Dolby Atmos Audio

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I like to export videos with Dolby Atmos audio. Is it possible in Premiere Pro?I checked Davinci Resolve which is capable work with Dolby Atmos.Will Premiere Pro support it soon?Best regardsMichael

neil wilkes · Accepted Answer

This will utterly depend on what you mean by 'Dolby Atmos'.

If you are referring to outputting the correct discrete version in a 7.1.4 configuration then no, not at all - the Adobe Audio support in Premiere is not all that, and certainly the panners just cannot handle height channels and not even 7.1 as far as I am aware.

If you are referring to the mess on iTunes that is called Dolby Atmos, where the truth is not a discrete surround export but instead a 2-channel Binaural mix designed to work over headphones then you can look into a plugin by a company called Dear Reality, who have a range of plugins designed to turn a discrete mix into Binaural Stereo. This can work but resultys will vary wildly from headphones to headphones because of the HTRF mapping, and it is usually recommended to use certain types (as in make & model) of headphones.

I strongly adviose you to check - carefully - their FAQ section as they do make tools for this, but it is not what you might think as the term 'Atmos' seems to have become interchangeable with 'Headphone Mixes' and that is going to become a problem down the line. Why? The truth is that surround mixers such as myself had a hard enough time getting people to buy into a 5.1 setup, so a 7.1.4 is going to be an almost impossible sell to most people and believe me when I tell you that what is being sold on iTunes is one of 2 things:

1 - Genuine, discrete Atmos - this WILL require a lot of hardware to reproduce it as intended by the mixer, including height channels, and if there are no height channels it is not discrete Atmos. These 'Upthrowing' stereo speakers cannot accurately give the same effect as dedicated height channels do, and soundbars cannot output proper discrete surround - never mind Atmos - so the chances of what you are hearing matching what was mixed is remote.

2 - Binaural Stereo - this is as old as the hills, and it is not surround never mind Atmos. It is a development of what we used to call Ambisonics but without needing a special Ambisonic decoder.

Be very careful.

tristansummers · Answer

A lot incorrect in this answer Neil. Resolve has an in-built software renderer, (but you need the Studio version to use it.)It can then decode Atmos and play it back through your specified configuration of bed and height speakers. An Atmos Bed does sometimes have Height channels, bubt usually you height speakers that will play back objects that move into the 3d space tghey are outputting. You don't need a LOT of hardware to play back the decoded content; a 16 channels soundcard, or de-embed from the SDI of a Decklink.

But a lot of confusion exists about this and consumer atmos, which is object based metadata to extract a limited number of 3d objects from the standard 8 channels bed in the HDMI stream. You need a software decoder, or correct bitstream output to an Atmos docoder in an AV amp for that. Still don't hink you can do that at all on a mac, but I may be wrong, it might just work on an M2 laptop, but I think they disable it

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