AMSTERDAM—Colorfront is showcasing its latest technology during IBC 2024 with a special focus on its demonstrations of its cloud-based solution for streaming and mastering.

These presentations underscore the power, quality and security of Colorfront's systems by live-streaming SDR/HDR footage processed by Colorfront Transkoder in the cloud. Processing is taking place some 900 miles away in Stockholm, Sweden. Regular hotel broadband is being used for connectivity and results are being presented in real-time, the company said.

The company will also unveil new advancements across its full product portfolio and cloud-based operations. Many are powered by AI, it said.

Colorfront has continued to advance cinema and TV mastering as well as QC mastering with Transkoder and has opened a new chapter in SDR/HDR color workflows with multiple color remapping tools, such as those for SDR to Dolby Vision and DCI to Dolby Vision and HDR Cinema, it said.

Along with tools to adjust HDR Roll-off and correct HLG content, Transkoder’s automated Subtitle Detection tool supports enhanced productivity by enabling users to detect and adjust the luminance of subtitles independently of the background image, for an optimal HDR master, it said.

The new AI-assisted Rolling Credit Detection feature offers improved efficiency as well with the ability to extract the text content of rolling credits, giving users a shortcut to the frequently time-consuming task of updating credits. Transkoder delivers additional automated tools to detect, filter and triage framing issues, such as incorrect/moving mattes, black edge-pixels, dead pixels, sparkle/digital dust as well as black and repeated frames, the company said.

Operability improvements include enhanced timeline marker functionality to accelerate QC workflows, accommodating many types of QC tags and object labels, while new PSNR and DeltaICtCp video comparison tools generate timeline markers to indicate visible differences between versions or re-encoded deliverables, it said.

Additional timeline features for QC tasks include video file comparison, offering a split-view on the reference video output, plus the ability to drag-and-drop media directly onto the timeline. The new comprehensive Media Report PDF includes manually logged and automatically detected problems, featuring a screengrab facility for each issue. DCP validation reports are now formatted as a PDF, too, it said.

The company also has updated its 2024 versions of the Colorfront On-Set Dailies and Express Dailies with new automation and AI-based tools. Workflow automation features include a new Project API that enables automated ingest of dailies cards, QC analysis and deliverables rendering. A redesigned web UI lets users oversee project media and work within a dailies project from a web browser for tasks such as reviewing proxies/metadata, logging QC notes and starting renders, it said.

On-Set Dailies and Express Dailies also benefit from the introduction of AI-based dialog detection and AI-automated slate detection, a custom-developed model that robustly identifies the frame where the slate closes, it said.

See Colorfront at its Okura Hotel suite in Amsterdam.

More information is available on the company’s website.

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.—Colorfront is whetting the appetite of SMPTE attendees with previews of its new UHD and HDR products that it plans to release in 2016, the Transkoder 2016 and On-Set Dailies 2016.

Both the Transkoder 2016 and On-Set Dailies feature the Colorfront Engine, an ACES-complaint, HDR-managed color pipeline that enables on-set look creation and ensures color fidelity of UHD, HDR materials and metadata through the camera-to-post chain. The Colorfront Engine supports the fully dynamic range and color gamut of digital camera formats and is able to map into industry-standard deliverables like IMF specs, AS-11 DPP and HEVC.

Transkoder 2016

Specifically, the Transkoder 2016 features a new mastering toolset with statistical analysis tools for immediate HDR data graphing. Its UHD toolset features tools to concurrently color grade HDR and SDR UHD versions. In addition, the Transkoder can output simultaneous, real-time grades on 4K 60p material to dual Sony OLED BVM-X300 broadcast monitors while visually graphing MaxFALL/MaxCLL light values per frame.

Enhancements to the On-Set Dailies 2016 include support for latest camera formats, the new multi-view dailies capability for concurrent, real-time playback and color-grading of all cameras and camera views.

Colorfront is also premiering file-based transwrapping, allowing video essence data to be passed through the transcoding process without re-encoding, enabling frame-accurate insert editing on closed digital deliverables.

Colorfront is located at booth 311. SMPTE 2015 is currently underway in Los Angeles.