| MP3/WAVE to AVI. WARNING! It is an offence to copy, alter, distribute other peoples works in any form without their expressed permission. You have been warned! This page is only intended as an example, for individuals to experiment on their own creations ONLY! As a novice myself, I hope this page will help others to achieve results faster than I did when I first started. ------------------------------ If you can not find an MP3/WAVE to AVI convertor, which we have not up until now, then try this simple method. Find a bit of kit that will allow you to play your MP3/WAVE etc;and will allow other devices to capture sound outputs at the same time. Try a Free program called CDEX from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ Please read their documentation and the Copyright notice. A WEB CAM capture device is good enough. Load your capture card software. Make sure that the output is in AVI form and set the sound quality with compression to Intel Codec 4.5mhz. Set the out put file name etc. Load your player (or CDEX). Select the file or files you want to play. Do not start them yet. Start your capture device and then start your player. When finished, stop the capture device then the player. DONE! You may need to try things out until you get the best quality. To add the sound track to an MPG file, try TEMPEnc (http://www.tmpgenc.com) and MPG2VCR (http://www.womble.com/) or any other product that can combine sound to your VCD\DVD movies. All that is required, is for you to combine the sound with the movie making sure that the sound track is in sync. To Remove a Sound Track from an MPG file. Use your prefered software or TEMPGEnc. We'll use TEMPGEnc here. Select 'File' and then MPEG Tools. A window pops up and you select the 'Multiplex' TAB. Now set the 'Type' to MPEG Video-CD. Select the down arrow on the right side and choose that format. Choose the 'Add' tab and select your MPG file. Now to remove the Audio track from that video file. Highlite the Audio layer Stream and select the 'Delete' Tab. Select the 'Output' drive/path and filename of the'soon to be converted' MPG file. When ready select the 'Run' tab. Done. ADD your Sound Track to Above MPG. This is without making adjustments to get movie in sync with the audio. A test if you will. Select Bottom of the screen: Video Source: Select Audio-less created MPG file's with 'Browse'. Audio Source: Select the AVI file that you created. Output file name: Slect Drive/Path and enter TEST.MPG Right side of screen: Set 'System Stream' to 'System (Video+Audio). Select 'Settings':- Select 'Video' tab:- Stream type:- MPEG-1 Size: 352 x 288 pixels. Aspect ratio: 4:3 625 line (PAL). Frame rate: 25 fps. Rate Controle: Constant bitrate (CBR). Bitrate: 1150- kbits/sec. Motion search precision: Normal. Select 'Advanced' tab:- Only change 'Source Aspect ratio:- 4:3 626 lines (PAL). Select 'Audio' tab:- Stream type: MPEG-1 layer II Sampling frequency: 44100 Hz Channel mode: stereo. (Could try 'mono' later) Bitrate:224 kbits/sec De-emphasis flag: None. Select 'System' tab:- Stream type: MPEG-1 Video-CD Select 'OK' button at bottom of page when ready. Select 'Start' at top of screen. There you have it. Audio and Video sync. I like to ensure that the Video has about 4 seconds of nothing in front and back of it. This really does help when putting both together. You can then cut the video 'lead-in' to suit the audio 'start'. Put them to gether using TEMPEnc (the bottom selections of its main page, not forgetting to setup the output formats etc) . Usually it works. Sometimes, you will find that 'lip sync' is not correct. It's quite easy to add a frame here and there in the video to correct this problem. ALWAYS work on a copy of your originally created 'video only' file. If you get it wrong, you still have the master to create another working copy to work from. |