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Editing video & keeping 5.1?

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Quick question: is there a program that will allow you to edit a video source with 5.1 audio and will keep it in 5.1 when you're done? Most will change it to 2.0 in the final mpg.
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Not 100% sure but I believe Vegas allows this- dumuxing the audio of your source first though.
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Womble MPEG Video Wizard will do it without recompressing the signal, provided you do no manipulation of the volume in any form. You can make straight cuts and get the same output ... and it's darn fast as a result (just as fast as your disc will write). One other thing ... you have to be sure any multiple sources are all at the same bitrate. No mixing 5.1 and 2.0 sources to get 5.1 output.
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I used to use Womble but was told it fucks with the sound or something...or was it video? I can't remember.
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Womble doesn't do anything to either so long as you don't. If you add an effect to the video it will re-encode the changed portion. If you mix audio types, then it will downmix to 2.0. Otherwise, it preserves the actual original data, cutting and splicing only where you tell it to. Personally I think Womble is the bomb.
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