FilmLight has introduced FilmLight Remote, a singular solution for remote color grading, providing post houses and colorists with the ability to work remotely without sacrificing high-quality and low-latency monitoring. FilmLight Remote, which has been through an extensive beta program, is available now to all users as part of Baselight 6.0.

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

FilmLight Remote allows users 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.

FilmLight Remote also supports the increasing interest from facilities to host equipment off premise, in a data center 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 four 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.

Unit TV and Coffee & TV, both located in London, were part of the Remote beta program and are now running Remote on a regular basis