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Author Topic: Authoring audio to play in a Dolby 5.1 equipped commercial theatre Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-02-2019 11:46 AM                        Our film department presents a festival at the end of the school year where student film majors have their theses films shown at a local cinema. They hand the "projectionist" BluRays to play for each show (something like 20 titles per show, and three shows per day). Question is, if they don't author the audio in Dolby 5.1 but rather in 2.0 (Left, Right stereo - which I believe is what they do), will feeding a BluRay HDMI into a typical AUX input of a DCinema setup, will the processor do anything but play back with just Left Screen Channel/Right Screen Channel stereo, or can it create a Center Screen Channel mix for playback? I assume the theatre has to be playing directly off a BR player; you can't ingest a consumer format to a DCinema server, can you?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-02-2019 05:50 PM                     Why don't you have them convert their flics with DCP-o-matic ? Some processors can, some processors are set up for matrix decoding on a NonSync port.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 05-02-2019 06:10 PM                     The safest bet is really to create a 5.1 movie, put the dialog into the center channel and like Carsten mentioned, use DCP-o-Matic to create a proper DCP package out of it. It's not rocket science to mix something in 3.0 or even 5.1 nowadays, tools like Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer all support it out of the box. They're film students, so let's try to teach them to do it right, rather than to rely on the odd luck that the audio processor will be able to funnel identical left and right content to the center channel. And to be honest, if it comes in 2.0, I'd rather play it in 2.0 than to do some remixing myself.  |  IP: Logged

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