess I wouldn't expect them to remaster the audio, but I'd at least expect them to normalize it so that the volume doesn't vary so much from one video to the next.

I've never done this exactly but I've replaced/added things to my backups to make a DVD better. One DVD was scratched in such a way that the only thing effected was the trailer. So I downloaded the same trailer and just replaced it. Another time I added a looping track of the Dark Side of the Moon and used it to replace the Spanish audio track on my Wizard of Oz DVD. And of course I've made my own menus for lots of DVDs whose own were boring...like all those old Warner Bros DVDs where they just used the same template that looks like it was made in printshop. (Beetleguise, Goodfellas, Batman, etc..)

[yoda313]

Hello,
On a related topic, I want to replace the audio from a vhs capture. This shouldn't be too dificult should it?

I have a video tape of music videos I want to dub but the audio sucks (drop outs and the like). I have all the cds (and the dvd actually, but its pal so hence the video dub). I want to dub the video than synch it to the cd audio.

I'll have to try this and report back. Maybe this weekend. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Kevin

P.S. This is a vhs of the Roxette greatest video hits. I have the Video collection (2001) on dvd but it's PAL and I DON'T want to waste days to convert it to NTSC.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Another question related to my music video idea. I think I saw that Japan uses NTSC (same as US NTSC?). If it's on dvd there if I bought it could I just rip the disc and make it region free? Would that do it (without changing frame rates?)? (If it was dubbed in Japanese I'd do the sound replacement as mentioned earlier in the post).

Kevin