Colorfront On-Set Dailies

[jaszber]

Colorfront On-Set Dailies is in beta.

The software won TVBEurope's Best of IBC Editor's Awards and runs on Windows 7 and Mac OS X.

Main Features:

• R3D , ARRIRAW, ProRes, uncompressed DPX and QT format support
• REDGamma2, REDColor2 support
• RED Rocket support for realtime playback through HD-SDI
• Dual RED Rocket support for stereo R3D material
• Stereoscopic tools including automatic color matching and corner pinning
• DNxHD MXF, ProRes QT, H.264, MPEG2, Blu-Ray, DVD deliverables
• Sound sync based on TC, smart slate recognition and clap detection
• Multiple Burn-ins including logos, watermarks and various metadata
• Faster than real-time encoding of multiple deliverables
• Real-time GPU debayering of ARRIRAW
• Tangent Wave panel support

For more info visit us at facebook.com/colorfront/
or email info@colorfront.com

 

[Paul Lee]

Hmm, looks interesting. Can you please comment on availability and pricing?

PS- real names please

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I think 40K was mentioned a lot just after IBC...

 

[Dustin Cross]

$40k for software only?


Dusty

 

[jake blackstone]

Colorfront has an impressive resume and a design pedigree. They are pretty much responsible for the concept of modern file based color grading. Lustre and to a lesser degree, Scratch are direct ascendants of original Colorfront design. Said that, $40k for software, when Storm is right around the corner...

 

[Ansgar Krützmann]

I´m currently doing the dailies on the System up in northern Norway for a 4.5K feature film - I´m really in love with the simplicity and speed of the software. Feel free to ask about details...

 

[Chris Parker]

is it available on Mac right now?

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I´m currently doing the dailies on the System up in northern Norway for a 4.5K feature film - I´m really in love with the simplicity and speed of the software. Feel free to ask about details...

That's interesting!

What's your setup?
What about stability?
Does it have conform functionality?

 

[jake blackstone]

I´m currently doing the dailies on the System up in northern Norway for a 4.5K feature film - I´m really in love with the simplicity and speed of the software. Feel free to ask about details...

How does it compare in functionality to Storm?
What operating system does it use?
Does it allow to use a control panel?

 

[Jesse Korosi]

This is a video that was released from IBC 2010.
Looks incredible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHRrKVUQJQ

 

[jaszber]

Can you please comment on availability and pricing?
The system has been used in production on major studio features for over two years at Colorfront's post facility in Budapest and on various features on-set. Over a dozen systems are now used in production by leading post facilities world-wide. Both the PC and the Mac versions are available for evaluation / closed beta testing.

What operating system does it use?
The software runs on Windows 7 and Mac OS X. The supported hardware configurations are the 12-core HP Z800 with Quadro 6000 or Tesla C2050 CUDA GPU plus a Quadro 4000 preview board on the PC and the Mac Pro with Quadro 4000 for Mac. Red Rocket or DVS Atomix for HD-SDI out.

Does it allow to use a control panel?
The system currently supports the Tangent Wave panel with the Tangent CP200 in development.

Does it have conform functionality?
The software can conform a simple CMX3600 EDL with cuts.

How does it compare in functionality to other systems ?
The software works with uncompressed DPX as well as other camera RAW formats directly and allows faster-than realtime encoding of multiple deliverables, each with its unique LUT, letterboxing, burn-ins etc.
It is mainly aimed at studios, labs, post houses and high-end productions that need to deliver hours of color graded, sound-sync dailies with multiple deliverables.

For more information, please visit On-Set Dailies at facebook.com/colorfront

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Aron Jaszberenyi
Colorfront
www.colorfront.com
info@colorfront.com

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Sounds a bit like what Storm aims to do at under 400 BP... And where f. ex. Keyframe has come quite far...

Can colorfront export xmls?

What is really needed is the conformcapacity of the RCX/Clipfinder bundle pared with format independence (Clipfinder is format agnostic, but only can apply LUTs to Alexa stuff, no real pre-grade...) + sync'ing and rock solid conform capacity.

The reason I want xml support is that then you can make batch exports of rough-cut XML sequences for online, which is an issue I seem to stumble upon really often. The manual naming and export of EXR's for VFX online is quite a time-consuming experience...

The pricepoint of the software is not unimportant either...

Any thoughts on this?

Edit:
You will have to register with your real name, and probably be a reduser sponsor if you want to promote your product here, or you'll risk banning pretty soon...