Openexr/openexr. OpenEXR. Academy Color Encoding System. In 2004 more than 50 of the motion picture industry's leading technologists and practitioners came together under the auspices of the Science and Technology Council to begin work on an architecture and supporting tools for digital motion picture production, mastering and archiving.
The result, the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is currently undergoing industry-wide production trials by the major Hollywood studios, widespread adoption by equipment manufacturers and post-production/VFX facilities, and standardization by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. ACES Benefits ACES provides benefits throughout the motion picture production chain: Cinematic Color. The Art of Digital Color. Color management and color workflows have evolved over many years. in this article we will trace from Cineon to Scene Referred Linear OpenEXR format.
Cineon is such a backbone of the industry but it is now over 18 years old and perhaps it is time we moved to a more robust, flexible and accurate system. We need to know where we are in color science terms to allow visual effects pipelines to perfectly match the live action with CGI. If you can’t replicate the colorspace of the film’s images, how can you generate CGI images and composite them seamlessly into those images? How can you have CGI shots interact with live actions shots if you can’t generate the same imagery ‘look’ in the computer since you don’t know how or where the live action footage is in colorspace?
The ARRI Companion to Digital Intermediate. Postworld - post production in the file based age. OpenColorIO. Ampas/CTL. CTL. ColorPipe.