How to Use ACES in After Effects - Full Overview (2023)

Guess what?! After Effects finally supports ACES as a proper workflow option. So in this tutorial, I'll walk you through this new ACES workflow in After Effects. We'll go through all the menus, settings, and key concepts you should know to successfully adopt this workflow for your own projects. Enjoy!

OTHER LINKS FROM THE VIDEO:
To better understand why we sometimes set the input transform to 'Output - sRGB', read through this post on the ACES central forum. It's not the most concise, but it's the best I have for now (unless someone would like to explain it in the comments)

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[Polyfjord]

Nice!! Cute creature AND valuable workflow!!! Thanks so much for making these videos, this is awesome!!

[nickjito]

It is just crazy to me how convoluted this process is.

[BlenderSecrets]

Find someone to love you, the way InLightVFX loves ACES ;-) Very well made tutorial as usual.

[DanceManAlex]

So glad your making videos again! All super high quality. Color space with vfx has always been something I’ve struggled conceptualizing.

[PouletMasaky]

Finally a proper ACES workflow in After Effects ! That's a relief

[LeonSanginiti]

Excellent tutorial! For a very complicated workflow, you've done a great job explaining it!

[agudal]

I was searching for this info and this video is great! You did a great Job! Much appreciated, suscribed. Thanks!

[tateio]

This overview is absolutely pure gold for more reasons than one!

[pro.tharan]

this is what we like to see! Short and too the point, and finally ACES in After Effects, great round up as always!

[JacobCuevasVFX]

Easily the best tutorial online. Great job explaining everything!

[tonytsaoproduction]

Thank you so much for the clear explanation of the workflow.
Literally saved my day!

[marchomotion]

These color space videos are so crucial. Thanks!

[zeeyannosse]

wonderful!!! bravo !!! melting brain awesomeness good vibes in the clarity of giving the information !

[ocdvfx]

You are goated! Thank you for covering this so quickly. Mad hype to not have to jump through hoops just to achieve an accurately color matched image

[geoffreybassett]

Thank you for the great and precise overview. I'm a colorist and have been sending this to VFX artists and it's been very helpful in explaining ACES.

[Jeroen_Ech]

Thank you, this finaly got my head around it.

[weyzhen]

Nice video, it is useful for my work, Thank you.

[emmettfeldman]

Amazing description, can't thank you enough!

[randmcnally.]

amazing video! very straightforward! very well done!

[RoccoCanvas]

I'm very happy to have found this video today. It's very impressive！！🐿