Dolby has announced the release of a new version of the Dolby Atmos Production Suite. We have the details…

An update for the Dolby Atmos Production Suite is now available.   Dolby advises existing Production Suite Customers please register and download v3.5 of the Dolby Atmos Production Suite here.   They also advise that this upgrade can be installed over the existing v3.x installation.   

What’s New In Dolby Atmos Production Suite V3.5

Under The Hood

• Improved binaural rendering engine with increased spatialisation designed to deliver a more lifelike and realistic experience

UI Changes Main Window

• Input/Master button has been improved to provide better clarity

• The room expansion and contraction button has been moved to the object view section

• The ‘All Object View’ button has been removed

• Standard Group has been added to the Object View which is designed to enable you to view the standard object groups that your objects have been assigned to.

• The Status Bar has been moved to the bottom of the user interface, with the CPU Meter on the bottom right and any error messages on the bottom left.

UI Changes Preferences

• ‘Network Information’ has been renamed to ‘Remote Clients’.

Operation Changes

Input Configuration and Binaural Render Mode

• Dolby has added ‘industry standard’ predefined group names when configuring input groups and rerendering.

• When a master file is loaded Dolby has changed the display of key information in the main window, input configuration, the trim and downmix controls window and binaural render mode window. It will also alert you with a colour change when the master configuration differs to the I/O setup in your DAW as well as showing a popup alert to prevent you from dropping into record in a mismatched open master file.

Spatial Coding

• The default number of spatial coding elements in the Processing tab of the Preferences window has been changed to 14.

Trim and Downmix Controls

• For 5.1 downmixes Dolby has renamed ‘Direct Render With Warp’ to Direct Render With Room Balance to better reflect the processing applied.

• The Direct Render To Stereo option has been removed and the 5.1 Trim control and been renamed to 5.1 and 2.0. This is because all 2.0 mixes are derived from the 5.1 downmix.

Loudness Measurements

• In the main window, real-time loudness measurements now reset when a master file is closed.

Exports

• In re-render exports, you now have the option to expert re-renders as multi-mono files without channel numbers.

• Binaural and stereo re-enders can now be exported as multi-mono files.

• You can now tab between the export input and output fields.

• In mp4 exports film encoding options now exports at either 768kbps or 448kbps, whereas music encoding options are always set to 768kbps.

Atmos Master File Set

• The file structure to the Dolby Atmos Master File Set has been changed. The .dvmb files are no longer included in the master file set.

New Keyboard Shortcuts added in the following menus

• File Menu

• System Menu

• Renderer Main Window

• Monitoring and Transport Controls

You can also watch this video from Dolby for a description of changes and new features:

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