Field Trip: Dolby Headquarters

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We've all seen the Dolby logo, whether it's in a theater or on our electronics at home... but what does Dolby actually do? RJFS went on their first road trip to visit Dolby HQ in San Francisco to find out.
Dolby sponsored this video and our trip to their new headquarters to give us a look into how their technologies have affected films past and present, as well as some sneak peeks into what they're developing for the future.

The whole trip was incredibly fun-- we met some really cool people, and there was so much to nerd out about. We hope it gives you a new appreciation for all the science and creativity that goes on behind the scenes (or in this case, the laboratory!)

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Very special thanks to Glenn Kiser and Oren Williams for being such excellent hosts!

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[aarontull]

The new Lucid Air will be the first car with Dolby Atmos, I bet it'll be awesome.

[pgirfn]

You guys should check out ambisonics. It's like the audio equivalent of 360 spherical video.

It uses some pretty cool math to basically simulate a spherical array of microphones, which can give you incredible localization if done properly. The real beauty of it is that you can down convert the ambisonic format to any number of speakers in any orientation on the fly, including binaural and soundfield systems, so you don't have to master for individual setups.

It's not widely known or available, but I hope it gets more popular, because it's pretty awesome and would be perfect for VR systems.

[sir.klunchis]

I just found this Channel and I`m loving it !

[BobIzam]

Was the shot at 6:42 of the lanterns from Devinsupertramp's video Tangled in real life?

[Yuhara_rev]

I always loved the relaxing background music

[SeanCameronD]

Does anyone know what headphones he was using at 4:18?

[jadmaalouf]

So if I put Dolby Digital audio surround in the export tab in premiere should i give them credits?

[FreezerIV]

Thats a good example for nice kinds of "product placement" if you wanna name it that. Respect! Keep doing that kind of stuff if someones pays for it it doesnt matter it seems all really natural! :)

[JIYkp]

I like these documentary style videos.

[jkrwhy]

Hope there's more field trips in the future! :D

[DenNationishere]

I recently went on the Universal Studio Tour and got to set foot on the Dimension 404 set!

[TheTammanytiger]

We all know the real Money maker is the Patent Licensing Department.

[ClashBerry]

I really liked this kind of video! Keep up the great work!

[joshinils]

man this is great, i have 7.1 headphones, but i rarely get to hear some actual surround sound

[perrymcox]

Does anyone know what the song is that they play at the end of every video?

[happyphal]

Does Dolby have their own software for film production to do stereoscopic 3D or we can use other software such as Nuke, Davinci Resolve, or Autodesk Flare to do it and still able to show at Dolby Theaters?

[MeshachMalley]

Thats awesome will dolby technology be used in Dimension 404?

[Flaxlino]

Can you make a tutorial of the invisible cut when an object crosses the frame? PLEASE! :D

[gattieben]

I love me some 7.1 Atomos and TrueHD :D

[Ace]

That was the perfect way to end the video. Basically the same thing I would do.