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ACES Presentation in Korea

By Steve Tobenkin | November 1, 2021 |
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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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ACES Product Partner MTI uses ACES on remote workflows

By Steve Tobenkin | October 8, 2021 |
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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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Color and Post Pipeline: The Many Looks of Marvel’s WandaVision

By Steve Tobenkin | October 7, 2021 |
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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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Building an ACES Pipeline Between Resolve and After Effects

By Steve Tobenkin | September 13, 2021 |
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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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Space Jam: A New Legacy – Multiple Worlds, Multiple Deliveries.

By Steve Tobenkin | July 18, 2021 |
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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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Welcome disguise, our latest ACES Product Partner

By Steve Tobenkin | June 28, 2021 |
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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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DIT Gastone Ferrante about Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man”

By Steve Tobenkin | June 28, 2021 |
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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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Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES

By Steve Tobenkin | June 28, 2021 |
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Thanks to Stu Maschwitz for this long and in-depth bog-post of ACES and related topics. https://prolost.com/blog/aces ACES is not perfect for every use-case, but it is purpose-built for film and video work. Today, if you choose not to use ACES, it’s probably either because you haven’t tried it yet, or you already have your own…

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ACES 1.3 is Available!

By Steve Tobenkin | May 3, 2021 |
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We are happy to announce the release of ACES 1.3.

It includes new features and enhancements that fulfill the ACES 1.0 vision and sets the stage for ACES 2.0 development.

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New ACES training from No Film School

By Steve Tobenkin | April 19, 2021 |
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Thanks to Colorist Cullen Kelly and No Film School for creating this three part series on understanding ACES: https://nofilmschool.com/your-guide-understanding-aces-part-1 https://nofilmschool.com/your-guide-understanding-aces-part-2 https://nofilmschool.com/your-guide-understanding-aces-part-3

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