mixing wav into 6speaker surround sound

[Crucio]

How would i go about taking audio that has been recorded with a dvcamera or something. Then mix it to 6 speaker ac3. What program would i use? Not cool edit or something right? Can Adobe Aftereffects do it?

well, thankyou!

[DJ Bobo]

Make normal stereo sound and don't waste your time!

[Crucio]

i cant, im making dvds, and the customer wants 5.1

[DJ Bobo]

There is a lot a lot of DVDs having stereo or even mono sound.
You have a stereo source, you make a 2.0 AC3 or stereo MP2, period.
Tell him that it is just not possible, unless he can give you a real 5.1 source.
If professionals don't do it, why would you? ;)

[jansb000]

If professionals don't do it, why would you? ;)

But the professionals (in Holywood) make these DD/DTS soundtracks, don't they? They must be using some simple samples too I guess for some sound effects. What tools do they have at hand?

[DJ Bobo]

Making a fresh 5.1 track, and remastering a 2.0 track to 5.1 are 2 completely different things!

Remastering a mono or stereo track to 5.1 is very hard und takes a lot of time! that's why I said, if professionals don't do it, why would you. Because there is a few DVDs having remastered 5.1 tracks out of stereo or mono tracks.

[terriblemonkey]

Hehe actually you could use something like cooledit pro ,its not much different than multitracking really except at the end i gets encoded into ac3 ,of course something like Nuendo is probably far more suitable.