Dolby Atmos Production Suite

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Originally Posted by reichman

Atmos is being adopted by the industry, but mostly at the high-end. From a business standpoint, you should be investing in technology that meets your clients' needs. That may or may not be 7.1 or Atmos. But from an exploratory, creative standpoint, go ahead and experiment! For better or worse, lots of rooms are built with different sized speakers. As you go down this path, you'll learn about monitor controllers and room calibration. Listen to and analyze commercially-released mixes in 5.1. Fun stuff.

it sounds like I would be better suited focusing efforts on something else. I will probably still buy the production suite later on and start to experiment with it from a creative standpoint

[BillieWillie]

Originally Posted by its2loud

Here is a great resource for learning the basics. This course focuses on live sound for broadcast but it’s a good intro to understanding the Dolby Atmos architecture.

http://cras-atmos.com/

Thanks!

[MixerPro]

Originally Posted by reichman

To your first question, it depends on what your goals are. You can't deliver a finished Atmos mix to Netflix if all you did was monitor on headphones :) But, you can get a great experience getting familiar with the toolkit and workflow while monitoring the binaural output. I'm a big fan of that binaural feed.

Avid has sales occasionally for the regular Pro Tools users, but usually not the Ultimate users. Check with your dealer to get discounts.

Good luck!

It depends on the quality of the headphones...

[paulo m]

Can somebody that has experience using the Atmos Production Suite on MAC provide an insight on the following please:

Is it too CPU hungry?

Is the app window resizable?

During mixing and once everything is set, do you need to have the window open to check for levels, pans etc. or can it be minimised?

[reichman]

Originally Posted by paulo m

Can somebody that has experience using the Atmos Production Suite on MAC provide an insight on the following please:

Is it too CPU hungry?

Is the app window resizable?

During mixing and once everything is set, do you need to have the window open to check for levels, pans etc. or can it be minimised?

Light on CPU. Uses a third of what PT is using. YMMV.

Resizable to a limit.

No need to have window visible while mixing. It does impress the client though. :)

[paulo m]

Originally Posted by reichman

Light on CPU. Uses a third of what PT is using. YMMV.

Resizable to a limit.

No need to have window visible while mixing. It does impress the client though. :)

OK, thanks for sharing your experience. There´s a big difference in the price of the app compared to the Mastering suite with RMU combination. Of course we´re talking about an hardware MAC/PC with physical I/O, so obviously is not the right term of comparison, but even so, I always get a bit suspicious on the "cheap" alternatives to the real thing.
Do you feel that having the Production Suite is enough for basic Atmos HT mixing? Can you generate atmos masters files to be delivered to Netflix etc.?
Or do you feel that having the HT RMU/Mastering suite is more appropriate for HT?
Thanks

[reichman]

Originally Posted by paulo m

OK, thanks for sharing your experience. There´s a big difference in the price of the app compared to the Mastering suite with RMU combination. Of course we´re talking about an hardware MAC/PC with physical I/O, so obviously is not the right term of comparison, but even so, I always get a bit suspicious on the "cheap" alternatives to the real thing.
Do you feel that having the Production Suite is enough for basic Atmos HT mixing? Can you generate atmos masters files to be delivered to Netflix etc.?
Or do you feel that having the HT RMU/Mastering suite is more appropriate for HT?
Thanks

The home theater software is capable of making the ADM files that Netflix wants. Production suite can't make those files. But there's nothing to be suspicious of. Production suite is designed for roughing-in a mix and QC'ing existing .atmos content. It does a lot for the price. The very first time I used a home theater RMU, I was completely at home, because the workflow is so similar to Production Suite.

[paulo m]

Originally Posted by reichman

The home theater software is capable of making the ADM files that Netflix wants. Production suite can't make those files. But there's nothing to be suspicious of. Production suite is designed for roughing-in a mix and QC'ing existing .atmos content. It does a lot for the price. The very first time I used a home theater RMU, I was completely at home, because the workflow is so similar to Production Suite.

Hummm, OK, but then I was checking the manual and from version 3.0 you can create master files. From the manual:

• Ability to export to Audio Definition Model (ADM) BWF media format

Is this the file format needed for Netflix file delivery?

Link to the manual:

https://goo.gl/FGsVEf

Thanks for your time!

[reichman]

Originally Posted by paulo m

Hummm, OK, but then I was checking the manual and from version 3.0 you can create master files. From the manual:

• Ability to export to Audio Definition Model (ADM) BWF media format

Is this the file format needed for Netflix file delivery?

Link to the manual:

https://goo.gl/FGsVEf

Thanks for your time!

About an hour after I posted, I noticed the same thing! IIRC, v2.5.1 wasn’t able to make ADMs. Apologies for the dated info.

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Originally Posted by reichman

About an hour after I posted, I noticed the same thing! IIRC, v2.5.1 wasn’t able to make ADMs. Apologies for the dated info.

yeah I was going to say, I did notice in the documentation that the production suite is indeed able to print out the file type that Netflix wants

cheers