PGA’s Produced By magazine: “ACES belongs on Producers’ Radar”

Great article from the Producers Guild explaining ACES, its importance to the industry, including tips for producers on how to help manage the process. http://www.producersguild.org/blogpost/1558510/268229/ACES-MATTER–The-Academy-s-Color-Management-Standard-Belongs-On-Producers-Radar Thanks to the PGA, to Glenn Gainor, President of Production for Screen Gems and Lori McCreary, CEO of Revelations Entertainment and one of the PGA’s Presidents for sharing their insights.

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Books and resources

Hi everybody,I’m writing my bachelor theses about ACES and I’m looking for some book or similar sources. Thanks for the helpReto Hi Reto, Thanks for your question and interest in ACES. This forum should be a great resource for you! I’m seconding your request for the ACES Community to come up with some titles/resources they…

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ACES at HPA Tech Retreat 2017 – Learn more!

The ACES team will participate in the presentations, Innovation Zone and breakfast round-tables at the HPA Tech Retreat starting Feb 1, 2017. The subject for the Innovation Zone demonstrations is “New Exploration for ACES”. Since ACES adoption is growing and more studio, facility and on-set professionals are employing it in their workflows, new uses and…

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ACES Named One of StudioDaily’s Top 10 Stories of 2016

#5: Seven Reasons Why ACES Color Science Is Changing the Grade. It’s a real revolution in color science as the open-source Academy Color Encoding System gains traction in productions across the board. We broke down the advantages in a list of seven things readers need to know about ACES. You can read the complete story here: http://www.studiodaily.com/2016/12/studiodailys-top-10-stories-of-2016-part-two/…

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SMPTE Webcast: ACES 1.0 Theory and Practice

Listen to the recent Webcast for SMPTE members – generously made public by SMPTE. In this webcast, a review of current ACES terminology, color-science and workflows will be presented for both novice audiences as well as those already acquainted with pre-release ACES. Then, beginning with the author’s real-world experience, a description of an ACES use-case…

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ZDNet: Digitizing the analog film process: Why is this taking so long?

From ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/digitization-of-the-analog-film-process/ Digitizing the analog film process: Why is this taking so long? Digital video is a major driver of storage growth, but it has yet to fully replace film – an analog medium – in many feature films. The holdup? We’re replacing human expertise with metadata – which means defining the digital process…

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