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ct Award Nominees outstanding products for 2017 post production Post-production product summaries provided by David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE Dolby: Dolby Atmos Content Creation Tools Dolby Atmos Content Creation Tools easily generates all of your channel-based deliverables from your Dolby Atmos mix, whether it is a 5.1, stereo, or binaural mix, or a B-format render, the Dolby Atmos Renderer can create it. The Dolby Atmos Panner Plug-ins for Pro Tools lets you place audio objects in a 3D space and generates object metadata that is authored with the final content. The Dolby Atmos Renderer receives audio and metadata from Pro Tools and creates multichannel speaker outputs, binaural headphone outputs, and channel- based deliverables while also recording and playing back .atmos format deliverables. The Dolby Atmos Monitor provides signal metering and a dynamic view of all mix objects, so you can see where each object is placed in the 3D space. www.Dolby.com/us/en/professional/content-creation/dolby-atmos.html Exponential Audio: R4 Reverb R4 was designed with historic hardware reverb units in mind, but with many new features only possible with modern plugin development technology. R4 is a native plugin, requiring no special hardware and offering even more flexibility while continuing to work with its now-famous minimal load on your computer. Overdrive is helpful in 'warming up' a reverb, by adding analog "grit." Reverb settings can now use a tail suppression circuit for more dynamic response by dynamically lowering reverb levels in louder parts. Users have long asked for tempo-controllable pre-delay: R4 now has this implemented. R4 offers a new Hall algorithm, as well as updated versions of the R2 algorithms. It includes a Modulated EQ. Gated reverb effects have been added, resulting in more than 1,200 presets. This is much more than a minor upgrade to R2. www.ExponentialAudio.com/r4page/ FabFilter: Pro Q2 Equalizer Pro Q2 offers many new features, including an improved EQ Match feature so you can save the input spectrum as a reference spectrum. There is also a new Permanent Spectrum Grab mode, so you can click and hold in the spectrum area until the spectrum freezes and turns blue, and you can now grab multiple peaks in the frozen spectrum. The frequency scale at the bottom of the interface now displays the frequency under the mouse cursor. If the piano display is enabled, the key under the mouse cursor is highlighted and its note number is shown. The AAX plugin has been updated to enable the dynamics display on the Avid S6 console, with improved Avid S6 page tables mappings in the AAX plugins, now more closely following Avid's conventions for a better workflow. www.FabFilter.com/products/pro-q-2-equalizer-plug-in iZotope, Inc.: RX 6 Advanced RX 6 Advanced is an audio repair tool that can be used to restore damaged or noisy audio to pristine condition. New tools include De-rustle, De-wind, Dialogue Isolate, De-bleed, De-ess, Mouth De-click, Breath Control, and MP3 Export. Updated tools are De-click, Voice De-noise, and De-plosive, and Ambience Match. www.iZotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx/rx-advanced.html Todd-AO: Absentia DX The Absentia DX algorithm analyzes production dialogue recordings and removes obvious hums, wireless rings, and ticks, while maintaining the integrity of the human voice. ABDX was devel- oped for a network television show with difficult production sound that resulted in substantial repetitive manual labor. Simply drag and drop volumes, folders, or sound files directly onto the application (or the settings window), and files will begin processing. An Absentia DX progress window will appear, with the number of sound files queued, and a status bar of the files being simultaneously processed. ABDX sound files' metadata and Sound File ID are identical to the original files except for the noises that have been removed. With identical metadata, you can swap the original files with ABDX files or vice versa. www.Avid.com/plugins/todd-ao-absentia-dx C A S Q U A R T E R L Y W I N T E R 2 0 1 7 29