Last step for nice dvd...Dolby audio

[malisamson]

I've finally managed to make nice dvds myself, but there is a last thing I really can't figure out myself.
I have a movie with a 2.0 dolby sound, and I would really make it a 5.1 sound but whenever I try to convert it (with dvd-lab or Ulaed) it just stays 2.1 ...
Is there really a way to make it 6 channeled?

[thevoelk]

You can make a fake 5.1 track with Vegas. I've yet to be able to find a way to import 2.x AC-3 into Vegas for 5.1. I've always had to convert to 2.x to .wav then import into Vegas to render as 5.1. It sounds nice, but's it's not really 5.1.

[guns1inger]

You will probably get better results leaving it as 2.0 and playing back through a doblby pro-logic II amp than trying to create a 5.1 mix from a stereo source.

[spiderlegs]

Does a multitracking program exist that will import an AC3 file in its native 5.1 format? Vegas doesn't, Cubase doesn't, Nuendo doesn't (even though it comes with a Doloby encoder, it won't decode).