A project & asset management software for M&E industries http://cerebrohq.com

Designed for CG Artists. By CG Artists.

TOO MUCH MESS?

Lose files?

Misunderstand comments?

Don’t understand where we are?

Exceed the budget?

Have communication issues?

Fail to meet deadlines?

Forget what to do?

Don’t know what your co-workers do?

OR TOO MUCH PAPER WORK?

• Fed up with daily reporting routine?

• Tired of endless meetings?

• Drowning in the ocean of e-mails?

• Lost in coordination chains?

• Slowed down by delayed feedback?

It provides:

• All-in-one toolkit for project planning and tracking, assets and multimedia files storage.

• Forum threads for project discussions and task tracking.

• Easy reporting.

• Instant progress overviews and summaries.

• Resource usage control.

• Individual and group calendars connected to Gantt chart.

• On-line and off-line reviewing tools.

CEREBRO HELPS AVOID THE EXTREMES!

After.

Before.

• Postproduction houses

• VFX facilities

• Advertising agencies

• Freelance team collaboration

• Production companies

• TV channels

• Graphic design studios

IT’S SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR

• Break your project down in an unlimited tree task structure – it’s as simple as making new subfolders in a file manager.

• Allocate people and/or material resources.

You’re through with basic planning. Launch your project!..

Or proceed to advanced planning:

• Connect the tasks in Gantt chart.

• Specify all necessary parameters for the tasks (time, budget, priority, etc.).

• Setup access and visibility rights.

HANDY PLANNING

• Every task can have 3 financial parameters: planned cost, actual cost, balance.

• Estimate every single task and you’ll get the project budget summed up.

• Sign off the money every time you spend it – and your accountants will adore you .

SIMPLE BUDGETING

• Have a glance at Navigator pane to get a bird’s-eye project overview or dive deep into it to get the task detailed history and actual status.

• Get e-mail notifications on the changes of the tasks you follow or do.

• Generate reports and export them to Excel or PDF.

• Search and filter tasks by a variety of tags and parameters.

• Be a step ahead with a heuristic issue tracker.

EASY TRACKING

• Every task has its own Forum thread, use it to communicate and share all sorts of files – dailies, reviews, references, you name it.

• Display selected posts to your clients to get their instant first-hand feedback.

• All the rest of a thread is for your peers’ eyes only. What happens in Cerebro stays in Cerebro .

• And no more endless meetings, briefings and debriefings!

TIME-SAVING COMMUNICATIONS

• Open the Forum thread of your task.

• Click on Reply button.

• Describe what you have done today on the task.

• Attach a file (or a folder) if necessary.

• Specify the time spent today on the task.

• Click on Send button.

• Next morning don’t forget to look up here for comments .

TWO-CLICK DAILY REPORTING

1) Double-click on a media file.

2) Draw sketches right over the frames and make text labels where necessary.

OR: Click on Record button and explain what you want as if a live artist was sitting beside you. Your voice and your actions (zoom, pan, timeline shifts, mouse movement) will be captured and saved. Stop when finished or pause when need to have a break.

3) You have your review ready to be submitted to Cerebro.

Don’t write long e-mails to explain short things!

CLEAR COMMENTS

With Cerebro you don’t need to worry where a file is stored or which version is the latest - just browse the Forum and find it all there.

Cerebro file management gives you the following benefits:

• Unlimited size of files to store and transfer (in local versions),

• Quick search,

• Access control and restrictions,

• Thumbnails for media files,

• No unwanted copies of files,

• Upload / download cues,

• And no more FTP needed!

SMART FILE MANAGEMENT

• Desktop client applications for MS Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

• Web interface

• iOS clients for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

MULTI-PLATFORM SUPPORT

Cerebro was developed in a Russian Moscow-based major postproduction facility named Cinemateka in 2007 as an in-house software for VFX project management.

In 2009 Cerebro development team established a separate company to monetize the project, and by the end of 2011 Cerebro was adopted by more than 70 postproduction and animation companies in FSU (former Soviet Union), including Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs, UMP and other FSU media production majors. Several international projects were managed by means of Cerebro, for example: - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (20th Century Fox, 2012), - The Darkest Hour (20th Century Fox, 2011), - Kikoriki: The Beginning (Riki Group, 2011), - The Black Lightning (Chernaya Molniya) (UPI, 2010), - Space Dogs 3D (CNF, 2010), - The Book of Masters (Walt Disney Pictures, 2009).

HISTORY

«I’d like to thank the CineSoft team for such a unique

management tool».

Daria Kaplya | Book of Masters motion picture

System core is a PostgreSQL database containing all the information except files attached to Forums.

Key features:

• Hosted in a cloud for SaaS users

• Installed locally (onsite) for Business and Corporate pricing plan users

• Can be installed onto Windows Server OS or Linux x64 (Ubuntu, Debian)

• Python API for integration into production pipeline

SYSTEM COMPONENTS: CORE

Cargador is a Cinesoft proprietary file management utility used for file storage, transfer, indexing and caching.

Key features:

• Supports unlimited size files,

• Verifies integrity of files being transferred,

• Supports upload and download cues with pause/cancel and restart/resume options,

• Schedules delivery of new content

• Instantly searches among millions of files,

• Prevents unnecessary file duplication (first, it supports links to network storages and, second, it identifies files by their hash sums, not by names),

• Archives files and folders on-the-fly.

As a standalone product Cargador is used to synchronize distributed file storages over Internet or LAN.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS: CARGADOR

Mirada Player (a proprietary Cinesoft product) is used for viewing and commenting over pictures and videos. Standard Version (embedded in Cerebro): • Draw or type over the content, record your activity (zoom, pan,

timeline dragging, mouse movement) together with your voice comments.

• The reviews can be submitted to Cerebro. Pro Version (embedded in Cerebro or standalone): • Stereoscopic 3D viewing and annotation tools. • Online Review Mode lets you synchronize your media and make

reviews at the same time with an unlimited group of people anywhere in the world.

• The reviews can be submitted to Cerebro or exported into MOV or JPEG.

• Python API for integration into an in-house or third-party project management software.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS: MIRADA

2012 TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP

TRY IT FOR FREE…

Features \ Version Free Demo Free Trial

Max. number of accounts 50 Unlimited

Connection via Internet Internet

File storage 5 Gb Hosted locally

License effective period 30 days 30 days

Features \ Version Home Studio Factory Corporation

Number of accounts 5 max 5 min 10 min 10 min

Connection via Internet Internet Internet and/or LAN Internet and/or LAN

File storage 5 Gb Hosted locally Hosted locally Hosted locally

Monthly fee, per 1 user $ 9 USD $ 29 USD $ 59 USD $ 89 USD

…THEN PURCHASE A VERSION THAT SUITS YOU MOST!

Visit http://cerebrohq.com/en/pricing/ to get more information on versions and pricing. Schools, non-profits and large companies get special pricing options.

CONTACTS

If you are interested to find out more about Cerebro, Cargador or Mirada please send your inquiries to: Konstantin “Stan” Kharitonov (CEO): khar@cinesoft.ru Edward Kim (Sales & Marketing): e.kim@cinesoft.ru Phone: +7 (495) 9800376 Address: Cinesoft Ltd., 55/59, Bolshaya Pochtovaya str., Moscow, 105082, Russia