The AMF spec includes detailed restrictions for the transformIds that can be used as IDTs and ODTs. During the implementation of AMF we ran into a few questions with that.
IDT for ACESproxy
In previous versions of our software we have been using the following transform as an IDT for ACESproxy input: ACEScsc.Academy.ACESproxy10i_to_ACES.a1.0.3
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As of the current spec of AMF that transform would not be able to be used as an IDT (the AMF would fail validation, as the transformId for instance doesn’t start with “IDT”).
With the current state of the specification we see the following solutions:
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- We drop ACESproxy support (or at least AMF export for that) for ACES 1.2 in our software.
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- We duplicate this transforms and give it a transformId such as
IDT.Pomfort.ACEScsc-Academy-ACESproxy10i_to_ACES.a1.0.3
, then AMF export would be possible again, but interoperability with other vendors’ systems would be doubtful.
- We duplicate this transforms and give it a transformId such as
The following cases are additional use cases with basically the same questions:
ODT for ACESproxy
The same question is for the following transform, that’s used as an “ACESproxy ODT”: ´ACEScsc.Academy.ACES_to_ACESproxy10i.a1.0.3?` and that would not be allowed as an ODT.
inverse ODTs as IDTs
Similar situation is for using inverse ODTs as IDTs: For some use scenarios we have been providing the following inverse ODTs to be used in the role of an IDT transform and would like to do so for ACES 1.2 as well:
InvODT.Academy.Rec709_100nits_dim.a1.0.3
InvODT.Academy.RGBmonitor_100nits_dim.a1.0.3
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Again the current spec of AMF would not allow these transforms to be used as IDTs.
Solutions are similar to above: Either dropping support, or duplicating the transforms with custom transformIds.
These topics boil down to:
- Did we miss something and there is an easy answer?
- Are the use of the mentioned transforms as IDTs and ODTs not recommended anyways, and we’re trying to cover use cases that are purposely ruled out?
- In case we want to cover these use cases, we might need to come up with transformIds for these transforms that qualify as IDT and ODT transformIds.
Any opinions?
Best,
Patrick (Pomfort)