Originally posted by: Sluggo
So can we take this to mean that all the video work is done?

Practically done. There were a few match cuts I screwed up that I still need to splice into the MPEG. Mace's saber during the clone war section is not entirely done. And I need to do credits, which I'll probably just do along the way. Doing too much of sabers and credits at a time makes you crazy

And I might add some more impact flashes to the clone war. But this is not significant stuff- the real "work" is done. Audio is where the focus is right now.

The content is all there as far as audio goes- every music cue, new sound effect and so on is here (I'm still missing a bit of new dialogue for minor characters), but the trick is putting all the different sourced audio together and making it sound professional and that it's all part of the same mix. For the actual film, they had multiple people on huge mixing boards with access to all the source materials. Here it's obviously a little more difficult. But with Adywan's help, it should

I do have a couple questions about mixing, if anyone can answer...

What is normalizing and how does it affect the mix?
How do you matrix four channels into a stereo mix?
During a downmix to mono, why do I lose some voices or effects that I had panned hard right or hard left? Is there a way to fix this? They just vanish, kind of like the echo in the death star chasm in SW. It's just not there.
How does dolby digital AC3 affect the mix? Does it compress things dynamically?

Obviously I don't want to blast the audience out with sound effects, but on the same token there are many points throughout the film where I really want a lot of sound/musical impact, so I don't want everything at the same level.

Basically, what volume should dialogue be in relation to the rest of the sound, more by 70's standards than modern standards?