Colorfront updated its Transkoder, On-Set Dailies and Streaming Service with new AI and automated features that simplify critical mastering and QC tasks for TV and film productions.
Comparison Side-by-Side Tools
Colorfront has developed new AI and automated features to update the 2025 versions of its products and services that ease the complexity of critical, time-consuming mastering and QC procedures. Their innovations were shown in demos held during IBC 2025.
“Colorfront 2025 toolsets accelerate or eliminate many laborious, repetitive processes. The aim is to remove the need for users to manage complexity manually, so that the desired result is achieved faster and more efficiently,” said Mark Jaszberenyi, CEO of Colorfront.
Transkoder 2025 - AI Automation and Integration
For Transkoder, the company’s 2K/4K transcoding application that automates fast digital file conversion for DCP and IMF mastering, Colorfront has made progress in automation through the integration of AI-based text and audio dialogue detection and subtitle validation tools that save time. Semantic image/context-based search descriptions also simplify media identification and de-duplication.
Transkoder 2025 has been integrated with AWS’s Rekognition API, which brings deep learning-based image and video analysis capabilities to the software, such as object detection, facial analysis and unsafe content detection. Users can rapidly locate inappropriate, unwanted or offensive scenes, each individually marked or labelled to help identify specific issues.
Transkoder 2025 - QC Features and Media Analysis
Transkoder 2025 has new QC features for SDR/HDR media analysis and validation including a set of tools for PSE (Photosensitive Epilepsy) detection, based on ITU-R BT.1702 guidance to reduce photosensitive epileptic seizures. Transkoder also supports CSV file import of HardingFPA analysis on flashing and spatial patterns in broadcast programming.
Synthetic frame detection has been added, with improved framing-error detection and automatic clipped-highlight detection. Improvements to the audio tools include loudness validation. All of these updates reduce the need for manual checks, although support for Baron report files allow operators to review individual error tags.
Difference Detection
To make workflows more straightforward, all QC processes generate editable timeline markers and a detailed PDF report. Version comparison tools now include side-by-side playback and an analysis report on Dolby Labs’ Delta ICtCp difference metric. These features help locate visual differences between localised HDR versions. The ability to detect all video, audio and Dolby Vision metadata changes between master files helps teams to avoid repeating QC work when checking updated deliverables.
Users can now readily configure, save and recall comprehensive QC bundles or packages tailored to meet the delivery specifications of clients such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, saving time and preventing errors. The bundles can combine a series of different checks on items such as loudness measurement, HDR light level analysis, video range verification, freeze/black frame detection and audio gap detection.
Transkoder 2025 - HDR Mastering and Colour
Colorfront’s set of HDR Cinema Tools continues to grow, in the case of this update avoiding lengthy workarounds in colour management processes and grading, while holding on to colour fidelity and preserving the original artistic intent. The new Colorfront Upmap HDR tool is a simple means of HDR up-conversion, designed specifically to support both extended range broadcast content and legacy content of all source qualities.
Transkoder 2025 improves on its management of full or video source files, with a dual timeline view for the ganged playback of two compositions, plus easier ways to isolate shots when fixing colour issues or rendering out problematic shots. DCP mastering now includes render markers and, with expanded Dolby Vision metadata validation, users can detect configurations that may cause clipping on consumer Dolby Vision TV sets.
“The speed, transcoding performance and measurement qualities of Transkoder 2025 are outstanding, with a level of precision and efficiency that’s hard to match,” said Christian Schneider, Head of Video & Authoring Services at Imagion content processing studio in Germany. “Using Transkoder, the Imagion team can perform at the highest level as an Amazon Prime Video Preferred Fulfillment Vendor, and as an Apple Preferred Plus Encoding House.”
Colorfront On-Set Dailies 2025 – Format Support and Speed
The 2025 version of Colorfront’s On-Set Dailies supports the new digital cameras and RAW digital camera formats and codecs. These include Blackmagic Design’s URSA Cine 17K and URSA Cine Immersive cameras, plus ARRI’s Alexa 265 and ARRICORE recording format. On-Set Dailies also carries out OCN (Original Camera Negative) processing and improves on automated dailies workflows.
Text and Audio Dialogue Detection
Support now exists in On-Set Dailies for several of the automated QC tools that Transkoder has acquired, including framing detection, marker import/export via EDL and marker navigation across marker tracks in the timeline.
On-Set Dailies and Transkoder also introduce HLG Harmony, a new node in the Colorspace set of tools (on the Node Page) designed for straightforward fine-tuning of Hybrid Log-Gamma footage. It features dedicated Brightness and Color sliders that allow precise adjustments without involving complex grading tools for quickly refining HLG content in broadcast and delivery workflows.
Other features encompass ACES 2.0 pipeline integration, AI-based clap frame and automatic clipped-highlight detection, smoother CSV and ALE metadata import for post and grading packages like Pomfort and DaVinci Resolve, and improved embedded and synced audio handling. These updates increase the efficiency of on-set media-processing.
Colorfront Streaming Service – More Agility and Speed
Colorfront continues to address the need for agile remote collaboration with a responsive, effective experience, via Colorfront Streaming Service. Reference-quality 10-bit 4:4:4 streaming, plus multi-channel audio, between users anywhere around the world, now resembles local playback.
To achieve the necessary speeds, Transkoder and On-Set Dailies now support real-time, zero-latency streaming via the Streaming Player using a new pre-caching feature that locally stores frames for smooth playback.
This ability gives QC operators an experience comparable to on-premises viewing. The cache size is adjustable via the Stream Cache Size setting in the Streaming Player’s Advanced Settings. Cached frame ranges are shown in the navigation bar, enabling instant backward and forward playback within the buffer. This includes stereo 48fps streaming from Transkoder, with support for 422 HEVC streaming coming soon. colorfront.com
