Colorfront Introduces Expre Dailies at NAB 0

COLORFRONT INTRODUCES EXPRESS DAILIES AT NAB 2012 New cost-effective system supports grading and data wrangling workflows for commercials, motion picture and TV productions NAB 2012, Las Vegas, April 16, 2012 - Academy Award-winning developer Colorfront (www.colorfront.com) today announced Express Dailies, a high-performance, affordable and easy-to-use dailies tool for commercials, motion picture and TV production workflows. Express Dailies is based on the leading image-science technology, color grading and management tools that feature in the company's renowned On-Set Dailies system, used on major Hollywood features and primetime episodic TV shows. Express Dailies is designed to meet the need of productions for a simple, cost-effective color grading and data wrangling tool, but with leading edge features and performance. Colorfront Express Dailies delivers integrates 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 the delivery of simultaneous faster-than-realtime deliverables in all common file formats. Highlights of Express Dailies include a simple GUI, for users such as DITs or camera assistants, realtime RAW support for the very latest digital cameras, faster-than-realtime deliverables in multiple formats, plus data and archival management. Aron Jaszberenyi, managing director of Colorfront, said, Express Dailies is an exciting new addition to Colorfront's family of dailies and back-end workflow systems for feature, television and commercials production. It gives them access to a set of leading edge features with the same market-leading performance of our On-Set Dailies system, which has gained such a dominant market position. To optimize performance, the new 64-bit software runs on the Mac OSX platform, and supports NVidia CUDA GPU processing. Express Dailies delivers realtime RAW support for all major RAW formats, including Red Epic, Sony F65RAW, ARRIRAW, Canon C500 RAW, Phantom, Go Pro, and DSLRs, such as the Canon 5DMkIII. HD previews can be enabled through the addition of RED Rocket cards. Users can quality-check imagery using waveform monitor and histogram analysis tools. Output-format options for Avid editorial include DNxHD 444 and all ProRes for Final Cut, uncompressed DPX, TIFF, OpenEXR, QuickTime as well as H264 for web-based 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 at the App Store. The image-processing capabilities of Express Dailies include support for the IIF/ACES workflow, and high-quality RAW image de-Bayering, 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 QC reporting, tying together copy, archive, and physical inventory control. Colorfront at NAB 2012 Colorfronts On-Set Dailies will be presented by several key industry partners at NAB 2012, 14 - 19 April, Las Vegas, NV:

ALT Systems | Renaissance Hotel

BandPro | Booth #C10308

Canon | Booth #C4325

Codex Digital | Booth #C9811

DotHill | Booth #SL13405

Sony | Booth #C11001

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