Color Management Part 21: HDR formats, colorspaces and TLAs
High Dynamic Range video is a new frontier for many After Effects users, but despite the clear advantages it...
Color Management Part 17: Linear Compositing
Linear compositing can be a tricky subject. Many years ago a few of my colleagues started discussing it. One...
Color Management: OCIO & ACES in AE 2023
After Effects now has OpenColorIO and ACES built in. While that is great news for digital artists, it also...
Color Management Part 14: Combining OCIO and After Effects
OpenColorIO is the industry standard color management tool for animation and visual FX. After Effects also has its own,...
Color Management Part 13: OpenColorIO and After Effects
OpenColorIO is, currently, a plugin for After Effects. It’s free, it’s open source, it’s the industry standard tool for...
Color Management Part 12: Introducing ACES
ACES is a hot topic. But it’s not that easy to answer the simple question: “What is ACES?” And...
Color Management Part 11: Introducing OpenColorIO
OpenColorIO is a free, open source, industry standard plugin for color management. But if After Effects has a built...
Color Management Part 10: CM using After Effects built-in system
After Effects has had a full color management system built-in since the release of CS4, in 2008. The basic...
Color Management Part 9: Workflow Theory
The concept of a simple color managed workflow isn’t too difficult to understand. People working with video software are...
Color Management Part 8: Colorspaces
A colorspace is the basis for color management. By itself, the concept of a colorspace isn’t too difficult to...