Academy Color Encoding System

The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is a color image encoding system created under the auspices of the <a href="/facts/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences/lnmVq6Uj">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</a>. ACES is characterised by a color accurate workflow, with "seamless interchange of high quality motion picture images regardless of source".
The system defines its own <a href="/facts/Primary_color/F4wNk0TC">primary colors</a> as being on the <a href="/facts/Spectral_locus/SG0F8xet">spectral locus</a> as defined by the <a href="/facts/CIE_xyY/fzgwzV8V">CIE xyY</a> specification. The <a href="/facts/White_point/MP9M3NmB">white point</a> is approximate to the chromaticity of CIE Daylight with a Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) of 6000K. Most ACES compliant image files are encoded in 16-bit <a href="/facts/Half-float/7xPj7B3w">half-floats</a>, thus allowing ACES <a href="/facts/OpenEXR/Qrr9TgYb">OpenEXR</a> files to encode 30 stops of scene information. The ACESproxy format uses integers with a log encoding. ACES supports both <a href="/facts/High_dynamic_range/n4yFQ5tG">high dynamic range</a> (HDR) and <a href="/facts/Wide_color_gamut/bRQc2fCr">wide color gamut</a> (WCG).
The version 1.0 release occurred in December 2014. ACES received a <a href="/facts/Primetime_Engineering_Emmy_Award/RmDKHpqu">Primetime Engineering Emmy Award</a> in 2012. The system is standardized in part by the <a href="/facts/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_Television_Engineers/lwCdWynu">Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers</a> (SMPTE) standards body.

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Academy Color Encoding System