LONDON, UK – 13 September 2010
Surreal Road today announced the release of a new beta version of its production-tracking software, Synaesthesia®. The new version adds the capability to read in Final Draft® 8 screenplay files, and adds the ability to synchronize with data with Shotgun, a web-based production-tracking system.
“This is the eighth significant update to our product in as many months”, said Surreal Road’s Managing Director, Jack James., “and as with many of our new features, was based entirely on the needs of our existing users”. This new release, along with existing support for applications such as Final Cut Pro® and RED® Digital Cinema media, enables filmmakers to get control over the film-making process, from planning to post.
Synaesthesia is a database-driven application for Mac® OS X, targeted at filmmakers who need to track data across the lifetime of a production. From loading in screenplays and storyboards during pre-production, through logging action during a shoot, to creating sequences during post, it forms intelligent links out of all the data, and its gorgeous interface allows filmmakers to annotate and use modern data management techniques such as tagging in an intuitive way to keep everything organized and accessible. It was created to fulfill a need to organize the massive amounts of data and metadata that could be generated on a shoot, that simply was not being met by other software companies.
In the new version, available now, users can import Final Draft 8 documents, with the software automatically breaking down and linking scene, shot, set, character, script-note and screenplay data. Integration with Shotgun allows two-way synchronization of scenes, shots and takes with a central, collaborative server.
Synaesthesia is currently in open beta, and is available as a free download at http://synaesthesia.surrealroad.com.
About Surreal Road Ltd.
Surreal Road Limited is a small software development company based in London, UK. It creates software that is both powerful and intuitive for managing many aspects of digital motion picture production and post-production., that are useful to both blockbuster budget and independent movies productions alike. For more information, visit http://www.surrealroad.com.
About Final Draft Inc.
Final Draft, Inc. was founded in 1991 to develop a scriptwriting program that allows the writer to concentrate on the creative process and not on Hollywood's stringent formatting rules. Since then, Final Draft software has become the Hollywood professional's choice and the world's #1-selling scriptwriting program. For more information, visit http://www.finaldraft.com.
About Shotgun Software Inc.
Shotgun Software was founded in January 2006 by a group of visual effects professionals to build production tracking and pipeline solutions. The founding members worked together on a major studio animated feature, and are developing Shotgun to fill the mounting industry need for a commercially viable system for managing complex projects in CG, gaming and visual effects. Shotgun is actively developing the system with more than 30 industry studios including Digital Domain, Framestore, Zoic Studios, and Laika. For more information, and an online demonstration, visit http://www.shotgunsoftware.com.
Synaesthesia is a registered trademark of Surreal Road Limited. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.