Adding a commentary track to a silent DVD

A group of my older relatives just made a DVD of about 2 hours worth of
silent home movies from the 30s and 40s and they would like to record a
commentary track on it ("Look! There's Aunt Gusta", that kind of
thing). Is there such a thing as software that lets you play back a
DVD (or the MPEG files thereon) and dub audio onto it as you go? I
could just fire off the DVD and record them talking in a separate app,
but I'm concerned the sync will go off. Since the DVD is full of 3-4
second bits and I don't know Aunt Beryl from Uncle Ralph, I'd never get
it straight.

Thanks for any help!

-- Rich Fife --

Rich Fife

Hi,

I am faced with a smiliar situation. The solution I came up with was
to sit and watch the film, and have a digital voice recorder in front
of me, and I narrated it.

Afterward, I downloaded the track and added it to the film with DVD
Lab Pro. I have not finished this project yet, but this appears to
work.

The only downside is you need a digital voice recorder which will
allow you to download to your PC, and it needs to have sufficent space
to handle the entire movie, so 120 + minutes of constant recording for
you.

On 30 May 2005 09:51:02 -0700, "Rich Fife" <> wrote:

>A group of my older relatives just made a DVD of about 2 hours worth of
>silent home movies from the 30s and 40s and they would like to record a
>commentary track on it ("Look! There's Aunt Gusta", that kind of
>thing). Is there such a thing as software that lets you play back a
>DVD (or the MPEG files thereon) and dub audio onto it as you go? I
>could just fire off the DVD and record them talking in a separate app,
>but I'm concerned the sync will go off. Since the DVD is full of 3-4
>second bits and I don't know Aunt Beryl from Uncle Ralph, I'd never get
>it straight.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
> -- Rich Fife --

SW Fan

I'm specifically trying to avoid doing that due to the synchronization
issues I mentioned, but thanks for the suggestion!

-- Rich Fife --

Rich Fife

"Rich Fife" <> wrote in message
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>A group of my older relatives just made a DVD of about 2 hours worth of
> silent home movies from the 30s and 40s and they would like to record a
> commentary track on it ("Look! There's Aunt Gusta", that kind of
> thing). Is there such a thing as software that lets you play back a
> DVD (or the MPEG files thereon) and dub audio onto it as you go? I
> could just fire off the DVD and record them talking in a separate app,
> but I'm concerned the sync will go off. Since the DVD is full of 3-4
> second bits and I don't know Aunt Beryl from Uncle Ralph, I'd never get
> it straight.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -- Rich Fife --
>

Alpha

"Rich Fife" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
>A group of my older relatives just made a DVD of about 2 hours worth of
> silent home movies from the 30s and 40s and they would like to record a
> commentary track on it ("Look! There's Aunt Gusta", that kind of
> thing). Is there such a thing as software that lets you play back a
> DVD (or the MPEG files thereon) and dub audio onto it as you go? I
> could just fire off the DVD and record them talking in a separate app,
> but I'm concerned the sync will go off. Since the DVD is full of 3-4
> second bits and I don't know Aunt Beryl from Uncle Ralph, I'd never get
> it straight.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -- Rich Fife --
>

Try MovieFactory 4 from Ulead. Under the Edit button (after you have loaded
the .mpg), there is an Audio tab. Click this. In this tab is a Record
button. Connect your microphone to your sound card. Press Record. Now
your audio is recorded onto the video as it plays.

Alpha

PS

The same capability is in Nero Vision Express 3: In the Edit mode the video
display has a microphone icon. Click this. Your audio is recorded as the
clip plays.


"Alpha" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Rich Fife" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>>A group of my older relatives just made a DVD of about 2 hours worth of
>> silent home movies from the 30s and 40s and they would like to record a
>> commentary track on it ("Look! There's Aunt Gusta", that kind of
>> thing). Is there such a thing as software that lets you play back a
>> DVD (or the MPEG files thereon) and dub audio onto it as you go? I
>> could just fire off the DVD and record them talking in a separate app,
>> but I'm concerned the sync will go off. Since the DVD is full of 3-4
>> second bits and I don't know Aunt Beryl from Uncle Ralph, I'd never get
>> it straight.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> -- Rich Fife --
>>
>
> Try MovieFactory 4 from Ulead. Under the Edit button (after you have
> loaded the .mpg), there is an Audio tab. Click this. In this tab is a
> Record button. Connect your microphone to your sound card. Press Record.
> Now your audio is recorded onto the video as it plays.
>
>
>

Alpha

I'll try this. Thanks!

-- Rich Fife --



Alpha wrote:
> PS
>
> The same capability is in Nero Vision Express 3: In the Edit mode the video
> display has a microphone icon. Click this. Your audio is recorded as the
> clip plays.
>


> >
> > Try MovieFactory 4 from Ulead. Under the Edit button (after you have
> > loaded the .mpg), there is an Audio tab. Click this. In this tab is a
> > Record button. Connect your microphone to your sound card. Press Record.
> > Now your audio is recorded onto the video as it plays.
> >
> >
> >

Rich Fife