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ASK THE EXPERTS: Andrew Shulkind & Rohan Chitrakar

Aces: ASK THE EXPERTS
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Award winning Cinematographer Andrew Shulkind and DIT Rohan Chitrakar talk ACES for commercials.


 
Q: On what projects have you used ACES?
 
A. (Andrew) I use ACES as often as possible.  Recently that has been a variety of commercials, two independent films and even a 360˚VR narrative series I shot for Samsung. 
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Tell us how you use ACES!

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The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is a free and open system for managing color, file interchange and archiving.  It was developed by the industry for the industry under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Ask the Expert: John Frith, Head of Imaging at MPC

John Frith, Head of Imaging at MPC talks about how the company uses ACES in virtually all their workflows.
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John Frith, Head of Imaging at MPC answers 3 questions about how and why the company uses ACES in virtually all their workflows.

 

Q: How are you using ACES at MPC? 

A: We are fully setup to support ACES at MPC and welcome any ACES based projects.

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What are the advantages of using ACES for color correction?

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ACES provides some key advantages for color correction over legacy workflows.  The most tangible benefit is that the ACES files have the capability to contain all color information and dynamic range of the original source material with greater precision than can be contained in legacy 10-bit files such as Cineon.  ACES files put more highlight and shadow information at the colorist’s disposal during grading.

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What productions have used ACES and how can I add my ACES show to the list?

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ACES is a color management, digital file interchange and archiving system developed by and for the industry. Hundreds of leading professionals from the community, under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences contributed to its development.   ACES is a free and open system and so in keeping with that heritage and spirit, we are using 2 community based resources to track productions that have used ACES.

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Experience "The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES): A Standardized Production Infrastructure for VFX" panel at SIGGRAPH

ACES panel
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On August 11th, the Academy will host a special SIGGRAPH 2015 panel where creatives and technologists will discuss how they currently use ACES and how its integration into prominent animation, VFX, and color-correction tools simplifies color management and image interchange on future productions.

The session will be moderated by noted visual effects and technology leader Sebastian Sylwan and will run from 2pm - 3:30pm.

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