Colorfront Launches Express Dailies 2020 On New Mac Pro With Annual Rental License

Budapest, December 10, 2019 – Colorfront – today announced a new, annual rental model for Colorfront Express Dailies that dramatically reduces the cost of operating the software.

Launching in Q1 2020, Colorfront’s subscription service enables users to rent Express Dailies 2020 for an annual fee. Additionally, the availability of Apple’s brand-new Pro Display XDR, designed for use with the new Mac Pro, makes on-set HDR monitoring, enabled by Colorfront systems, a more financially viable proposition than ever before.
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Powerful mobile post-production system

Express Dailies is a powerful and easy to use mobile post-production system for transcoding, archiving, QC and deliverables, Express Dailies sets the bar for functionality and performance, based on Colorfront’s industry leading image science technology and color tools.

Express Dailies aids DITs worldwide in the grading, data wrangling and encoding workflow for commercials, film and television production and is built on the same technology as Colorfront On-Set Dailies, the leading dailies system for Hollywood features and primetime episodic television.

Express Dailies 2019 User Guide.pdf | 53.6MB

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.

Express Dailies Highlights

Easy-to-Use

single, standardized on-set or near-set file based workflow regardless of the camera with a simple drag-and-drop user interface that anyone can use.

64-Bit Performance

runs on the new Mac Pro tower and iMac. Support for AJA Kona5 and Io4K cards deliver realtime 4K video playback and high-quality RAW image de-Bayering, including ARRIRAW and Venice and ProRes RAW.

Extensive Camera Format Support

realtime support for all major RAW formats and the latest digital cinematography cameras from RED, Sony, ARRI, Canon, Phantom, Go Pro, as well as DSLRs.

Faster-than-realtime Deliverables

delivers sound-sync’d, color graded dailies deliverables faster-than-realtime in all formats required for dailies review, post production and archive, including DNxHD 444 for Avid and all ProRes formats for Final Cut, uncompressed DPX, TIFF, OpenEXR, QT, and H264 for web-based dailies and iPad.

On-Set Look Creation

compact location-based look creation for on-set looks, exports and manages 3DLuts to external LUT boxes, including BMD HDLink Pro. Express Dailies supports the IIF/ACES workflow, plus Tangent Devices Element control panel.

QC and Copies

for data management and security of material, Express Dailies creates checksum verified copies to multiple destinations, including LTO5. Includes waveform monitor and histogram analysis tools for QC and integrated PDF QC reporting.

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Express Dailies is running on the new Mac Pro as well as the cylinder Mac Pro with D500 or D700 GPUs and the iMac, allowing users to choose the best platform for the specific production.

new Mac Pro	The new Mac Pro offers upto 28-core processor, upto 2x AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo GPUs, professional SDI video output via AJA Kona5. With the new 6K Pro Display XDR monitor, Express Dailies supports 6K HDR dailies. Apple Mac Pro
27" iMac	The 27" iMac is a great Express Dailies platform. It offers a 2560-by-1440 resolution non-reflective LED back-lit display, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB memory, and upto 3.5 GHz Quad-core intel i7 processor. Connect Thunderbolt RAID for storage, and work with RAW camera formats with faster-than-realtime rendering.