Cerebro continues publishing interviews with customers. We talk with producers, project managers, and other industry professionals. Our new interview features Alexander Oplanchuk from ‘Baahubali 2: The Conclusion’ VFX Team.

Here it comes! A Cerebro Road Trip to the countries of Asia. During the whole month of September we are going to visit some of most important countries of Asia, and with their help we will be able to find some new agents for our services. We have products: – Cerebro https://cerebrohq.com/ the environment for teamwork and learning in the Media & Entertainment industry. – Staya http://staya.vc/en/ recruiting IT-platform like “adwords” but for Jobs. The whole month is packed with meetings. Our plans are:

• September 4-10 – Beijing, China
• September 11-13 – Shanghai, China
• September 14-19 – Mumbai, India
• September 20-22 – Bangalore, India
• September 23-29 – Seoul, Korea
• October 1-6 – Tokyo, Japan

During this days, we will show our services, personally to our agents, which can sale or support our products. If you want to become your agent, please write to Victoria vanyushkina@cerebrohq.com for scheduling a meeting!

Cerebro continues publishing interviews with customers. We talk with producers, project managers, and other industry professionals. There is our new interview with Alexey Duk from PIK Group.

Cerebro continues publishing interviews with customers. We talk with producers, project managers, and other industry professionals. Our new interview features RC Kamalakannan from ‘Baahubali 2: The Conclusion’ VFX Team.

Cerebro talked to United 3D Labs.

Attending MIFA in Annecy? Be sure to visit us at booth 4C.19 on June 13-16! Discover new features, ask questions and and get demos. We love to communicate and will be happy to see you. Brand new Mirada design coming soon! Now even more functional. You will be able to make a comparison via curtain. Don’t miss your chance to get an extra discount. To book a meeting, contact us at: vanyushkina@cerebrohq.com Stay tuned, there’s more coming!

Cerebro resumes publishing interviews with representatives of corporate customers. We will talk with producers, project managers, and other industry professionals. Another interview features Vadim Vinogorov from the Sila Sveta interactive media studio.

For everyone New Cerebro Cerebro Serpens Client for Windows, Mac Os X and Linux Operation operating systems. For Factory users: Database structure updated For Studio users: Cargador component updated Server Components Installation Guide Download Cerebro client Download server components Mirada Now we support a wide range of video compression codecs. We can quickly add new codecs by your request. We’ve also added an ability to comment over PDF files and to work with the high-resolution images. The ability to work with high-resolution images. Cerebro We’ve added a new function, which allows to save all the files from the messages or forum in the selected folder. We’ve also added a new list in the projects and users statistics to help you filter it easier. Gantt chart We’ve optimized user assignment feature to the multiple tasks. Now you can assign the user to any number of tasks without “the request has been rejected” issue.

Today we talked to Felipe Morell, the executive producer and CEO of Digitz Film a production company in Columbia in South America.

“The voice of the people” and reports rating

Cerebro has added a new feature to like or dislike messages. Now anyone can express an attitude to any post whether it is a colleague’s report or a supervisor’s review. All likes and dislikes are anonymous.

Besides the likes, there is a new feature to rate reports using a 5 grade scale. In comparison with the likes, only users who are assigned with special rights can rate the reports.

You can assign such right to supervisors or team leads, so that they will be able to do their “objective” evaluation.

Rating

User rating is calculated based on likes and dislikes of reports as well as on an “achievement”. This feature is available in users statistics.

There are new six columns added in statistics: overdue in hours, overdue in days, reports rating, likes, dislikes and user rating. You can choose which criteria to include in a rating calculation, as well as normalize rating using 10 grade scale.

Normalization makes sense only for user groups analysis.

We believe it would be great to reward the best workers  😉

Archived tasks

 New features allow to archive not only the whole projects, but also some selected task threads using a button “Archive” on the task panel.

Archived task threads is useful in “endless” projects. Tasks added in archive become invisible in all lists, besides statistics and search. You can add criteria “Archived tasks” in the search window to exclude search in it. You can check and restore archived tasks in the Navigator. Main menu -> View -> Show archived tasks

Shifts

 If your workflow consists of shifts, you can switch a time displayed to shifts inside Cerebro. Any changes of the time displayed is available in an application setting. Mainmenu -> Cerebro -> Settings

Put in the shift duration and all values connected to hours will be calculated and displayed in shifts, according to duration specified by you.

Login as other user

Now an administrator can login to Cerebro with their colleagues’ accounts. You can do it by opening an Administrator window, choosing Users tab, then choosing an user and push the button “Login as”

The right to login as another user is set by right “Login as other users”

Columns administration

 We added a new column picker, which allows to quickly hide and show needful columns in the lists of the tasks.

This button is located above each task list. After pushing it, there will open a new window with a list of the columns, where you can include/exclude displaying of any of columns, as well as columns with the project tags. You can also save different sets of columns to switch between it quickly.

Plugins distribution

 Cerebro plugins can be distributed among users of your companies by the system itself.

To find more, please read the documentation (LINK)

Application usage statistics collection

To improve quality, functionality and usability we have implemented statistics collection on application usage.

Usage statistics includes general information about settings, user interface features usage, response rate and memory usage. Personal data are not collected in usage statistics. 

Please, give Cerebro an access to send usage statistics to Cinesoft. It will help us to know which features we should improve.

More information

We are pleased to announce KWENT and Cerebro products integration. KWENT MAM key features:

• Systematization, demonstration and search for media files
• Comments and approval over images and video
• Order placement for content purchases
• Conversion of file formats according to requirements of broadcasters

 

For companies which already use KWENT or Cerebro we have the following features available:

– large files review inside KWENT МАМ with system desktop viewers (you can find and open files from Cerebro in KWENT МАМ using appropriate buttons)

– For Cerebro users planning to have content approval with a large number of users we have a web-system for negotiations inside KWENT МАМ. Its results are available for review a matching task inside Cerebro.

This integration allows to use features important for you inside KWENT МАМ without purchasing additional Cerebro licenses.

For trial access and further information please contact Julia Khokhriakova ( +79255119592, ykhokhryakova@kwent.ru).

This season we are going to visit some places around the globe to meet our customers and find more ways to make you happy with our product:

• Starting from May 26-30th we will stay in New York
• Then June 1-3rd enjoy San Francisco
• During June 14-18 we will exhibit at MIFA in Annecy In every place we will be extremely happy to meet you and show our system.

Your feedback will be important for us and for our future product development, also it will give us a great product promotion opportunity. If you are interested in Cerebro, it is a great chance to see the product and have a free presentation by the product developers in your office in United States. If you are located somewhere around our planned locations or want to book the meeting at your booth, please send to Victoria Vanyushkina (vanyushkina@cerebrohq.com), an enquiry and we will drop-in to your place too! See you there!

We are happy to announce that we have changed a name for our Home Plan. Now we call it Team Plan. But the most important thing is the plan itself: – Now you can purchase up to 10 users instead of 5 users as it was in a previous edition; – We have added more space to our cloud storage. Now it is 30GB instead of 15 GB And the last thing is the price. We have lowered it from 9$ to 6$ for user per month. We hope that these changes will help to improve business of small teams using this plan or only planning to start it.

Release Date: Mar 16, 2016 You can read this short release notes or read Full one

In this release we concentrated on an improvement of our planning tools. We call it Cerebro exacto.

Couple of words about our new style of a main screen*

The main pa

Basic panels are switched using a  tabulator on the left. On the right there are buttons which open/hide a Forum, Task Properties and Assignments. The main panels may detach from the main screen by dragging a tabulator button.

* If a new interface does not suit you, you can switch to an old one by choosing an option in a Main Menu View  -> Go back to an old style

Gantt Chart

We have a new Gannnt Chart in Cerebro

Task tree is displayed on the left side of a panel, awhile its graphic representation is on the left side .The graphic part shows the duration and relative positions of tasks on a timeline as well as their connections

In the graphic region you can arrange and assign tasks. You can also perform  the same operations as on the  Navigator panel  i.e create, move, delete, copy tasks, etc..

Links

A panel of links is an additional window, where you can check your links in graphics.

You can change the time of assignments and delete ones you don’t need using the Assignments panel.

Planning Tool

Planning tool allows you to arrange your tasks on a timeline. The planning tool now indicates when new users are added.

 To move any user’s task for a specified time, there is a panel displaying all tasks assigned to the user..

Calendar

Calendar is an additional way to view user’s tasks in graphics.

Yo can also create your tasks on the calendar.

Mirada

 Mirada has finally learnt how to draw straight lines, ellipsis, and rectangles, with vector editing enabled.

We have also added extra speed to work with h264 codecs and enabled working with DVCAM codecs.

Full release notes

Release Date: Oct 14, 2015 For everyone – New Cerebro Client for Windows, Mac Os X and Linux Server componentes: – Database structure updated – Cargador component updated Server Components Installation Guide Download Cerebro client Download server components  

Optimization

Database interaction was optimized to speed up adding, copying, moving tasks, assigning employees, editing time parameters for tasks.

New style and icons

Application looks and icons were changed. You can also configure your icons as you want them.     To do that, open Styles window (Main menu -> Cerebro Serpens ->Styles…) and add a new style.  

Mirada

– New “Dripper” tool allows you to get a color of a pixel from an opened media file and use it in “Brush” and “Text label” tools; – Onion Skin mode changed: drawings counter is no longer linked to original media frames, but rather to the amount of drawings in the timeline; – Mirada now uses new dynamic library ffMpeg which allows for simler and easier video playback; – Bugfixes: Review with empty drawing couldn’t longer be sent, support for tablet pen presses;

New notification system

Notification system in Cerebro went through major overhaul. Now you can configure notifications on Company / Project / User levels; New notifications added, e.g. “Expired task notifications” and notifications for every status; Notifications for client and e-mail are now separated; Notificcations can be configured for every role; You can read about new Notification system in more detail here  

Task manager

Task Manager is a tool for performing different actions on tasks, posts and attachments conveniently – namely, navigation, copying, moving, etc. Task Manager is a twin-panel GUI application. To launch Task Manager, use item in Main menu -> Tools -> Task manager. You can move / copy tasks and messages between panels, view and change task properties. More details here  

Attachment list and parent task forum toggle

  Forum now has two new panels – “Parent task forum” and “Attachments”. They can be toggled with buttons on bottom panel. Parent level forum is helpful when you need to post messages on different levels of tasks, and your employees can also access it without excess clicking. Attachments panel allows you to see all post attachments on the specified forum.  

Embedded Filter window and new Filter parameters

  Task filter window can now be embedded into Task list. New filters were added

• Unwarched tasks
• Projects
• References

Filters can also be applied to Statistics windows.  

Also:

 

Limited visibility policy changes

Users with limited permissions now can view posts in parent tasks. This is to allow viewing of posts which are used for general guidelines and technical specifications, and users with limited permissions might require that.

Permission configuration for several tasks at once

Добавлена возможность установления прав доступа для нескольких выделенных задач.

Make Unique

Links could be made as full-functioning tasks.  

Text is now saved as you type your post

If you accidentally close Message window, text now will be saved and will reappear once you open the window back.

Fast Search criteria toggle and lots of new criterias

You can toggle search criterias without deleting them now. There’s also a new criteria – task last level.

Task tracking statistics

Task tracking now has statistics table for all tracked tasks – how many tasks are ready, how many are in process, how many haven’t begun yet, etc.

Intermediary reports and statuses in active task window

In Active tasts window you can make an intermediary report without removing task from the list. Additionally, you will be offered to change task status while adding / removing task to Active Tasks tab, and your choice will be saved.  

Client API, buttons, new events

Important! PyQt5 is now used instead of PySide:

Since migration to new QT version, support for PySide for graphical interfaces is no longer possible. PyQt5 is now used instead of PySide, a package is provided with distribution. If you used PySide in your plugins, you should make changes to your plugins replacing PySide with PyQt. In most cases all you need to do is replace PySide with PyQt5 and QtGui with QtWidgets. In case of any problems, contact our technical support.

Embedded buttons and menus

API for embedded buttons and menus is now changed. Old version is still supported. New system allows you to embed not only menus, but buttons into panels on program interface.

New events

New events are added to process hashtag changes for tasks, messages and attachments. There also are events for changing client visibility for posts and reports.  

Server API, multi-requests, task copying, hashtags

 

Important! psycopg2 for python3:

Due to major changes in database module we were obliged to refuse supporting py-postgresql module for python3, and replace it with psycopg2. If you used server API module for python 3.x, you shold install psycopg module (http://initd.org/psycopg/) when updating.

Multi-requests in database module.

All functions that change task properties, and some others,  now can accept an array of tasks as an argument. If you need to set a similar parameter to several tasks, you preferably should use an array of IDs instaed of cycles, it will drastically improve performance.

New functions in database module:

Module has some new functions implemented:

• task_attachments, to get a list of all attachments in task
• copy_tasks, for copying tasks respectively
• hashtag interaction functions for tasks, posts and attachments
• task_by_url, returns task ID using its URL.

Examples

Since API is updated, examples of using API are now updated too. There are also new examples of importing / exporting tasks from spreadsheets.  

More information here

 

Today the old version of Administrator Account is no longer available (Web client menu, Account -> Buy Cerebro). New User Account is located at the top of the web page. Web client is still available as usual. New features compared to old version:

• Ability to easily obtain your licenses if you are using Factory plan
• Automatic recurring payments by credit card
• Precise end date selection
• Possibility to change your pricing plan if needed
• Card transactions are handled by Stripe transaction service

Account in our Administrator Account system is created automatically after registering a new universe. We already created Administrator Account logins for all of our current administrators. If you do not have one, ask your colleagues to create it or contact our support staff. Note that after invoice request, you will immediately receive a temporary license for two weeks, you will receive a license for the entire period after completing the transaction. You can refer to our documentation for details. If you have any questions, please contact us at Live Chat or support@cinesoft.ru

On April 13-16, we are planning to visit the MIPTV conference in Cannes. Be sure to visit us at the Russian Cinema Booth (R7. E40) where we will be presenting our newest Cerebro release.  We are looking forward to show Cerebro to Animation / VFX crowd, because their feedback will be very valuable for us and for further product development. More than 150 animation studios and film production companies already use Cerebro. The latest successful finished projects created using Cerebro as a production tool: Animation: Smeshariki (Gororiki), Fixiki, Alisa knows better; Broadcast design and film production: Sochi 2015 Opening ceremony, Stalingrad. If you are interested in new markets and increased productivity, please mail to Olga (olga.nikulina@cerebrohq.com) and we will arrange special time and place for you meeting. See you there!

Let us begin with EXCLUSIVE teaser premiere of «Sergiy Radonezhsky. The Legend of Miracle Worker» and continue further interview with Maxim Alaev, head of compositing department at DA-Studio

We continue the tradition and today we will talks with Tatiana Toropova, head of the RENDER.RU Center of Distance Learning

On October 13-16, we are planning to visit the MIPCOM conference in Cannes. Be sure to visit us at the Russian Animation Booth ( C16. A7) where we will be presenting our newest Cerebro releases.  We are looking forward to show Cerebro to Animation / VFX crowd, because their feedbacks will be very valuable for us and for further product development. If you are interesting in new markets and productivity raising, please mail to Konstantin Kharitonov (khar@cerebro.com) and we will arrange special time and place for you. See you there!