icklekitty wrote:
The interview basically explained that Aaron Short mixed it from audio masters available for the him and his team's other editors.
I don't really understand what you're getting at. Aaron Short mixed the audio for AVOTT. You asked if there were multitracks, and if there weren't, who mixed them. As the link I posted explains, he took the 3 audio mixes released by Rob, and combined them into one (Quote from the interview: "Because The Gift had soundboard audio already supplied by NIN camp, it was more a matter of selecting the best audio to use from the 3 shows, and then of course being able to master and upmix it to 5.1 surround sound"). There was no "audio made available for him and his teams of other editors" - nobody gave him any special audio, and he had no team of editors. Trent didn't give him any special multitracks that he's hoarding. Everything available to him has been available to everyone since the 405GB was released.
You have been talking to thisoneisonus editors - Torgo and I produced the thing, and sa_nick was a head editor.
Oh hey then, great job on the release! This is something pretty special.
Anyway, the interview specifically said "audio masters had been made for editors", while not saying they weren't multitrack and not saying they were made available to everyone else too. That quote you posted also doesn't clarify those two things. And I never assumed Aaron was hoarding, I just thought maybe no one had asked him for the multis yet.
Having said that, Trent and co. are obviously extremely impressed and pleased with your work...have you ever considered just
asking him/them for the mulitracks? Considering what you've shown so far he might be happy to...and you've still yet to release your final version anyway. As I pointed out, it'd be more in the spirit of seeing what the fans can come up with for Trent to let the individual audio instrument tracks to be mixed together by fans in the similar way that the different video feeds were mixed/edited together by fans.