ACES Product Partner, Colorfront Develops Near Real-time ACES Pipeline for HDR Production
This article showcases Colorfront’s new Parametric LMT augmentation for ACES workflows. This was recently used on the HPA 2020 Lost Lederhosen demonstration project. This enhancement to a basic ACES workflow supports the design of custom looks from Colorfront’s large looks library. In addition, the Parametric LMT solves the current problems associated with extreme camera colors…
Read MoreMeet the Mentor: Nick Shaw, Antler Post
Q. What is your background? A. I was working as an in-house editor at E.S. Video in Surrey U.K., and they became the main reseller for the Media 100 NLE in the region. I was using 3-machine Betacam SP suites at the time, but was very interested in the new technology. I moved into a…
Read MoreACES 1.2 now available
ACES Community Members, Today we are happy to announce the release of ACES 1.2: it includes a series of new features and enhancements that fulfill the ACES 1.0 vision and sets the stage for ACES 2.0 development. Key new features and enhancements include: A new specification for the ACES Metadata File (AMF) that replaces the…
Read MoreSeason 2 of Netflix’s series “Sex Education” goes ACES
Thanks to DIT Shibbir Ahmed for highlighting this great write-up on season 2 of “Sex Education”, including how he helped guide the show through its transition to ACES. Thanks to cinematographer Jamie Cairney and to The Guild of Television Camera Professionals (www.gtc.tv) for the coverage! You can download a PDF here: sex_ed_1.pdf
Read MoreACES at HPA 2020
Lots of ACES news and discussion planned for HPA this year.Rancho Mirage, CaliforniaFebruary 18th – 20th, 2020 Tuesday’s Super Session will feature an amazing workflow demo with multiple cameras, color correctors, daily systems, cloud workflows and all color managed by ACES! Here’s the sizzle reel for the Super Session: https://vimeo.com/387515173 18 We’ll also have an ACES presentation…
Read MoreNew VFX Mentions of ACES Use in 2019
There has been a lot of VFX use of ACES in 2019. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Captain Marvel (2019) Dumbo (2019) Us (2019) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Downton Abbey (2019)
Read MorepostPerspective features two articles on ACES use in their Update: A Look Back at the Best of 2019
Thanks to postPerspective for including two shows that used ACES in their 2019 re-cap issue: https://www.postperspective.com/ppnews-191226.html Efilm’s Natasha Leonnet: Grading Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Colorist Andreas Brueckl on embracing ACES workflow
Read MoreACES on Downton Abbey
Another mention of ACES on Downton Abbey. Pablo Garcia Soriano Head of Color at Mission gave us a preview of this at Cine Gear this year. The film had an ACES color workflow. Explains, Pablo Garcia Soriano, Head of Color at Mission, “The use of ACES was proposed from the very early stages of the workflow discussions.…
Read MoreACES in Mexico!
ACES in Mexico! ASC International Master Class session Mexico City, October 2019 Continuing with the mission of educating the next generations of film technicians, the ASC, is educating film students around the globe, and including ACES in the curriculum! Bill Bennett, ASC with Theo Van De Sande, ASC were teaching camera handling and lighting while associate…
Read MoreIMF User Group Workshop featuring ACES
The IMF User Group is organizing a workshop on preserving and re-purposing studio productions using IMF 9 on October 25 in Burbank, CA. @Annie will present on ACES and @Wolfgang_Ruppel will cover IMF Application #5 ACES at the event. There’s a few spots left, register today (for free) if you’re interested!
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