Color Management Part 19: High Dynamic Range – introducing HDR
High Dynamic Range video, or HDR, is the reason this entire series on color management exists. So it’s pretty...
Color Management Part 18: Bit Depth
After Effects has a project-wide bit depth setting, but individual plugins may or may not support all bit depths....
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 16: RAW video files
When compared to the long history of film and television, RAW video formats are relatively new. The concept of...
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...