Convey

Automated creation of digital deliverables

Convey is a sister application to Control Dailies that automates the creation of popular file based formats for Dailies deliverables. Convey works in the background, automatically creating a consistent set of deliverables every night, based on the pre-defined set of templates and configurations created in Control Dailies Core.  Codecs such as MPEG 2, DNxHD, WM9, MPEG 4, QuickTime and AVI can be simultaneously created with user defined bit rates, aspect ratios, window burns and audio mixes. Choose to output to files, DNxHD, Blu-ray or DVD.

With Convey, facilities can successfully generate all the output for Studio Executives, On-Set and Editorial in a single session.  Thanks to Control Dailies technical architecture, there's no need to target a single output format to gain the speed and power needed to complete dailies on time

Convey Features

• Monitors Control Dailies Core to begin encoding file-based deliverables in the background automatically throughout the dailies session with no additional operator intervention.
• Automatic dynamic bandwidth throttling keeps Convey from interrupting Control Dailies processes requiring real time bandwidth to media.
• Follows project configurations defined in Control Dailies Core to create a consistent set of deliverables each night
• Recipient list for each project allows recipients' names to be burned into the media.
• Applies color decisions created in Control Color
• Gateway and Render Node architecture allows for on time delivery of multiple formats per project

• QuickTime/MPEG-4 format compatible with PIX System online dailies review application
• Pre-parsed files are split by camera take for easy upload and are ready to review immediately

• Popular Windows Media 9 is a standard format used by many proprietary and off-the-shelf online review systems

• Discs authored with chapter stops for each take and viewer selectable sort orders, so the reviewer can play their dailies in the order they want to see them
• Optional integrated Blu-ray disc burner and labeler
• Apply facility branding and custom recipient burn-ins for strong customer service

• Supports multiple flavors of DNxHD
• Includes all pertinent metadata
• Output in ready-to-edit format

• Up to 8 DVDs per reel created on a single system during the time of a dalies session.
• DVDs authored with chapter stops for each take and viewer selectable sort orders, so the reviewer can play their dailies in the order they want to see them.
• Optional integrated DVD disc burner and labeler
• Apply facility branding and custom recipient burn-ins for strong customer service