My daughter's wedding DVD has an annoying sister-in-law who was very obnoxious. I'd love to be able to edit out her loud mouth. Is there a way to do this? Please help so we can watch her wedding without having to listen to "Candy" every time!
one way I found out in editing audio is to use virtudub and audacity (both are free). The only thing is that your input files have to be in an AVI format.
If you have no problem with converting your dvd to avi. You can use the free dvdshrink or dvdfabhddecryter to rip your dvd and backup as an ISO. Next use fairuse wizard to convert the ISO to xvid.
Next use virtudub to open your avi, file/save wav next open audacity and find the wav you created, file/open
next using audicity highlight the areas that you want edited and, effects/reverse and then effects/amplify and lower the volume. You can try different effects to get what you want. Most of the effects have a preview button so you hear how it will sound. You can also choose to silence the part, but that might be more distracting in the finished dvd.
When done file/export as wav.
Next in virtudub audio/audio from other file/find your edited wav
audio/full processing mode
audio/compression/mp3/48kbs
Then you can use the free dvdflick to convert your avi back into a dvd.
That's one way of doing it, how I have done it with good results.
Other ways that I have used to remove unwanted scenes/audio from a dvd with no quality loss is to use videoredotvsuite. this is a frame acuurate editor that can cutout sections very quickly. The finished dvd is saved without reencoding (zero quality loss). This isn't as precise but it gets the job done.
There are also professional grade programs that can do it, but they are very expensive.
Don't use XviD.
This is a form of AVI that is in fact even more heavily data reduced than the original M2V file is.
Best approach is to strip out the Audio file in whatever way you can, and edit that. If it's already an AC3 then you will have to re-encode the audio and you will lose quality, as AC3 stinks at the best of times due to the transient smearing.
You need to demultiplex the DVD - better still, go back to the source files & edit those instead. (If your camera writes straight to DVD then you have problems quality wise anyway).
Edit the Audio - a good parametric equalizer at the right frequency (probably between 1 & 2 KHZ, use a high Q and cut the offending parts down) can help a great deal.
Thank you both for advice. Right now, I'm just waiting to see if I get more opinions and then combine what I know how to do with all of the info I get on what I don't know (which is more than I want to admit!). My daughter will be so glad to be able to watch her wedding without the loudmouth interrupting the proceedings :)
This is all free software:
PGCDemux to remove audio from video.
BeSweet with BeLight convert AC3 to WAV and back after edit.
Audacity to fix audio.
Muxman to combine new audio with video.
