How to mix more than 2 audio tracks?

G

Guest

MM is equipped with 2 audio tracks one is occupied for original audio that
resides in video stream, another one is reserved for the narrator track, but
I require three: one for original video, another one for background music and
a third for narrator comments, can one do this using a nice trick?

My problem is the following: I muted the video sound track (so one track is
occupied for nothing) and I want to underly background music and some
narrator comments in parallel here and there. Slicing the music into pieces
and mixing musik and narrator audio by dragging the narrator track over music
is possible, but finally leads to gaps in music, since both tracks can't have
common start-start conditions. Thus I currently help myself with an external
audio editor where I mix music with text manually, which is not very
convenient.

Do you know a better way solving this issue?
 
P

PapaJohn \(MVP\)

You can do it a couple ways.....

A two pass way: Save the movie without the background music... DV-AVI file
for full quality. Then bring it into Movie Maker again as a single clip and
add the music.

A single pass but rendering two audio files first: Make your narration and
music tracks as single WMA files, using Movie Maker (deleting all the video
clips at the last minute before saving... so the narration and music aligns
with the video and the movie saves as an audio file). Then use the two
single WMA files on the sound/music track, overlapping them totally except
for the first frame. Trimming the second one by a frame or two will make the
two perfectly aligned with each other and with the video.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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G

Guest

The first solution proposal I found on your web page already, the latter one
is new. Both ones work fine. Thank you for giving these hints. By the way,
your web pages are really thrilling!!

Thank you
Andreas
 

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