FilmLight Introduces REMOTE

FilmLight has announced the introduction of FilmLight REMOTE, a singular solution for remote colour grading, providing post-houses and colourists with the ability to work remotely without sacrificing the high-quality and low-latency monitoring that is essential for fast and efficient workflows. FilmLight REMOTE, which has been through an extensive beta programme, is available now to all users, as part of Baselight 6.0.

“In today’s post-production environment, there is an increasing call for remote working, whether you work on dailies, editing, VFX or finishing,” says Martin Tlaskal, head of development at FilmLight. “But the world of colour correction has its own particular challenges and previous offerings have been limited in terms of the ability to drive both the colour grading control surfaces and the monitoring of high-quality images with low latency. FilmLight REMOTE addresses this by offering the first complete remote grading solution without sacrificing quality or speed.”

FilmLight REMOTE is a seamless product that allows you to integrate a FilmLight control surface, UI monitors, mouse and keyboard with professional monitoring over the internet. The Baselight or Daylight can run HP Anyware or Amazon DCV to provide the remote end with multiple UI monitors up to 4K. At the same time, an SRT video connection is made to provide a high-quality video stream (supporting JPEG-XS and H265) to the remote system, where the FilmLight desk service can also provide support for the Slate, Blackboard Classic or Blackboard 2 control panels. 

UNIT TV was part of the FilmLight REMOTE beta programme and recently added REMOTE to its unique workflow set-up in London – helping their team stay focused on creativity. 

"The solution we decided upon for UNIT’s workflow was at the bleeding edge of technology and had not been attempted before,” explains Adam Luckwell, founder and CEO of UNIT TV. “Filmlight’s support was amazing, the depth and breadth of knowledge along with their can-do attitude mirrored our own engineers who worked together with Filmlight to solve initial problems and develop a brilliant fully remote solution that has kept our artists happy and focussed on their creative output.”

REMOTE also supports the increasing interest from facilities to host equipment off premise, in a data centre or in the cloud. A thin-client system can be used to stream the UI from the Baselight or Daylight system, and handle the control surfaces. The video stream is received by the thin-client, or the FilmLight REMOTE server which can be used to receive up to 4 UltraHD video streams – converting them to SDI to interface with existing SDI routing infrastructure. FilmLight REMOTE also opens up the possibility to work seamlessly from home or other remote sites, without the need for any extra hardware encoders or decoders.

Coffee & TV in London was also part of the REMOTE beta programme and is now running REMOTE on a regular basis, with Baselight now located off-premise in a data centre.  

“The highest compliment we can give is that you’d never know the Baselight wasn’t in the building - it works seamlessly,” says Lewis Crossfield, senior colourist at Coffee & TV.