IBC 2012 | Amsterdam | September 7 – 11, 2012

Colorfront will be showing Express Dailies and On-Set Dailies at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam. Please visit us!


Sony | Booth #12.A10 AJA | Booth #7.F11 Tangent | Booth #7.G35



Colorfront Ships Express Dailies

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Express Dailies sets the bar for functionality and performance for grading and data wrangling in any workflow.

Express Dailies meets the need for a compact, easy-to-use, high-performance on-set, look creation and data wrangling tool. It combines production-proven tools for file-based dailies work – including playback and sync, QC, color grading, audio and metadata management – with state-of-the-art color and image science.

Mac Pro tower and MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Express Dailies is running on the Mac Pro tower as well as the new Retina MacBook Pro, allowing users to choose the best platform for the specific production.


MacBook Pro
with Retina Display
At less than 2kg, Apple's new new MacBook Pro with Retina display is a great mobile dailies platform. And now with CUDA processing running on the NVidia GeForce GT 650M Kepler GPU it provides never before seen image processing performance on a laptop. Realtime F65RAW and ARRIRAW de-Bayering and faster than realtime rendering of various deliverables, Express Dailies offers professional HD-SDI video output through Thunderbolt via AJA Io XT. Additional Thunderbolt connected devices include SxS card reader, or a PCIe expansion chassis for Codex Transfer Station, RED Rocket and LTO.


Mac Pro
The Mac Pro tower offers dual 6-core processors, GPU processing on the Geforce 680, professional video output via AJA Kona 3G, Tangent Devices Element control panel support and space for RED Rocket cards, or connecting to varios external devices including SAS/FC storage, LTO tape drives, Codex Transfer Station, SxS card readers, SONY SRMemory drive, RED Station etc.






Express Dailies Highlights

Easy-to-Use – single, standardized on-set or near-set file based workflow regardless of the camera with a simple drag-and-drop user interface that anyone can use.
64-Bit Performance – runs on Mac Pro tower and MacBook Pro with Retina Display using NVidia GPU. Support for AJA Kona3 and Io XT cards deliver realtime HD video playback and high-quality RAW image de-Bayering, including ARRIRAW and F65RAW.
Extensive Camera Format Support – realtime support for all major RAW formats and the latest digital cinematography cameras from RED, Sony, ARRI, Canon, Phantom, Go Pro, as well as DSLRs.
Faster-than-realtime Deliverables – delivers sound-sync’d, color graded dailies deliverables faster-than-realtime in all formats required for dailies review, post production and archive, including DNxHD 444 for Avid and all ProRes formats for Final Cut, uncompressed DPX, TIFF, OpenEXR, QT, and H264 for web-based dailies and iPad.
On-Set Look Creation – compact location-based look creation for on-set looks, exports and manages 3DLuts to external LUT boxes, including BMD HDLink Pro. Express Dailies supports the IIF/ACES workflow, plus Tangent Devices Element control panel.
QC and Copies – for data management and security of material, Express Dailies creates checksum verified copies to multiple destinations, including LTO5. Includes waveform monitor and histogram analysis tools for QC and integrated PDF QC reporting.

First Express Dailies customers include Technicolor, Deluxe and Light Iron


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