iZotope has posted an invitation to join them and Doug Mountain (Dialogue Editor, The Walking Dead) on Thursday, November 7th 2019 from 7 pm to 9 pm Pacific Time at Westlake Pro in North Hollywood and also live-streamed, when they will introduce “an industry-first in post-production technology - a new revolutionary tool”, which according to the announcement on the Westlake Pro site, will be released on November 5th. What could it be?
What Could It Be?
There has been some speculation that it could be iZotope RX8. After all, iZotope has been releasing a new version of RX every 12 months or so and RX7 was released on September 13th 2018. On a thread in the DUC, there are some suggestions of what people would like to see in iZotope RX8…
I am definitely looking forward to v2 of the Music Rebalance module. Improved algorithm and preview would be nice too. - Ben.
DeSpill. Would remove the ambient component present in a key input from the signal. This would be revolutionary, and I can't believe the tech doesn't exist right now. Essentially you could feed mics into each other to get much cleaner versions of each. De Bleed does this a bit, but it’s very fiddly and doesn't work very well IMO. - Guy.
ReverbMatch. Capture a reverb profile from a reference file, and apply this to another signal. - Guy.
DePlane. Jets and prop planes. How great would that be? - Guy.
DialogueContour (improved). Currently doesn't work very well, but I'd like it to. Could borrow from RevoicePro and DialogueMatch - use pitch info from a reference file and apply to a different file. - Guy.
SplitLayers. (I'm really dreaming now). An extension of Dialogue Isolate. Think of a clever Photoshop. Split any signal into a number of layers based on the machine learning engine. A particular voice vs a cough in the background. A male and female voice. A voice vs a buzzsaw going off in the background. A voice vs a wailing child. So it would analyse a signal, detect (say) 3 component parts and split into 3 layers. Put together, they equal the original file, but you'd get faders for each, or just isolate one layer for a particular treatment. - Guy.
DeVehicles in general. I think this is a region in which machine learning could benefit a lot. - Simon.
In future updates, the following would be good have - Reverb Match, EQ Match. - ‘baylonfonseca’.
I have constantly requested Reverb match from iZotope. - ‘TVPostSound’.
But could it be something else? There is another clue in the Westlake Pro page…
“Have problems cutting dialogue from lavaliers, booms, and ADR into a cohesive performance? Doug will be premiering iZotope‘s new product that will revolutionize the post-production workflow.”
Although it could be referring to new features in RX, what if it was a completely new product altogether? The inference of this quote is that it is something specific for dialog.
What Would Like It To Be?
Would you like it to be iZotope RX 8? What if it was something else, something dialog related, what do you think that could be? What would you like it to be? Do share your thoughts n the comments below.