SMPTE-NY 11/18/15 Meeting: “Color Management for the 21st Century"
Date and time
Location
Sony Screening Room
550 Madison Ave New York, NYDescription
SMPTE-NY November 2015 Meeting
"Color Management for the 21st Century: A Primer on the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES)"
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
5:30 social hour
6:30 event starts
8:30 event ends
Space is limited, so only sign up if you intend to go.
Sony Screening Room
550 Madison Ave
New York, NY
Subway: E, F, M, N, Q, R
Produced by David Leitner and Mark Forman
UHDTV/4K, high dynamic range (HDR), and wide color gamuts will place unprecedented demand on production and post to create great-looking images. Increasingly diverse camera options and resultant “snowflake” workflows – no two alike – will make it harder than ever to integrate and manage images across many facilities. Released to the industry in December 2014, the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is a production-ready suite of technical standards, best practices and support tools designed to manage color workflows and digital images across a wide range of systems. ACES facilitates the interchange of HDR images, management of color transforms, mastering for multiple outputs and display devices, and long-term archiving. What are the essential ingredients of ACES? How was it developed? Who supports it? Do SMPTE standards play a role? What does a production need in order to use ACES today? What is the future roadmap for ACES?
Speaker:
Jim Houston, principal of Starwatcher Digital, consults on new technologies and workflows for TV and motion pictures. He is a Fellow of SMPTE, a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’s Science and Technology Council, and co-chair of the ACES Project Committee. He was previously Vice President of Technology and Engineering for Sony Pictures and has worked at multiple post houses, visual effects companies, and animation studios. He is the recipient of two Academy Science and Engineering Awards, two team 2012 Engineering Emmys, and last year’s Technicolor/Herbert T. Kalmus Medal from SMPTE for “his leadership and contributions in the application of digital technologies to motion picture production and postproduction processes.”
Organized by
We are the New York Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the leading technical society for the motion imaging industry. Our more than 500 members live or work in northern New Jersey, southern New York and all of Connecticut.
SMPTE members are spread throughout 64 countries worldwide. Over 200 Sustaining (institutional) Members belong to SMPTE, allowing networking and contacts to occur on a larger scale. Touching on every discipline, our members include engineers, technical directors, cameramen, editors, technicians, manufacturers, designers, educators, consultants and field users in networking, compression, encryption and more.
SMPTE was founded in 1916 to advance theory and development in the motion imaging field. Today, SMPTE publishes internationally-recognized Standards, Recommended Practices, and Engineering Guidelines, along with the highly regarded SMPTE Journal and its peer-reviewed technical papers. SMPTE holds conferences and local Section meetings to bring people and ideas together, allowing for useful interaction and information exchange.
SMPTE strives toward its goal through:
- Membership: Promoting networking and interaction
- Standards: Developing industry standards
- Education: Enhancing education through seminars, exhibitions, and conferences