FilmLight celebrates official release of Baselight 6.0 and introduces Face Track, a revolutionary new tool based on machine learning (ML)

FilmLight has announced the release of the latest version of its highly regarded Baselight grading software, Baselight 6.0. Following an extensive and successful beta programme, where the new software features were put through their paces by customers across the globe, Baselight 6.0 is now available to colourists worldwide. 

Baselight 6.0 benefits from several years of ML development and game changing new features designed to bring major gains in productivity and creativity to today’s increasingly demanding and competitive post production environment. Many of the beta testers are already relying on the new tools, which include an improved and modernized timeline, a new primary grading tool, X Grade, a unique new look development tool, Chromogen, plus a new and ground-breaking ML-based tool, Face Track.

“We’re extremely excited to introduce Baselight 6.0 to the global colourist community,” comments Martin Tlaskal, Head of Development at FilmLight. “We believe this release moves our technology forward significantly, and provides a platform that works in synchronicity with today’s colourist. Face Track, for example, has been proven to greatly reduce the considerable amount of time colourists spend in the grading suite on beauty work – typically the need to repeat processes and corrections for every appearance of each character. By harnessing cutting-edge advances in machine learning Face Track will revolutionize this – allowing colourists to track faces, make corrections or enhancements and apply them across multiple scenes.”

Using an underlying ML model, Face Track finds and tracks faces in a scene, adjusting smoothly as each face moves and turns. It attaches a polygon mesh to each face, which allows perspective-aware tools such as Paint and Shapes to distort with the mesh. The colourist’s productivity is further boosted by the ability to copy corrections and enhancements made in Face Track to the entire timeline ­– with a simple copy and paste, these previously repetitive corrections can be applied to the same face across an entire sequence or episode.   

News source: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl.php