CLF code implementation

[walter.arrighetti]

Hi JD.
During September/November 2014 --just before ACES 1.0.0 went public-- I made a few proposal to improve CommonLUT format. I remember Alex and Jim and FilmLight’s Peter Postma were also very active on the subject. Those proposals were too heavy to be implemented at that time, due to short time-to-release.

I tried to bring up the discussion many times (even later on here); some of those, discussions may be found here (please not this is a mixed feature-request for the whole ACESNext project, not just CLF):

ACES feature requests

I recently reached out calling for a series of still-missing components in an ACEScentral thread from April 15th. Just felt this thread is presently and appropriately collecting the feature requests for v2, so I’m copy-n-pasting here. In my opinion the addenda (including some which I pointed out in as early as 2013, and which should be in the internal to-do list already) are: Improved integration of ACES in IMF and other mezzanine, mastering and long-term archival formats; in particular, ACES…

and here (focused on better integration between CLF and ACESclip):

ACESclip, CLF and a standard metadata archive

Hello everybody, First of all, I have to say how glad I am that the ACADEMY decided to create an official discussions board, where the engineers from every software/hardware house can meet the technicians from every stage of production and discuss openly about work-methods, issues and solutions. As a major supporter of ACES and its aim, I keep constantly my eyes opened on the current softwares and hardwares availability that support the ACES framework. And, if it is definitely true that more a…

and here (not really on CLF, but focusing on ACECclip and CTL):

Cross-referencing footage with ACESclip, CTL, etc'

Hello. This discussion was on another thread about Archiving and future-proofing, but I decided to split it because I hope that things discussed here may have a broader scope, as they embrace: use of ACESclip and other ACES components (LUTs, LMT, CLF/CTL files, etc.) in production environments; improvement of the ACES workflow, for fostering better automation and integration of the above components. First of all, TB-2014-009 mentions that the metadata link between some footage (either a fram…

Is the old Basecamp-based forum still alive? I think there are tons of technical XML comments buried in there by many contributor (mostly Alex F., Jim H., Doug W. and myself)

I tried to dig in my old inboxes, but I could just raise two topics “from the dead” emails: one conversation with Jim H. from 2014 (PDF page 1) and one post-interview correspondence with J.Z. from 2018 (PDF page 2, where I removed the suggestons not pertinent to CLF); please download below.
Walter A.'s comments on CLF from Oct-2014.pdf (729.5 KB)