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I currently have a home studio running Protools on Windows 10 and stereo monitoring for doing music content to mp4 files and DVD.

I'm in the process of treating the room acoustically and am designing it for 7.1.4 monitoring per Dolby Home Entertainment guidelines. I envision that I want to be able to mix ATMOS music and am investigating Dolby vision with the intent of being able to produce HD music and video (Dolby Vision, ATMOS Home Entertainment).

So, let me start by hypothesizing a target system and then ask questions. I thinking I would wait to see what Mac Mini on Apple silicon pops up in the October time frame (thinking like an M1X or M2 with 8 or more large cores) and running Protools Ultimate with Dolby DAPS using Dolby Audio Bridge on the same system. Throw in say Divinci Resolve as well for the Dolby Vision side. Probably something like a Focusrite Red 16Line on TB3 driving a 7.1.4 bass management system in front of an equidistant monitoring configuration. A Blue Ray burner attached to the Mac Mini and maybe some sort of Dolby vision recorder like an iPhone 12 or whatever else is workable and affordable. A 4K TV monitor with Dolby Vision support. Switching in front of the bass management system/TV monitor to allow either Protools/AI or a BDP/AV Pre-Pro with ATMOS/Vision support to drive the AV monitoring.

The goal here would be to be able to go from source to end product (either BD or streaming file) in the same shop. For cost and space reasons, I'm trying to avoid Dolby DAMS. I'm mostly doing this for fun and am not looking for a dependable revenue stream.

So first, if I use Dobly DAPS and Protools Video Engine (i.e. audio and video in protools), do I need any clock hardware beyond running the Protools word clock from the AI word clock (over TB) and using the Dolby LTC app?

Second, I'm trying to understand the back end of getting an HD video to a blue ray disk.
- I've seen that Protools 2020.11 can generate a H.264 or other formats from video tracks and up to 7.1 a audio tracks. Is it correct that you can (with some burner software) get that to a Blueray disk? Can it be done on a generic blue ray burner on the mini Mac (for QC/sampling/limited distribution - not mass production).
- At current Protools Ultimate 2021.6, running Dolby DAPS, can you make a H.264 or other format video with ATMOS audio? Can this be burned to a blue ray disk as described above? Can the BD be formatted so that it will play on any BDP/AV Receiver/TV monitor with any level of support? (e.g. stereo, 5.1, 7.1, ATMOS and SD to HDR Video)?

Third, I'm trying to understand the front end of getting HD video into protools. At a high level, would the process be record some Dolby vision source video, edit the video with say Divinci Resolve, and then import the video clips into Protools Ultimate video tracks in order to use the Protools Video Engine and timing?

Forth, I'm investigating channels for HD audio/video. Although things are changing fast, I'm not sure I've found one streamer (maybe apple music) that would allow you to upload HD Video with ATMOS audio for something like a 3 minute song or even a full album. It makes me wonder if I'm sorta wasting my time heading down this path. I think if I could at least get ATMOS audio content to a BD, I'd be OK. If I could get ATMOS audio/video content to BD, I'd be happy. I could live with the limitations streamers impose otherwise, leveraging ATMOS/Vision down mix capabilities. Interested in people's opinions here.

Sorry to be asking a fair number of really asking basic questions - and I not even sure I understand how deep the learning curve is here. If there are any good beginner references that sort of cover end to end HDR AV production and/or video mastering for potential channels with some of the software mentioned, I'd be interested. I'm aware of Dolby's learning modules and the streamer "requirement" specs.