Making a DVD with 2 soundtracks

Videot wrote on 8/22/2004, 5:58 PM

When it comes to editing our holiday videos I prefer to just have some of the original sound & use music. My wife always want's naration to remind her what she's looking at. What is the best way to do both of these things now that DVDA 2 now supports multiple soundtracks?.

I was thinking of just making my ususual video with music only & rendering it out. Then keeping this version on timeline just add the narration by talking directly onto a new track & then going back & dipping the music levals whenever there was also voice.

What happens then do I then delete the video track & just render out all the audio tracks into one using stereo settings? I have a vague recollection that there might even be a script that can do this for you automatically, Is this the case?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/22/2004, 6:07 PM

What we do is to create the first soundtrack/audio file, then create the second, with the first tracks muted. Routing the soundtracks to separate buses helps. Then you only need mute one button and not worry about errors.
Mute bus 2, render soundtrack 1 to AC3
Mute bus 1, unmute bus 2, render soundtrack 2 to AC3.

I don't know of a script that's out there that will render one audio track, then mute other audio tracks, then render the unmuted tracks to a different file, but I assume it could be done.