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Thanks to Stash Media for highlighting the Blue Spill team’s use of ACES in the title design for HBO’s new show. Another example of ACES use beyond motion pictures… Full article here “We worked on the project over a seven month period delivering, alongside the title, 48 sequences across the four episodes. Our team of…

Thanks to AbelCine and author Geoff Smith for this thoughtful blog on ACES. We appreciate your support and look forward to helping educate the community and our mutual professional communities on “how to do ACES!” https://www.abelcine.com/articles/blog-and-knowledge/tutorials-and-guides/aces-where-are-we-now Now that ACES 1.2 is out…let’s talk about an update!! 🙂

It’s getting easier to use OCIO and ACES together with new developments in OCIO v2 announced this week. Thanks to the OCIO team! Version 2 functionality includes a new GPU renderer, native implementation of ACES (Academy Color Encoding System), an improved user experience, and processing improvements. The developers wanted to make sure that the new…

Fun read! Colombian production company, Mestiza Films uses ACES to restore a 25 year old video from 35mm. + Technical mattersThe process was carried out using the ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) color space since the material curve was logarithmic. This allowed us to make a very good transformation to the curves and color spaces…

Thanks to ACES Product Partner Panasonic and author Bob Matsumoto for highlighting this show and its use of ACES in post. ACES call out: “For color management, (colorist Marco) Cordero used ACES (Academy Color Encoding System), using P3-D65 ST 2084 as the Output Display Transform to make it HDR. The Dolby Vision trim tools facilitated…

Thanks to Shoot Online for this ACES mention! Short excerpt: “The Irish love story series was directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, with cinematography by Suzie Lavelle BSC and Kate McCullough. Gary Curran, colorist and company director at Outer Limits, who handled all postproduction, relied on an ACES workflow…” Read the full article here:…

Thanks to Tao of Color for highlighting this video from ACES Product Partner FilmLight. This is another in FilmLight’s ‘@Home’ series with Baselight colorists. If you’ve never seen Baselight in action, Andrea gives you a terrific look at its ‘color journey’ feature when setting up a project for ACES vs. a LUT-based workflow. Plus other…

ACES Product Partner Pomfort has early stage support for ACES 1.2 as described in this article, and as demonstrated in our recent ACES 1.2 webinar. Please note, this product has not yet earned the ACES logo, but may be of help to you in your on-set workflows and we appreciate Pomfort’s efforts to support ACES…

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