Multiple track as music?

[bluto]

I'm trying to make soundtrack to a movie from my own cd collection. I posted on a DJ website and was recomended goldwave, but it's fairly confusing for a newbie, and I'm not sure if it can even transfer onto a DVD. My hope is to use the soundtrack that I make as an alternate audio track, which I know nothing about. I have only burnt a few DVDs and have limited experience do so. Does anyone have any suggestions as far as DJ programs or authoring program with audio track abilities?

[bluto]

Anyone?

[andkiich]

IfoEdit will allow you to author VOB files with multiple audio tracks. It's not the easiest app to use, but it's the only app I know of that can do it without paying bookoo bucks.

[housepig]

okay, you have two different processes going here.

first, you need to create the soundtrack - you can do this in any audio editor, because it's just a big sound file, however some audio editors will make it easier than others.

(For example, if you use Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video, it's a video editor now, but it started as a multi-track audio editor, so it's still got tremendously powerful audio capabilities. You could put each song on a different track, do crossfades, swap song orders around, etc. etc., and have your video file loaded in so you can see how it all works together in time.)

But the basic start is to string together all your music, in the order you want it, into one large audio file. Then you want to encode it so it matches the other audio of your dvd (mp2, ac3, pcm, whatever). you may need to save it to a wav file and then encode it to ac3 or mp2, depending on what your audio editor's export capabilities are.

Once you have your alternate audio track, you need to either use an authoring program that supports multiple audio tracks (DVD Junior is around $100 and supports a couple of audio tracks, but I'm not familiar with it. Next up from that, I think, is Sonic ReelDVD, at around $600), or you need to use IFO Edit to combine your video track and your two audio tracks into one .vob file, and then find an authoring software that will import .vob files, like DVD Lab.

The only problem I've heard about doing it that way is that you can't set your project up to play with the alternate audio track from an on-screen menu with DVD Lab, you have to use the "Audio" controls on your dvd player's remote.

hope this helps.... I hope even more that it makes sense, 'cause I'm about half asleep still....