Color Transformation Language for Digital Motion Picture Pipelines
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council has released a new software technology designed to enable color transforms and other pixel-based operations in motion picture imaging pipelines. The Color Transformation Language, or “CTL,” a portable and platform-independent scripting language and interpreter, is intended to be used as a building block for color management systems as well as for sharing transforms in a common format.
CTL addresses an industry need to precisely and unambiguously describe and share color transforms that are routinely used in motion picture mastering. For example, transformations between various color spaces and film density encodings can be defined in a CTL program that can be delivered along with image data, thus ensuring the image is properly rendered for display or other processing steps.
CTL is available from the Academy under an open source license, and is a Registered Disclosure Document (RDD 15 -2007) published by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). To access the CTL Software Developers Kit, please read and accept the following:
Color Transformation Language (CTL) Software License Agreement
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Attention is drawn to the possibility that some elements of CTL, or certain applications of CTL, may be the subject of intellectual property rights other than those identified above. Neither A.M.P.A.S. nor the contributors shall be held responsible for identifying any or all such rights. Recipients of CTL are invited to submit notification to A.M.P.A.S. of any such intellectual property of which they are aware.
To download the CTL Software Developer Kit and required libraries, please follow these links: