Bones Dailies Non-Linear Dailies Solution
  Bones Dailies is a turnkey, scalable software solution that manages the entire Dailies production
  process, from ingest (30fps – 25% faster than real-time) to the creation of a color-graded Dailies
  master. Whether you are working in SD, HD, or 2K material, ingesting content from the Spirit, or
  other devices such as video tape machines, or digital files (e.g. from digital acquisition cameras), Bones Dailies offers a non-linear approach that dramatically increases the efficiency of the entire Dailies process.

It features a template-driven architecture for processes and logical rules, which helps minimize mistakes. It also features built-in real-time color correction capabilities, which remove the need for expensive color correction hardware. Bones Dailies also supports ASCbased color grading for interchange with DI systems.
The Bones Dailies powerhouse enhances the efficiency of your workflow, saves time and eliminates mundane tasks, automates a variety of processes, and improves the image quality of the Dailies material being viewed by clients.
It enables collaborative and parallel workflows by sub-dividing the Dailies production process into individual tasks. Bones Dailies excels where traditional linear Telecine-based Dailies production workflows fail e.g. traditional workflows cannot keep track of new requirements such as multiple versions, arbitrary tape content, scene and take order, etc.

The DFT Digital Film Technology Bones Dailies solution optimizes the Dailies process in many ways:
- Bones Dailies minimizes booking time in the Telecine suite, therefore saving money
- Bones Dailies improves the quality of the dailies deliverables by enabling HD and 2K workflows
- Bones Dailies enables parallel workflows for higher throughput
Bones Dailies is a turnkey software and hardware system, fully scalable, and is tailored to meet your needs and budget.

Key Features
• Enables collaborative and parallel workflows by sub-dividing the Dailies production process into individual tasks (audio ingest and preparation, image ingest and preparation, metadata logging, synchronization, grading, playout and file generation)
• Reduces mistakes by using templates of processes and logical rules
• Fast and accurate synchronization using intelligent and patented algorithms to auto-detect slates
• Captures images to disk 25% faster than real-time (30fps instead of 24fps)
• Manages A-Frame issues in software
• Removes the need for expensive Color Correction hardware - has built-in real-time color correction capabilities
• Speeds up color correction by supporting non-linear, noncommitted grading and log-based workflows
• Supports ASC-based color grading for interchange with DI systems
• Supports file based deliverables directly from the system (with Bones Coder option)
• Enables SD, HD and 2K workflows
• Scan once for Dailies and DI workflows
• Increases Dailies throughput / capacity, without adding more Telecines or colorists
• Supports traditional film-based and digital acquisition workflows

INGEST - Telecine and Tape Deck Control
• Non-stop, up to 30 fps, uncompressed capture in SD/HD 4:2:2/4:4:4
• Real-time or faster than real-time 2K data capture (depends on system configuration)
• Full control of Shadow, Spirit, Spirit HD, Spirit 2K, and Spirit 4K systems, including an integrated software graphic control panel (GCP)
• TK-Mem preset configurations can be saved and recalled
• Key code capture via Ethernet or LTC / RS232 combination
• Controlled capture and crash record modes
• RS422 controlled capture from tape decks

TEMPLATES
•  Reduces mistakes with pre-defined templates for processes and logical rules
• Project-based, user-definable file and folder naming conventions: project episode shoot day cam lab roll frame1234567.dpx etc.
• Playout templates to specify start TC, preroll elements, aspect, masking, burn-ins, VANC lines, TV standards, etc.

Bones Dailies Image Ingest - Faster than real-time capture fromSD / HD / Data, slate marking and metadata input

MULTI-TRACK AUDIO
• Audio ingest directly from DVD-RAM Player or DAT machine
• Ingest directly from embedded audio via video SDI input
• Parallel ingest of video and audio
• Import of AIFF and broadcast WAVE files
• 12-channel audio management using BC WAV files
• Flexible channel mapping and simple channel mixing
• GUI-based audio-level metering
• Automatic sample-rate conversion during ingest or playout
• Audio file concatenation, merging and property adjusting

AUTO STICK / SLATE DETECTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION
• Works while audio is ingested as a file or by AES/EBU capture
• Specially designed algorithm analyzes each audio file, identifying sticks/slate closures
• Analysis performed faster than real-time
• Manual override
• Clever algorithms to semi-automatically synchronize audio based on a variety of sync markers
• Supports audio fit and fill

Bones Dailies Audio Ingest - Real-time capture from AES or embedded sources,
ingest of AIFF and WAV files, automatic slate detection and metadata logging

COLOR GRADING
• Integrated non-linear color correction removes the need for expensive external color correction hardware
• Supports ASC CDL for interchange with digital intermediate systems
• Non-destructive grading in log or lin space
• Real-time primary color correction with CDL import/ export per timeline segment and for the whole timeline
• Real-time printer lights offset controls for primary color correction with CDL export
• Real-time creative 3D LUT for scene-by-scene look creation
• Real-time secondary color correction with unlimited number of layers with masks, softness etc. (practical limits vary according to system configuration and image processing)
• Pre-defined Bones node tree for every clip - just grade the images
• Real-time color grading dynamics - allows dissolves/ dynamics between events in the Bones color correction (limitations with CDL)
• Display-device calibration via separate 3D-LUT
• Real-time print look emulation via built-in timeline 3D-LUT (same format and algorithm as DFT LUTher color space converter)

INTEGRATED STILL STORE
• Fast and direct access to reference frames and grades
• Split-screen wipes on grading monitor and GUI
• Import and export of stills to/from standard image file formats e.g. JPG and others
• Copy grade from reference clip/still to current clip or groups
• Dedicated shot box and favorites bins to quickly apply presaved grades to current take
• ASC CCC (Color Correction Collection) file import into separate settings bin of the still store for easy transfer of on-set created looks into the Dailies post production workflow

COLLABORATION
• Sub-divides Dailies production tasks to support parallel workflows (Bones Dailies scales from one to an unlimited number of seats)
• Supports fully parallel Image Ingest, Audio Ingest, Syncing, Grading and Playout for one or multiple projects
• Supports media and metadata management and administration
• SQL database for metadata capture, parallel access, and management

FLEXIBLE OUTPUTS
• Multiple output channels: up to 2 parallel SDI output channels for playout of different versions (graded/ raw, HD or SD, burn-ins/clean etc.)
• Real-time, high-quality, GPU accelerated 2K to HD down conversions or HD to SD down conversions including 2:3 pull-down generation
• 24 to 25, 24 to 23.98, and 24 to 29.97 fps temporal flexibility
• SDI embedded and dedicated AES/EBU audio
• Three-line VITC and RP215 metadata insertion
• Bones Coder (option): file-based (QuickTime, AVI, WM9, MPEG, DVD and others) deliverables from Bones - fully automated based on production templates. Separate encoding server powered by Digital Rapids controlled directly by Bones Dailies
• Parallel outputs including real-time down-conversion of 2K to HD or HD to SD
• Burn-ins: internal, individual per output channel real-time character generator for burned in metadata such as TC, KC etc. - removes the need for external hardware
• ALE and Flex file export including all available metadata
• Pre-installed web based ALE tape report tool for easy print-out of playout reports

CONTROL PANELS / USER INTERFACES
• Multiple USB keyboards and mice
• Tangent - CP-200 series
• Tangent - Wave
• FilmLight - Blackboard

Bones Dailies Control Panel Example - CP-200 Panels

Bones Dailies Scalability
Bones Dailies is a scalable solution, depending on the workflow, throughput and budget requirements.
Bones Dailies starts with one seat for all Dailies tasks - audio and image ingest, sound synchronization, color correction and playout to tape or file based outputs.
For workflow enhancements, a Bones Dailies system can be upgraded to two or more workstations, where one system is dedicated to ingest and preparation tasks, and the other system(s) are used in parallel for all other tasks.
In a multiple seat configuration all tasks can be shared and performed in parallel - Telecine or tape transfers, audio preparation and sound synchronization, color correction and playout.
The parallel workflow is possible by using a shared SQL database for all metadata and by connecting to a SAN (Storage Area Network) to share all images and audio clips.

3 Seat Bones Dailies System - Parallel workflow with Bones Dailies for collaborative workflows