French post-production company Titrafilm has expanded its Paris facilities with Genelec monitoring standardised across every room, as Dolby Atmos now accounts for nearly half of all its projects.
Titrafilm has been part of the French film industry since 1933, but the company is anything but stuck in the past. With close to 50% of its projects now involving Dolby Atmos, the Paris-based post house has overhauled and expanded its facilities around networked audio and a unified Genelec monitoring standard throughout.
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The expansion is quite significant, with two new Paris sites coming online – one housing two mix studios, an ADR studio, ten sound edit suites, ten picture edit suites and a grading room, with a second site adding another 27 picture edit suites. Across the river in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, nine interconnected buildings form the company’s main hub, linked by fibre and RJ45 with three central machine rooms. Every room runs Genelec.
Audio CTO Miguel Adélise led the design of the audio systems in the new spaces, working alongside integrator CTM Solutions and local Genelec distributor Audio-Technica France. In the newest Atmos suites, the monitoring setup comprises 1032C models for LCR, 8340As for surrounds and 4430A Smart IP PoE networked monitors for ceiling channels – the latter taking advantage of single-cable connectivity. The 5.0 rooms follow the same configuration, minus the surrounds and overhead channels, and are finished in black to sit discreetly in the studio environment. RAW aluminium models appear in edit suites alongside 7060B subwoofers, while GLM calibration software is used throughout where it makes sense.
Adélise was pragmatic about the decision, saying, “Everyone knows Genelec and knows exactly what to expect. We needed a system that was simple, reliable, scalable, well-documented, and made sense financially. Genelec ticked every box.
“There are no more endless debates about how things sound – we know the Genelec sound, and we can just get on with the work,” he says.
Interestingly, older Genelec models are still in rotation alongside the new gear. “We’ve still got original 1030s and 1032s that our engineers love working with,” Adélise notes. “The 1030s still sound fantastic.”
Looking ahead, Titrafilm has foley, music production and remote recording capabilities all on the roadmap. With every new room pre-wired for Atmos, the infrastructure is already in place to support it.
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