Thanks, I will look into that, MeGui does sound interesting. In the end, after a few trials and experiments, I did end up preserving the 5.1 audio and it worked out well. I just didn’t realize at first that you had to go into Audacity settings and change a setting to allow you to use a custom mix output. Before that, it downmixed everything into 2-channel audio. After changing that setting, it preserved everything, even the oddball four-channel mixes some of the SG-1 discs used.
Oh yeah, I remember that strange sound setup on stargate, I think it was the first couple of episodes (DVD 1 and possibly two) of season 2 of SG-1.
Yeah, the start of season 2 is weird. None of the early seasons are consistent in audio languages, channels, commentary, subs, chapters, etc.
I didn’t mean to sidetrack your thread though, I just saw you discussing shifting to a PAL source so I thought I might be able to help by showing what I did on a similar project. You got it under control though!
No reason to apologize, I always like hearing from people who enjoy good scifi/fantasy/mystery.
Also, every single person I got in contact with around here added some experience that has proven useful or got me thinking in a different direction.
In my mind: That’s what collaboration looks like - not just getting people together that have worked on the same thing, but getting people together that worked on their own projects with their own experiences, 'cause what may not have worked on one’s own attempts might benefit someone else.
So there really is no side-tracking here, just valuable advice. Thanks.
Also: The ever-shifting production techniques are quite common for tv-series in their sophomore year(s). We can notice such things in shifting sets, production design and also (as you have pointed out) different technical specifications. One really bad example for that is the 90’s scifi “Earth:Final Conflict”.
The cast/sets/everything changed. As for the technical stuff: They switched from 4:3 to 16:9 format midway, sometimes widescreen happened depending on the countries there were released in, most have dolby, some only stereo, I even encountered one with mono. It’s insane.