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I want to replace the vocal song from The Nightmare Before Christmas with their OST versions. The performances differ somewhat and I like the OST ones better. What would be the quickest and cheapest way of doing this for Mac or PC?

So far I've ripped the video using MacTheRipper and then converted it to anamorphic using DVDRebuilder (it was 4:3 letterboxed before). I've tried Womble before, didn't like it very much. Might've been because I had an older computer then. Will be willing to give it another go. Tried iMovie - which read the vob files but the quality looked awful.
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Hi

What form are your files in now (after your rebuilding them)? Avi, mpeg...? Knowing info like that is a big help in giving advice in how you can keep the picture quality up in editing (and after), which you rightfully are concerned about. (I've never used Rebuilder so sorry if I'm asking something kinda obvious )

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DVDRebuilder took the VOBs from when I ripped the DVD and basically made a new DVD. It exported it as VOBs, but shrunk to fit on a single layer DVD and with the 4:3 letterboxed converted to 16:9 widescreen. Would it be better to not work with VOB files? I've tried MPEGStreamClip and Handbrake on my Mac but didn't really know what settings to use. Ended taking a 4GB source and turning it into a 27GB mpeg. O_o

I'm willing to take a small quality hit, but when I looked at that stuff in iMovie...it was like a really bad YouTube clip. Again, might've been a vob thing since I haven't heard of a large quality drop with other formats.
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Rebuilder is fine for converting 4:3 to 16:9. Does it have an option to put an alternative audio track on the new disc?

The easiest way to edit the sound is to convert the 5.1 Dolby Digital track to 2.0 WAV, and splice in the alternative audio for the section with the song you want to change (assuming the timings are the same). Then encode the alternative track back to AC3 and mux with the converted video.

If you want to keep the 5.1 mix, you will need software that can edit multi-channel audio (e.g. SoundForge 9).

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Thanks.

I don't think I'll attempt to keep the 5.1 mix, since the OST doesn't feature that.

Not really sure if Rebuilder has that option, so I'll check. If it doesn't what other program can I use?

Thinking of creating the alternate audio stream in Audacity and I can demux using a few things.