We reported on it in the last DP – and now Kyno is out of beta and available to anyone who, when it comes to media management, does not just think “Oh God, I’ll do it tomorrow. Screening, logging, organisation and transcoding are gathered under one interface. It exports to and communicates with Excel, Final Cut Pro & X, as well as Premiere.
Strengths
Kyno scores particularly well when processing long recordings in the documentary sector and in teamwork, when the really useful material has to be selected quickly from a large amount of footage and agreements have to be reached about it. The fast zoom in the player allows detail quality to be checked even on smaller screens. A Cinemascope mask enables the corresponding crop to be checked, and a zebra displays overexposed areas (a histogram is planned). Unfortunately, the zebra has no option for Superwhite and the CS frame cannot be moved vertically. The creation of subclips, their listing and the output of Excel reports with the most important information and comments is excellently solved and very intuitive to use. Particularly in the age of demanding codecs such as H.264 and formats up to UHD, the Excel spreadsheets with good thumbnails are a blessing for communication partners without correspondingly powerful hardware and software.
Quote: Uli Plank, DP author and tester
A Windows version is in development and is expected to arrive this year; a two-week trial version is also available – simply look at lesspain.software/kyno, while the full version costs 159 EUR. More about the application and its strengths, weaknesses and workflows in the free article in the appendix.
Archive notice: This article was originally published on 2016-10-04. Links and embedded videos are preserved as part of the historical record.
