I've searched and see nothing relevant to what I'm trying to do and this seems the bext forum to post in, so here goes.
This is my 1st foray into a surround mix which will end up as an alternate audio source on a DVD (Vegas makes a matrix pretty easy and it will be the the mian audio source). I've got 3 seperate recordings I want to createa 5.1 mix from using Vegas 5.0. The following makes sense to me and is what I've done so far.
For two of the recordings I chose the individual l/r channels and placed them as individual trax on the time line making them front l/r and rear l/r (letting Vegas perform the seperation to individual l/r - not prerendered l/r wav's stuck into Vegas), mono'd another to be the center channel & mono'd one of the others that has the best bass as the sub channel. I then panned each of those completely into the apprpriate surround channel. Like i said, this all makes sense to me and i know i could "pull back" an individual track and pan it more (make it come through the other channels, not just the one). Anyone have any tips/tricks as to how better to do this? Thanks in advance for anyone's advice.