Cleanfeed has launched Cleanfeed Cinema, a real-time, high-frame-rate video stream solution specifically designed for synchronous remote collaboration and audio production.

The Cleanfeed Cinema remote audio recording and review solution, for film and broadcast, can be used for ADR recording, mixing sessions, narration, dubbing or conducting real-time audio reviews with remote guests.

Founded in 2014 by Marc Bakos and Mark Hills, Cleanfeed offers an ultra-low-latency online studio for live audio and recording. This software solution builds on Cleanfeed’s experience in the broadcast and post industries. Along with winning an Emmy for Cleanfeed in 2022, Hills also has an Academy Award in the Scientific and Technical category for his earlier work in large-scale rendering of CGI for film.

Cleanfeed is known for offering a solution that allows live, unadulterated audio to be transported over the internet in real time. Users include studios such as Warner Bros., Telegael, Parabolic, Forever Audio and Hollywood Scoring, all of whom have used Cleanfeed to create audio tracks for film and television projects including Star Trek: Discovery, The Crown, Shotgun Wedding, The Walking Dead, The Queen’s Gambit, The Other Two, Emily in Paris and The Flight Attendant.

The introduction of Cleanfeed Cinema recognizes the need for a single tool that gives professionals access to both video and audio when they work remotely with talent, production teams and clients.

Cleanfeed has developed its propriety video delivery technology with the lowest possible latency, designed from the ground up to push video as fast as possible to the people who need to see it. It also delivers a high-definition image at a consistent framerate, which is critical for users working on frame accurate footage with audio, where any delay can ruin a take.

“Other solutions use a buffered delivery method for video, and so after an hour long session, some people could be one second out while others could be a few minutes out,” says Bakos. “That’s no good if you’re working together and trying to collaborate with real-time audio.”

Cleanfeed Cinema doesn’t need to be coupled with other products, and it comes with a fixed annual cost ($2,500 for up to 16 guests). As a straightforward browser-based tool, there is nothing to install and no firewall configuration. It can run on a local editing workstation or on a separate machine, and with synchronous remote working, there are no uploads, file transfers, downloads or special hardware to deal with. Privacy and security controls ensure that all footage sent is secure. Sessions remain private, and there is no data at rest on Cleanfeed servers.

To set up a Cleanfeed Cinema session, users need to purchase a single license, share a link with collaborators (who don’t need their own license) and begin capturing high-quality, multi-track audio over the web. Sessions can also be routed directly to Avid Pro Tools, and with Cleanfeed’s Aux Outputs, users can assign a unique audio output device for each remote collaborator connected to their studio and route remote audio to their preferred editing software.