SMPTE Media Terchnology Summit | October 21-24, 2024
Colorfront is at the SMPTE Media Technology Summit at the Loews Hollywood Hotel this week.
Find us Tue-Wed at the Solutions Hub at the Ray Dolby Ballroom on Colorfront Booth #402,
and catch our Emerging Technology Showcase on Wednesday October 23nd at 1:50 PM.
Colorfront Dolby joint event in NYC
On October 16th, 2024, Colorfront and Dolby hosted an exclusive event at the renowned Dolby 88 Screening Room in New York City, offering industry professionals an in-depth look at the latest advancements in Dolby Vision packaging, mastering, and QC workflows. Dubbed Mastering Excellence: Dolby Vision Packaging & QC in Colorfront Transkoder, the event drew a diverse group of filmmakers, colorists, and post-production experts, eager to learn how these cutting-edge tools can enhance the efficiency and quality of their projects.
The event was followed by one-on-one private demos and NYC customer meetings.
IBC 2024 Amsterdam
SDR to Dolby Vision HDR Roundtripping
Colorfront, renowned for high-performance post-production tools, is set to demonstrate its SDR to Dolby Vision HDR conversion at HPA Tech Retreat 2024. The event, a nexus for industry leaders in film and streaming technology, will feature Colorfront's latest advancements, spotlighting their Transkoder platform's groundbreaking Dolby Vision capabilities. This technology offers a seamless transition from SDR to HDR, ensuring content fidelity. Bill Feightner, CTO, will lead a detailed discussion at a breakfast roundtable, emphasizing Transkoder’s role in preserving the artistic essence of SDR productions.
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This conversion process not only transitions SDR to visually stunning Dolby Vision HDR but also produces unique Dolby Vision metadata, guaranteeing that the Dolby-derived SDR output visually matches the original SDR content. This innovative roundtripping method presents a unified, streamlined, single-source workflow for mastering and distribution.
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Colorfront Streaming Server Awarded Trusted Partner Network Gold Logo Certification
Colorfront is thrilled to announce that the Colorfront Streaming Server has achieved the prestigious Trusted Partner Network (TPN) Gold Logo Certification. This accolade reflects Colorfront's unwavering dedication to upholding the highest levels of security and compliance within the dynamic media and entertainment industry.
Earning the TPN Gold Shield status means that our Streaming Server has successfully passed a rigorous third-party security assessment, conducted by a TPN-accredited assessor. The comprehensive security report is readily accessible to Content Owners via TPN+, ensuring complete transparency and peace of mind.
At Colorfront, we're all about keeping your valuable content secure, safe, and reliable. Join us in celebrating this milestone for a safer and brighter entertainment future!
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Colorfront Transkoder 2023
Colorfront Transkoder 2023 runs on both PC and Mac.
Colorfront Transkoder is the ultimate tool for DCP and IMF mastering,
including: the industy's highest performance JPEG2000 encoding and
decoding, 32-bit floating point processing on multiple GPUs, MXF wrapping,
accelerated checksums and AES encryption and decryption, IMF/IMP and DCI/DCP
package authoring, editing, transwrapping.
Colorist Tim Wreyford and his experience with Colorfront’s Streamer
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Remote grading has become a way of life.
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| Working from his home studio using Colorfront Streamer for live grading/review sessions, Wreyford has successfully worked on major advertising campaigns for clients spread far and wide. These include: Kia, with director Simon Thomas at production company Elastic in Sydney; and a Head & Shoulders commercial, which was attended simultaneously by the director and production team at Elastic from two different locations in Sydney, plus agency executives over in Singapore.
Colorist Tim Wreyford and his experience with Colorfront Streamer
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- Colorfront Streamer enables remote color grading and improved work-life balance for colorist Tim Wreyford.
Grading in Pajamas | Streaming Server at Pharos
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While many parts of post-production can now
be done “on any laptop”, grading still takes
place in a suite - but does it have to be like
this? Wouldn’t it be great if you could stream
a full quality video signal and not have to
send to colorists across the country?
Digital Production interview with Aaron Kuder, Technical Supervisor Imaging at Pharos formerly ARRI Media in Berlin, on how they are using Colorfront Streaming Server to securely stream reference quality color accurate 4K video for grading and QC remotely.
Grading in Pajamas
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We can now react easily and spontaneously in the dailies, grading and QC area, and colleagues can work together on a project across branches.
Aaron Kuder, Technical Supervisor Imaging at Pharos
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- Grading still often takes place in a suite, but Colorfront has created a product that allows streaming of full-quality video signals for remote color grading.
COLORFRONT SUPPORT FOR AWS CDI UNLOCKS NEW POTENTIAL FOR CLOUD-BASED VISUAL EFFECTS AND CONTENT CREATION
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Los Angeles – December 07, 2022 - Colorfront (colorfront.com) – continues to push boundaries and create new ways of efficient working with the announcement that Colorfront Streaming Server now supports AWS Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI) network technology. This pioneering advance unleashes fresh potential for collaborative, cloud-based content creation by enabling digital artists, operating applications that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to conduct live remote sessions or deliver work-in-progress to multiple production stakeholders using reference-quality assets, over the public internet.
Colorfront support for AWS CDI unlocks new potential for cloud-based visual effects and content creation
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Colorfront Transkoder delivers a masterful performance at Annapurna Studios
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The Telugu film industry, also known as ‘Tollywood’, has blossomed to become one of the largest film industries in India, shooting and releasing hundreds of features each year.
CTO CV Rao expalains how Annapurna Studios is harnessing the power of Colorfront Transkoder for deliverables and DCP / IMF mastering needs.
RRR was shot in-and-around the capital city and premiered on over 10,000 screens worldwide, in a large range of multi-language release formats, including IMAX, 3D-stereo and Dolby Cinema. After colour grading the movie, Annapurna Studios struck no fewer than 70 DCP masters for worldwide distribution using Colorfront Transkoder.
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“Transkoder has been a most welcome addition to our mastering facility”
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Colorfront Transkoder delivers a masterful performance at Annapurna Studios
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Streaming Player
Streaming Player is Colorfront's streaming video receiver software, that can decode the encrypt HEVC stream from Streaming Server and Colorfront Transkoder / Dailies products, and which supports professional video output to a variety of displays, from your phone to a 4K Dolby cinema.
You can securely stream from any Colorfront Software including On-Set Dailies, Transkoder, QC Player or Streaming Server (Mini) to multiple remote Streaming Players at the same time.
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Colorfront Streaming Server has opened multiple doors for our team when it comes to working remotely. Throughout the pandemic, our entire dailies workflow relied on the Streaming Server for color-critical evaluation within home working environments. For our finishing teams, Colorfront's solution offers a more robust, color-calibrated, and keenly-priced alternative to other remote collaboration solutions on the market.
Phil Harrelson, VP of US operations at Light Iron in Los Angeles |
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