Colorfront has announced a series of updates to its product suite, aimed at providing enhanced experiences in mastering, quality control (QC), dailies and remote collaboration workflows.
The company’s Transkoder solution has been upgraded to provide content owners with tools for converting DCDM/DCP masters to Dolby Vision, auto-detection for bright titles that may need to be managed separately from other content, read/write support for ProRes with alpha channel, and integration support for varying workflows, from fully automated to operator-managed, said the company.
Transkoder now offers a way to convert standard SDR assets into Dolby Vision HDR masters with corresponding XML metadata, from which Dolby Vision SDR masters can also be created that match and preserve the original creative intention. Augmenting AI capabilities already integrated into Transkoder, such as object detection and speech recognition for multi-language SRT subtitling from audio tracks, Colorfront has introduced AI vision-analysis tools to assist master QC operations with detecting framing anomalies, dead pixels, bright titles and sparkles.
The company’s Colorfront Engine has been updated to further optimise colour volume remapping and the rendering of extreme colours in new digital cameras, including the ARRI Alexa 35 and Sony Burano. Along with its own product line, Colorfront Engine is also integrated into AJA’s FS-HDR and Colorbox converters for colour-managed workflows in broadcast, live events and on-set applications.
Colorfront’s On-Set Dailies and Express Dailies support the latest digital camera formats, including Sony Burano and ARRI Alexa 35, and feature augmented capabilities for ACES 1.3 workflows, tools for retiming HFR (high-frame-rate) clips, with new APIs and corresponding web interfaces for automation, said the company.
Mark Jaszberenyi, CEO of Colorfront said, “We are known for innovation and our focus on enabling customers to work more efficiently as well as leveraging new opportunities for their existing content while supporting innovative visual experiences. Colorfront is at the forefront of this transformative era in digital entertainment with tools that give creators the potential to realise their creative visions.”
