About Robin Miller & company...
Robin Miller,
Filmaker Inc. was established in 1970 and incorporated in Pennsylvania,
soon growing to seven full-time staff plus many contract technicians and
artists.. The company has produced hundreds of documentaries,
commercials, and features shown to audiences worldwide. Awards tally 52
including The Peabody for co-producing PBS Visions.
Entertainment technology
engineering activities, today called Filmaker Technology, pioneered
in 1972 interlocking multi-track tape machines to mix audio tracks for
16mm, 35mm, and video. In 1973 the company located in an 8,000 sq. ft.
building with studios and R&D laboratories. The company has a Patent
pending for 3D full-sphere surround sound.
An internationally
recognized engineering consultant
as well as producer, Robin Miller has presented advanced
2D and 3D audio solutions at numerous conferences worldwide to the
Audio Engineering Society, Society of Motion Picture & Television
Engineers, Acoustical Society of America, Canadian Acoustical Association;
and German Tonmeisters. As an invited panelist at the AES 2007 Italia
conference in Parma, he demonstrated Ambiophonics and full-sphere High
Sonic Definition 3D.
Historic
highlights ...
October 2005
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At
AES 119th Convention in New York City,
Robb Miller presented music and gaming demonstrations of immersive
reality using High Sonic Definition
HSD 3D technology (Pat.pending). Comments included "The
best surround I've ever heard" and "A tremendous advance in
audio." Robin Miller presented a paper 6628 on Binaural
Bass Management - compelling reasons for a second subwoofer channel.
May 2005 _______________________
At
the Acoustical Soiety of America / Canadian Acoustical Assn. convention
in Vancouver, Canada,
FilmakerTechnology invited presentations including papers
on High Sonic Definition 3D and the use ofBinaural Bass Management with
a demonstration using two subwoofers.
November 2004
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At
the 23rd Tonmeisters Convention in Leipzig, Germany,
FilmakerTechnology's Robin Miller presented a demonstration and paper
"Physiological and content considerations for
a second low frequency channel for bass management, subwoofers, and LFE."
Mr. Miller also presented a workshop on PerAmbio
3D/2D, now called High Sonic Definition (Pat.pend.) lifelike
surround that is 5.1-compatible.
October 2004
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At the
117th AES International Convention in San Francisco, Robin
Miller
was an invited panelist exploring two subwoofer channels. He also
presented the paper "Spatial Definition and
the PanAmbiophone microphone array for 2D surround & 3D fully periphonic
recording" (preprint 6253).
May 2004 _______________________
At the AES
116th Int'l Convention in Berlin Workshop
14, Robin Miller was an invited panelist exploring use of two subwoofer
channels with, from left (seated) Jonas Braasch, McGill University; Todd
Welti, Harman International; Robin Miller, FilmakerTechnology; David Griesinger,
Lexicon; and Gunther Theile, Institute fur Rundfunktechnik; (standing)
Williams Martens, McGill Univeristy; Geoff Martin, Bang & Olufsen.
At Workshop 15 with Ralph Glasgal,
Angelo Farina, Diemer de Vries, Itai Neoran, and Dave Malham, Mr. Miller
showed test results from 5Hz to 30kHz of his PanAmbiophone surround microphone.
February 2004 _______________________
Beethoven's 9th
was recorded in 5.1-compatible 3D surround by FilmakerTechnology at Columbia
University, New York City, by The Greenwich Village
Orchestra conducted by Barbara Yahr and sixty voice chorus prepared
by Robert Long.
December 2003 _______________________
On a snowy Sunday,
Robin Miller with Ralph Glasgal demonstrated Ambiophonics to the Boston
Audio Society, who wrote, "Your full-of-life presentation
was energizing...We may have heard the genesis of what will be common
in our future homes." The Society's members represent many
well-known in audio.
October, 2003 _________________________
PerAmbio
3D/2D,
now called HSD 3D, was presented in the paper "Scalable
Tri-play Recording for Stereo, ITU 5.1/6.1 2D, and Periphonic 3D (with
Height) Compatible Surround Sound Reproduction" (preprint #5934)
by Robin Miller to the AES 115th International Convention in New York
City.
September,
2003 _______________________
PanAmbio
2D surround
sound, developed by FilmakerTechnology, was used to record a memorial
concert at Ground Zero in New York City for the second anniversary of
9-11. Throughout "Requiem" by John Rutter, a large bell
can be heard striking with the reading of each name of the 2,792 who perished.
Compatible
HSD 3D played
on conventional 2D surround speaker layouts was demonstrated by Robin
Miller to the Penn State University AES Section, played from a conventional
DTS-ES Discrete CD.
Acclaim
as a producer...
Recognized
by 52 awards including CPB Outstanding Documentary, major film festivals,
and The Peabody for compelling content & technical excellence, reviewers
and sponsors have accolades for a Robin Miller film...
"The
result is extraordinary...stunningly imaginative."
- John J. O'Connor, The New York Times
"Uncompromising
work...outstanding production."
- James Brown, Los Angeles Times
"One
of the single most brilliant pieces of theater I've yet seen on the tube."
- Kevin Kelly, Boston Sunday Globe
"I
was deeply touched...Your film is a personal treasure."
- Sen. Bob Dole
"Another
polished theatrical short from top-notch filmmaker Robin Miller...has
Spielbergian touch."
- Paul Willistein,The Morning Call
"Our
film was instrumental in securing a $1 million gift, and in exceeding
our campaign goal."
- Paul Buehrle, CEO (ret'd), The Lutheran Home
"[Your
video] helped us compete successfully with imported chips."
- AT&T Microelectronics
"[Your
film is] a model for labor-management relations in America."
- President Gerald Ford
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