Dolby digital "remastered crap"

[Philippine Mango]

What is up with companies saying "dolby digitally remastered"? If a movie was recorded in mono, how does it all of a sudden become 5.1? If you record one channel then there will always be one channel, it seems like its all Prologic crap where it's not really 5.1. Since they use this method for movies with only mono, I'm wondering if more and more movies aren't true 5.1. Any thoughts about this? I remember watching terminator (first) and it claimed it was digitally remastered and 5.1 yada yada yada but I could only remember one scene where the rears speakers were used and it's when some bullets were shot..

 

[Pepsi90919]

because a digital master was made of an analog master, therefore it has been digitally remastered.

 

[0roo0roo]

sometimes they go back and remix it from the old source tapes? ..well for fx..music..ur screwed i believe. i think thats what lucas did with the old starwars for the surround mixes. they have all the source sounds or whatever.

 

[Philippine Mango]

But I don't think they even recorded with 5 mics, that is what they do right? Or do they always go the prologic route except trick the sound system into thinking it's true 5.1?

 

[NightCrawler]

Sometimes they remix the movie when they release it on DVD. The orignal audio may have been mono or stereo but they lay down a new Dolby Digital Mix with the old dialog.

 

[EvilYoda]

well the process with the audio side of movies can be a lot more complex than just x-channels to x-channels...if you only had 2-channels to send to the theaters, but recorded everything on its own (much as soundtracks, dialogue and FX are done), you'll still have the originals laying around. And purely audio-wise, take the latest RCA Living Stereo SACD releases...arguably one of the best series ever released on vinyl, but much of it was recorded in 3 channels or even quad. Many CD remasters have been released since then, but obviously CDs are only 2-channels...the SACDs have gone over the original masters with some very special hardware to rerelease the recordings - some of the best SACD releases to date, at that.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
But I don't think they even recorded with 5 mics, that is what they do right? Or do they always go the prologic route except trick the sound system into thinking it's true 5.1?

they don't record 5.1 with 5 mics. sound engineers do all the work. most sound in movies is created on foley(sp) stages. like footsteps, crashes, shots, punches, shuffling, whatever ..basically everything except the voices is recorded and mixed somewhere else, thats why movies don't sound like home videos.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Thats what I thought but I had to get another opinion, had to say something so someone would comment😉