Hmmm.... How Did They Do That?

[blazin-j]

I was watching one of those cheesy DVDs the other day that turn your TV into an aquarium, but what caught my attention was that from the menu you could choose to play A) music for the audio track, B) sound effects, or C) nothing at all. And if you chose to play music, from a submenu you could then choose from many different types of looping music (ambient, new age, acoustic guitar, etc). Therefore, you were able to tailor the output so you could play the type of music you liked along with the video of the fish swimming. Authoring it this way made the DVD much more versatile than usual.

Does anyone know how they authored the DVD to do this? What program did they use? Any insights on how I could author a DVD like this would be appreciated.

[borax]

Any DVD may have up to 8 audio tracks for a video. If the video isn't that long, you may have the same video twice and have again 8 audio tracks which doubles the number of different music loops. Most decent authoring programs support several audio tracks for one video. GfD only supports 3, but you may tweak the control file(s) by hand to use all 8 possible audio tracks as well. Take care that the combined bitrate of video, all audio and subtitle tracks stays below the max 10.08 Mbps (10080 kbps).

[tinker]

You can get something like DVD Lab Pro, which will run you around $250, or if money is no object, than Scenarist which will set you back about $5000.
Or visit "Tools" under LISTS, on left side of this page and choose authoring software which suit your budget.
Most of the authoring software will let you do this, just check its specifications. Some of them have trail version.