Dolby Atmos for content creators

Unlock new creative and business potential with the world’s leading immersive audio technology

For over 60 years, content creators and broadcasters have relied on Dolby to create soundtracks that move audiences and keep them coming back.

Today, we continue to push the boundaries for quality sound through innovative immersive audio. Dolby Atmos® Immersive Content Solutions enable powerful, immersive, dimensional sonic experiences that provide greater and more consistent translation across a variety of broadcast and direct distribution audio platforms. Use these breakthrough technologies to set your content apart while unlocking new efficiencies and creative possibilities for broadcast and live content.

Plus, with Dolby’s complementary royalty-free broadcast codecs and products, Dolby® Audio solutions are embraced by both audiences and the world’s content creators.

 

Explore a new dimension of creativity

Dolby Atmos lets you creatively place and move sounds in three-dimensional space, with the intention of your audio vision, and with more depth, space, and clarity than traditional surround. As an immersive extension of surround sound, you can create a fully atmospherically immersive experience that makes viewers feel like they’re inside the experience.

 

Tap into new business opportunities

More movie titles, TV shows in the US, TV series, and games are being created for the Dolby Atmos experience every day. More consumers are already experiencing Dolby Atmos, streaming services, and increasing customer demand for the experience all result in more business opportunity for you.

 

Reach your audiences where they like to entertain, connect and vibrate

Dolby Atmos is already massively adopted by consumers, available on more and more premium content and compatible devices. Dolby Atmos is the industry-leading spatial and immersive audio experience.

From TVs, soundbars and PCs to smartphones, headphones and even in the car, Dolby Atmos goes beyond traditional channel-based audio systems to provide a listening experience tailored to each environment.

 

Spend your time on your mix, not your deliverables

Easily and efficiently generate all your channel-based mixes from a single Dolby Atmos mix, for virtually any listening environment cinemas, home, mobile device, PC, or streaming platform. Whether you deliver 5.1 or 7.1 surround, stereo mix, or immersive 9.1-based mixes, the Dolby Atmos Renderer can handle it.

The Dolby Atmos Renderer application works in tandem with your DAW to render your mix to any playback environment, based on the audio and positional metadata you author in the DAW.

 

Your mix, optimized for any listening environment

Dolby Atmos automatically optimizes content based on the number of speakers in the playback environment, around the world that support high-quality channel- or object-based audio. Create mixes documented with Dolby Atmos Home Theater, soundbars, and headphones.

 

Stay creative using familiar workflows

Intuitive Dolby Atmos creation tools integrate easily with your existing industry-standard workflows, so you can stay focused on your work, not the tech. From native partner integration to the tools and utilities that support key industry standard workflows, Dolby Atmos creation tools let you build the system that fits your workflow while supporting both Mac and PC.

 

What’s new in the latest updates

 

Mix with more control and efficiency

Streamline Dolby Atmos mixing with a new flexible workflow and workflow for configuration, mapping, rendering, and managing of Dolby Atmos format. Create and monitor speaker locations and configurations tailored more to creative intent.

 

Integrate easily with your choice of hardware and software

• Access Dolby Atmos mixing workflows with native partner integration in Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Nuendo, Studio One, Cubase, Pyramix, and Resolve.
• Choose the I/O that fits your studio with support for ASIO and Core Audio interfaces. Harness the 3D density automation tools to increase efficiency.

 

Create deliverables effortlessly

Easily export all your channel-based audio mixes and immersive deliverables, including Expert ADM, BWF, and MNF.

 

Master and archive in high resolution

Master at 96k for a higher-quality final master. Archive assets in high resolution to future-proof your content.

 

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Dolby Atmos Renderer application

• The Dolby Atmos Renderer application works in tandem with your DAW to render your mix to any playback environment, based on the audio and positional metadata you author in the DAW.

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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, Nuendo, Cubase, Studio One, Pyramix, or Resolve, integrations with the Dolby Atmos Renderer 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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New Dolby Atmos Renderer application

The new Dolby Atmos Renderer application combines the functionality of the legacy Dolby Atmos Production and Mastering Suites into a single application to enable Dolby Atmos content creation across music, home theater, television, podcast, and gaming. It offers features previously only available in the Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite, such as Room EQ, remote connectivity, and Array mode, at a lower price point. The Dolby Atmos Renderer can operate on the same Mac as your DAW, or install it on a separate Mac or Windows* computer.

Includes Dolby Atmos professional software tools:

• Dolby Audio Bridge* required to pass audio to the Dolby Atmos Renderer when running on the same Mac as your DAW (not supported on Windows)
• The Dolby Atmos Music Panner for positioning audio objects in your supported DAW. Available for AAX, VST, and AU formats on macOS only.
• The Binaural Settings plug-in, for managing your Dolby Atmos Renderer Input Configuration and Binaural settings. Available for AAX, VST, and AU formats on macOS only.
• The LTC Generator plug-in, for sending timecode from your DAW to the Dolby Atmos Renderer. Available for AAX, VST, and AU formats on macOS only.

*Dolby Audio Bridge, which is necessary to route audio from a DAW to Dolby Atmos Renderer on a single computer, is available for macOS only. Customers using Windows must run Dolby Atmos Renderer on a separate computer from their DAW and use a hardware solution to route audio to/from the DAW.