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“The connection and design of the
facilities will empower collaboration,”
Hanson continues. “When there are tight
turnarounds, creative changes and advancing
deliveries, this will be a great value-add
for the creative process.”
For additional information, visit
www.spypost.com.
applications that support QuickTime TimeCode
Tracks.
Additional capabilities of Cali-
CinePostproduction Gets into
On-Set Dailies
CinePostproduction has introduced
Copra, an app that allows users to play back
color-graded, sound-synced 1080p H.264
dailies on their iPads. Copra integrates
seamlessly with Colorfront’s On-Set Dailies,
offering features such as built-in notes,
graphical annotations and access to
comments from the QC report.
The Copra app on the iPad connects
wirelessly to a local Copra Server that runs
on OSD to provide high-quality HD streaming
dailies within minutes of wrapping.
For additional information, visit
www.copra.de.
Calibrated Software Encodes
AVC-Intra
Calibrated Software has released
Calibrated{Q} AVC-Intra Encode, a QuickTime
Encode codec that enables exporting
of up to 10-bit compressed AVC-Intra .MOV
files from PC- and Mac-based applications
that support QuickTime.
The codec also introduces a Post-
Encode feature that lets users embed Final
Cut Pro X metadata such as ReelName,
Scene and Location information, and a Clip
Memo into an AVC-Intra .MOV file after
encoding. Once embedded, this information
can be readily seen when imported into
Final Cut Pro X. Additionally, the PostEncode
feature allows users to insert new
time code via a TimeCode Track in the AVCIntra
.MOV file; the track can be seen by
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brated{Q} AVC-Intra Encode include YUV
conversion from either SMPTE RGB or fullrange
RGB, support for 8/10-bit YUV 4:2:2
color space, support for 8/16-bit RGB color
space, 100Mb or 50Mb I-frame AVC-Intra
compression at industry-standard resolutions
and frame rates, and a variety of
gamma-correction settings.
“Many PC professionals want to
work with 10-bit compressed media, but
they may not be able to easily hand off 10bit
compressed media to Mac professionals,”
says Greg Booth, president of Calibrated
Software. “This new codec solves
this workflow hurdle for customers who are
using Adobe After Effects or Adobe
Premiere Pro CS5/CS6 applications on the
PC so that they can now export AVC-Intra
.MOV files, which can easily be imported
into Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or Apple Final
Cut Pro X. It also opens up additional
encoding options for customers using
Colorfront Launches
Express Dailies
Colorfront has introduced Express
Dailies, a high-performance and easy-to-use
dailies tool for commercials, motion picture
and television production workflows.
Express Dailies is based on the imagescience
technology and color-grading and
management tools featured in Colorfront’s
On-Set Dailies system. It delivers integrated,
production-proven tools for dailies work —
including playback and sync, QC, color grading,
audio and metadata management —
with state-of-the-art color and image
science, and simultaneous deliverables in all
common file formats.
To optimize performance, the 64-bit
software runs on the Mac OSX platform and
supports Nvidia Cuda GPU processing.
Express dailies delivers real-time raw support
for all major raw formats and the latest digital
cameras, including Red Epic, Sony F65,
ArriRaw, Canon C300 and C500, Phantom,
GoPro and DSLRs. HD previews can be
enabled through the addition of Red Rocket
cards. Users can quality-check imagery using
waveform monitor and histogram analysis
tools. Additional highlights include a simple
graphical user interface, and data and
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Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro
CS5/CS6, Compressor 3.5/4, or Apple Final
Cut Pro 7/X on the Mac.”
For additional information, visit
www.calibratedsoftware.com.
GoPro Partners with Technicolor
GoPro and Technicolor have collabo-
rated to embed Technicolor’s CineStyle color
profile in GoPro’s free Protune firmware
upgrade for the HD Hero2 camera. Certified
by Technicolor and developed by GoPro, the
Protune firmware upgrade offers users a
flexible and improved workflow for seamless
integration with other source material
archival management.
Output-format options include
DNxHD 444 for Avid editorial; ProRes for
Final Cut; and uncompressed DPX, TIFF,
OpenEXR, QuickTime and H.264 for webbased
dailies services and Apple devices. 4K
raw images can be saved as still images and
dailies can be streamed in full HD, via a
bundled server to Copra, a free-of-charge
iPad application available in the App Store.
The image-processing capabilities of
Express Dailies include support for the
IIF/ACES workflow, as well as high-quality
raw image deBayering, color grading, image
resizing and a range of burn-in/watermarking
options.
For data management and security of
material, Express Dailies delivers logged
checksum copies to LTO and multiple drives,
and integrated PDF WC reporting, tying
together copy, archive and physical inventory
control.
Colorfront has also announced the
first multi-license purchase of Express Dailies
by Hollywood-based post facility Light Iron,
who will integrate Express Dailies across its
entire range of Outpost mobile systems.
For additional information, visit
www.colorfront.com.
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