Yes, but in our case we had access to the separate music stem for the episodes, which means we didn't have to worry about effects or dialogue getting in the way. There were still plenty of challenges though.
Oh, cool, no sound effects either. That's great. So it's basically just the challenges of reconstructing edited music cues into their original, complete versions, cleaning up the audio quality, reconciling the dynamic and tonal quality of different sound mixes in different episodes, etc.?
And does that mean you've included basically everything that was used in TAS? (Some of which, I think, was recycled from Lassie's Rescue Rangers.)
And do you have separate "music stems" (whatever those are) for other Ellis-Prescott Filmation scores? Is there any hope of more Filmation releases in the future?
These titles are official now. Mike Matessino came up with them. The cue sheets for this show were of absolutely no use. They didn't match the show and they only had numerical codes to ID the cues, but as I said, timings never matched. I wound up doing this all by ear. It took awhile.
Okay, I figured that library music might not have specific titles beyond something like "Danger Music" or "Building Suspense" or something like that. Still, it'll be useful to have titles to associate with these tracks, even if they are after-the-fact inventions.
I've been trying to guess what a couple of the cues are based on their running times. "Captain's Log" is the easiest to guess -- they only used it at the start of every single episode. I think I know what "Enterprise Attacked" has to be, since it's the longest action cue (the one that starts with 3-note horn phrases and harp glissandi and then continues into a driving string ostinato under rising horns). And I'm guessing "Scanning" is the one I think of as the other main action/suspense cue (built on a slower, rising string motif with horns coming in later), because it's the only one with an alternate mix (there's a second version with a livelier percussion/guitar element added). And I bet that 7-second "Surprise" cue is that string vibrato sting that turned up in a lot of Filmation shows. Beyond that, I can't guess.
Anyway, my thanks to you and Mike for making the effort to do this. I never thought I'd be able to own an album of TAS music.