The overnight shift for frames that cannot touch a public cloud.
Overnight roto, cleanup and upscaling for pre-release content that your client's rules keep off public clouds, on the Azita fleet or on an installation in your building.
Prefer email? hello@azitalabs.com, subject “VFX workload evaluation”.
The job
The artists' day, and the render room's night.
The work is the grind under every episode: roto, matting, wire and rig removal, plate cleanup, upscaling to delivery resolution, frame interpolation and denoise. Open models can propose much of it, frame by frame, if they are allowed to see the frames. On an OTT title the client's content-security rules keep pre-release frames off a public cloud, so the work needs a location your assessor can review: on the Azita fleet, or in your own building.
- What you bring
- Plates and queued shots, with the supervisor's notes for each pass.
- What comes back
- Roto, mattes, cleanup, upscale, interpolation and denoise passes returned to your review queue for artists to check and finish.
By day
The artists
Supervisors queue the shots, artists review the overnight passes, fix what needs a hand, and send the next batch.
By night
The frames
Queued shots processed pass by pass, frame by frame, after the floor empties, with the results returned to the review queue. When they are ready is agreed in your evaluation.
What runs
What runs for the queue.
Open video and image models of the classes below, pinned once your supervisors have approved the look on your own shots. No vendor names: the model is chosen against your material, not a showreel.
- Segmentation and matting models
- Roto and mattes proposed frame by frame for the artist to refine, judged on how consistently they hold across the shot.
- Inpainting and cleanup models
- Wire, rig and marker removal, plate cleanup, and fills across a moving camera, for the artist to check.
- Upscaling, interpolation and denoise models
- Delivery-resolution upscales, frame-rate conversion and grain-aware denoise for the passes that used to wait for a farm slot.
- Your pipeline
- Your node-based tools and render management stay yours. How they connect to the capacity is confirmed during the evaluation and set out in your proposal.
How it is delivered
Two ways it reaches the queue.
Both routes are scoped around your queue, and how your pipeline connects is set out in your proposal.
Capacity from the Azita fleet
The work runs on capacity from Azita's installations, with the processing location set in your agreement. If a pipeline or render-management vendor runs your queue, how it connects is scoped in the proposal.
An installation in your building
Azita designs, installs, commissions and operates an installation in your own building, serving your queue, and meters the work. Whether a room suits an installation is decided by a site assessment.
Boundaries
Agreed before any work runs.
For a post house the argument is content security: the client's rules forbid a public cloud for pre-release material. Each of these is agreed in your proposal and set in your agreement before any work runs.
- Processing location
- Where frames are processed and stored during the work: on the Azita fleet, or on an installation in your building, as your agreement sets out.
- Model choice
- Which open models run each pass, and the version each is pinned to once your supervisors approve the look.
- Access
- Who can reach the frames and the installation, and how that access is recorded for your content-security assessor.
- Retention and exit
- How long frames and passes are kept, and how they are handled when the agreement ends. Exit and erasure terms are set out in your agreement.
Evaluation
Judged on your own work.
Your supervisors pick the shots and judge the passes. No delivery depends on it until they say so.
- Representative input
- A handful of shots your artists would rather not roto by hand, on material you are cleared to share for a test.
- Quality criteria
- The look your supervisors approve: edge quality, consistency across the shot, and the fixes an artist still needs to make.
- Volume
- The shots and passes in scope, agreed to represent an episode's grind.
- Turnaround
- When passes are back in the review queue, agreed before the evaluation starts.
- Acceptance
- Your supervisors judge the passes against the criteria. If they do not meet them, nothing moves.
Evaluation template. No measured results
Compare the same work.
Agree the workload, conditions and acceptance criteria before comparing a baseline with Azita.
- Agreed workload
- [Agree before evaluation]
- Same input and scope
- [Agree before evaluation]
- Acceptance criteria
- [Agree before evaluation]
| Comparison basis | Current baseline | Azita |
|---|---|---|
| Output qualityEvaluate against the agreed acceptance criteria. | To measure | To measure |
| Completion timeUse the same start and finish definitions. | To measure | To measure |
| VolumeRecord the amount of work in the agreed unit. | To measure | To measure |
| Data locationRecord the processing location and relevant boundaries. | To measure | To measure |
| Total costCompare the same scope and included cost items. | To measure | To measure |
Commercial basis
Proposal based on your workload and deployment.
There is no price list on this page. Your proposal sets out what is quoted, the commitment and what is included.
Named in your proposal where they apply
- Licences for the compositing and pipeline tools involved
- Integration with your storage, pipeline and render management
- Artist review time for the passes
- The commitment, and what is included
Compare quality and total cost on your own workload before you decide.
Where this stands today.
Available to evaluate on your own workload. On the Azita fleet, or on an installation in your building.
Who it is for
Who this is for.
An episodic queue is a steady workload on its own. It suits houses that already have a render room, a content-security assessment, and a grind their artists would rather not do by hand.
- Post houses delivering episodic OTT with spare power in an existing render room
- Content-security assessed studios in Mumbai and Hyderabad
- Regional localisation and finishing vendors with an overnight queue
- VFX supervisors who want the grind off the artists' desks without an upload
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Straight answers.
Do the frames ever touch a public cloud?
Not unless your agreement allows it. Where frames are processed is set in your agreement before any work runs: on the Azita fleet, or on an installation in your own building. Your content-security assessor reviews the arrangement.
Is the quality good enough for a delivery?
That is what the evaluation is for. Your supervisors pick the shots and your artists judge the passes. Where a pass needs a hand it gets one; where it does not, the artist moves on to the next shot.
Will it run with our tools?
Your node-based compositing and pipeline tools stay yours. How they connect is confirmed against your own setup during the evaluation and set out in your proposal, before anything is signed.
What about our client's content-security assessment?
The arrangements your assessor asks about are set in your agreement: where the frames are processed, who can reach them, which model versions run and what happens at exit. Which certifications apply to your deployment, and their status, are set out in your proposal.
How is it priced?
Proposal based on your workload and deployment. There is no price list on this page. We agree a representative job and the acceptance criteria, then set out what is included, the commitment and the total cost next to what the same passes cost you today, before you decide.
Will a delivery ever depend on it?
Not until your supervisors say so. The evaluation starts with passes your team would otherwise queue, judged before any deadline rides on them.
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Start with your own workload.
Send us one episode's grind
A handful of shots your artists would rather not roto by hand, on material you are cleared to share for a test. We agree the acceptance criteria with your supervisors, then compare the passes, turnaround and total cost with how you work today. We’ll review what you need to run and contact you to discuss the right setup.
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