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Great story on the smash hit rom-com Crazy Rich Asians and how they used ACES. Notable quote: “During principal photography Černjul lit the film with the ACES LUT and Selkirk applied CDL corrections to every shot. This made their color grading sessions more efficient and gave Nakamura more time to work on creative color decisions rather…

Muchas gracias a Edi Walger por traducir los siguientes artículos de ACES al español. Agradecemos sus esfuerzos para ayudar a comunicar sobre ACES a la comunidad de habla hispana. ¿Alguien más dispuesto a ayudar también? (Many thanks to Edi Walger for translating the following ACES articles into Spanish. We appreciate his efforts to help communicate…

This is a really informative article about how ACES was used in a recent indie horror film, and shows that the sophisticated color science in ACES can help at all levels of production/post production. Many thanks to Randi Altman’s postPerspective and writer Debra Kaufman! There is an accompanying video from the colorist/post supervisorPeder Morgenthaler, that…

Check out this news on the ACES Logo program as reported in Post Perspective:http://postperspective.com/aces-adds-new-companies-logo-program/ ACES adds new companies to Logo Program Six new companies have been added to the ACES Logo Program. Membership in the program signals that the companies are committed to implementing ACES into their hardware and software products in conformance with program…

Announcing – The “Epic Thread” Badge. https://acescentral.com/badges/102/epic-thread We’ve created this Badge to recognize users who have created a Thread that significantly contributed to the understanding or usability of the ACES system. Thanks to Nick Shaw, Geoff Boyle and Paul Dore the first recipients, for their exceptional work. If you feel there are other worthy threads,…

Very informative article on ACES article in the American Cinematographer Magazine. “The Academy Color Encoding System is a high-end image control tool that’s available to filmmakers working at every level.” Way too long to summarize here, you’ll just have to read it here! : https://ascmag.com/articles/aces-for-indies Many thanks to the ASC, Canon USA, Debra Kaufman and…

Great interview and insight into ACES use on the TV movie “Gelukzoekers”in the Netherlands.Particularly on point: How is collaboration between DP & DIT with the post house? Is ACES affecting the collaboration with post in any way? So far it works great. The editor is happier because he gets to work with better looking, nicely…

Thanks to ETCentric and Debra Kaufman for their coverage of our ACES Update at HPA Tech Retreat 2018 Catch up on ACES adoption and developments as well as upcoming ACESNext efforts! https://aces.mp/hpaetc