Colorfront To Preview 4K And UHDTV At IBC2013

Academy and Emmy Award-winning developer Colorfront is to preview new advances for 4K and Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) production and post production at IBC2013 (c/o AJA 7.F11, Tangent 7.G33 and Sony 12.A10).
Colorfront On-Set Dailies is used across Hollywood production suppliers, motion pictures and TV dramas.
With On-Set Dailies 2014, Colorfront introduces accelerated CPU and GPU processing of HD/2K/4K video via NVIDIA's latest Quadro K6000, Tesla K20 and GeForce GTX Titan cards, as well as support for AJA Corvid Ultra with simultaneous HD/4K/UHDTV high framerate (HFR) video output.
On-Set Dailies 2014 sports an improved grading toolset with new primary and selective grading tools, the introduction of masks and curves, with mapping for third party control panels, such as those from Tangent. Playback and review tools are enhanced with new timeline and editing features, plus extended Bin and Lookstore functionality.
"Digital high-end features and episodic TV shows rely on Colorfront dailies systems because of their superior performance. They cost-effectively streamline camera-to-post and VFX workflows, and ensure the integrity of color pipelines and associated metadata," says Colorfront managing director Aron Jaszberenyi.
"The latest advances in maximizing CPU/GPU performance, support for the latest high-end camera and deliverable formats, and significant improvements to the user-experience, will keep Colorfront at the vanguard of the marketplace."
On-Set Dailies 2014 also features extended audio and video format support. This includes embedded audio on Sony F55, ARRIRAW, RED, Quicktime and MXF footage, rendering of DCPs, IMF AS-02 MXF, and support for the very latest HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) H.265 video compression formats.
Express Dailies 2014 extends support across brand new MacPro, iMac and MacBook Pro platforms, using the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan and AMD FirePro graphics cards for 4K video display, 4K deBayer and 4K deliverables. For VFX plate pulls, the new version also supports the export of 2K/3K/4K/5K and 6K DPX, TIFF and EXR file formats.
Other features include a new timeline user interface and editing features, LUT import/export, waveform and vectorscope, 2K ProRes output and live grading.
On-Set Live!, Colorfront's live grading feature, is included in On-Set Dailies 2014 with support for external 3DLUT boxes, such as Pandora Pluto and improved burn-in capabilities for timecode, watermarks, camera and lens metadata, including colour temperature, ISO, focus and zoom parameters.
Transkoder is Colorfront's standalone, automated system for digital file conversion, used by studios and VFX and post facilities involved in digital cinema and TV production.
Transkoder 2014 will be shown running on both Mac and PC platforms, online editing RAW film data, converting to various output formats, as well as colour grading and rendering a range of 2K/4K/UHDTV material in various high-end delivery and mezzanine formats.
Among the new features in Transkoder 2014 are a new user interface, a multi-track timeline, EDL conform editing tools, support for subtitling, automatic watch folder processing and extended support for CinemaDNG, R3D, ARRIRAW, F65/F55, Canon C500 and Phantom camera formats, and deliverables including DCPs, IMF AS-02 and HEVC.
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