Color Collective is a colorist boutique for features, series, and commercials based in New York City with review sites in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Color Collective has been using Streambox remote streaming solutions for a number of years. More recently, they occasionally used the Sessions remote service on iPads with some clients in Europe or on the West Coast that could not get to their studio in Los Angeles. They had also been using this workflow for assisting LUT development with DPs during pre-production and having good success.

When the global health crisis emerged, Color Corrective had a comfort level of managing remote workflows and this enabled them to move very quickly and get their customers up and running comfortably on their iPads and iPhones. The clients appreciated this, and it helped Color Collective meet the extraordinary demand for remote work to overcome all the various healthcare restrictions.

The Streambox Mobile Media Player app has been satisfying the needs of Color Collective’s commercial clients with Rec. 709 color extremely well, as it substantially cuts down review times by not wasting hours waiting for feedback. With just posting and no live reviews, there is a reliance on email or desktop products for reviews which is cumbersome and slow. Therefore, having instant feedback is really, really useful.

Color Collective beta tested the latest Streambox Mobile Media Player release and used it on a feature film project they are finishing up. All reviews were live and entirely remote. The production master was delivered in Dolby Vision® HDR. Prior to having a full HDR Streambox Mobile Media Player workflow, they would have had to do any live sessions in the SDR color, and post a H.265 file for HDR review. For this latest project, they needed to do real-time client reviews in HDR using P3 D65 PQ gamma. The director was in Los Angeles, the producers in the Pacific Northwest, and the DP in Portland, and participated in many live review sessions all in HDR on iPad Pro tablets.