Wizard of Oz - Dark Side of the Moon Project

[smokeslikeapoet]

My sister got the Wizard of Oz on DVD for Christmas. I have Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon CD, anyone see where I'm going with this. I want to mux the Wizard of Oz Video with the Pink Floyd audio, I'm working on the audio right now and I was wondering what tools I need to join the individual wav files from the cd? Has anyone else attempted this project? I'm sure this won't be my only question on the subject but I wanted to get started.

[Bugs Bunny]

So what's the question? Seems a straightforward enough job. You've been muxing audio to video for all this time, right?

If you've been using some of the automated tools that allows straight AC3->MP3 conversion, then it may be question. All you need is not to skip the middle step (AC3 -> WAV -> MP3). Retaining the WAV format, as it's the easiest to edit, then get a good editor like CoolEdit (available in shareware) or Sonic Foundry (NOT shareware, heh) and splice/mix the tracks.

[smokeslikeapoet]

Yeah ok, I'm using CoolEdit to join the WAVs into one long Wav. Then I'll open the WAV again and make it repeat until I reach the 101 minutes required for the length of the movie.

[Bugs Bunny]

If you're concatenating the WAVs in order, it's simpler to rip the CD into one big WAV. Most rippers have the "copy range" command. If you're mixing the WAVs out of sequence, then check up on CoolEdit's "Mix Paste" to minimize abrupt cuts. Remember to fade the ends. Lastly, you don't have to match the audio length to video length. If audio is longer than video, in VDub select "Video | Select Range" and uncheck "cut off audio when video stream ends". Pretty sure it works the same way in SBC.

[dvdyke]

Yeah. Already done this to DiVX. Synced up properly. You might have to push and pull from where the track 'Money' begins though as I found it did not sync right after hitting that track (It's where side 2 started when it was on vinyl). Also make sure it's the NTSC version and not PAL or you will have major probs syncing it (4% speedup on PAL). :)

Good luck!

[elgan123]

smokeslikeapoet,

I have already done this conversion and, I must say, it turned out very well. Starting from the 3rd roar of the lion in the MGM logo is a delay of just over 8 seconds. If memory serves I used 8100ms delay in Nandub and it worked like a charm. Of course, different people like to start the audio at different places... ;)

I would use Exact Audio Copy http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ and use the 'Copy Range' function to give you the whole disk in 1 big WAV. Then encode as usual in LAME.

Then I would mux in the original soundtrack as well seeing as Nandub allows us to mux 2 streams.

@dvdyke
I had no problem with syncing as Money began.

[smokeslikeapoet]

Thanks for the delay tip, you probably saved me half an hour trying to figure it out.