MPEG in QT exported to DV Stream, no sound. Please help.

[genrlz]

Forgive the newbie. I have a bunch of movies that I can view in QT. I export to a DV Stream , so I can work with iDVD to make a DVD. I burned the DVD without even thinking of the fact that there was no sound on the movies.

I have been doing a lot of reading and still can't figure out how to extract the sound from the original movie and join it back up into the DV Stream movie which is being used for the DVD. I know you can copy and add in Quicktime. I was able to do it with a MP3.

Just not sure where to go from here.

Thanks for the help.

[kgreene]

I had a problem like this. I think I had to demux the mpeg track and convert the audio separately to another format before quicktime would let me merge them.

[genrlz]

That's what I figured. But, how do I convert the audio track to a format that I can merge? I know a mp3 can be merged. What else can?

I am such a newbie.

Thanks,

Chris

[kgreene]

Well you'll probably get an mp2 file when you demux it. I think, oddly enough, that quicktime player wouldn't convert it as it thought it was a muxed mpeg track (even though it could play it) so I was able to use itunes to convert it to an mp3 file. There's probably an easier way but it worked.

[genrlz]

I thought about using itunes. But, I don't see any tools in itunes to convert it. Or maybe just playing it in itunes converts it then I just have to go to the itunes folder and pull out the mp3. Does this work, or is there another way of converting a MP2 to a MP3?

Thanks

[kgreene]

There is a menu option that says 'convert to mp3'... You will either have to select a file, or select a song in itunes. I think I just double clicked on the file and it imported it to itunes (but didn't convert it). Then you select it, say convert to mp3, then go find the file. iTunes 3 has a menu option to fine the file you have selected in itunes so it makes it easy.

[genrlz]

I saw the tool now. I can do it. Thanks. It is a very clumsy way to do it, but it works.

Thanks

[major]

An easier way to do it is to use Cleaner 5. It allows batch converting MPG1 to Quicktime without having to demux it first. And it process both video and audio (say video to MPEG4, audio to MP3).

[genrlz]

I know about cleaner. It just seems to take so long. i wasn't sure it would convert to a DV Stream.

I did the steps going through itunes, and it works and I can merge the DV Streams up to the audio, just the sound quality seems to suck. Not sure why.

I am such a newbie.

thanks,

Any more tips on the Toast problem?