FilmLight has announced the introduction of FilmLight Remote, providing post-houses and colorists with the ability to work remotely without sacrificing the high-quality and low-latency monitoring that is essential for fast and efficient workflows.
In many ways grading suites are the last relics of the way that post-production used to be done: expensive, client-attended, dedicated spaces dripping with expensive hardware. FilmLight Remote, though, is available now to Baselight 6.0 users and decouples even a high-end tool such as Baselight from their typical suite-located home. And it does it while maintaining the speed and responsiveness high-end grading requires.
“In today’s post-production environment, there is an increasing call for remote working, whether you work on dailies, editing, VFX or finishing,” says Martin Tlaskal, Head of Development at FilmLight. “But the world of color correction has its own particular challenges and previous offerings have been limited in terms of the ability to drive both the color grading control surfaces and the monitoring of high-quality images with low latency. FilmLight Remote addresses this by offering the first complete Remote grading solution without sacrificing quality or speed.”
FilmLight Remote allows you to integrate a FilmLight control surface, UI monitors, mouse and keyboard with professional monitoring over the internet. The Baselight or Daylight can run HP Anyware or Amazon DCV to provide the Remote end with multiple UI monitors up to 4K. At the same time, an SRT video connection is made to provide a high-quality video stream (supporting JPEG-XS and H265) to the Remote system, where the FilmLight desk service can also provide support for the Slate, Blackboard Classic or Blackboard 2 control panels.
Remote also supports the increasing interest from facilities to host equipment off premise, in a data centre or in the cloud. A thin-client system can be used to stream the UI from the Baselight or Daylight system, and handle the control surfaces. The video stream is received by the thin-client, or the FilmLight Remote server which can be used to receive up to 4x UltraHD video streams – converting them to SDI to interface with existing SDI routing infrastructure.
And, of course, FilmLight Remote also opens up the possibility to work seamlessly from home or other remote sites without the need for any extra hardware encoders or decoders.
Coffee & TV in London was also part of the Remote beta programme and is now running Remote on a regular basis, with Baselight now located off-premise in a data centre.
“The highest compliment we can give is that you’d never know the Baselight wasn’t in the building — it works seamlessly,” says Lewis Crossfield, Senior Colorist.