After we launched Body.io Digital camera to Cloud (C2C) earlier this year, we had a sense that it could spark folks’s curiosity.
We’d already completed a profitable trial run with Zeiss in the course of the Sundance Movie Competition in January 2020, with their staff in Park Metropolis and their editor in LA.
Then, after the pandemic arrived, C2C was key to getting the primary IATSE-crewed Hollywood feature safely again to work in July 2020.
After subsequent months of fine-tuning with our preliminary launch companions, Teradek and Sound Units, we felt that we have been able to reliably present an easy-to-use resolution that would change the method of video creation by closing the hole between manufacturing and put up. Body.io C2C formally launched on March 31, 2021.
Rising the ecosystem
Since then, because of the early adopters of this new workflow, we’ve been each stunned and enormously gratified to see what number of of you will have embraced it!
In simply the previous eight months, greater than 1,300 productions and 4,000 collaborators have uploaded greater than 150,000 takes to Body.io on greater than 500 paired gadgets. Numerous you who’ve tried it have informed us how profoundly it’s modified the best way you’re employed—and now that you simply’re working on this streamlined method, you’ll by no means return.
We’ve even had prospects invent C2C workflows that we hadn’t initially considered, just like the lens-testing service at Old Fast Glass.
Certainly one of our predominant targets for C2C was to continue to grow the ecosystem with a purpose to make C2C obtainable to just about anybody who shoots video for any cause. Everybody is aware of the ache factors concerned with having to ship a drive to somebody earlier than they’ll correctly view what’s been shot or they’ll begin modifying.
That’s why we believed that Body.io C2C might be a real game-changer by serving to anyone who’s making video content material save time and work extra creatively and effectively.
So at the moment, we’re excited to announce some new key integrations and performance that can proceed to make Body.io C2C essentially the most accessible and user-friendly camera-to-cloud workflow for all video creators throughout the business.
Extra entry, extra gadgets
After we initially launched, you wanted to make use of our iOS app to attach gadgets to Body.io.
Properly, at the moment we’re saying simpler authentication by letting manufacturing groups pair and handle C2C gadgets on any desktop or cellular browser. That implies that along with our iPhone and iPad apps, we’ve added the power to hook up with Body.io and authenticate your gadgets by way of Mac, PC and, sure, Android.
Along with our current help for Sound Units 888 and Scorpio field-audio recorders, Aaton Cantar X3 recorders at the moment are Body.io C2C-compatible.
As was already the case with the Sound Units recorders, sound mixers can ship full-bandwidth audio on to the cloud, additional rushing up time-critical workflows with tight supply schedules.
Enhancing creativity
Body.io C2C isn’t “simply” about closing the hole between manufacturing and put up—we’re at all times searching for methods to enhance the inventive collaboration expertise for professionals who stay on set and in pre-production, as properly.
Our new integration with the favored filmmaking apps Pomfort Livegrade and ShotHub on macOS implies that cinematographers, DITs, and colorists have a strong new workflow for routinely importing, organizing, and distributing CDL and LUT shade correction recordsdata all through their groups.
The outcome? Creatives are in a position to generate one thing very near the director and cinematographer’s imaginative and prescient that editors can instantly start utilizing as they minimize.
Then there are the sorts of apps that simplify logistics so you may spend extra time on what issues most—your inventive work. In a lot the identical method that Body.io was developed by video professionals who have been in search of a option to collaborate extra successfully in post-production, ZoeLog was created by former AC Zoe Van Brunt to resolve the issue of manually producing and sharing the required information included on digicam studies.
Now, with this new integration, it’s doable to share worthwhile on-set information like digicam studies—proper alongside the video proxies—immediately with the numerous departments who want entry.
From script supervisors to second-unit crews to the editorial staff, VFX supervisors, and extra, anybody who wants digicam report information can get it rapidly and securely by way of Body.io.
The subsequent frontier in C2C workflows revolves round pre-visualization and pre-production, and we’re thrilled to share our new collaboration with Magic ViewFinder App.
Administrators’ viewfinders are an important a part of establishing pictures, storyboarding, and site scouting. For too lengthy, this essential work relied on disparate e-mail attachments and clunky communication between distant collaborators. Now, by way of C2C, your camera-sensor and lens-accurate pre-visualization recordsdata are routinely despatched to the identical platform as your video, audio, CDL, LUT, and digicam report recordsdata. When it comes time to remark, evaluation, or approve the storyboards, now you can work on the storyboard itself—with the identical award-winning and feature-rich instruments present in Body.io.
Accessibility and suppleness
If you consider it, for greater than a century manufacturing groups have been required to dump, copy, course of, and ship some form of bodily media with a purpose to create dailies.
Body.io began by centralizing all of your belongings and collaborators in a single safe place within the cloud. With the addition of C2C, we’ve eradicated the necessity to trade drives, which saves appreciable time—in some circumstances, as a lot as days.
This workflow completely eliminates the hole between manufacturing and post-production, giving video creators extra time to concentrate on what they’re capturing.
We take heed to your suggestions and listen to your requests.
What additionally makes Body.io C2C uniquely versatile is that we’ve created the free Cloud Devices API. Why is that important? As a result of we take heed to your suggestions and listen to your requests—and we all know that there are heaps (and much) of gadgets and apps that you simply love to make use of.
So, all it’s important to do is let these producers or builders know that you simply’d love for them to change into C2C appropriate. Then, all they must do is fill out the form on our Developers website, and we’ll assist them get began.
Our aim is to make cloud workflows obtainable to everybody who shoots video.
That’s why we made C2C free with a paid Frame.io account. We’ve even bought one- and three-month Enterprise plans obtainable so you should buy the service you want throughout your manufacturing.
Time equals stability
In the summertime of 2019, MovieLabs—the pre-eminent Hollywood assume tank with members from Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony, and Common Studios—launched their 2030 Vision white paper outlining a workflow of the longer term by which bodily media would change into out of date and all work would happen within the cloud.
On the time of publication, Body.io was already at work on numerous the ten rules comprising their paper. However the first, and maybe most essential, precept focuses on the concept that eradicating the necessity to transfer bodily belongings round will lead to big time financial savings.
Coincidentally, there’s by no means been some extent in our business the place time has been a warmer subject. The latest negotiations between IATSE and AMPTP have demonstrated how important it’s to shorten workdays in order that crew members get sufficient turnaround time to relaxation.
Whether or not you’re on an IATSE crew otherwise you’re capturing a industrial or company video, everybody desires (and deserves) a greater work/life stability.
However regardless of whether or not you’re on an IATSE crew otherwise you’re capturing a industrial or company video, everybody desires (and deserves) a greater work/life stability. The truth that we’re listening to from you, precise Body.io C2C customers, that you simply really feel the influence of this new method of working, is what lies on the coronary heart of our mission.
You’ve informed us that now that your director or cinematographer is aware of that they’ve bought the shot they want, they’ll be ok with shifting on to the following setup—or wrapping for the day. Or that you simply wanted to ship one thing to social media rapidly and didn’t have to fret about transport drives and lacking deadlines. Or that you simply have been in a position to spend extra time with your loved ones since you have been in a position to work extra effectively.
The purpose is that saving time ripples into decreasing stress, which ripples into so many several types of constructive outcomes. As a inventive, you’re extra targeted, so that you could be extra inventive. As a producer, you’ve saved time which implies you’ve saved cash. As a shopper or stakeholder, you’ve been in a position to see that your suggestions has been included right into a shoot—when it actually issues. And that ripples into all the varied departments, from pre-production throughout closing supply.
It’s why we wish to encourage you to check out this workflow for your self, and to tell us what you assume may make it even higher. We’re right here to realize a standard aim—to make the method of making video content material extra obtainable to, and collaborative for, everybody. It’s our honor and privilege to work with all of you as we discover new methods to make our lives a bit simpler and our work movement higher.
And as we go ahead, the cloud’s the restrict.
