Cinema 4D Quicktip - ACES in Octane

Just a quick tip on how to work in the ACES color profile in Octane. Unlike sRGB, ACES allows you for a much richer contrast and highlight details that resembles real-life photography much more.
I will never work in sRGB again, and you shouldn't either.

00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Scene in sRGB
01:36 - Changing to ACES space
02:50 - Comparing sRGB to ACES
04:05 - ACES Export Setings
05:18 - More Comparisons
05:42 - Outro

Download OCIO config file here:

[empire.]

Not even OTOY support gave an explanation about ACES this good bro, amazing tutorial, thank you so much for this.

[yannick]

Always knew id have to use ACES ONE DAY, never felt urgent enough or like 30 seconds too much work :D
Seen your thumbnail and instantly knew: TODAY is the DAY :D

Cheers, keep it up!

[ScarletAnh]

My man, i’m so glad I found your video, save me so much researching how to resolve this eternal problem 😢

[JoshFryer]

Friend, you are not a dumb f***! This was INCREDIBLY helpful! I've been looking for a good workflow for ACES in C4D, but not in AE, you gave it to me! Thank you again!

[안돌돌말이]

oh thank you i all ways longed for this...!

[MrYadjdf]

Super cool, huge difference, tnx for advise

[gustavoferreira]

i've been waiting for this one Guy!! very iconic

[georgykorepin]

bro, u do best octane tutorials on youtube

[georgykorepin]

just try it, but with new octane, just mar aces in camera imager, IT SIMPLY AMAZING! THANK YOU! AND THANK YOU Michael Crozier from comments that tell about latest varsion!

[michaelcrozier]

Latest version of Octane has ACES tonemapping built in, it just a checkbox in the camera imager. No need for installing anything via OCIO

[astrojungle]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I was on the fence whether to try it or not. Will definitely have a go at it. Thanks, g.

[Gromick]

It's nice for people that make random stuff that has to look nice on Instagram. But when you actually need to work for customers and they have specific colors in their corporate design, ACES will screw them up. If you only want to use it to have a higher dynamic range, there are better OCIO options out there like Filmic or AgX that have the same effect and maintain the colors better.
Oh and by the way, in scenes that are not overexposed, Aces can also make it look worse pretty often since it often increases contrast even when you don't want it.

[ArchViz-D]

For overexposure we have highlight compression :)

[aliwayne]

it's by default now, thanks anyway 👍

[RaphaelPavel]

Tried the same process, but unfortunately, I get a black Live Viewer window when selecting OCIO:<sRGB>. Seems like a lot of people are having the same issue.

[zaidi]

correct me if i'm wrong but you can still render as Linear rgb and use the ACES config in AE (or any app that supports OCIO) to go from linear to srgb, it should in theory have a nice (hopefully accurate) color transformation

[esnoox]

Is anyone using the baked in method in c4d 2023? I get completely washed out images, r26 works just fine with this setup.

[charisbci]

When the Multi-Pass in C4D render section is Enable then the result of C4D Picture Viewer render is brighter than in Octane Live Viewer.

[PhilipVanHeerden-tj]

Hey, thanks for the video. Do you know how to render the denoised beauty pass in aces as well. Currently the denoised pass renders a lot lighter than the actual render

[davidwithers]

Anyone else having trouble with the new tone mapping button? it looks no where near as nice as the method shown in this vid.
New Aces tone mapping seems to have really dark blacks in comparison.