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Lots of good surround editing tricks pointed out for ya Severian. Maybe an experiment for your next edit? Hopefully there will be one?!?
I am strongly of the belief that if you are going to release a 5.1 track, you need to be able to listen in 5.1 while editing. Every audio change ideally needs to be listened to in the same way the audience will hear it prior to completion. Not doing so invariably results in some bad audio fades that will get more points taken off by me than not having a 5.1 track at all. I personally try to always do a 5.1 speaker pass and a stereo headphone pass. If one can't do that, then I agree it is probably wiser to just release a stereo track.
Captain Khajiit, I guess I'm either not understanding your point or just don't agree. Its one thing when we are talking about Star Wars ANH from 1977. Its another when we are talking a recent action movie like Prometheus that was originally intended by the director to be in surround sound and originally mixed and released as such. I definitely would take points off if that fanedit only had a mono track.
Let me try to remove all the personal preference from the equation by saying its not about punishing a faneditor because they don't meet some subjective audio standard. To me its about rewarding faneditors that give viewers the option. Both a 2.0 and 5.1 track option is ideal IMO, but if a faneditor has to pick one audio track to work on and release, at least the 5.1 can be auto down mixed.
I am strongly of the belief that if you are going to release a 5.1 track, you need to be able to listen in 5.1 while editing. Every audio change ideally needs to be listened to in the same way the audience will hear it prior to completion. Not doing so invariably results in some bad audio fades that will get more points taken off by me than not having a 5.1 track at all. I personally try to always do a 5.1 speaker pass and a stereo headphone pass. If one can't do that, then I agree it is probably wiser to just release a stereo track.
Captain Khajiit, I guess I'm either not understanding your point or just don't agree. Its one thing when we are talking about Star Wars ANH from 1977. Its another when we are talking a recent action movie like Prometheus that was originally intended by the director to be in surround sound and originally mixed and released as such. I definitely would take points off if that fanedit only had a mono track.
Let me try to remove all the personal preference from the equation by saying its not about punishing a faneditor because they don't meet some subjective audio standard. To me its about rewarding faneditors that give viewers the option. Both a 2.0 and 5.1 track option is ideal IMO, but if a faneditor has to pick one audio track to work on and release, at least the 5.1 can be auto down mixed.