Trying to do a re-edit of Superman II and if i was sticking to stereo then perhaps Id slog it out because with Stereo you can cut out sounds, you can rip a music soundtrack to fade in here and there. Generally it seems hasstle free.

Contrast that to 5.1! I have two scenes and thankfully both of them have 5.1 but I really need to use some audio off the soundtrack. Fine, no problem. This is easy enough to do but I wouldnt have a clue how to do this in 5.1. Would I need to have 5 seperate wavs and fade them all in and out at the same time? Seems like far too much fiddly effort when my main goal is to do with the visuals.

Please tell me there's another way. Or do people generally do Stereo versions when they'r doing extensive changes?