Academy Color Encoding System

Hey ACES community: we're confirming that the recent Scary Fast Apple" 🍏🍏🍏 event used ACES in the production and postproduction of the event video.

Watch the video and get additional background here.
https://www.avinteractive.com/markets-news/live-events/scary-fast-apple-event-shot-with-blackmagic-iphone-app-16-11-2023/

Are you using ACES? 😀 Let us know by posting about your experience on FB or on ACESCentral.com or tagging shows that used ACES on IMDb!

Scary Fast Apple event shot with Blackmagic iPhone app A Scary Fest special event put on by Apple has been shot in its entirety using the iPhone 15 Pro Max...

The ACES Team has released projected feature and scheduling details on the ACES 2.0 release. ACES Product Partners and other industry developers will begin to integrate the developer release in February 2024, for release to end-users in their products later in 2024.

See details https://acescentral.com/project-plan/ and stay up to date on acescentral.com!

Color Management: OCIO & ACES in AE 2023 by Provideo Coalition

Thanks to Chris Zwar and Provideo Coalition for this article and video on ACES support in Adobe’s After Effects:

Color Management: OCIO & ACES in AE 2023 by Chris Zwar - ProVideo Coalition Color Management

If you're in LA next week, please join this Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers - SMPTE/ Colorist Society Hollywood event at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater. Should be a great discussion of HDR/SDR workflows with some info about ACES too!

SDR and HDR - There's More to Discuss SMPTE Hollywood Section will explore best practices for HDR/SDR workflows at its October meeting. Hosted by SMPTE Hollywood Section and Colorist Society Hollywood in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this event will include technical presentations and a panel discussi...

ACES is proud to be a sponsor of the Colorist Mixer at IBC this year. Looking forward to seeing see European friends at the mixer. Here's info for the event

Colorist Mixer Colorist Society (CSI) with iColorist will host a Colorist Mixer on September 16 in Amsterdam in tandem with this year’s International Broadcasters Convention. Open to all, the Mixer will be held at Arti et Amicitiae, the historic former home of a Dutch artist’s society in Rokin. Places are very...

ACES Vice chair Joachim Jochen Zell recently lead several presentations featuring ACES at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan. ACES is a global standard and continues to grow in popularity internationally. Thanks to Iris Wu (team member of the Sundance Asia) and Sundance Asia team for their support.

Good news! Per Doug Walker at Autodesk:

Autodesk 3ds Max now has ACES support That’s fantastic Doug, thanks for keeping us all up to date! Steve

ACES Vice-chair Joachim Jochen Zell and ACES Global Adoption Lead Steve Tobenkin will teach a 90 minute Masterclass on the Academy Color Encoding System, at the 53rd Annual IFFI Goa Film Festival in Goa, India.

The class is expected to be streamed and posted afterwards for the community to enjoy...check back here for the link when available!

More information here: https://filmguide.iffigoa.org/detail/?id=5738

ACES and CML host Filmmaker Panel at Camerimage 2022

If you're attending Camerimage 2022 in November, please join us for what we know will be an enlightening event!

"Protect your Creative Intent with ACES" An Interactive forum with ACES users, that will benefit current users and those new to ACES. In addition to the panel of filmmakers (see below, subject to availability) we will have a presentation and demonstration of ACES by Miga Bär and Patrick Renner as well as audience participation via QA and user stories.

November 16, 2022 1:00pm local time in Poland (GMT+1)

This event will be live streamed! https://camerimage.pl/en/energacamerimage-2022/live-streaming/
1pm (GMT+1) Convenient for our European community, or early to rise US aficionados (7am EST and 4am PST)

Bill Baggelaar Joins ACES Leadership team as Project Co-chair

Please welcome Bill Baggelaar EVP & CTO, Technology Development at Sony Pictures Entertainment as he joins Annie Chang in their new roles as Co-chairs of the ACES project.

Bill is a respected technologist and leader and will help bolster the efforts to finalize, and roll-out ACES 2.0 to developers and the ACES community; as well as plan future needs and strategic initiatives for the project.

Rod Bogart and Joachim Zell continue in their roles as Project Vice-chairs and Chairs of the Architecture and Implementation TACs, respectively.