2024-05-05 13:00:16
Sound editor for fiction and animation movies and sequence, in addition to trainer, Ary Carpman – Argentinian residing in Paris – explains the technical challenges posed by 3D audio.
We’re speaking increasingly about spatial sound, notably for cinema. Do you discover it?
Certainly, spatial audio – together with applied sciences reminiscent of ambisonics [format sonore immersif très exploité dans le domaine des jeux vidéo] or Dolby Atmos – is turning into increasingly widespread within the observe of sound enhancing, sound design and movie mixing. Furthermore, multichannel sound pushes us, as professionals, to query the relevance of those new applied sciences on an aesthetic and narrative degree, and to spend money on new {hardware} and software program. This could improve sound manufacturing and post-production prices. And this can assist be certain that the standing of those that minimize the soundtracks of movies produced in France is acknowledged.
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What are the technical implications of recording 3D audio for you?
Along with the technical gear vital for “encompass” (multichannel sound) or “Atmos” listening, this requires appreciable extra work for sound enhancing and mixing, simply as when switching from stereo to five.1 [cinq voies, assorties d’un subwoofer, un haut-parleur destiné à la reproduction des fréquences sonores les plus basses du spectre audio].
For instance, making a sound ambiance in encompass (5.1) or Atmos (7.1.4) requires, ideally, designing this ambiance from multiphonic sound recordings, made with seize programs together with a number of microphones (5 for five.1, eleven for Atmos) or with ambisonic microphones. Nevertheless, the truth is that, for the second, these recordings are nonetheless within the minority in comparison with the stereophonic recordings (2.0) accessible in {most professional} sound libraries that we use every day. There’s nonetheless actual work to be carried out on this space.
Do you suppose spatial audio is the way forward for film soundtracks, and even streaming music?
The potential for watching sequence or different packages in encompass or Atmos will be enticing for sure works, however this requires technical gear that’s tough to arrange in the lounge of the home. This was the case up to now with quadraphonic vinyl information which didn’t dethrone stereophony. It isn’t simple to make residence cinema at residence both. And this could in all probability even be the case with Dolby Atmos, DTS:X or different upcoming codecs.
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