‘We are providing an increasing amount of multi-language audio services to international rights owners and one of our key services is multi language audio dubbing,’ says Technical Director Gerald Hinton. ‘With each dubbing job, be it in one language or ten, we typically create a full range mix of each language but we then have to deal with a large number of different deliverable requirements in terms of dynamic range, peaks and overall loudness. We were looking for a unit that we could set up quickly and easily to create various masters without having a detrimental effect on the mix. The system needed to be capable of handling changes to the dynamic range, level or loudness of the audio without colouring or altering the audio in any way.’
Deluxe Digital Studios is the postproduction and digital film services division of Deluxe, a leading provider of entertainment industry services and technologies to major Hollywood Studios, international broadcasters and rights owners. Deluxe has laboratory and postproduction facilities in North America, Europe, and Australia, from which it offers a wide variety of services including motion picture film processing, printing and distribution; EFilm digital intermediates; postproduction and subtitling services; titles design and digital VFX; DVD and Blu-ray compression, encoding and authoring; digital cinema services, digital asset management, digital distribution; and marketing fulfilment services.
The unit has been installed in the Soho, London office, which provides audio dubbing, conforming, restoration, subtitling, DVD and Blu-ray authoring and video encoding and asset management services for the UK and Europe.
‘The unit is very easy to operate as users only have to input a small number of settings,’ Hinton says. ‘Once the settings are in place, Jünger Audio’s proprietary Level Magicloudness system achieves optimum results by reviewing all other parameters necessary for inaudible processing and automatically controlling them in response to changes in the programme signal. By relying on an adaptive level control algorithm, Level Magiccan adjust the level from any source at any time, with no pumping, breathing or distortion. It works by simultaneously combining an AGC, a Transient Processor for fast changes and a “look ahead” peak limiter for continuous unattended control of any programme material, regardless of its original source.
‘The B46 was very easy to install and was up and running within a couple of hours of us receiving it,’ he adds. ‘We wanted a unit to mainly work in a tape to tape domain as we are typically making clones or sub masters at differing frame rates of a Master. By routing the SDI signal through the B46 we do not have to worry about delaying the video through a separate unit as this is all handled seamlessly within the unit.’
The unit was supplied by Jünger Audio’s UK distributor, Aspen Media, which also played an integral part in helping Deluxe choose the right processor for its requirements.
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