Completed a job last month. Archived and deleted the project. Client wants revisions so we restore the project. All media and media links came back fine, BUT the color management of the footage went back to TAG/UNKNOWN Clips are supposed to be color conversion Rec709 with a Sony Slog LUT. Why i…

@AllenRobbins - It could be a number of different things, but is most likely tied to the color policy of the new flame project, the import rules preferences of the project (related to the color policy), and the user preferences. You did not state whether or not the restore was a flame managed media…

good point. We archive the project uncached and without renders or ML maps. The raw footage is part of our folder structure and travels with the archive. When we restore, the raw comes back with it in the same folder structure. No re-link / re-import. Seems like restoring “should” keep the clip…

If that’s your workflow then it’s a combination of the media_import prefs, the mediaImport prefs, the user import prefs and the color policy. These files can change if you switch platforms, operating system, application version and I think user as well. The way that you can create more predictable…

Clips lose Color Management settings on Restore

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randy June 26, 2024, 2:45am 5

Wasn’t there a bug specifically with Sony slog tagged clips in the last couple of releases??

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Clips lose Color Management settings on Restore

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