Hello friends. I will be doing some cleanup work on a film and they want me to work in aces. Can I get some advice on setting up the flame project. Shot on Alexa LF / Raw.

most simple workflow ever, when starting the project just select aces 1.1 as colormanagement policy aaand you are basically done. tagging files “from source” should get everything correct, doublecheck the dabayer settings of the arriraw, and watch my aces logik live :slight_smile:

I`m with Finn, ACES 1.1 preset just works tm

Thanks guys, I’m going to be given EXR’s so what should I set my Cache and Renders setting to? [image] And I’m guessing that I set the Res to what the camera raw file is? 12bit??

12 bit would be fine (all float stuff would be cached to float format, despite this setting). And most likely you would be given ACEScg sources, not ARRI, but I`ll double check this with other side

answering here as well, there is 3 roads: cache as 16bit float acesCG, i would just autoconvert everything to acesCG on import, then cache , rendersettings wont matter. this is pretty heavy on storage and all but its the most clean way cache as LogC, in that case its either uncompressed or pr…

Also, @Hardave and @PlaceYourBetts had some really good conversation on yesterdays logik about this! Maybe reach out to them?!

Yeah @johnag Get yourself comfortable jumping in and out of linear when appropriate. ACEScg - ArriLogC or ACEScg - ACEScct One of my favourite clean-up/beauty techniques is using the high pass filter How to use Highpass You can’t do this in a linear colourspace. Also tracking and resize work be…

If I’m getting EXRs and they are asking you to work in ACES, I would agree with Val in assuming ACEScg. But check with whomever is supplying them. There may be information in the header of the file as well. 16 bit workflow is key. I like using for project setup Legacy and do my own color managemen…

Thank you @finnjaeger @val @PlaceYourBetts @ace_elliott @Hardave so much for the feedback. Randy’s video gave me a great start too. THANKS @randy OK so I’ve got some test files and they come in great as ACES cg. What is ACES cct ?? The test exr’s are 4448x3096 (1.43). I’m guessing this is the a…

ACEScct is a working log space. So, great for performing comp tasks that perform better in log. Yeah, they give you a file at a specified resolution and aspect ratio, don’t change it, work on it, give it back the same way. Easy peasy.

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