Cerebro (software)
Cerebro (Spanish - Brain)— is a software complex for media project management. Cerebro is mostly used by VFX-studios, videogame developers, advertisement, TV series production companies and web designers. The software complex is something like a forum where the participants of the project can set tasks, monitor project progress and statistics, comment reports and attached files (video, images, office documents etc.), exchange high resolution files.
Main features
Project management
- various Interest task review options, personal task list, categorization and visibility setting options
- assigning one or more employees on task, calculation of progress and time expenditures, e-mail notification on new tasks or reviews in system
- project content : “drag and dropping” necessary files into the program window, tag system for task
- generating project and user reports
Reviewing
- installed Mirada (Spanish - View) Взгляд module that supports such formats as: :Cineon ®, DPX, OpenEXR,RAW,QuickTime ® movie and etc.
- audiovisual reviewing: drawing comments on content, typing text comments, record mouse cursor movement and audio – comments, reviews are automatically saved
- on-line reviewing option: mouse cursor and timeline movement, pan, zoom, change of files in playlist are all synchronized
- The Mirada module uses OpenGL – that is why you will be able to view and draw over high resolution graphic files (up to 16K)
- supports images with large color depth, Gamma, Gain and Linear to Logarithmic color correction options (accelerated by GPU)
File exchange
- integrated Cargador (Spanish - Night Porter) module managing file delivery
- automatic archiving of attached directories and files
- access to local resources with symbolic links
- downloaded files are cached and are not doubled
- control of all company download/upload queues
- auto and manual restart of file downloads/uploads
Technical Specifications
- The graphical interface by QT
- Database PostgreSQL
- File Transfer - proprietary protocol (Cargador module)
- File Database - proprietary format for hashing and search files (Cargador module)
Main competitors
Project and file management
- Alienbrain, Temerity Pipeline - desktop
- Shotgun, Tactic - web
Visual reviewing
- cineSync, RV, FrameCycler - desktop
- Concept Share, Cozimo,Оctopz, CreationFlow - web
File Transfer
- Any FTP client, Aspera - desktop + web
System list overview
Movies
A short list of movies and cartoons, the project management on which was conducted using Cerebro
«Europe - Asia», «Indigo»,«Lubov - morkov 2», «The Book of Masters», «Tsar», «Interceptor», «Black lightning», «The Phobos», «Dark world», «The Brest fortress», «Star dogs: Belka and Strelka» (3D cartoon), «Burnt by the sun 2», «Long way home» (3D version of GoGoRiki cartoon)
Links
- Cerebro official website
- CineSoft profile on CrunchBase
- "Black Lightning": How we did it (in Russian)
- Cerebro review on Cg Event (in Russian)
- «Interview: Konstantin Kharitonov» (in Russian)
- «Interview: Sergei Tsyptsyn» (in Russian)
- Article in magazine «Magic CG» (in Russian)
- «Interview: Dmitry Shirokov» (in Russian)
- Cerebro review on render.ru (in Russian)
- VFX Project Tools
- Softwares for Media & Entertainment
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