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“With Baselight 8 coming in 2027, the interesting part is not the number of new buttons. Some features continue or substantially expand work introduced with Baselight v7, while others rethink long-standing specialist tools, extend mastering and cloud workflows, or make greater use of machine learning and the growing FilmLight API ecosystem. So we did not ask what each feature does, but why FilmLight built it and what problem it is intended to remove before that problem becomes an expensive evening shift. To explain it all, we sat down with Martin Tlaskal and Daniele Siragusano.”

Burlington, Mass. and London, UK, September 9, 2026:  Avid® and FilmLight today announced a strategic partnership to bring a new Baselight-powered color experience natively into Avid Media Composer®, marking a major step toward a more connected color pipeline for post production.

For decades, Media Composer has been where many of the world’s most demanding film and television stories are shaped, while Baselight has set the standard for high-end color finishing. By bringing these creative environments closer together, Avid and FilmLight are moving beyond traditional plug-in workflows toward a more integrated approach to color both inside Media Composer and beyond it, one designed to help teams preserve intent, reduce handoffs and keep color connected from dailies through finishing and delivery.

“This partnership reflects how our products are actually used – by specialists collaborating to create some of the world’s most compelling film and television content,” said Rich Camp, Media Composer Product Manager, Avid. “By bringing FilmLight’s expertise deeper into the Media Composer workflow, we’re giving editors a native color experience with powerful tools directly in the timeline. That means editors can cut and craft their timeline while working more seamlessly with colorists, so more time and focus stays where it matters most: the story.”

FilmLight Co-founder Steve Chapman added: “FilmLight has always focused on creating color  tools that fit seamlessly into post production workflows. Our collaboration with Avid allows us to combine strengths and deliver new levels of color creativity and accuracy to the editorial experience.”

A new approach to editorial color

Avid and FilmLight are focusing on four key areas:

• Native color inside Media Composer: Bringing Baselight-powered color capabilities deeper into the Media Composer experience, so color feels like part of the edit, not a separate step bolted on at the end.
• A connected path from dailies to delivery: Keeping color decisions open and connected throughout production, helping teams move more fluidly between editorial, review, grading and finishing.
• Specialist color science at editorial scale: Extending FilmLight’s color technology to a broader community of Media Composer users, while preserving the depth, precision and control required by professional colorists and finishing teams inside the traditional Baselight environment.
• Expanded online and delivery capabilities: Scaling with the needs of each production, from being able to complete delivery entirely within Media Composer to a renderless roundtrip with full Baselight for teams working at the highest levels of finishing and delivery.

From dailies to delivery, with color connected

The partnership is designed to help creative teams carry color decisions through production more seamlessly. Instead of treating editorial and color as separate stages connected by exports, renders and conforms, Avid and FilmLight are working toward a more continuous workflow where the edit can better reflect the intended look of the finished project.

For editors, that means greater confidence in the timeline. For colorists, it means creative decisions can be reflected instantly between Media Composer editorial and Baselight finishing environments. For facilities and studios, it creates a workflow that can scale from editorial color through online and delivery, including renderless roundtrip with full Baselight for the highest-end finishing needs.

Building on the proven Baselight Editions workflow available today, the partnership points to a broader native color direction for Media Composer: specialist FilmLight color science and tools embedded more deeply into the editorial experience, with capabilities designed to scale across different production needs.

“Media Composer and Baselight have been at the center of our post production workflow at ENVY for over 20 years, so it’s exciting to see these two companies working more closely together and continuing to play such an important role in our industry,” said Jai Cave, Technical Operation Director at ENVY Post Production, which has produced The Traitors, At Home with the Furys, and The Grand Tour. “Production workflows continue to evolve, with demand for the color journey on-set to flow right through editorial, VFX and finishing post whilst projects combine an increasingly complex array of formats. Closer alignment between editorial and grade has the potential to bring real workflow benefits to creative teams. We look forward to seeing the vision Avid and FilmLight are building.”

About Avid

Avid is the power behind the content that touches virtually every person on the planet. Every word, every note, every frame, every day. Powering greater creators and trusted newsmakers, Avid enables everyone with a story to tell – from Emmy®, Grammy®, and Oscar® winners to rising talent. Built on a dynamic media intelligence surface, Avid tools support the full production lifecycle, from story assignment and editorial editing through archive and distribution. Avid understands professional media from the inside, combining human creativity with AI-driven orchestration so production moves faster, costs less, and allows organizations to see what their content is worth.

www.avid.com

About FilmLight

FilmLight provides unrivalled color grading, image processing, and workflow tools deployed on-premises or in the cloud – setting new standards for quality, reliability and performance. The company’s streamlined metadata-based workflows employ robust products with cutting edge creative tools, allowing creative professionals to work at the forefront of the digital media revolution. Founded in 2002, FilmLight’s core business is centred on the innovation, implementation and support of its products – including Baselight, Baselight Editions, Daylight and Nara – in leading production companies, post-production facilities and film/TV studios around the world. The company is also committed to helping customers build more efficient, connected pipelines via the FilmLight API.

FilmLight is headquartered in London, where its research, design and manufacturing operations are centred. Sales and support are conducted through regional service centres and qualified partners worldwide.

For more information, visit https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk

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Simplifying modern workflows with FLAPI

Much industry interest has been generated by Netflix’s Technology Blog post, Scaling Camera File Processing at Netflix, which highlighted how FilmLight’s API (FLAPI) sits at the heart of Netflix’s Media Production Suite. Visitors to this year’s IBC will be able to discover how those same advantages can be applied to their own workflows, no matter how complex or bespoke.

With global technical hubs in London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Munich and Mumbai, FilmLight continues to solidify its role as the studio partner of choice, providing deep technical expertise and infrastructure support for productions of any scale. Senior FilmLight staff, including Martin Tlaskal, Head of Development, and Daniele Siragusano, Image Engineer, will be available at IBC to share their perspectives on the future of post-production workflows, as well as demonstrating the innovative features coming in Baselight v8.

Exclusive Preview: Baselight v8

Visitors to the FilmLight stand are invited to an exclusive preview of Baselight v8, the company’s flagship colour grading system. Combined with FLAPI, Baselight v8 simplifies increasingly complex production pipelines through intelligent grading, collaboration, and workflow integration. And alongside that workflow power, it continues to deliver the bold new creative tools that colourists rely on.

Innovations on display include: an innovative approach to grain simulation; audio tracks, with the implementation of dedicated tracks on the timeline that yield a cleaner visual layout while enabling precise audio editing and trimming; the machine learning-based Groups View, which analyses a scene to group shots by narrative location and camera angle – greatly speeding up the process of selecting shots for Grouped Grading operations; and many more grading tool, workflow and usability enhancements.

Expanding Media Collaboration: Nara and Daylight

FilmLight will also highlight the latest developments across its extended media management ecosystem, including Daylight – the quiet dailies powerhouse that supports viewing, shot selection and production metadata management – and Nara, the media management and collaboration platform currently deployed by facilities like Harbor.

Daylight is built on exactly the same core infrastructure as Baselight, combining
grading and metadata tools in a complete on-set workflow.

Key upcoming updates for Nara include: streamlined Consolidate & Transcode that harnesses the power of FilmLight’s render engine but provides a simple interface for on-demand operations; full, native integration with Frame.io to facilitate rapid cloud review and client approval workflows; and FLAPI Report Generation allowing Nara to deliver comprehensive storage analytic reports.

Direct Amazon S3 Object Storage Integration

In a major development for cloud-based post-production, FilmLight will demonstrate direct read and write support for Amazon S3 object storage across its product suite, including Nara. By providing native S3 access without requiring intermediate file systems, FilmLight dramatically lowers the operational costs and complexity of storing, accessing, and processing high-resolution media directly within AWS cloud environments.

Visit FilmLight at IBC 2026

The team look forward to welcoming you on stand 6.C19.

The Scaling Camera File Processing at Netflix article can be read here.

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Visitors to IBC 2026 will see how FilmLight is reshaping the modern post pipeline, from automated media handling to real-time collaboration — and get an early look at Baselight v8.

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Exclusive preview:
Baselight v8 & FilmLight API

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You’re invited to an exclusive preview of Baselight v8, FilmLight’s flagship colour grading system. 

Combined with the FilmLight API (FLAPI), Baselight v8 simplifies increasingly complex production pipelines through intelligent grading, collaboration, and workflow integration. And alongside that workflow power, it continues to deliver the bold new creative tools that colourists rely on.

New tools include: an innovative approach to grain simulation; audio tracks on the timeline that yield a cleaner visual layout while enabling precise audio editing and trimming; and the machine learning-based Groups View, which analyses a scene to group shots by narrative location and camera angle.

Advanced media collaboration:
Nara, Daylight and FLAPI

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See the latest developments across FilmLight’s extended media management ecosystem, including Daylight – the quiet dailies powerhouse that supports viewing, shot selection and production metadata management – and Nara, media management and collaboration platform.

Key upcoming updates for Nara include: streamlined Consolidate & Transcode that harnesses the power of FilmLight’s render engine but provides a simple interface for on-demand operations; full, native integration with Frame.io to facilitate rapid cloud review and client approval workflows; and FLAPI Report Generation allowing Nara to deliver comprehensive storage analytic reports.

Find out how the same advantages enjoyed by the major studios through their implementation of the FilmLight API (FLAPI) can be applied to your own workflows, no matter how complex or bespoke. FLAPI can be utilised for everything from automating dailies tasks in Daylight to forming an integral part of a complex Media Production Suite, as implemented by Netflix.

FilmLight & Barco invite you

Super Lyan Bar, Amsterdam
Saturday 12 September, 6:30-9:30PM

Join us on Saturday 12 September for an evening with the FilmLight and Barco teams and invited guests, and enjoy a selection of signature cocktails.

RSVP to secure your place, and experience a unique blend of creativity, innovation, and great conversations.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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