| Remixing for DVD
I've had to replace music for tv shows going to DVD. Unfortunately it's been a fairly common practice over the last few years. The producers/network will license the music for broadcast only and be forced to replace it with sideways cues or on occasion something in no way resembling the original cue for the DVD release.
My method was to set the Dia and FX stems at unity and used the original music stem as an "original intent" reference. Generally this was done without supervision by the show's producers, but they often had final approval before DVD encoding.
If the original re-mixers used processing after the stems, I was not privy to that information. Ideally the stems would include a "mastering info" log, much as music mastering engineers did in days of yore, so that future re-purposes and restorations could be re-created from the "flat" master. Of course with new music, it's a bit moot anyway.
Sad, but true.
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