The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is a set of components that facilitates a wide range of motion picture workflows while eliminating the ambiguity of today's file formats. The framework is designed to support both "all digital" and "hybrid film-digital" motion picture workflows.
The basic ACES components are:
- Color encoding and metric specficiations, file format specifications, color transformations, and an open source reference implementation.
- A set of reference images and calibration targets for film scanners and recorders
- Documentation on the architecture and software tools
This toolkit is intended to serve as a distribution mechanism for key components of the framework including the reference impelmentation, reference images, software tools, and documentation.