TV's Frink said:

Not sure if I'm explaining this correctly...and I use Vegas so apologies if I use the wrong terminology (the basic concept should be the same).

Let's say you're working on a scene with Nute and Rune on the bridge of the TF ship. You want to put your new dialogue in, but you also need to take the existing dialogue out. In some scenes, this will be pretty easy because the dialogue is confined to the center channel. But in this case, the dialogue is also present (albeit at a lower volume) in the front and rear channels. If you don't remove it from those channels as well, the listener will still hear that dialogue along with your new dialogue and it will be distracting.

Since you are working with 5.1, you will have six tracks in your timeline (C, FR, FL, RR, RL, and LFE). I'm not aware of a good way to remove dialogue other than chopping out the part of the track that contains the dialogue. So you can just cut out the parts of the C track with dialogue and replace them with your dialogue. But what about the other tracks (FR, FL, RR, RL)? Each of those tracks has dialogue plus sound effects and music. If you cut that part of the track, you lose everything, rather than just the dialogue.

So yes, you would have to redo the entire soundtrack, unless you discover a way to only remove part of a track (dialogue) at any given time while retaining the rest of the track at that same time (effects and music). I'm not aware of a way to do this.

Hmmmm. Does Womble have that 6-track system, where I can see all the separate tracks? I've been using it for a while now, and I wasn't aware of that function.