Notice of Meeting - ACES Architecture Technical Advisory Council (TAC) - July 26, 2022

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Please join us for the next meeting of the:
ACES Architecure Technical Advisory Council (ACES Architecture TAC)

The meeting will be led by the ACES Architecture TAC Chair/ACES Project Vice-Chair, Rod Bogart, and will take place on

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
1pm - 2:30pm PST (Los Angeles time)
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All,

Below is the agenda for the Architecture TAC meeting.

Agenda

  • Call for other business
  • Discussion of community participation guidelines
  • Output Transforms Working Group progress report
  • Open discussion topics
    • Role of ACESproxy (or some integer encoding) in ACES 2.0
  • Preliminary discussion with ASWF
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Recording and transcript

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On the topic of ACEScct as a new ACES proxy - we use ACEScct as a 16bit integer format within Photoshop and similar applications. this is obviously Full range RGB [0-65535]. The only real downside has been the dynamic range represented by that encoding can result in images being “a bit flat” - but people get over that.

Adding any Video encoding - my vote would be to only specify a narrow range mapping for any video representation (HD SDI, Prores, DNxHR, H.264, etc etc etc) and be clear that if you make a TIFF or DPX or whatever it maps to full range - yes it is not transparent to convert between the two, yes you loose any over/undershoot.

But it is better than storing ACEScct into a 16 bit half float format… which is wrong in so many ways :slight_smile:

Kevin

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Just pointing out that AP1 might be too small for encoding camera material in an integer space as out of gamut colours cannot be maintained.
Might be ok for proxy workflows but hearing that it is considers as an online mezzanine integer format makes me worry.

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Ah yes, I should caveat we only use ACEScct when it is the intended grading space for the production, otherwise we might use a camera encoding space, etc for the reason Daniele outlines.

Kevin