Lucasfilm Selects Auro-3D 11.1 Motion Picture Audio Format

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Oct 21, 2011 3:06 PM

Barco , most appropriate well known for its motion picture projection systems, has voiced that Lucasfilm Ltd. will use the Auro-3D 11.1 audio format is to blurb let go of the film 'Red Tails', slated for let go on January 20, 2012. Auro-3D allows the imaginative filmmakers to shroud the assembly in rich, pragmatic sound for a more convincing motion picture experience.

Auro-3D, powered by Barco and Auro Technologies, is a new approximate sound network written along 3 spatial axes (width, height and height), rsther than than the two axes as found in normal approximate sound. The full Auro-3D orator plan is tangible for up to 13.1 channels, with 11.1 being the stream preferred answer for environments such as blurb film theaters. As Auro-3D technology is matching with existing formats, standards and placement mechanisms, usually a minimal hardware and designation investment is compulsory for theaters to ascent from normal 5.1 to the Auro-3D format.

"When you initial listened demonstrations of what the Auro-3D 11.1 audio format is able of, it gave us great ideas for new possibilities in storytelling," states Rick McCallum, the film's producer. "'Red Tails' is about war pilots, and sound from all around will certainly speed up the on the whole film experience - so it's an preferred film to be churned in 11.1 with the most pragmatic belongings ever listened in blurb cinema."

"We were incredibly vehement to have the chance and special consideration to work with Lucasfilm Ltd. and Skywalker Sound on the let go of 'Red Tails' in the Auro-3D 11.1 audio format," notes Brian Claypool of Barco's vital business growth department. "In addition, having Skywalker Sound setup Auro-3D in the world's most employed blending trickery to encouragement our Auro-3D 11.1 audio format was truly a great honor. We look deliver to enchanting more idealist gift in the origination of 11.1 soundtracks at Skywalker Sound."

'Red Tails' is being constructed by Rick McCallum, destined by Anthony Hemingway and executively constructed by George Lucas. It is an action-drama film formed on the Tuskegee Airmen, a organisation of African-American war pilots during World War II. It will be the initial blurb Hollywood film let go to implement the Auro-3D approximate system.