SpaceMan is an ICC Colour Profile Management System that enables film and media industry standard 3D LUTs to be converted into ICC profiles, as well as the editing and manipulation of existing ICC profiles

• V4 ICCs
• Accurate 3D LUT Conversion
• Manipulate existing ICCs
• VCGT
  

Overview

Spaceman can take ColourSpace generated 3D LUTs and convert them (or any other 3D LUTs) into matched ICC v4 profiles for use in ICC compliant systems, such as Photoshop and After Effects for Look Management, as well as for display calibration, including loading into the system OS via the graphics card's VCGT.

All other calibration systems have ColourSpace integration built-in, including Mistika and Resolve.

Any system that lacks ColourSpace integration can still be used for calibration using the ColourSpace DIP (Display Independent Profiling) mode.

Introduction

LUTs are a standard part of any colour critical post-production workflow, especially where DI (Digital Intermediate) grading is performed. The problem many operations face is that many creative tools that are now used as part of an entire project's workflow are not LUT capable, instead using computer and print industry ICC profiles for colour management and even display calibration.

The ability to generate matched ICC v4 profiles from any LUT also means grading work in progress can be accurately viewed on non-LUT based systems, such as a Mac or Windows PC, via images with embedded ICC profiles or as display calibration ICC profiles. Ideal for remote work checking when the end customer can't always be present at the grade.

Note: ICC profiles are rather complex, as they were developed for the print industry, where colour accuracy is more subjective than absolute, due to the inexact nature of attempting to match different output print mediums while viewing the source images on a monitor.

As a result, understanding ICC profiles can be extremely difficult for those used to the far simpler, and far more accurate, approach to colour and look management used within the film and tv industry.