As stated above I’m only rendering Dolby Atmos ADM’s. Cheers.
They COULD HAVE just made 2, ATMOS Mix A: Dolby Spec and ATMOS Mix B: Microsoft Spec. We could all use the A version and that rare audiophile engineer, using the Microsoft Platform could be estatic that Nuendo had a setup just for him/her!
This is ridiculous and it gets worse when you factor in 3rd party plugins, like Penteo. I have my surround side channels swapped. I use Penteo to upmix a stereo file and I have to swap again inside the track’s channel to make it come out of the correct monitor! It’s turning into a “Chinese Freeway!”
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Are you using the most up to date Penteo plugin? I worked with them to get the correct outputs a year or two ago.
Yes, I just got it last summer.
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Switching the routing and the loss of FX turned out to be coincidental. I had to reboot the PC to get everything back to normal with the now supposedly corrected routing. Meanwhile I have confirmation that the Penteo plugin will respond strangely on group channels, depending on the presets. So, there’s that.
Im not sure if youre referring to me? because I do render 7.1 deliverables for cinema.
I work mostly in indie film where there is no budget to take the project to a Dolby licensed dub stage just to get Atmos for cinema. I can do Atmos for home theatre, thus for streaming deliverables.
There are still more 7.1 than atmos theatres around the world in general. Way more. There are many people like me who deliver pcm based DCPs in 5.1 plus a 7.1 supplemental, but not atmos.
Many music mixes for film are being delivered in 7.1 plus extra tracks for atmos objects. That is very common. It is desirable in fact, otherwise the post mixer has to decode the atmos and either merge the object meta data with theirs or more likely re do it.
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No, I was referring to mixers who have to deliver an Atmos mix (or for the OP, a Dolby 7.1 mix). But Atmos is becoming the norm as studios focus on streaming releases.
There are still more 7.1 than atmos theatres around the world in general. Way more.
I believe you! But unfortunately, that is only because the theater industry is in decline and the owners can’t afford to upgrade.
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