Can you render a Blue Ray Dolby Atmos disc in Movie Studio 22 Platinum?
Hi.
The short answer is no.
Good luck finding one.
You need a DAW that can import a finished video like Avid Pro Tools, Apple Logic Pro, Ableton Live, and Steinberg Nuendo. Even then that is just the mix-down from stems. Then you would need an authoring software or a hardware unit. You can get the mix-down plugin for those DAWs for just under $300 here. No idea where you would get an authoring unit to burn Blu-rays from. Dolby do not want this to be easy for the public to do as their previous surround system was abused and they lost a lot of royalties over it.
Ray.
Thanks for your response Ray. I have Nuendo 13 and can render a Dolby Atmos file. I'm trying to find out how I can burn a Blue Ray with my Atmos mixes so I can manufacture discs. Do you know of any burner that will burn a Blue Ray disc with my Atmos mixes?
Hi Burt.
Not really. In the early days of Dolby surround, such disks would have been produced en mass by Dolby or they would lease the machines to the record / film companies. But the software encoders that were distributed to companies like Adobe and Magix should have paid a royalty for each copy and apparently they didn't which ended up in a major court case and Dolby withdrawing that ability. I doubt we will see something similar with Atmos. You can upload an Atmos mix to Spotify and maybe a few other platforms but that's about it at present and I personally think for the foreseeable future.
Again in the early days it was hard to find authoring programs and the cheapest I found was over $600 and was a stand alone program for CDs only. I was very surprised to see it end up in consumer video editing software.
You could try emailing Dolby. They may offer a disc pressing service.
Ray.
Thanks Ray. Very disappointing...
I could always be wrong Burt.
All I know for sure is the amount of small studios that have tried to become Atmos certified so they can work on feature film tracks have moaned about the cost just to get to that point in the hope of generating additional income. De Lane Lea, owned by Warner Bros are one of the few I know of that are.
Ray.