Colorfront adds new features across range

Colorfront has had a busy IBC with a significant amount of new features and capabilities across its various dailies/transcoding/streaming systems.

Colorfront has new connectivity and image-processing capabilities across its Express Dailies, On-Set Dailies and Transkoder systems. Tl;dr: these include streamlined integration into NDI and IMF component-based media workflows, expanded support for AWS cloud storage and the latest digital camera/audio formats, plus new timeline editorial/user-interface tools.

So, in a bit more detail, Express Dailies, On-Set Dailies and Transkoder now all feature 16-bit NDI video output, while for cloud-based operations all products have been optimized for faster import/load of media on AWS S3 cloud storage, something especially useful for IMF component-based workflows.

Colorfront also says it continues working closely with Adobe-owned Frame.io, to integrate its Dallies and Transkoder products into Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud initiative, including improvement on connectivity and new support for OAuth 2 latest secure authentication for ease of use.

Keeping pace with everything, Colorfront systems feature support for the brand new ARRI ALEXA 35 and RED V-RAPTOR XL 8K VV cameras, with Mac Studio M1 Ultra-based Express Dailies and On-Set Dailies systems  both delivering accelerated performance through Apple Metal optimization.

Other upgrades include improved handling of camera lens metadata and enhanced High-Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) for IMF. Color pipeline capabilities are powered by a newly-updated Colorfront Engine, plus there is also full support for ACES viewing pipelines via ACES 1.3, the latest Academy Color Encoding System and advanced interoperability with third party application with ACES Metadata File (AMF).

Transkoder also has new export capabilities for Dolby Vision HEVC (Profile 5 & 8.1) using Dolby Encoding Engine, together with Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos content as deliverable options for HEVC encoders, as well as quality assurance tools for Dolby Atmos spatial audio technology.

Elsewhere, the company has also made tweaks to its various increasingly popular streaming products. New features for its 1RU Streaming Server include multi-channel NDI support with web-based multi-user server control, while Streaming Server Mini is a brand new, software-only product for Mac/PC workstations, that also now features an NDI interface and allows creative digital artists to live-stream material directly from popular NLE, compositing and color grading systems without the need for additional hardware.