2020 HPA Tech Retreat

Colorfont will be at the 2020 HPA Tech Retreat from February 17-20, 2020 at the The Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA demoing Express Dailies 2020 on the new MacPro with the XDR display showing realtime 6K HDR dailies directly from 8K camera RAW originals in the Innovation Zone.

Colorfront Blows The Lederhosen Off 4K/6K/8K HDR at HPA 2020

Rancho Mirage, Feb 18, 2020 – Colorfront will showcase the powerhouse capabilities of its products to enable color-consistent 4K/6K/8K SDR/HDR acquisition-to-post workflows during the 2020 HPA Tech Retreat, 17-20 Feb, Rancho Mirage, CA. The company will also participate in the groundbreaking, cloud-based live production of “The Lost Lederhosen” short film, and share details of its pivotal role in the making of this mini-movie during the Retreat’s “HPA Makes A Movie” Supersession on Feb 18th.
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Colorfront Launches Express Dailies 2020 On New Mac Pro With Annual Rental License

Budapest, December 10, 2019 – Colorfront – today announced a new, annual rental model for Colorfront Express Dailies that dramatically reduces the cost of operating the software.

Launching in Q1 2020, Colorfront’s subscription service enables users to rent Express Dailies 2020 for an annual fee. Additionally, the availability of Apple’s brand-new Pro Display XDR, designed for use with the new Mac Pro, makes on-set HDR monitoring, enabled by Colorfront systems, a more financially viable proposition than ever before.
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Colorfront has become a significant ally to our company. It's Transkoder and OSD products form an integral part of our post-production pipeline, making Colorfront a partner we rely on for our day to day operations and future developments. We grew a very healthy relationship with their employees and management through our use of their dailies toolset, their cutting edge color science, and their mastering tools. Their support of our endeavors has been outstanding. In short, our work and the integrity of our output would not be what it is without Colorfront. Zak Tucker, President, Harbor Picture Company

AJA HDR Image Analyzer 12G

AJA HDR Image Analyzer 12G delivers a comprehensive array of tools for the effective analysis of the latest HDR standards – including HLG, PQ and Rec.2020 – from 4K/UltraHD/2K/HD content in a convenient real time 1RU device.

Developed in partnership with Colorfront, AJA HDR Image Analyzer supports a wealth of inputs from camera LOG formats to SDR (REC 709), PQ (ST 2084) and HLG and offers color gamut support for BT.2020 alongside traditional BT.709. AJA hardware prowess ensures high reliability and performance, with 4x 3G-SDI input and output, and DisplayPort connections.

Specifically designed to be used wherever needed, the 1RU form factor fits into a range of environments, providing the confidence you need for consistent and predictable HDR production and mastering.

$19,995 US MSRP
https://www.aja.com/products/hdr-image-analyzer-12g | PDF brochure 1.5 MB

Transkoder Customers

Top facilities from around the world are already using Colorfront Transkoder:

COLORFRONT GOES FASTER AND DEEPER WITH 8K HDR CAMERA-TO-SCREEN WORKFLOWS AT IBC 2019

IBC 2019, Amsterdam, September 13, 2019 – Colorfront – is debuting accelerated 8K capabilities and more expansive HDR toolsets across its product lines during IBC 2019, Amsterdam. The company has also further extended its technology collaborations with AJA and entered into fresh partnerships with other key technology vendors dedicated to delivering streamlined color and HDR workflows from camera-to-screen.
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COLORFRONT ENGINE PRESERVES CREATIVE INTENT FROM CAMERA-TO-DELIVERY AT IBC 2019

IBC 2019, Amsterdam, September 13, 2019 – Colorfront – is focusing on the power of Colorfront Engine™, and its newly-released Colorfront Engine SDK, to enable faithful color management and preserve creative intent at all workflow stages from camera-to-delivery, during IBC 2019 in Amsterdam.
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I have been using the AJA FS-HDR in production for over a year now. Using the built-in color science provided by Colorfront, it allows me to see beautiful and pleasing images out of the camera while monitoring on-set. Additionally, I enjoy the additional features that the FS-HDR provides such as resizing for achieving custom formats or frame lines, as well as the ability to feed multiple signals and monitoring both SDR and HDR simultaneously on the same reference monitor. Because of this, the AJA FS-HDR has become a very valuable tool for most of the projects that I work on. Claudio Miranda, ASC, cinematographer using AJA FS-HDR with Colorfront Engine on-set on Top Gun: Maverick

Colorfront Engine

Advanced color volume remapping tools using the Human Perceptual Model for multiple display mastering maintaining the original creative intent

Maintaining a consistent, creative look across today’s rapidly growing field of new display technologies for television, cinema, and portable devices is an immsense challenge. This is especially true when considering the wide disparity in possible brightness, contrast, and viewing environments. The traditional show LUT based approach of a dedicated finish for each possible combination is not practical. Even if that approach were taken, maintaining creative consistency would be, at best, extremely difficult.

The Colorfront Engine is a state-of-the-art parametric color processing pipeline mapping various input formats, including camera original (scene-referred) and graded (display-referred) images, to a wide range of SDR and HDR output formats at user definable brightness levels and gamuts while maintaining the creative intent. It is based on the extensive knowledge of how our eyes see light, and uses an internal processing color space where the perceived color and tonal relationships are preserved.

Read more about Colorfront Engine

Transkoder in the Cloud

Transkoder runs on GPU enabled nodes on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and works with S3 cloud storage.

Available on-demand - pay by the minute. Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure and Google GCP GPU Instances 32 vCPUs and NVidia GPUs provide local workstation-like performance for encoding Works with cloud storage - encode media directly to and from Amazon S3 and Microsoft Blob storage.

Netflix Post Technology Alliance

Colorfront is committed to working closely with Netflix to innovate production workflows and support creatives globally.

Colorfront Transkoder was used on some of the most iconic Netflix shows to create and deliver the latest 4K HDR Dolby Vision IMF masters to Netflix.

Colorfront Transkoder is a Netflix Post Technology Alliance Product that meets Netflix technical and delivery specifications today and will continue to do so in the future. For more info please see ptap.netflixstudios.com