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Contents of the user manual for the Colorfront Express Dailies
- Product category: Video Editing Colorfront
- Brand: Colorfront
- Description and content of package
- Technical information and basic settings
- Frequently asked questions – FAQ
- Troubleshooting (does not switch on, does not respond, error message, what do I do if...)
- Authorized service for Colorfront Video Editing
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Product description Colorfront's Express Dailies is a high-performance on-set or near-set file-based dailies system for commercials, film, and high-end TV productions. Express Dailies is based on the image science technology, high-performance processing engine, and color grading and management tools featured in Colorfront's Emmy Award winning On-Set Dailies system, used in big-budget Hollywood features and episodic TV shows.
Express Dailies combines production-proven tools for dailies work with sophisticated yet simple-to-use color science to deliver simultaneous, faster than real-time results in all common file formats.
Express Dailies is a complete solution for digital color management and processing, featuring a simple drag and drop workflow for high-resolution grading, transcoding, archiving, QC, and encoding. Note: Your download will provide you with the most recent version of Express Dailies. - Key Features
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- Drag and drop user interface
- Multiple RAW / uncompressed source formats
- On-Set Live look creation
- Copy Central ingest and archive
- Color grading, CDL, ARRI Alexa.look file support
- Flexible 32-bits per channel image processing pipeline
- IIF / ACES workflow with OpenEXR file format support
- Ultra high performance rendering
- HD deliverables with different burn-ins, watermark
- Simultaneous creation of multiple delivery formats: DNxHD MXF, ProRes QT, H264, DPX, OpenEXR
- Sound syncing, multiple metadata burn-ins
- Built-in waveform and histogram analysis tools
- Checksum verified copy / manifest and LTO archival
- COPRA streaming iPad dailies
- High Performance
- Runs on Mac Pro tower and MacBook Pro with Retina Display using NVIDIA GPU. Provides RAW image de-bayering and support for AJA Kona3 and Io XT cards for real-time HD video playback.
- Native 64-bit application, fully multi-threaded for multi-core CPUs
- Real-time playback of RAW camera formats with highest quality
- 32 bits per channel, floating point image processing in GPU
- Source Media & Camera Formats
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- Canon C500 4K RAW
- Sony F65 RAW, F55 RAW, F5 RAW
- Sony XAVC 4K, SRFile (SStP MP4), XDCam EX
- Alexa ARRIRAW, ProRes 4444 and 422, DNxHD
- Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Aaton Delta DNG
- RED REDCODE RAW (R3D) support, including RED One MX, Epic, Scarlet, and Epic Monochrome
- DNxHD MXF and QuickTime, including DNxHD 444
- Phantom Flex, Miro, HD Gold , 65 .cine RAW
- Silicon Imaging SI-2K, Cineform RAW
- Canon EOS 1D, 5D, 7D H264 QuickTime with timecode
- Canon EOS C100, C300, C500 MXF, EOS 1DC 4K JPG
- Panasonic P2, MXF AVC Intra
- Most QuickTime formats, with appropriate codecs
- OpenEXR 16-bit format support
- Uncompressed media (DPX, TIFF files from digital, tape, or scanned sources)
- Broadcast audio BWAV including header metadata
- Encoding Formats
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- Avid DNxHD MXF, including latest DNxHD 444
- Final Cut Pro ProRes (444, 422 HQ,Proxy, LT)
- MPEG4 H.264 for Web delivery, iPhone, and iPad, etc.
- Specific web deliverables, such as: PIX and DAX
- Uncompressed HD DPX, TIFF, OpenEXR, QuickTime
- Still frame formats such as: TIF, JPG, DPX, etc.
- WAV broadcast wave audio, stereo and multi channel
- Export various metadata, including FLX, ALE, FCP XML, CDL, CCC
- Automatic PDF QC report generation
- COPRA iPad Streaming Dailies in full HD
- On-Set Live Look Creation
- Create looks and export and manage CDLs and 3DLuts on external LUT boxes, with multiple cameras, full color science, Academy ACES support, stills, split screens, and camera metadata views.
- Grade live on camera HD monitor feeds
- Multi camera support, with color grading offset for cameras
- Still store, split screen, waveform and histogram analysis tools
- Camera metadata views with data extracted from HD-SDI signal
- Export and manage CDLs and 3D LUT files for external LUT boxes
- Supports Colorfront's open EMD metadata files to dailies systems
- Full color science for all professional camera formats supported
- Includes full support for Academy ACES color workflows
- Sound Syncing
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- Automatically sync audio, based on timecode in BWF
- Analyze audio to detect clap sound and sync audio
- Manual sound syncing with sync slip and audition
- Scene/slate/take/cam/select info from BWF file header
- Audio waveform helps sync sound quickly and accurately
- Color Correction & Image Processing
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- Full IIF-ACES workflow support: IDT, LMT, RRT, ODT
- ASC-CDL import / export in CMX EDL, ASC CCC CDL color grading, in HD video, Log, or ACES color
- Import / export reference images in TIF or DPX format
- Primary color grading -- master RGB color processor with saturation, contrast, high, mid and low corrections
- High quality HD resizing with high quality filtering
- Zoom: reposition, resize, aspect, flip and flop
- Text burn-in of multiple metadata including TC, file name, user text, watermark, logo burn, and letterbox
- Extensive Metadata Support and Open Architecture
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- Broadcast audio BWAV including header metadata
- ScriptE, QTake XML, ARRI Alexa XML, Codex XML, and 5th Kind
- Lens metadata support, including LDS and Cooke /i lens
- LUT import and export in a variety of formats
- Color metadata import and export, CDL, CCC, and ALE
- Support for EMD, Colorfront's open Express Meta Data sidecar XML file format with all metadata info
- Copy Central
- Fast checksum verified copies (with manifest reports) to multiple destinations, including archival to single or dual LTO5 and 6 tapes via LTFS. Archive database, bar codes, and transfer reports.
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Technical parametersColorfront EXPRESS DAILIES Specs | Minimum System Requirements | Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Mac Pro Tower
Dual 4 or 6 core processors
24 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, 690, Quadro 4000 and K5000
Local (SSD) or external FC/Thunderbolt storage
15" Retina MacBook Pro (38 cm)
Optional peripherals support:
AJA Kona 3G or AJA Io XT (MacBook Pro)
Archival on LTO 5 and LTO 6 LTFS
Control Panel Support:
Tangent Devices Element, Wave, CP200
AVID Artist Color and Transport panels |
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