The Color Management Handbook for Visual Effects Artists: Digital Color Principles, Color Management Fundamentals & ACES Workflows

Cover
Title Page
Half Title
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: Optics and Perception of Color
	1 Elements of Optics
		Light
		Perception of Color
		Capturing Light
		Sensitometry
		Capturing Color
			The Technicolor[sup(®)] Tripack
			Kodak[sup(®)] Kodachrome
		Color Temperature
		Grain Size & Film Speed
		Film vs Digital Cinema
			CCD
			CMOS
			CCD vs CMOS
		Sensor Filter Array
		Bayer Pattern
			Luminance vs Chroma
		Chroma Sub-Sampling
			Chroma Subsampling Artefacts in Visual Effects (VFX)
	2 Elements of Digital Color Manipulation
		Color Data
		Floating Point
		Half Float
		Normalization
		Linear
		Color Manipulation
		Display Referred Color Operations
		Linear vs Logarithmic
			Exponents, Roots, and Logarithms
			Log to Lin and Lin to Log Math
		Cineon
		VFX Commonly Used File Formats
			Cineon Log File (.cin)
			Bit-Depth and Brightness Progression Correspondence for Normalization
			Reversibility in a Non-destructive Color Workflow
			DPX: Digital Picture Exchange Format (.dpx)
			TIFF: Tagged Image File Format (.tif/.tiff)
			OpenEXR: Open Source Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format (.exr)
		Image Compression: Lossless vs Lossy
		Other Commonly Used File Formats
			JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg/.jpeg)
			PNG: Portable Network Graphics (.png)
		Video Compression: Inter-Frame Coding
			Significant Codecs for VFX Post-Production
			QuickTime (.mov)
			MXF: Material Exchange Format (.mxf)
		Other Relevant Image File Formats
			PSD: Photoshop Document (.psd)
			HDR: High Dynamic Range Raster Image (.hdr)
			PIC: Pictor Raster Image
			SGI: Silicon Graphics Image (.sgi)
			TARGA: Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (.tga, .icb, .vda, .vst)
			XPM: X PixMap (.xpm)
			YUV: Luminance (Y) - Chrominance (UV) Encoded Video/Image File (.yuv)
			GIF: Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
		Display White Balance
		Monitor Types
		Input Process & Viewer Process
			The Input Process in Nuke[sup(TM)]
Section II: Color Management
	3 The Importance of Color Management
	4 Understanding Color Spaces
		Color Models
		The Visible Spectrum
		The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) xy Chromaticity Diagram
		Color Gamut
		White Point
		Primaries
		The Transfer Function
		Look Up Table
			Precision and Interpolation
		Display Referred Workflows
		Scene Referred Workflows
		Display Referred vs Scene Referred Workflows
		The Key Elements of the RGB Color Space
Section III: High Dynamic Range (HRD)
	5 Scene and Display Color Spaces
		Scene and Display Color Spaces
		Types of Transfer Functions
	6 Color Volume
		Color Samples
		Color Density
		Color Bit Depth
		Bits and Colors
		Linear vs Logarithmic
		Nuke Workspace Color Bit Depth
			Nuke Native Color Working Space
		RGB Density
		Display Color Volume
	7 HRD
		Standards Concerning HRD
		Video Formats
			HDR10 Media Profile
			Hybrid Log-Gamma
			Dolby[sup(®)] Vision
			HDR10+
		Electro-optical Transfer Function (EOTF) for HDR
			Perceptual Quantizer (PQ)
			Hybrid Log-Gamma EOTF
			BT.1886
		HDR TV vs HDR Cinema
		Primaries
		Wrapper
		Transfer Function
		White Point
		Peak Brightness
		Minimum Black
		Contrast Ratio
		Levels
		Bit Depth
		Metadata
		The PQ EOTF
			Tone Mapping
		HDR Signal Value
Section IV: Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) Workflows
	8 ACES
		A Future-Proof Color Management System
			Resolution
			Frame Rate
			Color Gamut
			Bit Depth
			Dynamic Range
		ACES Standards: The ST.2065 Family
		OpenColorIO
		VFX Focused ACES Colorspaces
		ACES Compliant EXR
			Key Specs of ACES Compliant OpenEXR
	9 ACES Color Transformations
		Input Device Transform (IDT)
		Reference Rendering Transform (RRT)
		Output Device Transform (ODT)
		American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Color Decision List (CDL)
			Slope
			Offset
			Power
			Saturation
			ASC CDL File Formats
		Look Modification Transform (LMT)
	10 ACES Scene Referred VFX Workflow Example
		Nuke End-to-End ACES Color Managed Workflow
		DaVinci Resolve[sup(™)] ACES Color Managed Workflow
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