FOLLOWING THE LAUNCH OF COLORFRONT'S TRANSKODER 2020 IN DECEMBER, UPDATE 1 FIRMWARE IS NOW AVAILABLE
Check out our highlights of the top new features in Colorfront's Transkoder 2020 Update 1 below, or review the full release notes for details on all changes here:

TRANSKODER UPDATE 1 - KEY POINTS & NEW FEATURES
COLOUR PROCESSING
- The Simple CFE default project color pipeline option is based on the latest CFE node that provides high quality conversion from scene-referred and display-referred sources to any output colour space.
- COLORFRONT ENGINE PIPELINE now in one single node for easier use and fast processing.
- Transkoder "CFE" Color Processing Option When Creating a New Project
- Colorfront Engine and ACES combination to get full color quality control
- Better RAW technical color conversions
- CFE colour processing, output and camera independent
ENCODING
Color Metadata in ProRes and HEVC Files
- Fastest and certified encoding
- Fastest at loading media
- Fastest render speeds
- Fastest debayering
- Simultaneous deliveries of multiple formats, colourspaces, burnins
MASTERING
- Dolby Atmos (Immersive Audio) IMF Mastering
- Support for 2020 IMF spec
- Background and Distributed, Automated DCP and IMF Mastering
- Multiple Subtitles QC and Mastering, improved subtitle rendering
- Side-by-side, Dolby Vision 2.9 and 4.0 Comparison
- Mastering Delivery to S3 and/or Netflix Backlot
- IMF Sidecar Composition Map Support From CPL Merge Window
- Custom Encoder Presets in the Finalise Window
- New Positional Marker Types
- Fastest and best quality Jpeg 2000 Encoder/Decoder for HDR IMF
- Fastest checksum
- Support of complex "version file" or supplemental workflows
- Transwrapping: flexible strategies to deal with "fixed" OVs with fixes being injected in OV
- Ready to use OTT presets
- Easy proper IMF audio creation
STREAMING
- Secure AES-encrypted, reference quality video streaming for interactive sessions
- 10-bit, 4K Video/Audio Streaming out OSD/TKD/ExD
- Supporting Multiple Destination to multiple concurrent viewers
- Dolby Vision “tunnelling” From Timeline streaming to Consumer TV
- Remote Control Via Rest API
REMOTE AND CLOUD BASED WORKFLOWS
- Reading all IMF flavours & heavy OCN formats directly from cloud storage, playing back in real-time
- Full Transkoder, On-set Dailies, Express Dailies running on Amazon AWS
- Full workflows to/from Amazon S3 Storage natively, integrated S3 Browser
- Cloud Automation via web forms
- Improved REST API
NEW WEB UI
- Automation Via Customisable Web Forms
- New Render Queue Page
- Probe Job Page
- Remote Control Page
- Shots Page (Colorfront Bins via Web UI
NEW GENERAL TKD FEATURES
- Improved Simple CFE Node
- Dolby Vision HEVC MP4 export
- Parametric Colorfront LMT ACES node, ACES AMF import, and CLF support
- New GPU Accelerated
- HEVC encoder
- frame.io integration
- Pixspan Compression GPU support
- Timeline usability improvements
HDR
- HDR user interface (like on an XDR display)
- HDR / SDR perceptual color remapping to any nit level
- More sophisticated HDR mastering and QC tools
- Best Second head HDR Analyser in 4k resolution
- Industry standard HDR Report for PQ content
DOLBY VISION
- More sophisticated Dolby Vision mastering tools
- Best Dolby validation tools
- Best Dolby V4 tools and best at dealing with mixed v4 v2.9 workflow
- Dolby Atmos and Immersive Audio support
EXTRA
- Cloud ready technology
- Sophisticated EXR metadata mapping for VFX pulls
- Best Subtitle Rendering
- Flexible node-based pipeline
- Less expensive upgrades
- Dual-monitor Broadcast
- Faster at loading media
- Fastest render speeds
- Faster debayering
- Simultaneous deliveries of multiple formats, colourspaces, burnins
- Amazing support
- Fastest development of new features and requests
- Easier way of setting up audio metadata / labelling /configuration
- Windows and Mac platforms
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