Dolby fills the San Sebastian festival with the best sound

Dolby has lent technical support for advice, supervision and adjustment of projection rooms, preparing technical passes with directors, producers and distributors to ensure that they are satisfied with the sound. Committed not only to the great productions but also with the new promises of cinema, Dolby is one of the companies that sponsors the Cinema under construction award.

One more year, Dolby He has been very present at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. His presence has focused on offering technical support for advice, supervision and adjustment of projection rooms, preparing technical passes with directors, producers and distributors to ensure that they are 100% satisfied with the sound. As for the projection is Kelonik who offers service to the festival.

Since the festival takes place in several facilities, not usually dedicated to the projection, as is the case of Kursaal, Dolby plays a vital role to ensure that ephemeral facilities offer the best sound.

Highlight that all projections in the official section have been projected this year in digital with Christie projectors, and with 5.1 sound. In San Sebastián different Dolby processors such as CP550, CP750 and DMA8+are used.

Cinema under construction

Committed not only to the great productions but also with the new promises of cinema, Dolby is one of the companies that sponsors the Cinema under construction award.

This is a joint initiative of the San Sebastián Festival and the Cinemas D’Amérique Latine de Toulouse Rencontres that aims to facilitate the conclusion of Latin American feature films, which have been able to be shot, but address with difficulties the postproduction phase, presenting them before a group of professionals, mainly of the cross -border scope, so that they can contribute to their completion.

The members of the different links of the chain that lead to the premiere are invited to know those films in optimal conditions in order to contribute decisively to the projects reaching fruition.

By involving cinema professionals who can intervene in the postproduction of these films, by inciting distributors and diffusers to diversify the offer, to reserve a space to still marginalized cinematographic continents, San Sebastián and Toulouse aspire to put into practice, and to develop with the maximum possible pragmatism and efficiency, respect and promotion of cultural diversity with a spirit of solidarity and cooperation.

As Ricardo Viñas, Dolby Consultant, “the support of Dolby, together with other companies, is very important to us, it is very important since it supports films that, due to lack of means already in the postproduction phase, otherwise I could not access to mix in multichannel sound. On the other hand, the experience with the directors is very good. With all we have all had a very good relationship, even with directors that have not been winners that have not been winners of prizes, exchanging impressions and commenting points of view. ”

In line with this type of independent productions, Viñas has recognized audiovisual panorama that “although the sound remains, in a way, the younger brother of cinema, many directors and producers are increasing Studying each project, and special budgets for certain projects with few copies, destined for festivals without commercial exploitation ... ”.

Atmos

If the stereo was a great step, as was later the irruption of 5.1 and 7.1, now Dolby intends to revolutionize the sound in the cinema with the launch of Atmos technology, an interesting immersive sound proposal.

Viñas stressed that “with atmos, our presence will be more necessary to have a clear idea from the beginning of what you want to achieve and tackle problems or limitations. And it is that both the multichannel and the new sound the atmospheres entails a careful postproduction. With atmosphe and a job based on objects. ”

As for the collection thinking about an atmospolium environment, Viñas acknowledges that “the live technician has to know what possibilities can later achieve in the room thanks to the use, for example, of sound on the roof, and have a much greater range of nuances and sound sources to use them later. As far as the directors are concerned, they can now recreate new sensations and circumstances. possibility of the tools at your fingertips with Dolby. ”

It is noteworthy that until the birth of Atmos the Dolby Service for Digital Film inherited, in a way, the 35mm form of work with the difference that according to the DCI standard the way in which sound is recorded in 5.1 in a DCP has no owner coding. Now, with Atmos, we will work on a owner technology environment in which Dolby has a decisive role.

Dolby Atmos is committed to a hybrid approach at the time of the sound edition, since it allows the sounds as dynamic objects that surround the listener, and combine them with channels for reproduction. This technology allows adaptive reproductions, thus guaranteeing that the sound experience is as faithful as possible to the original vision of the creator, whatever the environment and regardless of the configuration of the speakers of the reproduction environment. Dolby Atmos is a comprehensive solution that has been created taking into consideration the entire content generation process, and joins mixers, studies and distributors in order to create revolutionary improvements in the sound experience.

Finally, with respect to the opening of a Dolby office in Spain, Ricardo Viñas says it will allow them to "be closer to our current and potential customers and have a closer presence to analyze in detail the peculiarities of each territory." In addition, after the purchase of the Imm Sound Catalan company, Dolby de facto account with two venues in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​thus being much closer to its customers.

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