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Tech Blog – The Dolby E Guard Band
Paul Neyrinck discusses the Guard Band in Dolby E Streams Dolby E is a data stream that is carried as stereo PCM audio. It is always used together with video on a video tape or in a MXF or Quicktime movie file and is an encode of one or more mixes of the program....
Ultra-fast Dolby E Encoding
Modern computers are increasing performance by adding processing cores instead of increasing clock speeds. The latest Mac Pro, for example, has twelve processing cores. If the computer is running multiple software programs at once, then those cores can split up...
Monitoring Blu-ray In Pro Tools
E-NOISE Productions in São Paulo, Brazil using Neyrinck SoundCode For Dolby Digital for DVD encoding Plinio Hessel Jr, lead mixer at E-NOISE Productions in São Paulo, Brazil has been mixing and encoding surround for DVD for many years using Neyrinck SoundCode For...
Dolby E For George Lucas
SoundCode for Dolby E for use at film festivals supporting Dolby E for 5.1 surround playback One of 2010's most anticipated and discussed documentary films is The People Vs. George Lucas, a funny and loving look into a generation's joy and disappointment of George...
Tech Blog – TV/DVD Surround Encoding Technologies
Paul Neyrinck provides an overview of the surround sound technologies often used in television and DVD There have been many technologies developed over the years to deliver surround audio for television and DVD. The following is an overview of the technologies often...
Tech Blog – Mac Headphone/Optical Digital Audio Output
Paul Neyrinck discusses how to use the Macbook/iMac/Mac-mini optical digital audio output (minijack) Every MacBook/iMac/Mac-mini sold the past few years has an audio output that is specified as a “headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack).” See here, for...
Tech Blog – Laying Back Dolby E to a VTR
Paul Neyrinck discusses layback of a Doby E Stream to VTR When laying back a Dolby E stream to a VTR from Pro Tools or a video editing system, it is very important to set up the VTR correctly.The Dolby E stream must be recorded to tape with absolutely no changes to...