DOLBY DP590 - Broadcast Audio Object Authoring Tool

The Dolby DP590 Broadcast Audio Object Authoring tool is a key element of Dolby’s industry leading object-based audio authoring toolkit that assists broadcasters, live audio mixers, and engineers in the adoption and deployment of immersive audio for live events. Dolby’s object-based audio (OBA) authoring toolkit for broadcast applications consists of the DP590 Broadcast Audio Object Authoring tool (DP590), the DP591 Audio Encoder (DP591), and the DP580 Professional Reference Decoder (DP580). This toolkit provides the ability to do immersive audio authoring, encoding, and monitoring. The DP590 provides a user-friendly interface to give the audio engineer easy access to set up and deliver a new immersive audio experience as channel-based audio (e.g. 5.1.2, 5.1.4). It does this by ingesting audio groups from the mixing console and providing a simple way to create object audio presentations, including mapping sounds to locations in 3D space, and developing associated metadata. It also provides an easy way to m...