Dolby Laboratories Atmos Bedienungsanleitung

Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual Issue 1 Part Number 9111800 Software v1.0

Introduction to Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools 2 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 1.2 Dolby Atmos System Overview In a basic Dolby

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 92 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 2. Adjust elevation by moving the y coordinate

Using the Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 93 Metadata is not recorded to the automation playlist on a track whe

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 94 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3. Enable Recorder mode by the doing the follo

Using the Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 95 In Recorder mode, the pan location cursor is red. Figure 5-12 Re

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 96 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual .1 extension. When tracks are sorted by name, e

Using the Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 97 Zones are displayed in the virtual room as blue squares in their r

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 98 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.6.8 Constrained Straight Line Mode In Constr

Using the Stereo Panner Plug-in Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 99 To disable a constrained straight line, do one of the follow

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 100 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.7.1 Linking Stereo Panner Controls The Link

Automating Panner Controls Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 101 5.8 Automating Panner Controls You can automate many of the Pan

Dolby Atmos Metadata Flow with Different Setups Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3 • Page table control surface (such as an Av

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 102 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual To return to the default window size, do one o

Chapter 6 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 103 Chapt er 6 Using the ComPanSate Plug-in to Create Objects The Dolby® ComPanSate

Using the ComPanSate Plug-in to Create Objects 104 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 6.1 General Use of the ComPanSate Plug-in M

Using ComPanSate RTAS Plug-in to Create Mono or Stereo Object Material Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 105 3. Set options for

Using the ComPanSate Plug-in to Create Objects 106 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 6.4 ComPanSate Summing Controls ComPanSate

Chapter 7 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 107 Chapt er 7 Workflows This chapter provides examples of Dolby® Atmos™ workflows.

Workflows 108 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4. Configure basic routing in Pro Tools (via Pro Tools I/O Setup). Create separa

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Files to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 109 5. Prepar

Workflows 110 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 6. Prepare dialogue elements for the Dolby Atmos mix. Consider the type of film

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Files to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 111 • Conside

Introduction to Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools 4 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 1.4 Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Use the Dolb

Workflows 112 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual • A VCA hierarchy greatly simplifies leveling, and expedites navigation on a co

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Files to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 113 13. Creat

Workflows 114 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual d. Assign the reverb returns to their respective bed subbuses (dialogue, music,

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Channels and Console Automation to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sou

Workflows 116 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual The workflow for using a 5.1 mix is the same: 1. Set up a Dolby Atmos mixing sta

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Channels and Console Automation to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sou

Workflows 118 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 2. Transfer sessions and audio from the 7.1 playback machines to the Dolby Atmo

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Channels and Console Automation to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sou

Workflows 120 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 11. Configure session settings. a. Choose Setup > Session. b. Set the sessi

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Channels and Console Automation to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sou

Dolby Atmos Panner Plug-in Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5 1.5 Dolby Atmos Panner Plug-in Use the Dolby Panner plug-in to po

Workflows 122 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 17. For the groups that will be used to record audio and write panner automation

Using Traditional Dolby 7.1 (or 5.1) Mix Audio Channels and Console Automation to Create a Dolby Atmos Mix Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sou

Introduction to Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools 6 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 1.6 Optional Authoring Tools Depending on your D

Terminology Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 7 1.8 Terminology The following table lists abbreviations used throughout this doc

Chapter 2 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 9 Chapt er 2 Installing the Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools The Dolby® Atmos™ tools in

Installing the Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools 10 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual To install the Dolby Atmos authoring tools: 1. D

Installing the Monitor Application on Additional Devices Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 11 5. Synchronize your iLok with your

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Installing the Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools 12 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3. Launch the Dolby Atmos Monitor application on

Chapter 3 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 13 Chapt er 3 Setting Up a Pro Tools Session Use Pro Tools® digital audio workstatio

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 14 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3.1 Dolby Atmos Format in Pro Tools Before creating a Pro To

Dolby Atmos Format in Pro Tools Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 15 Playback Voices (In Pro Tools) This is the total number of a

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 16 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual These assignments are defined in the I/O Setup Output page.

Authoring in a Pro Tools Session Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 17 • 24 fps session timecode rate: • The Dolby RMU creates 2

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 18 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3.3.2 Working with Objects Pro Tools tracks for objects in a

Creating a Pro Tools Session for Dolby Atmos Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 19 4. From the I/O Settings menu, select Stereo M

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 20 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4. In the Pro Tools session, change existing tracks (and cre

Configuring I/O Setup Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 21 3.5 Configuring I/O Setup You must configure Pro Tools I/O and signal

Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual iii Table of Contents List of Figures ...

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 22 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3.5.1 Configuring Output In I/O Setup, create output paths f

Configuring I/O Setup Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 23 5. For objects: • Add (or use existing) mono and stereo paths for ob

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 24 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3.5.3 Bus Mapping Buses for output paths are automatically c

Configuring Tracks and Signal Routing Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 25 3.6 Configuring Tracks and Signal Routing A Pro Tools

Setting Up a Pro Tools Session 26 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual In the figure, music, dialogue, and effects beds (stems) are

Working with Multiple Pro Tools Systems Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 27 3.8 Working with Multiple Pro Tools Systems You can

Chapter 4 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 29 Chapt er 4 Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application The Dolby® Atmos™ Monitor ap

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 30 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual The Monitor application provides visual feedback f

Enabling Communication with the RMU Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 31 4.3 Enabling Communication with the RMU Enable communic

iv Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 3.6 Configuring Tracks and Signal Routing ...

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 32 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4. On the computer that runs Pro Tools sessions u

Enabling Communication with the RMU Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 33 Note: You can also access the Enter Hostname dialog in

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 34 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4.3.3 Verifying Communication with the RMU When c

Enabling Communication with the RMU Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 35 4.3.4 Verifying the Room Configuration File When you la

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 36 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4.4 Rendering Rendering refers to the process an

Rendering Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 37 2. In the Select Rendering Mode dialog, click the desired rendering mode. 3. Lea

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 38 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 6. On the Monitor application, change the renderi

Monitor Application Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 39 4.5 Monitor Application Operation Modes The Monitor app

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 40 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual To record a Dolby Atmos print master: 1. Set up t

Monitor Application Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 41 4.5.3 Punching In and Out of a Print-Master Recording Y

Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual v 5.5 Controlling the Panner ...

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 42 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual • Press <Enter>. Note: In the Command Pro

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 43 To play back a Dolby Atmos print master:

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 44 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4.6.1 Hearing Dolby Atmos Audio Bed and object au

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 45 4.6.2 Selecting a Monitor Application V

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 46 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual To view meters only: • Select View > Meters. I

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 47 To view objects only: • Select View >

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 48 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual Monitoring the Object Stream The object stream in

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 49 Monitoring the Objects View The objects

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 50 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual • Blue fill: The object is currently touched for

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 51 • Rotated and side views: You can rotat

vi Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual List of Figures Figure 1-1 Simplified Dolby Atmos Block Diagram ...

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 52 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual • Overhead view: To display the overhead view of

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 53 4.6.4 Monitoring RMU Outputs The RMU ou

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 54 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual When re-rendering to another mode (such as 7.1 or

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 55 Figure 4-19 Rendering to 5.1 Channels,

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 56 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4.6.5 Monitoring the Room Configuration and Speak

Monitoring with the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 57 To view the room configuration: • Selec

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 58 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual To listen to objects only: 1. Do one of the follo

Monitor Application Keyboard Shortcuts Reference Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 59 4.7 Monitor Application Keyboard Shortcuts

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 60 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4.8.1 Monitor Application Window Header The heade

Monitor Application Controls and Displays Overview Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 61 Mode The Mode section displays the curren

Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual vii Figure 5-10 Selecting the Joystick Device ...

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 62 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual Transport The Monitor application provides transpo

Monitor Application Controls and Displays Overview Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 63 Output Attenuation Control The output att

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 64 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 4.8.2 Signal Generator Use the pink-noise generat

Monitor Application Controls and Displays Overview Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 65 To generate pink noise to a speaker: 1.

Using the Dolby Atmos Monitor Application 66 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual To generate pink noise to a speaker array: 1. Cli

Chapter 5 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 67 Chapt er 5 Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects The Dolby® Atmos™ Panner

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 68 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual axis). You can move objects with a joystick, co

Navigating the Panner Plug-in Window Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 69 be assigned to an object number greater than 118 or to

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 70 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.3.1 Panner Virtual Room The Panner provides

Navigating the Panner Plug-in Window Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 71 Elevation Snap mode is on; and inactive (gray) when Ele

viii Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual List of Tables Table 1-1 Dolby Atmos Abbreviations ...

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 72 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual None (or no object number assignment) is repres

Navigating the Panner Plug-in Window Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 73 • Zones selector: This selector lets you select one of

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 74 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual Elevation and Z Coordinate User-Interface Eleme

Navigating the Panner Plug-in Window Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 75 Note: When using values between 50 and 100, audio ma

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 76 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual Figure 5-5 Increasing Object Size from a Side

Navigating the Panner Plug-in Window Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 77 5.3.6 Configuration Options Button The configuration o

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 78 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.3.7 Linking Selector (Stereo Plug-in Only) T

Inserting a Panner Plug-in in Pro Tools Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 79 You can insert Panner plug-ins individually, or on m

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 80 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.4.1 Manually Assigning an Object Number You

Inserting a Panner Plug-in in Pro Tools Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 81 3. In the Configuration Options section, click the

Chapter 1 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 1 Chapt er 1 Introduction to Dolby Atmos Authoring Tools All Dolby® Atmos™ systems i

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 82 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.4.2 Inserting Multiple Plug-ins and Automati

Controlling the Panner Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 83 5.5 Controlling the Panner You can control the Panner with any of th

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 84 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual Preparing to Use a Joystick Before using a joys

Controlling the Panner Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 85 4. In the Joystick Device section, use the joystick device input and

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 86 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual With the System 5 Panner application, you can m

Controlling the Panner Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 87 5.5.3 Using a Mouse You can also use a mouse to position the object

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 88 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.6 Using the Operation Modes The Panner inclu

Using the Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 89 The default zones setting is seven, making active seven speaker zo

Using the Panner Plug-in to Position Objects 90 Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 5.6.4 Elevation Snap Modes Elevation Snap mode

Using the Operation Modes Authoring for Dolby® Atmos™ Cinema Sound Manual 91 Sphere Elevation Sphere elevation links the z elevation to the x a