{"id":1403,"date":"2012-03-31T23:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2021-02-08T23:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:24:42","slug":"aces-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/aces-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"ACES experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished a day of playing with ACES<\/strong>. As part of a white paper (coming soon) Digital Vision invited me to experiment with the full workflow using Film Master, and Dolby kindly loaned a PRM monitor for the occasion. I was able to try some film material scanned ADX and delivered as ACES .exr and also some Red material with a new SDK that supports ACES. Consequently I could try some material from the last feature I graded, so I had a pretty good idea of what it was like in a regular project.. I used a release candidate RRT and a P3 D60 ODT, and just for good measure I set the Dolby to reference mode P3 full range.<\/p>\n

First I tried the film footage, which was a long scene that roamed from a kitchen to a sitting room with bright daylight windows and on to a dark bathroom. An excellent test of dynamic range. ACES delivered its promise of high dynamic range and an ability to handle both bright and dark areas in a shot. I was able to control the daylight outside the window, pull out shadow detail and still hold good blacks. This was a lot of fun to work with. I did find that I used a very different set of tool to my regular grading though. Blend modes in particular are very useful in controlling exposure.<\/p>\n

Then it came to the red material, which was shot a while back and was not HDR. It was really nicely shot however, and very colorful. First thing I noticed was that in ACES it was much easier to balance and the colors were very saturated but still natural. A few shots had clipping in camera, and it was interesting to see that the clipping was detectable even if it occurred beyond the white point of a regular grade. It was easily corrected with a soft clip\u00a0 so no problem. I also had a shot which was very warm at first and found that the channel mixer also works well in ACES.<\/p>\n

I’ll post the white paper as soon as it is completed, but for now I can say that ACES from IDT to ODT makes for very nice pictures and much greater control over dynamic range than I have seen before. It also seems to deliver a better match between different makes of camera, but I’ll need to see more shots to confirm that. Looking forward to working this way on a proper project<\/p>\n

Happy Coloring<\/p>\n

Kevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished a day of playing with ACES. As part of a white paper (coming soon) Digital Vision invited me to experiment with the full workflow using Film Master, and Dolby kindly loaned a PRM monitor for the occasion. I was able to try some film material scanned ADX and delivered as ACES .exr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,47,48,92],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-aces","tag-film","tag-film-master","tag-red","category-2","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58084,"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/58084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icolorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}