replacing audio in AVI with WAV

[dprocket]

Hello all. I received some good advice from some experts on this board a few days ago, and I am hoping you all can help me again.

I made a recording of a church conference using an old analog Hi-8 video camera. The recording is bad...the mic was too close to the audience and not close enough to the speaker, causing the speaker to be quieter than I would like, and the crowd's applause to be overwhelming.

Using Goldwave, I have imported my AVI files and improved the sound some using the simple compressor. NOw, I have saved the new audio as WAV files. What I am not sure of next is how to create new AVI files using the new WAV audio.

SOrry this is a foolish question. When I captured the video on my computer, I simply plugged the AV cables into my All-In-Wonder card and captured using MyDVD. I don't have any experience dealing with video and audio as sepearate pieces until now. Thanks!

[johns0]

Use virtualdub and open it and browse to your avi file and open it,then click on video and choose direct stream copy and then click on audio and choose wav and browse for your new wav file you made.

Then go to file and save as avi with a new name.

[dprocket]

Thanks for the tip. Sounds easy enough. Now....are there any other programs that do basically the same thing? I get an error when I attempt to open my AVIs with Virtual Dub.

[!] MPEG: File ended unexpectedly during parsing -- file may be damaged or
incomplete.

[E] Error: No video frames found in MPEG file.

[pijetro]

I simply plugged the AV cables into my All-In-Wonder card and captured using MyDVD

I could have sworn that a MyDVD capture, is an Mpeg capture, in which case, VirtualDub can't help you, since it's an AVI editor..

However, VirtualDubMpeg could probably help you a little..It's just like VirtualDub, but with Mpeg support...

Good luck!!

[celtic_druid]

For an mpg you would need to encode to mp2 via say twolame then use something like TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools to multiplex in the new audio.

[dprocket]

OK, not surprisingly I made a goofy mistake. All of my videos are actually in MPEG2 format. SO, I have my video in MPEG2 and now have nice WAV files for the audio. How to i "put these together" to create a new video (MPEG, i guess)???

[ZippyP.]

How to i "put these together" to create a new video (MPEG, i guess)???

Answered here.

For an mpg you would need to encode to mp2 via say twolame then use something like TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools to multiplex in the new audio.

Actually it's Toolame, or any of these audio converters, here.

[celtic_druid]

Actually I meant twolame.
http://twolame.sourceforge.net/

[thecrock]

You have an mpeg2 video and a wave audio file. Multiplex the two with tmpgenc.

[dprocket]

Maybe it's that easy...I've tried downloading this program the past few days, and the download sites were down...but I've got it now. I'll give it a go. Thank you for your help!

[pjcrown]

You said you used MyDVD. I have MyDVD 6.0 Deluxe. With that version, you can add a background audio file to your DVD project. If you add your new wave file as your background audio file and then turn down (to off) your original video audio track, you can make a new DVD with the new wave file. To check for any audio delays, set the level of both audios to the same value and listen for echoes. If you saved your original DVD project, you probably won't have to reencode.

[ZippyP.]

Actually I meant twolame.
http://twolame.sourceforge.net/

Should get that added to the "Tools" list and a forum url link as well.