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IRIS: The Extra Set of Eyes Every Colour Pipeline Needs

Colour is one of the last things an audience notices when it's right. And one of the first things they notice when it's wrong. IRIS, the new feature within Origami Platform, adds an additional layer of colour verification without adding additional layers of process. When delivery deadlines are tight and expectations are high, having that extra set of eyes matters.

TMTom Mitchell

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Gareth Southgate, played by Joseph Fiennes, and the England team celebrate in Dear England

How UNIT Film & TV streamlined Picture Post on one of the BBC's most talked-about dramas using Origami

With a LUT per shot workflow, the challenge for UNIT on Dear England was ensuring their talented team could focus on delivering the high levels of service, collaboration and finishing quality while keeping increasingly complex workflows running efficiently behind the scenes. That's where Origami came in.

MPMark Purvis
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Origami Platform is now an independent company. This is the story of how we got here.

Nine years ago, Origami was just a conversation at a desk about metadata. Today, Origami is an independent software company, finally free to build the whole idea. This is the story of how we got here.

TMTom Mitchell
Metadata that travels with the clip from set through editorial to VFX and finishing.

Metadata Unleashed: Why Metadata is Becoming the Most Valuable Asset in Post and VFX

Post production has never had more tools, and yet metadata, the camera data, CDL and LUT values, timecode and asset history connecting every stage, often gets lost between them. Read on to find out why metadata continuity is becoming one of the most valuable things a production pipeline can have, and what it actually costs editorial, VFX and conform teams when it isn't managed properly.

TMTom Mitchell
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Feature Release: Metadata Flow Tool in Origami

Origami introduces our Metadata Flow tool, a powerful feature upgrade designed to ensure production metadata flows from set to VFX and post with the same integrity as picture and sound.

MPMark Purvis
Automated Colour Checking

From Ingest to Delivery: How Origami’s Latest Updates Help Post and VFX Teams Move Faster

In post, the most effective workflows aren’t the ones with the most tools. They’re the ones where everything connects and moves. Origami’s latest updates are designed to do exactly that: Reduce friction, increase throughput and keep teams focused on the work that matters.

TMTom Mitchell
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Soundfirm Licences Origami Platform to Supercharge Global Post-Production Workflows

Soundfirm, one of Australia’s largest and most respected post-production companies, has announced it is now licensing Origami, the powerful cloud-based post-production workflow and media asset management platform.

TMTom Mitchell
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Origami Unveils Powerful New Workflow Automation Features at IBC 2025 — Delivering a True Single Source of Truth for Media and Metadata

Origami is the industry’s first workflow automation platform built for cinematic workflows that unifies media and metadata across disparate on-prem and cloud storage. By eliminating manual handoffs and automating repetitive steps, it ensures productions can see, manage, and deliver their assets faster than ever.

TMTom Mitchell
Colour Management and Grading

Colour Management and Why It Is Important

In film and TV, colour is an incredibly important component but the increasing diversity and complexity of cameras and technology makes standardisation and consistency difficult. Here's why it is important and how Origami supports colour management.

MPMark Purvis
Origami Platform for automating VFX pulls and streamlining post production workflows

Origami FAQs

Got questions about Origami and how it can help you automate your pull and streamline your workflows? Here we answer some of the more frequently asked questions with links to other useful resources.

TMTom Mitchell
My Lady Jane from Prime Video

Origami: Automating workflows and enhancing remote collaboration for Prime Video’s ‘My Lady Jane’

Origami Platform, the new cloud-based pulls automation platform from Mission Digital, has been instrumental in speeding up and automating post production workflows for Prime Video’s brand new series, My Lady Jane.

TMTom Mitchell
Podcast Post Production James Osborne

Navigating the New Normal: Post Production, leveraging cloud automation and AI in Post-Production

In this article we are joined by James Osborne who discusses post production life after COVID, as well as the post-strike era. With over 20 years of experience, James highlights the complexities of the VFX Editorial process, as well as the future of post production.

TMTom Mitchell
Movie labs 2030 vision with origami cloud workflow

How Origami Phoenix is Shaping the Future of Film Production with Movie Labs 2030 Vision

Origami Phoenix enables studios and post-production houses to quickly access assets and pull VFX shots, delivering to multiple platforms and gaining data-driven insights, aligning with the 2030 Movie Labs Vision's and principles

TMTom Mitchell
Gal Dove played by Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast tv series

Origami Phoenix: Streamlining the VFX Workflow for the Paramount+ Original Series 'Sexy Beast'

Tune in and discover the challenges of streamlining the VFX workflow for the show Sexy, with many camera formats, resolutions, and different colour pipelines used, as well as the involvement of multiple vendors.

TMTom Mitchell
Resident Pictures DI colour post production facility

From Manual to Magical: Residence Pictures' Experience with Origami Phoenix

We caught up with Julian Nelson, Head of Post & Co-Founder of Residence Pictures, following his first use of Origami Phoenix to discover how our automated system streamlined their process.

TMTom Mitchell