Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began rolling out ACES 2.0 by announcing a release schedule and the availability of the developer release kit. This included all the necessary material to start implementing ACES 2.0 – a new version of the open-source industry standard for color management.

Over the last months, we underwent an initial testing phase of the ACES updates in Pomfort software products. We are now ready to share custom beta versions of Silverstack and Livegrade, plus an additional ACES 2.0 transforms package.

However, the journey is not complete; final interoperability tests with other vendors’ implementations of ACES 2.0 are still pending. To forge ahead and validate that ACES 2.0 works cohesively across various platforms and tools, please join beta testing now!

What is new in ACES 2.0?

ACES 2.0 was developed in response to cumulated user feedback and requests from their experiences with the previous versions. Changes address known issues, such as new output transforms with a more neutral tone scale. But also aim to finalize previously unresolved aspects, such as the specification of the ACES Metadata file (AMF), ensuring exchange and exact rebuild of the color pipeline on other grading systems.

Find more detailed information about what is new in the ACES Documentation

Never worked in the ACES color pipeline before?

ACES was established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create consistent, color-accurate, and high-quality motion picture images. It’s an open-source standard to unify how color is handled from production through post to archive.

We collected useful information on what’s possible within Silverstack and Livegrade on our website’s dedicated ACES workflow page.