LONDON — At the IBC show in Amsterdam this September, FilmLight (http://www.filmlight.ltd.uk) will show a suite of new features for its Nara integrated media tool. Nara is designed to streamline media pipelines while enhancing collaboration for creative teams. In a single solution, Nara takes complicated and time-consuming tasks, such as review, approval and compliance processes, and helps execute them with speed and ease. Nara can natively decode and play back media without having to transcode to proxy files. It also offers color-accurate streaming, a comprehensive back-end index and deep codec support.
Studios that employ Nara can reduce the cost for multiple tools and SaaS. Users can easily and securely browse all the storage across their facility, play anything (support for 160-plus formats, including all camera RAW files) with full color accuracy, collaborate and review with team members. Its expanded toolset includes a secure client review feature, which allows users to stream media directly to clients with complete security and guaranteed accuracy. Enterprise-grade encryption and access controls protect sensitive content. Nara's color reproduction and frame-accurate playback show clients exactly what is intended. Clients can also leave timecoded notes and comments directly on the media, helping to streamline feedback and communication during the review process.
Additional new features for Nara 2 include realtime transcoding, improved project management, advanced analytics, tighter integration with the Baselight color grading system, and new support for third-party tools. In related news, Baselight 7.0 receives improvements to keyframing, disk caching and machine learning-related advances in look development.