Voice over Music - Narration

[Allburn]

Here is my dilema, maybe someone can help:

I am in the process of transferring our "Home movies" dating back to the 50's onto DVD's.

Some of these very old movies, because there was orginally no sound, were remixed with an added audio track of nice music.

Because my children would never know who all of these people are, I would like to add "Voice-over narration", keeping the original music intact.

These movies were originally 8mm, then transfered to VHS and music added 10 years ago. So far I have successfully captured and burned them to DVD with no noticeable loss of quality.
I still have the original capture files, and this is where I would like to add the narration. I assume I need some type of mixing software?

Any Ideas?

Thank-You

[Allburn]

Anybody.....Please!

[jeremymacmull]

you can do this in Adobe premiere

create a separate wav file in a sound recorder (windows sound recorder or better) and then mix with premiere to put the sound and pic together even if they are different lengths

i know this cos u can make music videos this way u take loads of clips of different lengths and add music to it so it should not be too different if instead of music u add a voice over

premiere works with a timeline so it should be possible to do so without too much trouble

as for converting to DVD i know premiere 6.5 can convert to avi divx etc so follow the guides for converting divx to dvd

hope any of this helps

Jeremy

[Allburn]

Jeremy,
Thanks for your response, unfortunately I do not have "Premiere", but I will look around for it.

I was also wondering if rather than "Voice over", I would be better placing the music audio on the LEFT CHANNEL and the narration of the RIGHT CHANNEL. Would this be easier? Any help on how I could accomplish this?

Thanks.

AB

[TelemachusMH]

I just looked at the avisynth website and you can do either of these jobs with it.

If you want to Overlay both audio tracks you can take a look at this:
MixAudio (http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=MixAudio)

If you want to put the music in one channel and the voice in another try this:
MergeChannels (http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=MergeChannels)

Hope this helps,
TelemachusMH