Colorfront Unveils Express Dailies 2016 System

Colorfront is to debut its new Express Dailies 2016 system for UHD and HDR image processing in on-set dailies workflows at Cine Gear Expo 2016.

The solution enables on-set dailies processing of the latest UHD HDR camera, color, editorial and deliverable formats for digital cinema, high-end episodic TV and OTT internet entertainment channels, such as Amazon and Netflix. Express Dailies 2016 also supports Panavision's newly-announced large-format DXL 8K camera.

The advances allow producers, cinematographers and DITs to review original camera material in HDR on-set, rather than having to wait until downstream post-production.

Colorfront Express Dailies is built on the same image-science technology, color grading and management tools that feature in the company's On-Set Dailies.

Express Dailies 2016 harnesses Colorfront Engine, the ACES-compliant, WCG HDR-managed color pipeline, to enable creative on-set look creation and ensure color integrity and dynamic range of UHD HDR dailies/deliverables, with associated metadata, through the entire camera-to-post chain, with support for concurrent SDR/HDR deliverables. The new 64-bit software runs on the Mac Pro and is optimized for HDR UHD/4K@60p display and demonstrations.

Express Dailies already delivers real-time support for all major RAW formats from the latest digital cinematography and DSLR cameras from ARRI, Sony, Canon, RED, Panasonic, GoPro, Blackmagic and Phantom. These are further extended in Express Dailies 2016 to include Panavison's new DXL 8K large-format camera, Sony's new XOCN ST and LT compressed RAW codecs for the F5 and F55, ARRI Alexa 65 RAW and Alexa Mini RAW MXF, Panasonic VariCam VRAW, Canon Cinema Gamut and Log2, RED Weapon 8K and Blackmagic lossless JPEG CinemaDNG.

Analysis tools include HDR waveform monitoring, REC 709 and Rec2020-P3 Wide Color Gamut vectorscope. Colorfront has also supplemented the range of on-set look creation tools in Express Dailies 2016 with the introduction of Grain and Vignette SoftEffect filters.

Elsewhere, Express Dailies 2016 is optimized for fast encoding to the widest range of dailies, editorial and web deliverables, including High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), Avid DNxHR MXF, Apple ProRes wrapped in Quicktime and also MXF, MPEG4 H.264, PIX, DAX, uncompressed DPX, TIFF and OpenEXR formats up to 4K resolution.

Colorfront has also enhanced the audio handling capabilities of Express Dailies 2016 with full support for embedded audio, new audio mix-down and level metering tools, plus further embedded audio tools for WAV broadcast wave audio, stereo and multi-channel.

By using the enhanced CopyCentral facility, users can ingest and securely upload original camera footage, with associated metadata, at greater speeds to a choice of multiple concurrent destinations for archive, including cloud servers and LTFS LTO-tapes, as well as perform and automate a range of key tasks, with extremely fast xxHash checksum verification and fully-featured Media Hash List (MHL) support.

At Cine Gear Expo, Colorfront will also demonstrate its latest work in optimizing Express Dailies 2016 to work with Colorfront Cloud Services, which can enhance productivity through the rapid upload of camera originals, proxies and metadata and the efficient sharing, management and delivery of assets between the various creative stakeholders during production, such as production, editorial and VFX.

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