Adding a music soundtrack to your dvd?

[Rogue3]

I'm putting together my wedding video right now and I'd like to have an option in the menu that will play all of our wedding music (not from a slideshow or anything, just the music with no picture). Is this possible? I wouldn't think it would take much room.

[lgh529]

I'm not sure that standalone players will do this, but you could just create the audio files on a DVD-ROM and play them from your computer.

[Drakng]

Yes you can do that but you have to mux your audio with a bmp file (the picture can be black or your wedding) You ends up with an mpg file .Search the forum . I reply to some guy with the same intention

[Rogue3]

Yeah, I figured I could convert it all over to mpg, but that would take up tons of space. The DVD is already 90% full with video files. I was hoping there would be a way to put audio only files on there that wouldnt take up too much space.

[andydd]

Its possible to have a menu with an audio soundtrack, this will only use the space needed for the menu (ie one picture) and the audio.

Youll need a good DVD authoring program to do it, I used to mess around with DVDwise and that could do it.

[Rogue3]

Its possible to have a menu with an audio soundtrack, this will only use the space needed for the menu (ie one picture) and the audio.

Youll need a good DVD authoring program to do it, I used to mess around with DVDwise and that could do it.

I didn't think about using a menu for this. That's not a bad idea. I think the only problem is that I couldnt place 'track' marks so that I could skip to the next song.

Is there any way to have a short video track (say 20 seconds) with a long audio track attached to it?

Also, is there any way to set up in a menu to have it random play tracks?

[SMHarman]

Its possible to have a menu with an audio soundtrack, this will only use the space needed for the menu (ie one picture) and the audio.

Youll need a good DVD authoring program to do it, I used to mess around with DVDwise and that could do it.

An MPEG Mux of a single image and the audito should not take up that much space. You can drop the bit rate down to almost nothing if you are planning it to be black.

[Drakng]

Tons of space? You should convert your wav file to ac3 before muxing That will reduced the file size to a miserable few mb. With a menu you can do selectable tracks although not random play

[housepig]

I didn't think about using a menu for this. That's not a bad idea. I think the only problem is that I couldnt place 'track' marks so that I could skip to the next song.

so set up one menu per song, and draw connections so that when menu 1 ends, menu 2 begins with the next song (the image can stay the same, or it could be different images with the song artist & title).

you can also add discreet "forward" & "back" buttons that lead to the next menu/song or back to the last one.

[Rogue3]

Thanks for all the info guys. This gives me something to work with. As for converting the music to .ac3, the last time I tried this it didn't work. I followed the guide for besweet but all I got was silence.

The reason I thought it would take a while is because I though even if you had a bmp image as your mpg, it would have to be converted to an mpg that was as long as the audio, making it a 3-4 minute mpg per song.

[FT Shark]

What program will allow you to mux an image with an audio file? I have tried TMPGEnc and it won't allow me to.

[oldsalt]

Dazzle puts out some software called "on DVD." It is a slide show program that will include an audio track. I'm not sure about price as I got mine bundled with a memory card reader. Check the dazzle website or any of the large internet software sites.

[Rogue3]

Tons of space? You should convert your wav file to ac3 before muxing That will reduced the file size to a miserable few mb. With a menu you can do selectable tracks although not random play

I have a Bach DVD that will allow me to select (from the menu) to shuffle the tracks on the dvd. Any idea how that is done?

[Rogue3]

By the way, I've used the Besweet guide to convert several MP3's over to .ac3 format. The files will play in media player, but when I import them into maestro and try to use them with a still image they do not work. I thought I was doing something incorrect so just to be sure I imported another .ac3 file I had on my HD (from a trailer), and it worked just fine.

Any ideas on this? What am I doing wrong when converting my mp3's?

[twinegar]

Sonic Scenarist has an excellent AC3 converter that is complient with DVDMaestro and I imagine evry thing else. I just converted an MPEG2 file to AC3 and it worked just fine.

[s19642]

Hi,

what tool can mux picture (bmp, jpeg) and an audiofile (wav, mp3) to a compliant dvd mpeg?

Regards
Kenny

[FT Shark]

Adobe Encore will allow you to use any type of audio file as an asset. You can just add the audio file and it will just create a title set from it (no video is needed, the screen will just be blank). See my guide:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=183467&highlight=