How do you watch Rifftrax?

[LolygagerX]

Yeah but should'nt the MP3 file allready be matched up perfectly when you start?

[Winterkid]

The rifftrax itself tells you when to pause and start itself and how to keep the movie and the rifftrax in best possible sync.  Also I notice it's easier for me to pause the movie or hit the play x2 speed for a second than to pause the rifftrax itself.

[teedub]

I go all out and create my own DVD's (from purchased copies of course) with the riff track integrated with the movie audio.  After I get caught up with those (they're a little time-consuming, but I think I've got the process down), I'll start making covers for the cases. 

[MrTorso]

I'll start making covers for the cases. 

When you do, join us in the various cover threads and post your cover! We would like to see it.

[teedub]

Definitely!  I'm storing mine in slim double cases (gotta save room where I can), so they'll be double covers!  I doubt I'll make them TOO fancy, I prefer function over fashion. 

[wesley]

For "The Fifth Elment", I used my entertainment center DVD player for the movie, and my PSP with earbuds for the riffing.  It worked really well until I had to answer the phone and accidentally hit one of the shoulder buttons on the PSP - which is the 'next/prev track' control.  At that point I had to re-sync with the movie by fast forwarding the mp3 to somewhere around the 50 minute mark, which took a few minutes.   I wasn't able to get it to sync up quite as well after that.  I realized afterwards that I should have used the included crib sheet.  Ah well, hopefully it'll work out better with Star Trek.

I've considered making my own DVD's but as I don't own any of the movies so far (I've been renting them from Netflix) it's not really an option yet. When it is I'll definitely take a look at your guide gammer73.

i've done that as well. now, i try to hit the lock switch on my PSP to prevent the buttons from being hit accidentally.

[Creepy_Girl]

I go all out and create my own DVD's (from purchased copies of course) with the riff track integrated with the movie audio.  After I get caught up with those (they're a little time-consuming, but I think I've got the process down), I'll start making covers for the cases. 

That's what I plan to do... once I have a dvd burner.

In the meantime, to get the full effect, I use the mp3's in iTunes, using airtunes, play the audio on our entertainment center speaker setup, then use the tv's speakers for the movie audio, so all the sound is coming from the same direction, and the rifftrax is coming from better speakers, to cut through the movie audio.

One little glitch though, and that's syncing issues. There's a latency if you pause and play the rifftrack again, with airtunes reconnecting to the airport express dac. So using airtunes means it falls out of sync nearly everytime it gets to the next disembaudio line. There's nothing for it but to go back to that line. Sort of annoying, well, really really annoying, but there's nothing for it until I have a proper computer.

[hariustrk]

I do it 1 of 2 ways.

1. I load the DVD or a rip of it into Nero Showtime, then I load the rifftrax into windows media player. I correct drift if nessesary on wm player. Then I just watch it on my laptop.

2. I rip the dvd to single file, then use nero vision to add the riftraxx as a 2nd audio track.

Option 2 has been working well, except with Fellowship, for some reason vision express crashes on me with my fellowship rip. Either way I end up watching them on my laptop all the time.

[PJD]

I rip the dvd to single file, then use nero vision to add the riftraxx as a 2nd audio track.

Option 2 has been working well, except with Fellowship, for some reason vision express crashes on me with my fellowship rip. Either way I end up watching them on my laptop all the time.

One Windows way is using Roxio Easy Creator (I am using version "8") and DVD Decrypter.

First, break the DVD encryption using DVD Decrypter. This gives you a folder with the DVD files. Then, create a Disc Image of this folder using Disc Copier. You then need to mount this disc image using Disc Image Loader. It will then look like you've got a DVD in a drive. But, this "DVD" no longer is copy protected. You can then use the Media Import to import the video of the movie.

Now that you have a video of the movie, you load it into Video Wave. Use the Rifftrax that you've trimmed (to cut out the beginning instructions - use Sound Editor for that) and add that as an audio track to your movie. You can then move the audio track on the timeline until it synchs up with your movie and then burn to DVD.



If anyone has a better Windows solution, I'd love to hear it.

THANK YOU! These two posts and gammers73's page helped me get going.
My Windows method is as follows;
-Edit out the intro on the MP3
-do a save as WAV file and upsample to 48k. I use Adobe Audition becuase I have it and know it inside out.
-'rip' the DVD with DVD Decryptor
-Import it into Nero Vison Essentials
-line up the first DA synch line
-check a DA sync line @45 minutes later in the movie
-Burn.

A few things I've noticed.
On Nero (which I find to be a total pain the the A) you may need to double click the audio track of the Riff to adjust it's volume.
I also leave DA synch lines in. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
After I figured out wehat I was doing wrong I think I have this proccess down to about an hour. I need to figure out how to 'normalize' the audio off the video as showm in gammer73's walkthrough. I don't watch through surround sound and I find the consistency of DVD volume to be optimized for home theater, that would help a great deal.
Prior to this I was watching the movies on the DVD player with the headphone out's of a laptop going into the Aux input on a tiny Bass amp. Not fun or easy but worked great for my Thanksgiving day marathjon. I think of this as an investment in fun.