Attendees

• Gary Oberbrunner - Chair, John-Paul Smith (BorisFX), Dennis Adams (Sony), Alexandre Bizeau (Maxon), Guido Veldkamp (Assimilate), Mikki Wells (BorisFX - Mocha), Abigail Brady (SideFX - Houdini)

Future Agenda Items:

• See the new Agenda github project page at https://github.com/orgs/AcademySoftwareFoundation/projects/26/views/1

Minutes

Meeting called to order at 11:00am EST.

Technical Matters

• Abigail Brady introduction: engineer working on Houdini at SideFX. Was at The Foundry working on OpenFX there too.

• 1.5 release prep for SIGGRAPH:

  • please send imagery and quotes for press release

  • need to get all commits in and reviewed ASAP

  • Release notes and PR need to be finalized by JULY 10, everyone please send something. SIGGRAPH is July 28.

  • Features:

    • Color management

    • OfxSetHost

    • DrawSuite

    • GPU: OpenCL, CUDA, Metal support

    • Choice params (strings & order)

    • Binary data

    • Windows ARM64

    • Houdini support? (See https://www.cgchannel.com/2024/06/sneak-peek-houdini-20-5/)

• Abigail: SideFX and Houdini will have OpenFX support

• Binary data: Paul: implemented by Silhouette & Mocha

  • Paul will do an example

  • Need doc updates

  • Will be mandatory in 1.5

• Color: J-P

  • UPDATE: "basic" color management style, roles only, API just has simple generic colorspace names e.g. OFX_SDR

  • how to negotiate output color space? Plugin gets to choose, but need a new action for that. getClipPreferences is now extended, and added a new action for plugin to set output colorspace. Phil to review.

  • Distinction between scene and display-referenced spaces

  • recent updates: use simple color spaces rather than roles, non-OCIO, just want linear/log/TV

  • TODO update example -- use new simple method, exercise output colorspace. Test vs. Phil's Filmlight

  • TODO review docs: needs a descriptive doc in the programming guide (J-P will write it, but I should figure out where to put it)

  • Need to test with OCIO plugin and host (Paul: Silhouette, Mocha will test on plugin side -- maybe Sapphire too?)

• TODO implement #159 (deprecate a param) & list in rel notes

Organizational Matters

• Please attend the OpenFX Virtual Town Hall, announcing v1.5: Thu Jul 25, 2024 12pm – 1pm (EDT)

Misc

Meeting adjourned at 11:35am EST

Meeting recording and transcript

Next month's meeting will be at the usual date and time. We will find a time for an upcoming meeting that works for APAC folks e.g. BlackMagic.