This document summarizes a project management software called Cerebro designed for CG and VFX industries. Cerebro provides tools for project planning, task tracking, file storage, communication, and reporting. It aims to help teams avoid disorganization and wasted time by streamlining workflows and centralizing information. The software is available in free and paid versions for individual users, small studios, and large companies.

1. A project & asset management software
for M&E industries
Designed for CG Artists. By CG Artists.
http://cerebrohq.com

2. TOO MUCH MESS?
Fail to meet deadlines?
Lose files?
Have communication issues?
Misunderstand comments?
Forget what to do?
Don’t know what your co-workers do?
Exceed the budget?
Don’t understand where we are?

3. OR TOO MUCH PAPER WORK?
• Fed up with daily reporting routine?
• Tired of endless meetings?
• Drowning in the ocean of e-mails?
• Lost in coordination chains?
• Slowed down by delayed feedback?

4. CEREBRO HELPS AVOID THE EXTREMES!
It provides:
• All-in-one toolkit for project planning and tracking,
assets and multimedia files storage.
• Forum threads for project discussions and task tracking.
• Easy reporting. Before.
• Instant progress overviews and summaries.
• Resource usage control.
• Individual and group calendars connected to Gantt
chart.
• On-line and off-line reviewing tools.
After.

5. IT’S SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR
• Postproduction houses
• VFX facilities
• Advertising agencies
• Freelance team collaboration
• Production companies
• TV channels
• Graphic design studios

6. HANDY PLANNING
• Break your project down in an unlimited tree task structure – it’s
as simple as making new subfolders in a file manager.
• Allocate people and/or material resources.
You’re through with basic planning. Launch your project!..
Or proceed to advanced planning:
• Connect the tasks in Gantt chart.
• Specify all necessary parameters for the tasks (time, budget,
priority, etc.).
• Setup access and visibility rights.

7. SIMPLE BUDGETING
• Every task can have 3 financial parameters: planned cost,
actual cost, balance.
• Estimate every single task and you’ll get the project
budget summed up.
• Sign off the money every time you spend it – and your
accountants will adore you .

8. EASY TRACKING
• Have a glance at Navigator pane to get a bird’s-eye project
overview or dive deep into it to get the task detailed history
and actual status.
• Get e-mail notifications on the changes of the tasks you
follow or do.
• Generate reports and export them to Excel or PDF.
• Search and filter tasks by a variety of tags and parameters.
• Be a step ahead with a heuristic issue tracker.

9. TIME-SAVING COMMUNICATIONS
• Every task has its own Forum thread, use it to communicate
and share all sorts of files – dailies, reviews, references, you
name it.
• Display selected posts to your clients to get their instant
first-hand feedback.
• All the rest of a thread is for your peers’ eyes only. What
happens in Cerebro stays in Cerebro .
• And no more endless meetings, briefings and debriefings!

10. TWO-CLICK DAILY REPORTING
• Open the Forum thread of your task.
• Click on Reply button.
• Describe what you have done today on the task.
• Attach a file (or a folder) if necessary.
• Specify the time spent today on the task.
• Click on Send button.
• Next morning don’t forget to look up here for comments .

11. CLEAR COMMENTS
1) Double-click on a media file.
2) Draw sketches right over the frames and make text labels
where necessary.
OR: Click on Record button and explain what you want as if a
live artist was sitting beside you. Your voice and your actions
(zoom, pan, timeline shifts, mouse movement) will be
captured and saved. Stop when finished or pause when need
to have a break.
3) You have your review ready to be submitted to Cerebro.
Don’t write long e-mails to explain short things!

12. SMART FILE MANAGEMENT
With Cerebro you don’t need to worry where a file is stored or
which version is the latest - just browse the Forum and find it
all there.
Cerebro file management gives you the following benefits:
• Unlimited size of files to store and transfer (in local versions),
• Quick search,
• Access control and restrictions,
• Thumbnails for media files,
• No unwanted copies of files,
• Upload / download cues,
• And no more FTP needed!

13. MULTI-PLATFORM SUPPORT
• Desktop client applications for MS Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Web interface
• iOS clients for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

14. HISTORY
Cerebro was developed in a Russian Moscow-based major
postproduction facility named Cinemateka in 2007 as an in-house
software for VFX project management.
In 2009 Cerebro development team established a separate
company to monetize the project, and by the end of 2011 Cerebro
was adopted by more than 70 postproduction and animation
companies in FSU (former Soviet Union), including Timur
Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs, UMP and other FSU media production
majors.
Several international projects were managed by means of Cerebro,
for example:
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (20th Century Fox, 2012),
- The Darkest Hour (20th Century Fox, 2011),
«I’d like to thank the CineSoft team for such a unique
- Kikoriki: The Beginning (Riki Group, 2011), management tool».
- The Black Lightning (Chernaya Molniya) (UPI, 2010), Daria Kaplya | Book of Masters motion picture
- Space Dogs 3D (CNF, 2010),
- The Book of Masters (Walt Disney Pictures, 2009).

15. SYSTEM COMPONENTS: CORE
System core is a PostgreSQL database containing all the information
except files attached to Forums.
Key features:
• Hosted in a cloud for SaaS users
• Installed locally (onsite) for Business and Corporate pricing plan users
• Can be installed onto Windows Server OS or Linux x64 (Ubuntu,
Debian)
• Python API for integration into production pipeline

16. SYSTEM COMPONENTS: CARGADOR
Cargador is a Cinesoft proprietary file management utility used for
file storage, transfer, indexing and caching.
Key features:
• Supports unlimited size files,
• Verifies integrity of files being transferred,
• Supports upload and download cues with pause/cancel and
restart/resume options,
• Schedules delivery of new content
• Instantly searches among millions of files,
• Prevents unnecessary file duplication (first, it supports links to
network storages and, second, it identifies files by their hash
sums, not by names),
• Archives files and folders on-the-fly.
As a standalone product Cargador is used to synchronize
distributed file storages over Internet or LAN.

17. SYSTEM COMPONENTS: MIRADA
Mirada Player (a proprietary Cinesoft product) is used for viewing
and commenting over pictures and videos.
Standard Version (embedded in Cerebro):
• Draw or type over the content, record your activity (zoom, pan,
timeline dragging, mouse movement) together with your voice
comments.
• The reviews can be submitted to Cerebro.
Pro Version (embedded in Cerebro or standalone):
• Stereoscopic 3D viewing and annotation tools.
• Online Review Mode lets you synchronize your media and make
reviews at the same time with an unlimited group of people
anywhere in the world.
• The reviews can be submitted to Cerebro or exported into MOV
or JPEG.
• Python API for integration into an in-house or third-party
project management software.

18. 2012 TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP

19. TRY IT FOR FREE…
Features Version Free Demo Free Trial
Max. number of accounts 50 Unlimited
Connection via Internet Internet
File storage 5 Gb Hosted locally
License effective period 30 days 30 days

20. …THEN PURCHASE A VERSION THAT SUITS YOU MOST!
Features Version Home Studio Factory Corporation
Number of accounts 5 max 5 min 10 min 10 min
Connection via Internet Internet Internet and/or LAN Internet and/or LAN
File storage 5 Gb Hosted locally Hosted locally Hosted locally
Monthly fee, per 1 user $ 9 USD $ 29 USD $ 59 USD $ 89 USD
Schools, non-profits and large companies get special pricing options.
Visit http://cerebrohq.com/en/pricing/ to get more information on versions and pricing.

21. CONTACTS
If you are interested to find out more about Cerebro, Cargador or Mirada
please send your inquiries to:
Konstantin “Stan” Kharitonov (CEO): khar@cinesoft.ru
Edward Kim (Sales & Marketing): e.kim@cinesoft.ru
Phone: +7 (495) 9800376
Address: Cinesoft Ltd., 55/59, Bolshaya Pochtovaya str., Moscow, 105082, Russia