8mm to DVD work

[bja5150]

I am working on a project for my family restoring old 8mm footage for them. I have a good Sony gx7 DVD recorder, a decent computer and some programs that could help turn out something cool for them. My current project part I am working on is audio. I got the 8mm capture burned right to DVD and it came out awesome. My idea now is to have the main family members kick back around the computer and do some narration and add the tidbit/facts to the video. I have seen DVD movies offer a commentary in the audio settings. That is what I would like to do. How would be the best way to sachieve this? I want to keep the original version with just the video and have a version with the commentaries. This will be a cool thing when all done and they are going to love it when I am done.

1. I have captured the footage needed from 8mm to DVD.
2. DVD Decryted the VOB files to the computer
(Is it better to combine all VOBs or just do it video track by track and split it afterthe narration has been done?)
Next- get good microphone and narration
do final touches in authoring of disc - menus, pictures and so on
save and burn to DVD
make custom case

So am I on the right track? Any advice or added ideas would be welcome. Nothing like crash courses in high tech! Thanks for reading and replying (if you do so).
Brent

[reboot]

Record your audio.
Author in DVDLab Pro, with selectable alternate audio track.

[TerryG]

Load the video from the VOB (change file name to .mpg) into a program like Pinnacle Studio 8 that lets you do a narration. Try to delete the original sound track from the VOB that may have unwanted noise. After you do the narration, don’t make a DVD file, render the narration sound track only, to mp2.

You need to demux the original VOB. Discard this audio file, it has no sound; right?

Then re-mux the new narration sound file back to the original video and you will have added a new sound file without changing the video.

When you remake the DVD use a DVD authorizing program that has the option of not encoding compliant mpg and you original video will not be altered or degraded.

[reboot]

Exactly what DVDLab Pro would do, but with a selectable alternate track. It does not re-encode.