Colorfront will be at the SMPTE Media Technology Summit 2023 in Hollywood from October 16-19, 2023 on Booth #51 at The SMPTE Spectrum Exhibits.

The SMPTE Spectrum space will be dedicated to the color science of digital cinema. Exhibitors in this space can present groundbreaking solutions for the fields of color management including color grading, reference displays, electronic image sensors and scopes.

We will be demoing our new Colorfront dynamic range expansion tool purpose-designed to help content owners repackage their historic/legacy SDR catalogs of films and TV programming into Dolby Vision HDR masters with corresponding XML metadata, facilitating a newly-derived SDR master that matches the original.

IBC 2023, Amsterdam – Colorfront will present the latest 2023 versions of Transkoder, On-Set Dailies and Streaming Server at IBC 2023 in Amsterdam between September 15-18 at the Okura Hotel.

COLORFRONT DOES IBC 2023… LIVE FROM FRANKFURT‽ PLUS OTHER BREAKING NEWS FROM AMSTERDAM - Colorfront will show the latest implementation of Transkoder on Mac Silicon, featuring new AI and Dolby Vision tools, amongst other technological advances at The Okura Hotel. Colorfront does IBC 2023 | 100 KB

Remote grading has become a way of life.

Working from his home studio using Streaming Server Mini 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’s Streaming Server Mini | 1 MB | 6.8 MB

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 | 2.9 MB

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

• Sub-second latency robust streaming
• 10-bit reference quality HD video
• 8-channels of audio
• SDR/HDR and Dolby Vision
• Dolby Vision tunneling
• 256-bit AES encryption
• uses SRT (Secure Reliable Transport Protocol)
• Multiple remote viewers and collaborators

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 | 108 KB

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.

“Transkoder has been a most welcome addition to our mastering facility”

Colorfront Transkoder delivers a masterful performance at Annapurna Studios | 1 MB

IBC 2022, Amsterdam – Colorfront is reporting a surge in global demand for its live-streaming systems for remote collaboration, as the company showcases new features across the product line at IBC 2022. These include advances to the latest versions of Colorfront Streaming Server, Streaming Server Mini, Streaming Player, Advanced Streaming Gateway and Broker Invitation System.
Colorfront Streaming News at IBC 2022.pdf | 94 KB

The best part about Colorfront Streaming Server is the ability for us to work in our native color space and resolution, and still include our collaborators around the world. I can grade in my theater in 4K XYZ, P3 while my remote collaborators can view a faithful HD Rec.709 representation at the same time. Having the ability to do this on one box has been a game changer.
Alex Bickel, Founder of Color Collective in New York.