Christian Rush

On 10/5/2021 at 1:06 AM, Jason Bowdach said:

Same thing w ACES, project level can work, but it limits what "tricks" we can do, including the halation strategy I demoed - which is why many prefer using a "manual" ACES  (sometimes called Fake ACES, or Pseudo ACES) set up within the node tree, as it allows the best of both worlds - great, industry-standard color management + full control over the color pipeline. 

So then I am assuming the halation compound must take place before the Aces Pseudo workflow? 

Davinci YRGB: Halation Compound Node with the CST's for linear/ARRI in it > ACES Node 1 > Balance/Looks Nodes > ACES Node 2?

Curious about something for CST if I'm working in RCM or ACES.  I've experimented but not sure I've done it exactly right.

This is in relation mainly to the Halation effect.

What seemed to work for me was a bit complicated but seemed to work best when working with an Arri Clip and DRCM since when enabling/disabling I saw no change, but I would love a double check:

1st CST node:

Input Color space: Davinci Wide Gamut

Input Gamma: ARRI LogC

Output Color Space: Rec709

Output Gamma: Linear

2nd CST node:

Input Color Space: Rec709

Input Gamma: Linear

Output Color Space: Davinci Wide Gamut

Output Gamma: ARRI LogC

Thanks to anyone that can confirm this would be the best practice.  And for ACES I'd assume just switch the Davinci Wide Gamut option (in the CST nodes) to ACES version in the project.

5 hours ago, Grant Reynolds said:

Hello. Is there a sitewide issue with download links? I've tried every link from every course with zero success. 

Didn't work for me on google chrome, but worked on firefox.  try a different browser