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(По-русски) RoadShow – Киев 14-16 Сентября
22:06 August 30
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15 NEW Video Tutorials
21:53 August 27
15 NEW Video Tutorials, with english and russian subtitles.
We are waiting for yours comments 
For Worker’s:
For Admin’s:
For Manager’s:
- Create Task
- Create Review
- Create Message
- Task is Completed
- Gantt Chart Overview
- Project Statistics
- User Statistics
General:
Cerebro for iPhone update
04:11 August 27
What’s New In Version 1.1
- Recording audio memos to OGG Vorbis
- Playback sound from Ogg, Wav, Mp3, Aiff formats
- Russian localization
Case Study – “Petersburg”
14:42 August 9
We are proud to present a new cycle of interviews on how Cerebro is used in companies.
This month we interviewed Elena Chugunova and Anastasia Pashenkova, project managers at “Petersburg” animation studio.
Please tell us about the history of your company.
The “Petersburg” studio was created in March 2003. Our studio is the only one in Russia where the whole production process is in digital format, using the latest computer technologies.
Our creative team incudes over 100 specialists working on powerful graphical stations for 2D and 3D animation. This is why “Petersburg” ensures fast production rates for animation series, corresponding with european standards. In order to support young talents and to help develop love for the arts the studio also features a school for animators, storyboarders and directors, and also courses for animation film script writers, that are open for everyone.
We try to fully realize all of our knowledge and experience in our work. And the work of our team was acknowledged at various festivals: Grand Prize of the China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival (China, Guangzhou, 2005), People’s Choice Awards at the International Festival of TV cartoons Cartoons on the Bay (Italy, 2005), nominated for National cinematography prize “Golden Eagle” in 2008 and 2009 in “Best animated movie” category, etc.
On what projects are you using the program?
At the moment we are working on creating a full-length cartoon. This is a movie about the new adventures of the popular Smeshariki characters, that find themselves in a big city. We are using the latest technologies on the project, including 3D format. We are using the Cerebro program on the production of this full-length cartoon for 2 years now.
How efficient is using Cerebro for your business?
The Cerebro program allows us to effectively distribute human and time resources, plan the production process, track task fulfillment and keep up with the whole project production process. Cerebro has a flexible structure that allows, if necessary, us to add new task types and change old ones. You can easliy see the productivity of each separate employee, using the User Stats option. The Project Stats function allows you to evaluate the level of project completion. A major plus of the program is the opportunity of working with remote users and the opportunity of working out of the office.
What difficulties do you experience during the process of organizing work on a project? What versions of Cerebro do you use Mac / Win / Linux, Web or, perhaps, IPhone?
During the process of work on a project you sometimes need to edit or change work that has already been done and correct mistakes, and Cerebro allows us to quickly react to such alterations. We use 2 operational systems on the project (Windows and Linux) and Cerebro works well in both systems.
How fast did your team get used to the program?
As our team consists of creative people, the first stage of implementation caused a negative reaction, but after the first week of work in Cerebro our employees were able to appreciate all the advantages of the program: convenient task setting options, task list, tracking of time necessary to fulfill a specific task, payroll control options (for contract workers).
Do you often use the audiovisual reviewing tool?
Screenshots allow quick evaluation of work, but we do not actually use the function itself, as the key employees all work on the studio.
Do you have any recommendations to make the program more convenient?
A very important function is work with animation files only through Cerebro, by-passing all browsers, and also control of all work file versions.
Is the program interface user-friendly and convenient from your point of view?
The program interface is very convenient and user-friendly.
Siggraph 2010: see you in LA!
12:27 July 22
Cinesoft’s Director Konstantin Kharitonov is going to the SIGGRAPH exhibition in LA (from July 27th to August 4th).
If you’d like to meet him, please send us an email at khar@cinesoft.ru.
We’ll be glad to see you there
Updated photo set from SIGGRAPH 2010. Soon will be more – Exhibition and R&H office…
Update – Mac OS X 64 Bit, ICal
11:26 June 28
64 bit Version for Mac OS X 
- This version will work under Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.x, and under Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.x
- Stable work under Mac Os Snow Leopard 10.6.x
- Productivity increase by 2 times for interface “re-drawing” (when shifting from Carbon to Cocoa)
- To change from the 32 bit version to the 64 bit version you will need to download it from our website and install it!
http://http://cerebrohq.com/en/download/ (choose Mac OS X 64 menu item)
If you don’t do this, the automatic updating system will continue to download the 32 bit version.
- Note: the Mirada module for the 64 bit Cerebro distribution kit is still 32 bit (because of QuickTime Api restrictions)
Export into network calendar ICal
- You can view the following drop-down menu in Assigned tasks
- When choosing a menu item a http link for your assigned tasks calendar will be copied into your clipboard
- You will be able to download your calendar from Cerebro (it will be automatically updated) into Google calendar, ICal, Outlook! For e.g. in the Google calendar, please choose Add/ Add URL menu item and insert the copied link.
We’ve started work on implementation of non material resource planning
- This can be “cutting rooms”, cameras, etc.
- CreatingTools/Administatorhttp://cerebrohq.com. Resources
- Assigning resources in Task Properties
Mас OS X – Gantt chart also available!
Creating new tasks by drag and dropping files into navigator function restored.
In the Navigator menu, choose a spot in the project and drag and drop 10 files there, and you will be able to create a task with 10 files or 10 tasks with one of the files , the task name will be created out of the names of each of the files.
In the next version:
- The Gantt chart will take into account Saturdays and Sundays and work hours. You will be able to enable/disable these functions. 
- An additional calendar mode for resource planning!
- Time/resource overlap identification
More updates! 2010.06.15
02:21 June 18
New way of creating and editing tasks
- Now when you create a task you will be able to give a technical description of the task, and attach files to it in the special window that appears!
- Тask status can be edited by a manager or an administrator.
Statuses:
- event – for e.g. meeting
- (new) locked – message adding not allowed- is NOT inherited into subtasks
- (new) paused – temporarily unavailable – message adding is allowed – is inherited into subtasks
- (new) stopped – cancelled – message adding is allowed – is inherited into subtasks
- Deleted – is not taken into account in statistics calculation (work hours)
In future versions we will add various filters for these statuses
Printing Gantt chart into PDF now available
Cerebro shows problematic tasks
- Special indicator in tasks that contain overdrafts in work hours: Overdraft – X (hours)
- In “View Expired tasks” mode tasks with an expired date are highlighted, plus the amount of hours that a task is overdue is shown
In future versions we will add new hints, for e.g. the task will become red
In the next version:
- The Gantt chart will take Saturdays, Sundays and standard work days into account. You will be able to switch this function on/off
- Special version under Mac Os Snow Leopard (64 bit)
- Planning nonmaterial resources (rooms + “cutting rooms” + cameras, etc. )
- Identification of time/resource overlaps during task assignment
- Automatic export into ICal network calendar readable in external calendars (Google, ICal, Outlook)
