5.1 mastering or not?

how do you master your 5.1 mix for the final export in ac3?
Just put eq, compression and limiter on the channel outs?
Or you reload the single channel exported tracks and in a program like logic master them in a better way and level?

I ask this question because I noticed that...look this exe..
Make a normal stereo multitrack composition on a video in soundtrack pro.
Then to improve sound, as for cd audio, insert a compressor and limiter (after an eq control and setting) in the main outs. The compressor-limiter couple raise up the total volume and dynamics and the limiter keep control peaks over the 0 digital limit.This is normal behaviour.
Now export the mixdown as an aiff to use in a Lpcm audio track in dvdstudiopro dvd mounting.
This final mix IS NOT MASTERED YET, or better, we can make it sound incredibly better.My friends tell me that my music dvd audio sounds DOC.
If you want it to sound dynamically as an audio cd, you have to master it as you do with an audio cd.
Load the mix in logic.
See that the mix that you exported with soundtrackpro will sound 5,6 db under the 0 top in the level meter of logic!!!!
So there is a differencd in the level scale of two audio software..but consider logic as a reference for the maximum sound under the 0 db level.
So is better to export with soundtrackpro the mixdown without a compressor limiter in the main out and proceed to master it in logic with a REAL DB level scale.
I normally use TC electronics to do so. I put in the main out of logic The dynamic eq, a little amount of reverb and the mitic master x3...the mastered mix of the film soundtrack now sounds like a pro cd audio with an incredible dynamic. Your stereo audio of the video can raise up the hear of the spectator!!!If you have to reduce space on the disk and so use dolby digital 2.0, you can do the same process but encoding the mastered aiff with compressor in ac3 format.
The process is more complicated in ac3 5.1 mix.
You have to export every channel and then reload the tracks in logic setting the outs as you do in soundtrack to use the mastering process.
This is a bit complicated and took up a certain amount of time.....A lot of time for dvd film ,this process in 5.1 dolby digital, is SKIPPED and limited to a simple compressor-limiter in soundtrack pro.
In fact..
Took up a commercial film dvd in a setted home cinema. Listen to the volume of the Linear pcm audio track and the 5.1 dolby digital one...there is the famous 5-6 db of level difference!!!!
Wait for your opinion..

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