About

Colorfront is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, with offices in Los Angeles,USA. The company’s popular, award-winning on-set dailies and transcoding systems are utilized by small, medium and large companies alike, to process and de liver media for Hollywood blockbusters, high-end episodic TV and OTT internet entertainment. The firm was founded in 2000 by Mark and Aron Jaszberenyi, who were instrumental in the advent of non-linear DI color grading. Combining in-depth expertise in image color science with a pedigree in cutting-edge software development, the company’s R&D team earned an Academy Award in 2010
for Lustre, Autodesk’s DI grading system, and a Primetime Engineering Emmy in 2012 for Colorfront On-Set Dailies. Colorfront has since become renowned for the innovation, excellence and performance of its camera-to-post products, which include On-Set Dailies, Express Dailies and Transkoder. The company has leveraged its technology to successfully offer Colorfront Cloud Services, and also owns and operates a state-of-the-art DI and post-production facility, of the same name, in Budapest.

Products

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Colorfront Transkoder is based on Colorfront’s award-winning on-set dailies architecture and uses cost-effective hardware to deliver faster-than-real-time processing to transcode, decode, convert, wrap and process files to various high-end file formats.

Colorfront Transkoder is a Netflix Production Technology Alliance Product that meets Netflix technical and delivery specifications.

The Production Technology Alliance recommends products that have met Netflix’s technical and workflow requirements, providing the highest level of innovation, support, and customer service.

FEATURES:

  • Industry-leading IMF, DCP, AS-02 mastering, authoring, validation, and QC tool.
  • Colorfront Engine – Perceptual color mapping to any target display, for preview or remastering.
  • Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.
  • Running on off-the-shelf workstation, no obsolescence-prone, proprietary hardware.
  • Available on PC, Mac and Amazon AWS.
  • Highest quality RAW deBayering from any camera from AJA Cion to ALEXA65.
  • Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos – advanced tools for QC, mastering and localization.
  • Unmatched performance state of the art multi-GPU image processing engine.
  • 4K DCP/UHD IMF and HEVC encoding at 100+ FPS.
  • API, Watch Folder and Web Form based automation.
 

BENEFITS:

  • Industry-leading IMF, DCP, AS-02 mastering, authoring, validation, and QC tool.
  • Colorfront Engine – Perceptual color mapping to any target display, for preview or remastering.
  • Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.

Colorfront On-Set Dailies is an innovative, state-of-the-art digital processing system that streamlines set-to-post workflows for color grading, high-resolution playback, audio sync, and media and metadata management.

Colorfront On-Set Dailies offers faster than real-time performance, a major reason why it’s been adopted by major Hollywood studios, labs, and post-production facilities throughout the US and Europe.

And because Colorfront partners with high-end digital cinema camera manufacturers, On-Set Dailies always supports the latest capture formats, including ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, Phantom camera systems.

FEATURES:

  • Unprecedented Processing Speed – the industry’s fastest solution for acquisition, syncing, logging and rendering turnaround, 100+ fps rendering, and R3D CPU playback without GPU accelerated RED processing.
  • Ease of Use – Advanced-design UI for metadata logging, VTRoll creation and one-touch audio syncing simplifies tedious tasks. Integrated checksum verified copying, QC, media management and archive.
  • ACES and Colorfront engine workflows – use advanced color grading tools and manage color pipelines with ASC CDL, CCC, ARRI Look Files, automatic 3D LUT import, and integrated live camera grading, HDR deliverables and monitoring.
  • Production Proven – On-Set Dailies is a complete system successfully used in on-set and facility workflows, and backed by a highly responsive development and support team.
  • UHD & 4k support – On-Set Dailies supports the Latest digital cinematography cameras for realtime playback in UHD and 4k, including support for high frame rate projects.
 

BENEFITS:

  • Unprecedented Processing Speed – the industry’s fastest solution for acquisition, syncing, logging and rendering turnaround, 100+ fps rendering, and R3D CPU playback without GPU accelerated RED processing.
  • Ease of Use – Advanced-design UI for metadata logging, VTRoll creation and one-touch audio syncing simplifies tedious tasks. Integrated checksum verified copying, QC, media management and archive.
  • ACES and Colorfront engine workflows – use advanced color grading tools and manage color pipelines with ASC CDL, CCC, ARRI Look Files, automatic 3D LUT import, and integrated live camera grading, HDR deliverables and monitoring.

Colorfront’s QC Player is a high-speed, cost-effective quality control playback solution for Ultra High Definition (UHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) content.

Colorfront’s QC Player is an essential tool for studios and post facilities because it maximizes performance of NVidia GEForce 2080TI GPU graphics cards in ALT Systems’ custom-configured Supermicro and HP Z8 workstations.

With AJA’s Kona 5 I/O card, QC Player supports realtime output up to 8k @ 60fps. QC Player also supports external control panels from BUF Technology and Tangent.

FEATURES:

  • Waveform, Vectorscope, and Histogram for SDR and HDR media.
  • Split-Screen For Confidence Check.
  • Preview Object Audio On 2.0, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4 Speaker Setups.
  • Manual QC Tagging and PDF Report Generation.
  • Dolby Vision Metadata Inspection, ECMU Soft Proofing.
  • Color Gamut and Light-Level Metering Tools.
  • Audio Level and Phase Metering.
  • Inspection of File Metadata.
  • 4K DCP/UHD IMF and HEVC encoding at 100+ FPS.
  • IMF and Encrypted DCP Playback and Validation.
 

BENEFITS:

  • Waveform, Vectorscope, and Histogram for SDR and HDR media.
  • Split-Screen For Confidence Check.
  • Preview Object Audio On 2.0, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4 Speaker Setups.

Colorfront Express Dailies is a powerful and easy to use mobile post-production system for transcoding, archiving, QC and deliverables for commercials, film and television production.

Colorfront Express Dailies sets the bar for functionality and performance with Colorfront’s industry leading image science technology and color tools.

FEATURES:

  • Fully Rounded Toolset – from data wrangling, checksum verified copying, sound sync, color grading, archival and rendering deliverables, Express Dailies has all the tools you need for a complete data lab.
  • Simultaneous Faster-than-Real-Time Deliverables – in all common file formats.
  • Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.
  • Extreme Performance – gets the job done faster allowing you to walk away from the set with complete dailies done.
  • Easy to Use and Learn – with a drag & drop interface so camera crews can deliver soundsync color graded dailies in multiple formats within minutes.
  • Return On Investment – robust, proven toolset at an affordable price for both ownership or rental.
 

BENEFITS:

  • Fully Rounded Toolset – from data wrangling, checksum verified copying, sound sync, color grading, archival and rendering deliverables, Express Dailies has all the tools you need for a complete data lab.
  • Simultaneous Faster-than-Real-Time Deliverables – in all common file formats.
  • Complete IIF-ACES Workflow – maintains color accuracy for digital production and post integrated quality control.

Colorfront Engine is a state-of-the-art parametric color processing pipeline mapping various input formats, including camera original (scene-referred) and graded (display-referred) images, to a wide range of SDR and HDR output formats at user definable brightness levels and gamuts while maintaining the creative intent. By utilizing the knowledge of how the human visual system works, the perceptual model, processing source content to fit a given display’s brightness and surround can be applied while maintaining the original creative intent with little to no trimming.