[Tig] Universal Color Metadata challenge

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Rob Lingelbach wrote:
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> The concept of a colorgrading metadata standard is relevant, but could it be 
> achieved without stifling internecine progress through compeitiion?

Are you saying that the industry does not know what it is doing yet? 
Stu's blog makes it pretty clear that the industry *does* know what it 
is doing but that the same old stuff is being duplicated in somewhat 
different incantations in such a way that knowledge needs to be 
manually tranferred from one tool to another.  The creator does not 
currently have a way to see what his work will look like after 
currently dictated rules have been applied. He tosses his work into 
the hopper and someone may come to tell him that the work did 
not acceptability survive the process so he needs to redo the work.

It seems to me that with Stu's proposal, the number of traditional 
Colorists could be reduced, but with more control being added earlier 
in the post-production process (as has already been occuring) and 
better interoperability between tools.  Many corrections could be made 
earlier in the process, and it might not be necessary to backtrack so 
far if someone decides that a gross correction needs to be made.

Bob
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