Creative Outpost launches bespoke remote grading platform CO-Stream

Post-production house Creative Outpost has rolled out its bespoke remote grading platform called CO-Stream. The company says it’s been custom-built to recreate the experience of working together inside a grading suite from anywhere in the world.

CO-Stream combines ultra-low latency with live grading and private breakout spaces to create a remote experience unlike the standard video-call-and-stream model.

The platform provides international creative teams with real-time access to Creative Outpost’s colourists and grading suites. Directors, cinematographers, producers and agency teams can watch a grade develop live, respond to changes as they happen and make frame-accurate creative decisions in real time.

The private breakout room enables agency teams, producers and clients to hold conversations away from the main session before returning to the grade.

Creative Outpost partner and chief technology officer Quentin “Q” Olszewski, said: “Remote grading has often solved the distance problem without fully solving the experience problem. We wanted to recreate the rhythm of being at Creative Outpost - arriving together, sitting in the grade, stepping into a private room for conversations and coming back ready to make decisions.

“The technology should support the creative conversation and then disappear into the background. Whether the Director is in LA or sitting beside the Colourist in Fitzrovia, the session should still feel immediate, personal and instinctive.”

Creative Outpost head of colour Mark Horrobin adds: “A grade is built through tiny reactions - a Director responding to a change in mood, a DP protecting a detail in the photography or a creative team seeing an idea come together as the image shifts.

“When the latency is low enough and everybody is looking at the same image at the same time, that instinctive collaboration returns. Geography stops dictating who can be in the room.”