“Batman V Superman” has audio technology created in Leiria – Daily News – Lisbon

This technology is also being used in some “blockbusters” premieres scheduled for this year

The film “Batman V Superman: the Awakening of Justice”, on display in Portuguese cinema, used an audio technology developed by the teacher of the Leiria Polytechnic Institute Nuno Fonseca

the audio of this new movie from Warner. Bros. Pictures used a “software” with a particle system developed by Nuno Fonseca, professor at the College of Technology and Management School, says the polytechnic in a press release.

According to the statement, “This new technology has ability to handle thousands of sounds simultaneously and is especially suited to large film productions, “having already been used in films like the remake of” Poltergeist, “” the Forest “,” the Walk “,” Steve Jobs ” and now this “Batman V Superman”.

this technology is also being used in some “blockbusters” premieres scheduled for this year. “With this new technology, the computer can create and manage thousands of sounds simultaneously, achieving a much more realistic result and with a lot less work,” he explains Nuno Fonseca said in the news release.

“software “it is being tested in all major audio post-production studios worldwide, as Skywalker Sound, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, Technicolor (Paramount Studios), Formosa, Pinewood (UK), and since October, also has to be tested at Park Road post, Peter Jackson’s post-production studio in New Zealand

the new film “Batman V Superman: the Awakening of Justice”. is already considered one of the most expensive in the history of cinema, and with the participation of actors like Ben Affleck, Amy Adams, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Costner, among others.

Nuno Fonseca coordinator of the degree in Digital Games and Leiria Polytechnic of Multimedia and professor in the department of Computer Engineering ESTG.

I am a visiting professor at the School of Music in Lisbon and member of the “Technical Committee on Sound for Digital Cinema & amp; Television “Audio Engineering Society, and member of the” Society of Motion Pictures & amp; Television Engineers “.