The goal here would be to be able to go from source to end product (either BD or streaming file) in the same shop. Switching in front of the bass management system/TV monitor to allow either Protools/AI or a BDP/AV Pre-Pro with ATMOS/Vision support to drive the AV monitoring.
A 4K TV monitor with Dolby Vision support. A Blue Ray burner attached to the Mac Mini and maybe some sort of Dolby vision recorder like an iPhone 12 or whatever else is workable and affordable. Probably something like a Focusrite Red 16Line on TB3 driving a 7.1.4 bass management system in front of an equidistant monitoring configuration. Throw in say Divinci Resolve as well for the Dolby Vision side. I thinking I would wait to see what Mac Mini on Apple silicon pops up in the October time frame (thinking like an M1X or M2 with 8 or more large cores) and running Protools Ultimate with Dolby DAPS using Dolby Audio Bridge on the same system.
So, let me start by hypothesizing a target system and then ask questions. I envision that I want to be able to mix ATMOS music and am investigating Dolby vision with the intent of being able to produce HD music and video (Dolby Vision, ATMOS Home Entertainment). I'm in the process of treating the room acoustically and am designing it for 7.1.4 monitoring per Dolby Home Entertainment guidelines. I currently have a home studio running Protools on Windows 10 and stereo monitoring for doing music content to mp4 files and DVD.
