Making my own "Dark Side of Oz" DVD...

[DVantrease]

I want to try to create my own "Dark Side of Oz" DVD (also known as 'Dark Side of the Rainbow'). This would be the infamous 'Wizard of Oz' movie (video) sync'd up with Pink Floyds 'Dark Side of the Moon' cd (audio). I have searched on the web, and cannot find any 'how-to' info on how to do this, other than a very general 'yes it can be done'.

Ideally, I'd like to stick with a DVD copy (not VCD/SVCD), and I'd like to keep the English track as the default audio track 1, but I'd like to replace the 2nd audio track (spanish?) with the 'Dark Side' soundtrack. I would appreciate ANYONE'S help and/or tips on how to accomplish this, and if there's a website showing the procedures, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!

[rallynavvie]

Heh, I was gonna do that over Christmas :P
Pretty much use all that you can learn on here to create it. Be sure that when you rip the audio that you take the whole CD as one long audio file (best get it in 320 kbps if you rip to mp3) with no pauses between songs. Not all rippers can do this, but I'm not sure which ones do. You will have to repeat it so depending on the authoring app you use you may have to splice together the audio in another program before importing it as an alternate audio track. Make sure to leave enough black space before the audio so that the actual CD recording starts on the second roar of the MGM lion (that's the trick). I've seen a good dub once of this in college and the only thing that really seems to link up is munchkins dancing to Money or something like that. It's still a pretty interesting thing to have around. Now I just need to buy a copy of "Wizard of Oz"...

[DVantrease]

Thanks for the tips! Yeah I think this will take me awhile because I want to do it right. One thing I didn't understand was I saw a couple sites online selling this customized DVD in supposidly surround sound, which I wonder about because wouldn't the DSOTM cd be in stereo and not surround? Maybe there's a special edition I don't know about. I've also seen a VCD version on eBay which claims surround sound, which again I thought VCD only supports stereo (maybe I'm wrong). Either way, I want to do DVD, so I can have multiple audio tracks.

[rallynavvie]

AFAIK a VCD cannot have surround sound, but then I don't deal with VCDs very often. There is a SACD of Dark Side that is in Dolby 5.1 I believe. I'm not sure what it takes to play such a thing but I'm pretty sure you'd be able to rip the audio from it to an AC3 stream... which brings up a good question, how to rip an AC3 stream off a hybrid SACD in one long stream

For my version I had planned on keeping the original audio as primary, a stereo cut of Dark Side as track 2, and this surround remix as track 3. I had also toyed with adding a subtitle track for the lyrics (in addition to the regular subs). However this may be pushing what the DVD can actually hold.

[Gazorgan]

I cheated. I did my 'dark side' in Adobe Premiere. Didn't change any video (no re-encoding). Layed out a #2 Audio track, and I just dropped AC3's into the right slots(converted from CDROM). Tweaked them to get the timing right (the CD doesn't match the Album by the way, order and pauses between tracks). Dumped it out as a 2-Audio track compilation.

I kept the project and played with it...took a few times to get it 'just right' as the webistes say.

I want to re-do it as background music (merged tracks) instead of seperate......but I've lost the project/files since I did it.

[NightWing]

Actualy it the third roar that is the sync spot.

Turnner Clasic Movies had it about two years ago as a special.