Technical Documents

Request for review and comments on v0.1 Draft of “ACES Output Transform Details”

By Scott Dyer | July 23, 2018 |
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This is an open call to the community for review and comment on a document entitled “ACES Output Transform Details”. This document is essentially a catalog of the header information from the CTL files (plus a bit more). Comments or suggestions on anything in the document are welcomed. I am aware that the “definitions” sections…

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ACES workflow in POST PRODUCTION

By Steve Tobenkin | January 26, 2018 |
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Hi,currently I’m on resolve 14.2.1and gonna start using ACES colour space . can anyone advice me on the workflow and the best hardware specs . Because If I’m not ACES uses open exr format and my mac pro isn’t that powerful enough to play using ext format . any advice ? thank yousam

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APD / ADX documentation

By Steve Tobenkin | October 12, 2017 |
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I’m reading about APD and ADX specifications and came across the following sentence in TB-2014-005 : The universal ADX-to-ACES transform and universal ACES-to-ADX transform are described in other documents detailing the Image Interchange Framework. Can someone point me to the document(s) referred ? I didn’t find anything in the others Technical Bulletin ? Related question…

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Color is defined as

By Jim Houston | August 30, 2017 |
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Thinking of all of you … if you are here, this is you.

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Color Correction Technical paper published in October 2016 SMPTE Journal

By Steve Tobenkin | November 21, 2016 |
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Many thanks to Peter Postma and Bob Chorley for their enlightening and thorough technical article “Color Grading with Color Management”. Lots of great information on ACES for the more technically inclined. Available free to SMPTE members and for a small fee to others. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7736172/

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Review on ACES colour spaces

By Walter Arrighetti | June 2, 2016 |
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Hi guys. I often listen to people comparing ACES to just being a colour space. Well. Apart from the fact that ACES specifications span a total of 5 colour-space definitions, it’s important to stress the fact that ACES is actually a framework, or a series of guidelines, that promotes an as-much-as vendor-neutral as possible interoperability, by defining…

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