Bridge Technology - Integration of Cromorama’s ORION-CONVERT with the VB440
Category Post Production
Bridge Technologies' Integration of Cromorama’s ORION-CONVERT with the VB440
Bridge Technologies submits for consideration the most recent advancement to its industry-leading IP-based production probe, the VB440 integration with Cromorama’s ORION-CONVERT™ colour management system. Augmenting the VB440’s already extensive colour management capabilities, this additional integration brings ORION-CONVERT™’s groundbreaking colour science to the field of IP-based production, and reflects Bridge’s commitment to empowering production professionals with advanced, user-friendly tools.
The integration offers unmatched colour consistency for both HDR and SDR in live productions, especially within high-demand, multi-camera environments like global sports broadcasts. Technologically, this integration addresses the complex task of managing and converting HDR and SDR signals across varied camera setups with precision. ORION-CONVERT™’s unique, three-step HDR/SDR conversion algorithm allows productions to maintain a consistent look across every camera, even when specialised equipment—like mini-cams and slow-motion cameras—lacks HDR capabilities. The software achieves seamless signal management by dynamically enabling down-conversion from HDR to SDR, up-conversion from SDR to HDR, and reversible transformations to ensure consistent quality. Integrated into Bridge’s VB440, ORION-CONVERT™ is fully accessible from any HTML-5 enabled browser, allowing up to eight users to make real-time adjustments remotely with minimal latency, improving flexibility in fast-paced, live environments.
For production professionals, the speed, efficiency, and scalability provided by this integration are transformative. Previously, multi-format productions required separate equipment and labour-intensive setups, especially in environments with HDR and SDR in parallel. Complementing the VB440’s existing ability to preview HDR images on SDR screens, the ORION-CONVERT integration further helps production teams to eliminate the need for specialised HDR monitors, waveform monitors, and single-purpose controllers. This integration not only reduces equipment overhead but also drastically cuts setup time, simplifies logistics, and reduces capital expenses, energy consumption and waste. Moreover, it provides flexibility for production teams to adjust to creative requirements on the fly—whether tailoring colour grades for diverse broadcast formats or adapting to varying lighting conditions in live sports.
This partnership exemplifies Bridge’s broader philosophy of fostering collaboration within the broadcast sector. Rather than promoting a single approach or set of standards, formats and protocols, Bridge provides users the flexibility to maintain their established workflows whilst still benefiting from the VB440’s unrivalled capacity for live, remote and distributed production. The integration with Cromorama represents one of a number of recent partnerships that Bridge have undertaken, facilitating cross-technology integration to build a unified ecosystem where third-party innovations can thrive alongside Bridge’s own proprietary tools. These integrations augment the existing range of groundbreaking tools already found within the probe, which span the full spectrum of production tasks from remote studio setup to network diagnostics, camera painting, sound engineering, and far beyond. By engaging specialists in individual fields – such as Cromorama and their expertise in colour science – Bridge Technologies ensures that the VB440 is not just remarkable in terms of its span of production functionalities, but establishes each individual tool as a best-in-class offering in itself, frequently exceeding the functionalities provided for by single-function, ‘specialist’ hardware.
