OCIO / ACES workflow in After Effects

The Open Color IO workflow in After Effects using Cinema 4D Red Shift Render passes.

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00:00 - What you will learn
00:21 - Comp Overview
01:29 - What is OCIO
02:39 - Render Settings in Redshift
04:28 - Managing Colors in After Effects
07:00 - Assign a Color Profile
08:45 - Bake Color Profile with the Render

[driggsy]

Amazing tutorial. I've been struggling with OCIO workflow, and you really helped me understand it a bit more. Loved the tip about applying the colorspace interpretation on imported outside footage.

Thank you so much for this!

[pianta]

thanks for the tutorial, just realized it's best for my sanity to just stick with adobe managed colors because this does my head in xD

[rockeverrockin]

Please always keep in mind that ACEScg is a working colorspace only. For exports/transfers to other software or vendors always use ACES 2065-1 (AP0) and choose a codec, that is capable of linear float such as OpenEXR 16bit half.
The automatic tagging as ACES 2065-1 that happend to your BG is as intended and the same in other applications, if your source does not have a color space tag in it's metadata. ACES workflows always expect ACES 2065-1 as a default if not told different, because it is the defined standard for renders within the ACES scene referred universe.

[flashgiz]

Thanks for this very simple and clear explanation! Is there a way to render it with the display color space that is being used in AE? it looks like it's defaulting to no color space when rendering. Is the display color space just for AE and not the final render?
EDIT: just figured out that I needed to manually change the output color space to the same one I'm using for the display color space if I want it to look the same.

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[convivial_studio]

Thank you for this tutorial!!
Colors are looking right in After effects but not in the rendered video, then as you mentioned the rendered video will look right in any program that support openIO/ACESsg.
What about rendering with the colors looking right in any media player or to upload on youtube? how would you do that?

[Lochie]

Thank you for this explanation! Just wondering how do we go about exporting through encoder media? my exported file colour gone wrong.

[nathitappan]

Thanks Eran! Quick question: what if I want to composite some motion graphics with either AE layers or AI layers? It changes those colors too, but I cannot "interpret footage" on those types of things. Is there a trick to having both?

[glennsmooth]

So... if you want to render a quicktime that others can view that will look the same?

[MauroSanna]

I was looking for a way to actually embed the color correction into the rendered video. Is there a way to do that?

[JacobCuevasVFX]

So then would you export rec.709 instead and not the ACES working color space?

[editorpico]

Why am I missing Color Management tab in project settings?

[felixgeen]

has anyone tried adding a simple gaussian blur to a layer using ACES colour management? Adobe's implementation of ACES seems to be completely broken. None of the effects work properly anymore.

[devilsforkdigital]

Yet another color space tutorial that only gives you half the necessary info. Why do you set your bit depth to 32 bit? Does it need to be 32 bit to be correct, even if you've rendered to 8 or 16 bit? What's the difference between the compositing color spaces and what should it be set to (saying "You can choose a compositing color space here" is really super not helpful.) And, what about outputting for video to be played back on a TV or computer monitor, which is what the VAST majority of people using After Effects are going to be doing? Almost nobody is going to have a use for rendering to ACEScg out of After Effects.