COLORFRONT LAUNCHES NEW QC PLAYER FOR COST-EFFECTIVE UHD HDR QUALITY CONTROL

Colorfront announces QC Player, a brand new, cost-effective system enabling post and studio facilities to perform essential quality control tasks on Ultra High Definition (UHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) content.
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The new software is powered by Colorfront Engine™ to ensure color and metadata fidelity, and harnesses powerful monitoring, analysis and validation tools that feature in Colorfront Transkoder, to enable quality control on a wide range of realtime UHD/HDR/WCG content.

Colorfront QC Player delivers real-time support for all major RAW UHD HDR formats from the latest digital cinematography and DSLR cameras. These include: Alexa ARRIRAW – both MXF-wrapped and .ARI files; Codex High Density Encoded .arx files; Panasonic VariCam 4K VRAW and Panasonic AVC-Intra; Sony Venice, F55 and F65 RAW, XAVC and X-OCN; Blackmagic BRAW; Canon RAW; RED R3D; Apple ProRes RAW; plus DPX and TIF sequences from scanned sources. It also supports playback of JPEG 2000 content, including DCPs (2D and stereo, encrypted, with subtitles) and IMF packages, such as lossless/high-bit-rate UHD Dolby Vision mezzanine masters with dynamic metadata and Dolby CMU control.

For essential UHD HDR image analysis tasks, QC Player includes waveform, vectorscope, histogram, split-screen, colour gamut and light-level metering tools. It features framing guide overlays for title/text/logos/graphics safe areas, plus image reframing and burn-in/watermarking tools. QC Player also comes with audio tools supporting embedded audio, WAV files and up to 24-channel audio output.

“More and more, HDR is a fact of life for post facilities around the world,” said Bruno Munger, Director of Business Development at Colorfront. “Colorfront QC Player delivers a convenient solution, with a broad, robust toolset, to perform essential QC and verification tasks on HDR footage, while avoiding the financial penalty of investing in separate 4K/UHD HDR-capable video monitoring and analysis hardware solutions, which can run into the many ten of thousands of dollars.”