Welcome to the first part of my new series on color management. Although it’s exciting to launch a new series, there’s not that much to get excited by when it comes to color management. It’s a topic that I feel I need to cover, rather than something I want to cover. Honestly, color management is a royal pain in the rear. But at the same time, we’re at a point where color management can’t be ignored completely. Hence the title of the introduction: The honeymoon is over.
Color Management has always been a topic that has made me slightly uneasy. When software first started including color management features, my main concern was that the colors might change – something I considered to be a very bad thing. Later on, as I started working with RED and Arri footage in After Effects, I became concerned that I wasn’t seeing the full range of detail and quality that I knew was in the files. In 2014, I posted a tutorial on how to round-trip Arri LogC footage in After Effects, and more recently I’ve shared a video on how to work with R3D files in After Effects, with the maximum possible detail.
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