Create DVD with 2 audio tracks

[lobo2k]

Hello all, new to the forum here...

I have a problem with PE3 for you experts: I'm trying to create a DVD with two SEPARATED audio track, one is the original one from the video footage, the other is music.

I've imported video & audio from original source.
Added second audio track
What I get is a dvd with one single video+audio track, and the audio track is the mix of the two.

Is that possible at all?

Thanks in advance!

L2k

[ATR]

Specifically what do you want to do?
(a) have music playing in the background as your original video/audio plays?
(b) have music play before or after your original video audio plays?
(c) other

Are you working from the Sceneline or Timeline? Get to Timeline and
(a) describe the placement of all video and audio, naming track numbers and positions.
(b) mention any work that you have attempted lowering the volume of the music so that the audio from the original video/audio dominates, if that was what you wanted to do.

ATR

[Byron Gale]

L2k,

Do you mean that you want to have the menu show an option to play the video two different ways - one with the original sound, the other with music?

Byron

[lobo2k]

I'm trying to do exactly what Byron Gale said:

L2k,

Do you mean that you want to have the menu show an option to play the video two different ways - one with the original sound, the other with music?

Byron

Sorry if my original post wasn't too clear... english is not my 1st language...

Thanks

L2k

[Byron Gale]

L2k,

I think you will have to create your project with the movie appearing twice - once with the original sound, and once with the music.

Using an appropriate menu, you can assign a Main Menu button to each version. Be sure to put a Stop marker after the earlier version so that the subsequent version is not played afterward - unless that's what you want.

Byron

[ATR]

Thank you for the clarification. Byran, you did a marvelous job in seeking out the core of this issue.

There may be other ways, but this is one way that you might try. It involves making two versions of your material and using Bonus Item feature on the Main Menu of your DVD Menu.

Get your media in the Media Panel: “original video with audio” and your “music”

Take your “original video with audio” to the Timeline, Video Track 1, Audio Track 1. Do that twice leaving a few seconds gap between the first and second “original video and audio” drag downs.

Next, you are going to highlight and work with just the second “original video and audio”. Go to the Clip Menu and select Unlink Audio and Video. Go back to the Timeline, separate video from audio, right click audio, and select Clear from the pop up menu. Then drag your music from the Media Panel and position it on Audio 1 in the position where the cleared original audio was. To link the music with the video above it, highlight both and go back to the Clip menu, select Link Audio and Video.

Now you have two versions on your Timeline, the “original video and audio” and the "original video now with your music instead”.

My preference menu-wise would be to make the “original video and audio” your primary presentation and make the “original video now with your music instead” a bonus item on the main menu. Refer to my recent suggested how to for that (see my response #7)

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27686

There are other alternatives using just the main and scene menus. Also, for separating video from audio, I believe there is a way to send just audio or video to the Timeline for a given clip. A lot of possibilities, but the above are my suggestions for now.

ATR

[lobo2k]

Byron Gale, ATR: thanks a lot for the quick and helpfull replies!!

Tomorrow I'll follow your suggestions and see how it comes out.

The only doubt I have is that with this method the DVD size will double, right?

Thanks again

L2K

[Byron Gale]

ATR,

That is a very thorough explanation of how to accomplish the desired result!

L2K,

Yes... essentially double the size of the project as burned to DVD.

Byron