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Originally posted by Jason J:
Have you tried encoding your own personal masters with Dolby? In other words, is all of the sound getting "lost" at just the Dolby stage or is it a complilation of that plus what happened at other parts in the mastering chain?


At some point I am going to invest in Dolby Digital mastering software to use with my ProTools, but it is a big expense I want to avoid until I have the need for it. I only prepare the master recordings, the compression is done by the people who do the final assembly and authoring of the DVDs. I usually don't give much thought to the effects of DD and DTS: I just hold my nose, look away, and accept the loss in the consumer format.