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Dubbing - Replace Soundtrack with New Audio

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Overview

Dubbing videos is a great strategy for your existing content. This guide is here to help you explore localizing content or simply enjoy remixing your favorite videos into new versions.The focus is on how to easily replace the soundtrack if you already have the dubbed content.

If you are looking for AI solutions for dubbing the soundtrack, please wait for Part 2 of this tutorial.

🔗 Prerequisites

Ensure you have VideoDB installed in your environment. If not, simply run !pip install videodb in your terminal.

You'll also need a VideoDB API_KEY, which can be obtained from the VideoDB

console⁠

📺 Source Your Videos

First, identify the original video and the new audio track you wish to overlay. For this tutorial, we're using an English video and a Hindi audio track:

# Original video in English

english_audio = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3GPea1Tyg'

# New audio track in Hindi

hindi_audio = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDVfXFq5cU'

🌐 Connect to VideoDB

Connect to VideoDB using your API key. This establishes a session for uploading and manipulating video and audio files:

from videodb import connect

conn = connect(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

📁 Upload and Prepare Media

Upload both the original video and the new audio track to VideoDB. Specify the `media_type` for the audio to ensure only the soundtrack is used:

from videodb import MediaType

# Upload the original video

video = conn.upload(url=english_audio)

# Upload and extract audio from the new track

audio = conn.upload(url=hindi_audio, media_type=MediaType.audio)

⚙️ Create and Customize Your Timeline

Create a new timeline and add your video. Then, overlay the new audio track, replacing the original audio. Checkout

Timeline and Assets⁠

for more information on it.

from videodb.asset import VideoAsset, AudioAsset

from videodb.timeline import Timeline

# create a new timeline

timeline = Timeline(conn)

#create video asset with full length

video_asset = VideoAsset(asset_id=video.id)

# add original video inline

timeline.add_inline(video_asset)

# create an audio asset from 0 sec to the full length of the video

hindi_audio_asset = AudioAsset(asset_id=audio.id, disable_other_tracks=True)

# add overlay starting from 0 sec in the timeline as we want to replace the full track.

timeline.add_overlay(0, hindi_audio_asset)

🧰 Review and Share Your Dubbed Video

Finally, generate a stream of your newly dubbed video and share the link for others to view:

from videodb import play_stream

play_stream(hindi_dub_stream)

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🎛️ Generating Dubbed Audio with AI

If you don't have a ready-made audio track, consider using AI solutions like

Eleven Labs⁠

to generate dubbed audio in various languages and voices.

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