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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y S U M M E R 2 0 1 9 45 different from the sides, the sound field is even lighter. DOES ATMOS PROVIDE MORE CREATIVE FLEXIBILITY? What I can do with sound in Atmos is a totally different beast than it was in 5.1 or 7.1. In A Quiet Place, I used the subwoofers in all the speakers. I actually upmixed the subs when the creatures above are running back-and-forth to create a rumbling feeling. This is stuff you couldn't do before. DOES IT TAKE EXTRA TIME TO MIX IN ATMOS? To be honest, if you're thinking about it during the design process, before you even get to the mix stage, it doesn't take too much longer at all. If you keep it native and keep all the sounds ready to go, you have a lot more flexibility. Dolby is making it easier and easier to connect to the Atmos panners, so you can do it as early as possible. WHAT IS YOUR WORKFLOW FOR DOWNSTREAM MIXES? I just got off of another film called Triple Frontier where we created all of our deliverables using an Atmos render. We had so much in the ceiling speakers that would have taken a lot of work if we didn't have the render, and it did a really good job. And having the flexibility to decide what falls forward and what falls back is helpful. Sometimes you'll stick something in the upper speaker and you might want it to fall down to the surrounds instead of the front. It's actually working out really well with renders. • LEARN MORE ABOUT DOLBY ATMOS: WWW.DOLBY.COM/ATMOS-PRO/ "I LIKE USING DOLBY ATMOS AS A TOOL FROM THE GET-GO. IT BECOMES A PART OF THE CONVERSATION, AND YOU CAN USE IT TO HELP TELL THE STORY." –BRANDON PROCTOR, RE-RECORDING MIXER