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“The Mission,” a professionally produced short film for the StEM2 initiative, emulates a high-end movie is designed to test exhibition and streaming systems, displays, and image-processing tools used in production and post. StEM2 utilized the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) throughout the entire pipeline. More information on tvtechnology.com and at theasc.com!
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Thanks to ACES Product Partner ARRI for this story about Brazilian DP Julio Costantini and his work on “Confessions of an Invisible Girl” for Netflix. Q. Employing the latest industry techniques is really becoming the norm in Brazil. For example, it’s exciting to see the AMPAS Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) making its way onto…
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Congrats to Carol Payne, Matthias Scharfenberg and Nick Shaw, on today’s Keynote “Scene-referred Gamut Compression in ACES” at the prestigious CIC conference. They’re highlighting the elegant work of the ACES Gamut Mapping working group that was included in ACES 1.3 For more info: CIC https://aces.mp/cic2021 ACES 1.3: https://aces.mp/ACES1-3
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ACES Vice chair Joachim Zell recently introduced ACES to The Korean Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians Association. Thanks to Hyun Taek Kim of Louis-Pictures for the request and helping make this happen. We are happy to entertain requests from other organizations globally for support in introducing or explaining ACES to your members. Please reach out to…
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In the latest Product Guide in ICG Magazine, MTI CEO Larry Chernoff describes how they set up their iPads for remote viewing using ACES color values Article starts on page 78 and quote from Larry is on page 99:
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Great article about interesting challenges facing the post team on the the Marvel series WandaVision. https://postperspective.com/color-and-post-pipeline-for-marvels-wandavision/https://postperspective.com/color-and-post-pipeline-for-marvels-wandavision/ They used ACES and the system’s LMT feature to help manage all the looks: Q. You were essentially dealing with two different shows in one. A. It was more like 10 shows in one! We not only juggled the…
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Thanks to Frame.io and author Dan Swierenga for this practical article that helps smaller teams use ACES for a specific use case. “…I’d argue that a little work sooner can avoid a lot of work later. By learning a little bit about color management, smaller teams can really benefit from the flexibility and power that…
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John Daro has added a very detailed blog post about the making of Space Jam: A New Legacy. It details his use of ACES LMTs, SDR and HDR deliverables and more! Check it out here.
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We’re welcoming disguise to our ACES community! They’ve joined the ACES Product Partner program and are building ACES support into their Designer software. Here’s their announcement from Facebook about their free ebook on how they manage color using ACES: Have you checked out our latest e-book all about transforming your productions with industry-standard colour control?…
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Thanks to DIT Gastone Ferrante and ACES product partner Pomfort for their quick shout out to ACES use on “Wrath of Man” Livegrade allowed me to apply the custom transforms I needed to properly match the ACES pipeline Peter Doyle, our Colorist, would have used in Baselight during the DI process. Silverstack Lab made metadata…
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