I suck at this :(

[Doctor Who?]

Have you checked amazon market place.  Most of the time they are cheaper then Ebay.  If it is a movie that sold a lot of copies you can some times find it for as little as .50 plus shipping.  You may also want to check at wal mart some time the single disc edtion can be found in the $5.00 bin.

[cenobite000]

I can go over this in detail if requested.

Step 0: Rip the dvd to your computer. You probably already know how to do this if you are attempting to combine riffs and xvid/divx dvd rips

Step 1: In the read me.txt file that comes with a riff, use the sync times to get a good start. If the riff (1:35 seconds) syncs with the dvd at (15 seconds), take off 1:20 seconds from the beginning of the riff mp3. In theory, this should do the trick the first time, but it's usually never right on.

Step 2: Using a free program called WavePad Sound Editor, chop off 1:20 seconds (based on the above example) from the beginning of the riff mp3. Again, this won't be perfect the first time, but it's somewhere to begin.

Step 3: Open Windows Movie maker and use it to open the .avi movie. Click "add music" and select the riff mp3. Now that the 2 are combined, hit play and wait for lines where the voices are supposed to sync with disembaudio. There is usually one at the beginning around the 2 minute mark. Based on that, you will know if you need to add silence, or take away time. If the sync line is ahead of the line in the movie, add silence. If the line in the movie is ahead of the sync line, take away time. Keep an eye on the timer at the bottom and it will help you guage how many seconds to add or take away.

Step 4: Load the riff mp3 in WavePad Sound Editor again, and start adding or subtracting time based on your test in windows movie maker.

Step 5: rinse and repeat until you get that right. It usually takes me 3 or 4 tests to get it just right. It's not all that tedious!

Step 6: Using a free program called VirtualDub, load the divx/xvid movie. Go File>Save as WAV. This is going to save the movie audio track as a wav

Step 7: Using a free program called Audacity, load the riff mp3 and drag and drop the wav file on top of it in that program. go File>Save as mp3. The first time you do it, it's going to prompt you to load the lame mp3 encoder.dll or something. search google for the filename and you'll find it to download right away

Step 8: open the movie again in virtual dub.. click VIDEO>Direct Stream Copy, go AUDIO>Audio from another file, and load the mp3. Also make sure that audio is selected direct stream copy... hit f7... give the new avi file a name, and wait 5 minutes... and you are done.

I know this seems like alot of work, but it's really not that bad. I can sync a riff with a movie in about an hour if I get lucky with the rinse and repeat of syncing the voices.

Try it out! The only two things in this process that are not free are the riff track and the dvd, unless you are a pirate. I am not though

[Droosies]

Sadly enough I have a new problem now.  I gave in and rented Titanic from Blockbuster.  They had the single disc edition, so I've ripped it and am ready to go.  I just got through Audacity and am using ffmpeggui to turn it back into an AC3 so I can use DVD author in Rejig, but when I try to use ffmpeggui, it says TProgress Bar Out of Range.  What am I doing wrong now?

[D.B. Barnes]

Sadly enough I have a new problem now.  I gave in and rented Titanic from Blockbuster.  They had the single disc edition, so I've ripped it and am ready to go.  I just got through Audacity and am using ffmpeggui to turn it back into an AC3 so I can use DVD author in Rejig, but when I try to use ffmpeggui, it says TProgress Bar Out of Range.  What am I doing wrong now?

Not sure why ffmpeg is doing that but can I suggest trying the conversion using BeSweet/BeLight to see whether or not it's ffmpeg that's causing the problem?

BeSweet: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/BeSweet
Belight: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/BeLight

[Droosies]

Sadly enough I have a new problem now.  I gave in and rented Titanic from Blockbuster.  They had the single disc edition, so I've ripped it and am ready to go.  I just got through Audacity and am using ffmpeggui to turn it back into an AC3 so I can use DVD author in Rejig, but when I try to use ffmpeggui, it says TProgress Bar Out of Range.  What am I doing wrong now?

Not sure why ffmpeg is doing that but can I suggest trying the conversion using BeSweet/BeLight to see whether or not it's ffmpeg that's causing the problem?

BeSweet: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/BeSweet
Belight: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/BeLight

I think I found out what the problem is, but I'm not sure.  right around the end, for some reason when it hits around 18000000 ms, it goes to negative.  The audio keeps going fine however.  I think the file may be too big.  I split part of the wav and it worked perfectly.  The file size after Audacity is 2.09 GB.  May have to re-rip using the mono track instead of the stereo to lower the file size.  Could this be the problem?

[Droosies]

New problem, so I won't make a new thread...

I've got Pirates of the Caribbean, I've gone through all the steps and am authoring the DVD, but when it gets to the "Create DVD Files" part, it ends right away and the files don't work.  What am I doing wrong?

[Compound]

Try reinstalling Rejig.  Also, I've found Rejig tends to be a bit quirky if I head back to the main menu, so you might want to just use it for the reauthor, not anything else.

[Droosies]

Try reinstalling Rejig.  Also, I've found Rejig tends to be a bit quirky if I head back to the main menu, so you might want to just use it for the reauthor, not anything else.

Unfortunately that didn't work.  What's happening, is it multiplexes everything, however when it gets to "Create DVD Files", it turns off automatically and I'm left with a VOB file of only 376 KB.  I don't think it's a problem with either of the files as they both work fine when I view them.