Soooo... if you wanted to modify a 5.1 soundtrack, exported the AC3 to wavs, did your tweaks, got them to sound "perfect" on your 5.1-channel (disregarding that my sound system is neither representative nor perfect)... you'd still want a good encoder to handle the AC3 compression, then, right? (What with masking off "inaudible" sounds and all that, if I haven't screwed up the terminology).

Vegas seems to be the gold-standard. And kinda gold-priced. Is there anything cheaper that'll get the job done? Or does Dolby licensing set the price pretty high? Are there good bundles? Maybe a limited version? Does Vegas do a lot of tricks, like doing the proper phasing when you spread your additions across channels? Or... well, I don't know enough to ask the right questions, I suppose...

Come to think of it, that's off topic in this thread... so...

I've got plans for fan-edits of 48 minutes (perhaps a little more), on SL discs, would, say, Dolby 2.0 PCM fit, without a lot of video recompression? 6-channel PCM? Do players do 6-channel PCM? I'm out of my depth, here...