“You mean you can do loudness and then do the Dolby encoding and then do some other audio processing, too? Like upmix? And can you add language tags too?   That was the start of a fun conversation with an engineer at a playout facility just the other day. So we talked about workflows and …

Loudness compliance to a wide range of standards was required for a mixture of international and online delivery platforms at Premiere Digital Services. Premiere had QuickTime (QT) MOV files that had two MOOV atoms – these define different durations. Such files cannot be correctly processed by many existing tools so it was necessary to modify …

MX1 in Germany needed to add loudness compliance to their file-based workflow, but their files contained a wide range of different Dolby E audio configurations. Their original approach had been to decode all of the Dolby E, carry out Loudness correction, then re-encode. Due to the number of different channel layouts, this was proving difficult …