Commentary Track Help

DConnors wrote on 11/22/2008, 7:23 AM
The project I am working on requires that I add a commentary track by the director. I have two tracks in my project. Track one is the audio of the movie. Track two is the director's commentary. Is there a way that I can create a button that will allow both the movie audio track and the director's commentary track to play at the same time? My client wants to hear both the movie audio and the directors comments together. Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 11/22/2008, 8:09 AM
That's not quite the way to do it.
Your two audio tracks should contain 1) the complete soundtrack, and 2) the same soundtrack with the commentary overdubbed.
To do the latter, you will need to record the commentary track and reduce the volume ("duck") of the soundtrack a bit in your mix.
Then, you put menu buttons in your DVDA project to pick the soundtrack or soundtrack-with-commentary audio with video. The soundtrack-only should be set as the default. Pretty simple after you've done it once.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/22/2008, 8:20 AM
for info on that check the "adding a setup menu" in the manual/help file.