Dolby Atmos for content creators

For over 50 years, content creators and audio professionals have relied on Dolby to make soundtracks that inspire, amaze, and bring audiences into the story.

Today, we continue to push the envelope for quality sound through innovations in immersive audio. Dolby Atmos® Content Creation Solutions enable you to easily create a three-dimensional sonic environment where you can precisely place and move individual sounds to deliver an entirely new entertainment experience. And because these intuitive tools integrate into your existing mixing, editing, and sound design workflows, you can start using them quickly and easily while staying focused on your creativity.

Plus, with Dolby Atmos becoming more readily available across devices and content, it’s been embraced by both audiences and the world’s top content creators.

 

Explore a new dimension of creativity

Dolby Atmos lets you precisely place and move sounds in three-dimensional space with the introduction of audio objects — and with much more precision compared to traditional surround. And with the addition of overhead speakers, you can create a fully encompassing soundstage to make listeners feel like they’re inside the experience.

 

Tap into new business opportunities

More movie titles, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, TV series, and games are being created for the Dolby Atmos experience every day. More content — plus availability across devices, streaming services, and increasing consumer demand for the experience — all results in more business opportunity for you.

 

Spend your time on your mix, not your deliverables

Easily and efficiently generate all your channel-based deliverables from a single Dolby Atmos mix, for virtually any listening environment — cinema, home, mobile device, PC, or streaming services. Whether you need a 5.1 or 7.1 surround, stereo mix, or binaural or B-format render, the Dolby Atmos Renderer can create it.

 

Your mix, optimized for any listening environment

Dolby Atmos automatically optimizes content based on the number of speakers in the environment or device, so your mix delivers the best experience it can for cinema as well as mobile devices enabled with Dolby Atmos, home theaters, soundbars, and even headphones.

 

Stay creative using familiar workflows

Intuitive Dolby Atmos content creation tools integrate easily with your choice of industry-standard workflows, so you can stay focused on the work, not the tools. With native panner integration in Pro Tools and Nuendo, plus support for industry-standard I/O hardware using Core Audio and ASIO, you can build the system that fits your workflow with support for both Mac® and PC.

 

What’s new in the latest updates

 

Mix with more control and efficiency

• Streamline Dolby Atmos mixing with a new unified workflow and interface for configuration, metering, monitoring, and mastering of Dolby Atmos content.
• Create and monitor headphone mixes with advanced binaural render mode metadata.

 

Integrate easily with your choice of hardware and software

• Access Dolby Atmos mixing workflows with native panner integration in Pro Tools and Nuendo.
• Choose the I/O that fits your studio with support for ASIO and Core Audio interfaces.
• Harness the I/O density and network ability of Dante I/O.

 

Create deliverables effortlessly

• Configure up to 64 channels of live re-renders and improved offline rendering.
• Export to ADM BWF, IAB MXF, and MP4.

 

Master and archive in high resolution

• Master at 96k for a higher-quality 48k output.
• Archive mixes in high resolution to future-proof your content.

 

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Dolby Atmos production tools documentation

When mixing, your focus is on creating a great soundtrack, so we designed Dolby Atmos® content tools to integrate and work intuitively with your existing mixing solution.

Building on top of the traditional surround approach, Dolby Atmos brings two key innovations to deliver an exceptional, immersive entertainment experience. The first is a pair of overhead bed channels, resulting in a 7.1.2 surround mix. The second key development is the introduction of audio objects — individual sources that can be placed anywhere in the room, independent of the surround beds, informed by metadata that places them based on X, Y, Z coordinates and the number of speakers available in the room.

Whether you’re mixing in Pro Tools or Nuendo, the native integrations allow for easy routing and panning of sources to either the multichannel beds or to object busses, which are readily available in the I/O dropdown selection.

The 7.1.2 bed audio, object audio, and metadata are routed from your audio workstation to the Dolby Atmos Renderer, which can monitor, record, and play back Dolby Atmos content. This will render the audio and metadata to your defined speaker configuration for monitoring, as well as rendering to standard channel-based layouts for both monitoring and deliverable creation. The Dolby Atmos Renderer also records Dolby Atmos master files used for encoding for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs and can export to ADM BWF, commonly used for encoding by streaming services.

 

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Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite

Create and deliver immersive Dolby Atmos® mixes for television, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, music, and gaming with the Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite. Running on qualified hardware, this provides the tools you need to mix in Dolby Atmos.

 

Includes Dolby Atmos professional software tools:

• Dolby Atmos Renderer software, which monitors, records, and plays back Dolby Atmos content. This software runs on a qualified Mac® or PC-based workstation to transform it into a dedicated rendering and mastering workstation. It renders up to 128 inputs (made up of audio beds and objects with metadata) to your defined monitoring configuration, as well as rendering to standard channel-based layouts for both monitoring and deliverable creation.

• Three copies of the Dolby Atmos Production Suite (Mac only). When combined with the Dolby Audio Bridge and send/return plug-ins (included with the software) the Dolby Atmos Production Suite provides an in-the-box solution for editors, sound designers, composers, and others to perform editing and pre-mixing.

• The Dolby Atmos Conversion Tool for additional control over your Dolby Atmos master file deliverables with head/tail trimming, stitching, concatenation, and frame/sample rate conversion.

Required materials not included:

• A Pro Tools Ultimate or Nuendo audio workstation & qualified Mac or PC workstation to run the renderer software.

For information on how to get the Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite, please contact your local Dolby dealer.

 

Dolby Atmos Production Suite

For audio professionals contributing to Dolby Atmos experiences for film and episodic TV, gaming, and music, the Dolby Atmos Production Suite enables an in-the-box solution for editing and pre-mixing content. Running on a laptop with headphones or in an offline edit suite, editors, mixers, and sound designers can keep your project on track and on budget without tying up your A-room or dub stage.

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Compatible solutions:

• Pro Tools Ultimate Software 12.8 or later

• Avid S6

• Avid S5

• Steinberg Nuendo 8 or higher

• Yamaha Nuage

• Davinci Resolve 17 or higher

• Harrison MPC

• AMS-Neve DFC

• Pyramix 25th Anniversary addition or higher

 

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• Knowledge base articles and FAQs
• "How to" tutorials
• Documentation: user guides and best practices guides

• "Why Dolby Atmos" whitepaper

   

• Past webinars on Dolby Atmos

• Sky Original "Das Boot"
• Netflix Original "Rising High"