Dolby Atmos

[The Cargo Cult]

the Spanner automation has also been organised to match with the ATMOS panner and the PT panner swo this kind of copy/paste can be done.

the cool thing about Spanner is that you can perform creative pans on an entire surround stem and then copy that info to the ATMOS pan tracks which are usually monos.

so for example you could take a 5.1 stem and spin it around with the Spanner ROTATE feature, then copy the pan for each channel over to ATMOS tracks.
or you could bunch up the legs of a 7.1 predub and pan them around the space with a small amount of distance (spread) still kept between them - then copy that to the ATMOS tracks.

downmixing predubs for repanning is another logical place to insert a spanner - you can maintain control of the downmix while doing the ATMOS version.

justin