COLORFRONT Showcases 8K HDR And Previews Major Product Updates At NAB 2019

Colorfront (www.colorfront.com), the Academy, Emmy and HPA Award-winning developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, broadcast, OTT and commercials, is showcasing brand new, market-leading 8K HDR capabilities and major product updates across its product lines. The company has also deepened its technology partnership with AJA and entered into a new collaboration with Pomfort to bring more efficient color and HDR management on-set.

Colorfront showcases 8K HDR:

Colorfront is showing
Transkoder 2019, which sports a brand new HDR GUI, performing the real-time
decompression/de-Bayer/playback of RED and Panavision DXL2 8K R3D material
displayed on a Samsung 82-inch Q900R QLED 8K Smart TV in HDR and in full 8K
resolution (7680 X 4320). The de-Bayering process is optimized through the
latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards with Turing GPU architecture (also
available on Colorfront On-Set Dailies 2019), with 8K video output (up to 60p)
using AJA Kona5 video cards.

“8K TV sets are becoming
bigger, as well as more affordable, and people are genuinely awestruck when
they see 8K camera footage presented on an 8K HDR display,” said Aron
Jaszberenyi, managing director, Colorfront. “We are actively working with
several companies around the world originating 8K HDR content. Transkoder’s new
8K capabilities – across on-set, post and mastering – demonstrate that 8K HDR is
perfectly accessible to an even wider range of content creators.”

Colorfront ships Transkoder 2019:

Colorfront Transkoder
is recognized as the ultimate post workflow tool for handling the vast range of
UHD, HDR camera, color and editorial/deliverables formats – with recent
customers such as Sky, Pixelogic, The Picture Shop and Hulu adding to its
lengthy global user list.

Powered by a
re-engineered version of Colorfront Engine, and featuring the HDR GUI and
8KHDR workflow, Transkoder 2019 supports the latest camera/editorial formats
including Apple ProRes RAW, Blackmagic RAW, ARRI Alexa LF/Alexa Mini LF and
Codex HDE (High Density Encoding) – which are also in the new 2019 Colorfront
On-Set Dailies and Express Dailies.

Transkoder 2019’s
already formidable mastering toolset has been further expanded to support Dolby
Vision 4.0, as well as Dolby Atmos® for the home with IMF and Immersive Audio
Bitstream capabilities. The new Subtitle Engine 2.0 supports CineCanvas and
IMSC 1.1 rendering, ensuring the preservation of content, timing, layout and
styling. Transkoder can now also package multiple subtitle language tracks into
the timeline of an IMP. Further features support fast and efficient audio QC,
including Solo/Mute of individual tracks on the timeline, and a new render
strategy for IMF packages enabling independent audio and video rendering.

Andy Scade, SVP and
general manager of Pixelogic’s Worldwide Digital Cinema Services, said,

“Colorfront
technology is paramount across our localization and distribution services.
Colorfront tools bring an unparalleled arsenal of advanced technology, helping
us to stay on the cutting edge of content creation. All Colorfront systems
deliver best-in-class capabilities to assist in the ever-evolving world of
deliveries for cinema and the home. Having such advanced capabilities behind
what we offer, is the only way we can deliver to our customers today and into
the future.”

Colorfront Announces On-Set Dailies 2019 and Express Dailies
2019:

For a decade,
Colorfront On-Set Dailies and Express Dailies have prevailed in motion picture
and high-end episodic TV production, due to their powerhouse dailies turnaround
capabilities. At NAB 2019, Colorfront is showing major enhancements to the 2019
versions of both products, which underscore the viability of 4K/8K SDR/HDR
dailies and monitoring on-set.

On-Set Dailies and
Express Dailies both now feature support for ProRes RAW, Blackmagic RAW, ARRI
Alexa LF/Alexa Mini LF and Codex HDE (High Density Encoding). As with
Transkoder 2019, the new version of On-Set Dailies supports realtime 8K HDR
workflow to create a streamlined set-to-post pipeline from HDR playback through
QC and rendering HDR deliverables.

Colorfront supports new AJA FS-HDR 3.0:

AJA Video Systems has
unveiled v3.0 firmware for its FS-HDR real-time HDR/WCG converter and frame
synchronizer. The feature-rich update introduces enhanced coloring tools,
several other improvements for broadcast, on-set, post and proAV HDR production
developed by Colorfront.

A new, integrated
Colorfront Engine Film Mode offers an ACES-based grading and look creation
toolset with ASC Color Decision List (CDL) controls, built-in LOOK selection,
including film emulation looks, as well as variable Output Mastering Nit Levels
for PQ, HLG Extended and P3 colorspace clamp.

Since launching in
2018, FS-HDR has proven a best-seller and been used on a wide range of TV and
live outside broadcast productions. It has also found traction in motion
picture production, including deployment on Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick, shot by Claudio
Miranda ASC.

Colorfront licensed
its HDR Image Analyzer software to AJA for AJA’s HDR Image Analyzer in 2018. A
major new version of AJA HDR Image Analyzer is set for release during Q3 2019.

Colorfront partnership with Pomfort delivers color-accurate
HDR workflows:

Colorfront and Pomfort
have teamed-up to integrate their respective HDR-capable on-set systems. This
collaboration, harnessing Colorfront Engine, will include live CDL reading in
ACES pipelines between Colorfront On-Set/Express Dailies and Pomfort LiveGrade
Pro, giving motion picture productions better control of HDR images while
simplifying their on-set color workflow and dailies processes.

Where to see Colorfront at NAB 2019:

Colorfront
technologies can be seen at: AJA Video Systems (#SL2416) and Pomfort (#C7935).
Invitation-only demos are at ALT Systems (#1530, Renaissance Hotel) and
Colorfront NAB 2019 Suite (#832, The Renaissance Hotel).