Adobe Premiere & Aegisub Ques

[coxanhvn]

Hi all, I am learning to make a music video karaoke DVD myself, so please help me if you can, thank you.

My plan is to take a music video from YouTube or somewhere, then add another beat track to make it becomes a karaoke file with 2 or more audio streams, then I will add the lyrics (with effects from Aegisub) and make it embedded to the video and burn it out to a DVD.

So my first question is am I doing a right thing if I take Aegisub to make and sync the lyrics with Aegisub's effects, then save it to a file (.ass?) and use Adobe Premiere to mix them all (music video, second audio track, and lyrics from Aegisub) and burn it to a DVD?

A little note: I'm completely new to these 2 softs but I prefer to use it, so please help me if you know anything about it, thank you very much.

[filmboss80]

Premiere has it's own titling software. Use that. You're doing karaoke, not a movie that needs switchable soft subs.

[coxanhvn]

Thanks but I really want to have those effects for sub, could you show me how to do that please?

[filmboss80]

Subtitles like that are muxed into the video during DVD authoring stage, and cannot be simply dropped into the Premiere editing timeline. If you want to do it your way, then:

1. Edit all video and audio elements in Premiere, sans subs.
2. Export the video in the finished timeline as .m2v and audio as .wav.
3. Open the finished audio .wav file in Aegisub. Compose and time your subs to the soundtrack.
4. When you save your subs, change the file from .ass to .ssa.
5. Convert you audio .wav file to ac3 using WAV to AC3 Encoder (GUI for Aften).
6. Use a DVD authoring program like GUI for DVD Author to mux your .m2v, ,ac3, and .ssa files together.

If that's too complicated for you, then go back to my previous post about hardsubbing with Premiere's titler.

Bye.

[coxanhvn]

Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it and will try my best to figure it out. So, my next questions are is Premiere designed for authoring a whole DVD also (which means I can just import a simple picture and create a DVD)? Do you know what is the standard process of making a commercial movie DVD? Are .m2v and .ac3 the main files in those VOB containers?

[filmboss80]

Ac3 (aka Dolby Digital) audio is commonly found on most DVDs, but you can also have PCM .wav or Mpeg-1 Layer 2. M2v is just the video part of an MPEG-2 file, and you MUST have MPEG-2 to make a compliant DVD. You can read more on DVD specs (and what's inside those VOB files) here: https://www.videohelp.com/dvd

I don't know about the consumer, Elements version of Premiere, but the pro version is usually bundled with Adobe Encore, which is DVD authoring software. Premiere is designed as stage 1: post production editing of your movie. The DVD authoring software is stage 2, tying your picture to main audio, alternate language audio, subtitles, etc.; along with setting chapter points and navigational menus.

Some DVD authoring programs are restrictive about the types of subtitle files they take. The reason I suggested GUI for DVD Author is because it will take .ssa files that are made in Aegisub.

And, yes, I know the process for making commercial DVDs, as that is something my company does. There are lots of expensive (Scenarist, anyone?) and even free (GUI for DVD Author) tools. You just have to know what you're doing.

[coxanhvn]

Thanks for the info, I think I will have some time to get to know these tools that you just mentioned, so will be back asap, thanks again.