1. A method for processing motion picture scene data through a motion picture intermediate process in which the scene data is initially acquired from a film or an electronic camera, wherein image losses potentially occur during later stages of the process, said method comprising the steps of: (a) representing the scene data in a non-linear space; and (b) compensating for the image losses associated with the later stages at a point in the process before they occur by converting the scene data into an intermediate space representing the space in which the losses occur and filtering the scene data in the intermediate space to compensate the scene data for the losses.