Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) Monitoring in the Studio

[ViciousLullabyz]

Hi


I have an Atmos-specific question to users of the Dolby Media Producer Suite and in particular the Dolby Media Decoder part of the tool:

In the description it is mentioned that:

This professional reference decoder decodes and monitors these Dolby audio formats:

• Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos®

I have built a small Dolby Atmos (7.1.4) setup with the MTRX Studio and Dolby Atmos Production Suite. I want to be able to monitor (and study) film mixes done in Atmos (from BluRay and similar sources).


Am I understanding the "monitoring" part of the media decoder correctly that it would allow me to monitor a TrueHD file (from a bluray) via my 7.1.4 system at the studio?

The Atmos renderer only play Atmos master files, so I can't play TrueHD directly, but it would be great to be able to study great Atmos mixes in a software way, without the need for an AVR with 12 analog outputs and route them back into the MTRX.

Any confirmations, tips and help are greatly appreciated, thanks :)

[quadraphonics]

UNless they have changed the media production suite from the version I have, it is meant to decode/monitor .MLP, .AC3, .EC3, etc files that you have created with the encoder. This is a confidence pass for encodes that you have made for encoding. There is not an option for live pass through. If you can rip the audio into a TrueHD encoded file, then you can play it back.

Randall

Originally Posted by ViciousLullabyz

Hi


I have an Atmos-specific question to users of the Dolby Media Producer Suite and in particular the Dolby Media Decoder part of the tool:

In the description it is mentioned that:

This professional reference decoder decodes and monitors these Dolby audio formats:

• Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos®

I have built a small Dolby Atmos (7.1.4) setup with the MTRX Studio and Dolby Atmos Production Suite. I want to be able to monitor (and study) film mixes done in Atmos (from BluRay and similar sources).


Am I understanding the "monitoring" part of the media decoder correctly that it would allow me to monitor a TrueHD file (from a bluray) via my 7.1.4 system at the studio?

The Atmos renderer only play Atmos master files, so I can't play TrueHD directly, but it would be great to be able to study great Atmos mixes in a software way, without the need for an AVR with 12 analog outputs and route them back into the MTRX.

Any confirmations, tips and help are greatly appreciated, thanks :)

[ViciousLullabyz]

Hi Randall


Thanks for your answer; I'm not sure I'm following 100% yet.


As far as Dolby info tells me: V2 of the suite has full support for TrueHD with Atmos, so I can of course encode my .atmos master files to the TrueHD format. Could I then monitor this TrueHD file back through my studio speaker setup with the software (Media Producer Suite) that I just encoded it with?


If yes, then I would also be able to rip any TrueHD stream from a bluray and monitor the file via the suite, or am I understanding this the wrong way and I can not actually monitor TrueHD (whether encoded myself or not) via Media Producer Suite?

Roger

[sthiellin]

Hi !
Sorry to dig out this old topic but ...

Did you find a solution to monitor TrueHD Atmos ?

Thanks.

[its2loud]

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