◗ Optimizing Digital-Camera Workflows “ACES gives us transparency, reliability, predictability and protection of the original image capture and eliminates the uncertainty of the ‘special sauce’ that some facilities have to create in order to deal with footage,” says Clark. “We need one standardized color-management workflow architecture that can work with any and all camera systems so that images from those cameras can be easily exported from one facility to another while maintaining image fidelity. ACES, which has recently become a SMPTE standard, is that framework. The ASC Technology Committee, working in close collaboration with the Academy, has been extremely active in advancing ACES, and now there’s definitely a rapidly growing light at the end of the tunnel.” Lighthill feels the industry “is very close to a standardized colormanagement software that will work with all cameras and all facilities. If you Knight operates during the night shoot with actress Melissa Center. 86http://www.kinoflo.com http://www.kinoflo.com