Im forwarding this email from Charles to the list if youve ever attended one of these webinars they are well worth the time and $$. /Tom
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Colleagues -
On Wednesday and Thursday next week, I'll present a four-hour webinar: ACES 1.0 & Scene-linear workflow.
Historically, cinema production and post-production has been based upon the conceptual model of film acquisition, where the image coding scheme incorporates the technical parameters of film in particular, the S-shaped tone response
and the colour crosstalk. Such coding (e.g., Cineon/"DPX") made CGI and VFX difficult. Modern techniques acquire scene-linear data that is, image data is linearly related to the scene elements. Imposition of any required look is imposed during the DI
process. The technique has been under development and refinement at the Academy for several years. It has been released at the 1.0 level, and is likely to see quite wide commercial deployment in the next year.
In this course, I will discuss the technical and visual requirements for acquisition and processing using the scene-linear model, and its log codings ACESproxy and ACEScc. I will introduce the basic technical parameters of various camera
encodings. I will explain the conceptual and technical differences between power-function based video coding and log coding, and I'll describe the associated dynamic range and noise properties. I will outline how picture rendering must be imposed in the
DI pipeline (for example, by the AMPAS reference rendering transform, RRT) and I will explain how CGI/VFX can be integrated into the process. I will describe how IDTs can be computed, and along the way I'll explain why camera filter/sensor combinations do
not impose any colour gamut limitation. (Gamut may be limited by signal processing, but not by optics.)
I'll provide course note handouts. In the webinar, you'll hear me but you won't see me. Instead, you'll see my coloured pens scrawling over viewgraph and handout material. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.
The webinar has two, two-hour sessions:
Wed. Jan. 21, 2015 13:00~15:00 PM EST, and
Thu. Jan. 22, 2015 13:00~15:00 PM EST.
The registration fee is USD 200. You can register at this URL:
<https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/8445886838026018562>
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the sessions.
Should you wish to receive no further messages from me, please drop me an email message saying so.
- C
Charles Poynton
<http://www.poynton.com/>
<mailto:charles@poynton.com>
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