Laserdisc Commentary - Best Way onto a DVD-R ?

[franskbroed]

Hello All,

I have read a few posts about DVD-R and extra audio tracks, and thought I'd ask a question that may not have been asked.

I'm trying to take a laserdisc commentary track (from the movie "Shine") in WAV form and append it as a secondary audio track to a re-authored DVD-R of the aforementioned movie.

As many would know, some Laserdiscs (i.e. Criterion) hold commentaries that the DVD's do not possess, due to licensing.

Is there an easy way of doing it ? i.e. using DVDShrink and easy editing?

I know I have to convert the WAV into another audio format. It is only a talking track though, so quality doesn't have to be great.

The forums I've seen on this topic have been more about "home-made" DVD's with extra audio tracks. I don't really want to have to re-encode and/or drop a whole movie file/s into Premiere or suchlike to get the desired effect, BUT, perhaps it will be a bit of a battle....

Any thoughts ??

Thanks for listening.

[dphirschler]

It's easy in IFO Edit. Just load both audio streams. I did the same with my Star Wars LD.


Darryl

[franskbroed]

Hello All,

I have read a few posts about DVD-R and extra audio tracks, and thought I'd ask a question that may not have been asked.

I'm trying to take a laserdisc commentary track (from the movie "Shine") in WAV form and append it as a secondary audio track to a re-authored DVD-R of the aforementioned movie.

As many would know, some Laserdiscs (i.e. Criterion) hold commentaries that the DVD's do not possess, due to licensing.

Is there an easy way of doing it ? i.e. using DVDShrink and easy editing?

I know I have to convert the WAV into another audio format. It is only a talking track though, so quality doesn't have to be great.

The forums I've seen on this topic have been more about "home-made" DVD's with extra audio tracks. I don't really want to have to re-encode and/or drop a whole movie file/s into Premiere or suchlike to get the desired effect, BUT, perhaps it will be a bit of a battle....

Any thoughts ??

Thanks for listening.

[flaninacupboard]

encode the commentary to mono .AC3 at 96kbps using the old version of Bsweet. you won't be able to author in DVDshrink, look at all the authoring software in the tools section to check whihc ones will handle multiple audio streams.

[Vejita-sama]

There are a lot of different ways to do this. Here's an outline of one way:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro2.htm

Here's what you do:

1) Rip entire DVD (in file mode) to HD
2) Select the VTS with the main movie. Demux into seperate m2v, audio and subtitle streams.
3) Capture and encode new audio stream
4) Run IFOEdit and author new VTS from source material
5) Rename VTS to match the name from the source rip
6) Delete the original VTS_xx_.VOB files (leave IFO/BUF and VTS_XX_0.VOB file alone) and replace with the newly authored VOB files
7) Run IFOUpdate to fix the IFO files
8) Burn the VIDEO_TS to a new DVDR

That sounds like a lot but it's pretty easy. I don't personally know of a way to just mux a new audio file to an existing VOB series, but dphirschler seems to suggest that he did (althought I think he re-authored with IFOedit, please correct me if I'm wrong).