Is there a way to dub your own retail DVD movie discs?

[thatgentleman]

Using software, a computer mic, the dvd-burner etc/whatever - is there a way I could for example take an animated feature, dub my own or my buddies voices over the main characters, then burn to watch normally on my DVD player?

What would it take and what are the steps to do so?

What I'd like to be able to do is take a commercial DVD movie I own and capture or transfer it onto my computer, edit and dub my voice or some friends voices replacing the voices that exist while keeping the sound effects and music, then take that file or whatever it may be and burn it on a DVD-R for a clear new dubbed version of my favorite show.

The reason is hoping is mainly because I have friend who is an excellent voice-actor/comedian who would be excellent in replacing the voices of certain poorly English-dubbed anime shows and such to really create a cool new product. He's happy to do it too since he hates the voices in these shows as much as I do but tires of reading subtitles constantly.

I know it may sound nutty...but can it be done?

[macleod]

yes. Have your friend do all of the recordings in line with the movie. Then rip the movie to your hard drive (as i big vob), change the extension to .mpg. Mux the video with the new audio with TMPGENC. author and burn.


I am sure there is an easier way, like just having the person record their voice and then use ifoedit or something to add it in as a new audio track.

[secretagent]

if I understand you, you want to remove the vocals from the soundtrack (keeping music etc) and replace just the vocal part. in order to do this you would need to extract the audio track, place it in a wave editor and then INVERT the right or left audio channel and then resave the wav.this process has the effect of cancelling out the vocals. see analogx.com for their vocal remover program, but it works better in cool edit pro

[Cecilio]

just rip the movie to your computer than extract the audio and put the audio in a program like Cool Edit Pro. then you can cut the vocals although let me tell you this isnt really good, cause it reduces the quality of the sound it lowers it all and everything. You just go to favorites and it says vocal cut. but the option really sucks but to not reduce so much sound quality you can only select the parts when they are talking and then you do the vocal cut like 2 times cause the first time it doesnt really cut vocals you can still hear them so ok. then once that is done save it as an mp3 or wave whatever you want. now you will have to be watching the movie or show and then make a new track and everytime someone talks in the show you record it and then put pause and name it conversation 1 and then you look at the show again and when they talk again put record and talk and save as conversation 2. and so on and so on. now finally you open the audio with the vocal cut and you open all the recordings you made and save them all to make only 1 track. sorry i dont really know how to explain but its really easy.

[MOVIEGEEK]

First rip the movie to 720x480(576 PAL) MPEG-2 video,44khz .mp2 audio using DVDx(free in Tools).
Then use Ulead Videostudio,Pinnacle Studio,etc. to voiceover and burn.
There may be free programs that do this as well but I have had great results with Ulead VS.

[phatslug]

Perhaps Im wrong, but in with 5.1 surround sound, isnt one of the channels purely actors voices, while the others are background sound effects. Thus, you could cleanly cut out the voices leaving everything else.

Now i have no idea how to do this, but anyone....?

[Craig Tucker]

Yes the front centre channel is the vocals on DD5.1, you may be able to remove it with something like headac3he, never tried it myself.

[thatgentleman]

I have Cool Edit 2000 but I can't find where you would cut vocals. I don't even see how I bring up the "Channel Mixer" option - does this version have it? If somebody could give me a few more steps or something that would be helpful...

Also, I couldn't get the Ulead Video Studio thing to work for me as I think the voice over function just completely records over the previous audio...or am I doing something wrong?

[Cecilio]

season shows almost never have 5.1 DD surround sound. they usually only have 2 channels.

[thatgentleman]

Okay, I had some success using the Ulead Video Studio but only buy cutting entire sections of the audio track that had voices speaking - cutting and pasting sound effects/music that was supposed to be there from another source then having my buddy dub over it in Ulead.

In case anybody doesn't already realize....this is way too tedious and time-consuming and there has to be a better way.

I tried Cool Edit and the cut voices thing didn't eliminate the voices...I also attempted the reversing left/right channel thing and whether I did it correctly or not (probably not) it didn't work.

What can I do here? Can someone think of a way to get a decent voiceless audio track?