¶ Introduction to Cerebro Software
¶ What is Cerebro?
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Cerebro software is a set of tools used for planning and managing any kind of projects in the audiovisual field (making visual effects for movies, television, game development, advertising production, Web-design, etc.).
Cerebro provides tools for effective communication between companies and people during the process of project(s) creation, even if they are on different continents. There are three main Cerebro features that make your job easier:
¶ Planning
You can make and track the structure of the project from beginning to end, gradually increasing the level of detail at every stage of its life cycle. Cerebro offers ways to estimate the time and cost of the work, tools to clone parts of the projects, export (with graphic content) of the structure of the project in Excel spreadsheets, and other features.
¶ Collaboration
For project managers Cerebro provides means to carry out the tasking, follow on WIP and final reports of employees, perform peer reviews of the results of the work, and provides all project participants a way to exchange their views in free-form.
¶ Control
The system provides a means of warning about various special situations - if any processes have not gone as planned. Each employee’s report is accompanied by information on the duration (in fact – the cost) the status of the completed work. Cerebro sums up all those values allowing to control the cost и the status of work for individual branches and the entire project. The system also stores information on the workflow of each task. In addition, it is possible to export all the data to a spreadsheet for further data processing needs.
Furthermore Cerebro provides tools for effective file-sharing with both local area network users and remote users.
¶ Advantages of Cerebro Software
Using Cerebro software package it is easy to manage projects in any media sphere. Availability of some important functional aspects for media projects distinguishes Cerebro from all other project management systems.
¶ Cross-platform
To make it convenient to work on various devices, the Cerebro software is available in the following versions:
- desktop — an application for Windows, MacOS or Linux, which does not require complex configuration and can be launched even from a flash drive. It gets automatically upgraded to a new version. To integrate our solutions into different types of companies, the appearance of the system user interface can be altered significantly;
- the web version is a modular application that works very well through an Internet browser and does not require installation on your computer. It includes the basic functions of the system and has a beautiful and modern interface;
- a mobile application for Android or iOS, designed to work on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. It includes the most popular system features.
¶ Functionality
A wide range of features allows you to:
- plan and manage projects online, creating tasks for both simple and complex multi-level projects, determining a list of participants with consideration of their workload, setting relationships between tasks/projects, managing deadlines, and tracking the implementation process;
- use the system as a single space to work on a project as a team, using built-in connectors for integration with popular graphic software products.
¶ Convenient and secure file transfer
For file transfer between the project's executors and clients, as well as file storage and search, we offer a tool that we have developed ourselves; it is the Cargador service, which has the following features:
- caching files on a local resource;
- viewing files more than once without downloading them;
- quick search among millions of files;
- general monitoring of file transfer queues for the entire company.
¶ Built-in media viewer
Cerebro includes Mirada module, which is responsible for displaying media content, as well as creating audiovisual reviews. In this module you can add text comments and drawings over the original image as well as record audio comments, mouse cursor movement, and the process of turning frames or pages.