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Dolby Digital Encoding for Pro Tools

The Neyrinck SoundCode for Dolby Digital plug-in suite offers mastering-quality workflow tools for encoding and decoding Dolby Digital audio within Pro Tools software. Tightly integrated into the Digidesign Pro Tools environment, the Neyrinck SoundCode for Dolby Digital plug-in suite provides mastering-quality workflow tools that enable Digidesign Pro Tools users to encode and decode Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio directly within Pro Tools software, without the need for dedicated Dolby hardware. SoundCode will be a welcome asset for anyone working in surround, delivering surround audio for DVD video, decoding audio from a DVD video within Pro Tools, creating a DVD reference disk, or producing a surround-compatible audio CD.

Neyrink SoundCode for Dolby Digital Features at a Glance:

• Faster-than-real-time Encoding
  
• Punch In/Out Capabilities
  
• A Full Range of Decoding Options

Faster-than-real-time Encoding
The SoundCode Encoder offers a fast way to encode audio as AC-3 and WAV files from a Pro Tools session, ready for use with DVD audio or video authoring applications, CD burning applications, or any other application that uses the Dolby Digital standard. Because the SoundCode Encoder operates as an AudioSuite plug-in, users can encode Dolby Digital faster than real time to accelerate their workflow. SoundCode encodes to all AC-3 file types, including AC-3 with time code. SoundCode also encodes to 16- or 24-bit stereo interleaved WAV files so users can lay back the Dolby Digital audio to digital tape or create an audio disc for playback on a consumer stereo system that has a Dolby Digital decoder. The SoundCode Encoder also offers the option of importing the encoded Dolby Digital audio back into the Pro Tools timeline, where it can be decoded and monitored using the real-time SoundCode Decoder.

Punch In/Out Capabilities
SoundCode includes a time-saving Punch In/Out encoding feature that allows users to punch in fixes to an existing AC-3 file. If the audio for a two-hour program has already been encoded, but a single line of dialog needs to be replaced, SoundCode can encode just that line, without having to re-encode the entire two-hour soundtrack. SoundCode then automatically "punches in" that line to the correct location within the previously encoded file.

A Full Range of Decoding Options
The SoundCode Decoder functions as either a real-time RTAS or HTDM plug-in, or a nonreal-time AudioSuite plug-in. The real-time SoundCode Decoder allows users to decode and monitor audio during Pro Tools session playback. Combined with Pro Tools video playback capabilities, the real-time SoundCode Decoder can be used as part of a mastering-quality confidence monitoring system. Using SoundCode as an AudioSuite plug-in, Pro Tools users can decode all or a portion of an audio file, or view the metadata of an AC-3 file. The SoundCode Decoder offers four decoder modes: line (standard consumer decoder mode), custom (which allows you to adjust the dynamic range compression), RF (for RF television feeds), and data stream (which passes the Dolby Digital data stream and formats it as stereo PCM digital audio). It also provides a wide variety of downmix options and listening modes that simulate consumer listening setups, including mono, stereo, Dolby Surround-compatible stereo, front only, and stereo in which the center channel is mixed to the left and right. The SoundCode Decoder delivers extensive metering for output level, dynamic range compression, dialog normalization, and CRC error detection.


Neyrink SoundCode for Dolby Digital Features:

• Encoding
  
• Tight integration within the Pro Tools environment
  
• Faster-than-real-time encoding
  
• Punch In/Out feature to save time when fixing an existing AC-3 file
  
• Support for AC-3 time code file format
  
• Simultaneous import for confidence monitoring
  
• Support for Bitstream Extensions Metadata
  
  
  
• Decoding
  
• Real-time decoding
  
• AudioSuite faster-than-real-time decoding
  
• Confidence monitoring
  
• Extensive metadata display
  
• Decoding synchronized to Pro Tools video playback systemDownmix and listening modes to simulate consumer listening environments
  
• Output level metering
  
• CRC error detection

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number 8115-18676-00

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