New Collaborative Management System Boosts Productivity for Restoration Market

The Pixel Farm, a world-leading developer of image-processing systems for VFX, DI and restoration, has announced it is shipping PFSilo, a new collaborative workflow management system for the restoration market, plus significant sales of its PFTrack and PFClean products.
PFSilo, designed for use with the comprehensive DI and restoration toolset of PFClean, enables teams of restoration artists to work on single or multiple feature film projects simultaneously.

Simple-to-administer project management and asset-handling tools, allow project managers and producers to organise and supervise the workloads of artists, helping to manage deadlines and deliverables, and improve productivity.

PFSilo is built on open, standard database technologies, and is extensible and flexible enough to be installed as a standalone solution or to fit within established facility infrastructures.

The Pixel Farm is also showing PFClean 5.1, a new software release designed specifically to work with PFSilo, but which also incorporates new industry-leading features, such as a timeline with reference movies for film assembly, updated primary grading tools, improved image stabilisation, edge-blending on auto dirt correction, and new effects for de-quantizing, de-blocking and chroma re-sampling.

“PFSilo was developed in response to customers’ need to work in ever-more productive and efficient ways on restoration projects,” said Michael Lancaster, managing director of The Pixel Farm. “PFClean already excels in restoration, providing artists with a range of auto/manual tools. Now PFSilo optimises the way that shots are be distributed and managed between digital artists, so that even the most intensive projects can be delivered with speed and efficiency.”

PFClean continues to be the market-leading image-restoration and remastering application, with recent sales including multiple licenses to Belarus Film, Deluxe Vancouver, Technicolor Burbank, Ascent Media and Pinewood Studios in the UK, Sony Pictures Entertainment in L.A., Czech TV, Estonian Broadcast and Mosfilm in Moscow.

The Pixel Farm has also announced new sales of its industry-leading PFTrack software for VFX creation. These include S&M, Cinesite and Dneg in London, Reliance Group in India and the US, Sony Imageworks in the US and India, Intelligent Creatures in Toronto, TV Globo in Brazil, and Animal Logic in Australia.

Carrying forward the momentum gained with the release of PFSilo, and sales of it PFClean and PFTrack products, The Pixel Farm has a slate of new products across its entire product range, scheduled for release at SIGGRAPH 2010 in L.A., and IBC 2010 in Amsterdam. The first of these is an innovative iPhone/iPod Touch application to control the primary grading tools in PFClean, enabling the colour-grading of images conforming to ASC CDL standards.

For more information: www.thepixelfarm.co.uk.