Colorfront Express Dailies Software

Colorfront Express Dailies Software 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.

This software 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 runs on the Mac Pro tower (sold separately), as well as the MacBook Pro with Retina display (not included), allowing users to choose the best platform for the specific production.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Requires one of the following control panels: Tangent Devices ELEMENT panel, Tangent Devices WAVE, CP200 panels or AVID Artist Color and Transport panel (panel sold separately).

Features:

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 Mac Pro tower and MacBook Pro with Retina Display using NVidia GPU. Support for AJA Kona3 and Io XT cards deliver realtime HD video playback and high-quality RAW image de-Bayering, including ARRIRAW and F65RAW.

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.