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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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“Tom & Jerry” goes ACES

By Steve Tobenkin | April 15, 2021 |
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Warner Bros recently released the feature film, Tom & Jerry and Colorist John Daro details the VFX and color pipeline for the project. The colour pipeline for the theatrical grade was ACES AP0 – ACEScct (grading space) – Show LMT -> P3D65. ACES 1.1 was used for the P3D65 ODT. https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/customers/case-studies/tomandjerry.php We also archived an…

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Filmmaker Nick Driftwood uses ACES on his film “A Colour Story”

By Steve Tobenkin | April 5, 2021 |
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A great example of how ACES helps integrate different cameras into a common color space, and how products from multiple ACES Product Partners – Panasonic, ARRI, and Color Trix (Color Finale Pro) can work together to help filmmakers. https://www.panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/ambassadors/stories/nick-driftwood.html “ACES…manages the entire colour process in filmmaking, from image capture, editing, VFX, and presentation, to archiving,…

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New Video: Color Management Fundamentals & ACES Workflows Lesson

By Steve Tobenkin | April 5, 2021 |
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Thanks to ACES Product Partner Foundry for creating this video on Color Management Fundamentals. This is the first in a four part series exploring color and how to use ACES in their product Nuke. The video presents an introduction to color science that should be of interest to everyone in the production and post production…

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