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OpenColorIO (OCIO) is a new open source project from Sony Imageworks.

http://opencolorio.org

Based on development started in 2003, OCIO enables color transforms and image display to be handled in a consistent manner across multiple graphics applications. Unlike other color management solutions, OCIO is geared towards motion-picture post production, with an emphasis on visual effects and animation color pipelines.

See the overview for a brief explanation of the various parts of OpenColorIO, and how it could be used.

Mailing lists

There are two mailing lists associated with OpenColorIO:

ocio-users@googlegroups.com
For end-users (artists, often) of OCIO who have questions related to OCIO profile design, management, and workflow questions.
ocio-dev@googlegroups.com
For users of OCIO tools, APIs, or people integrating OpenColorIO into other applications. http://groups.google.com/group/ocio-dev

Downloading and building the code

At present, there is not a separate precompiled or binary-only distribution of OpenColorIO (though we hope to eventually have one). For now, you’ll have to check out and build the code yourself.

Source code is available on Github at http://github.com/imageworks/OpenColorIO

Download a .zip or .tar.gz of the current state of the repository.

Note that OCIO profiles are required to do any ‘real’ work, and are available from the Downloads section of this site. Example images are also available.