How to Use ACES in After Effects - Full Overview (2023)

Excellent tutorial! For a very complicated workflow, you've done a great job explaining it!

My outputs appear a little dull when viewed in macOS's Finder. I've tried every combination possible, from OCIO 1.2, 1.3, and even custom OCIO profiles. They look fine when I bring the image back into the OCIO-managed AE project, but If I bring it into an Adobe Color Managed AE project, they look dull just like it does in Finder. Does anyone else have this issue??

Great Video, thanks a lot. What I noticed when working with ACES: there are no real whites, for example when creating new solids. Plus, all the grading steps behave completely different to the the usual srgb workflow. Maybe you can cover your typical grading steps in a future video? :)

What a headache with this ACES workflow really! It was way easier earlier with full sRGB. Thanks for the tutorial.

eeek.. aces can't fix cycles. switch from blender.. you'll do better.

Nice video, it is useful for my work, Thank you.

Easily the best tutorial online. Great job explaining everything!

THX!!!

Great video and explanation! Thanks

Please make a Fusion video about ACES as well.

Is it just me, ACES in AE is very slow?

For anyone that doesn't have an explicit "Output" in the render view. After clicking show all on the colour profiles, the only sRGB that matched was "sRGB-Display/Un-Toned Map"

title should be how to set color space, not compositing lol

Where can i get the OCIO Color Space Transform? i downloaded ocio for after effects 2022, but it doesnt show me that effect neither de especific name ACES-ACEScg

When we will se your videos uploaded in HDR???

Fantastic work!!

mate you're a star thank you

Anyone else have many, many less options for color spaces in all the twirl down menus?

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Helpful, thanks!

Great, they finally added it with the worst UI & UX implementation ever and it's still a nightmare to use. That's Adobe for you. Always doing the absolute bare minimum to stay relevant.

This is SUCH a helpful video. I have come back to this multiple times now for reference. Thank you so much for making this. You're a really talented educator!

Just a small suggestion with exporting the final thing for a colorist, You can export in pro res as well, it's lossless and preserves all the details and the file sizes arent huge like EXR

One issue I'm having with this workflow is when I work with a plugin like Maxon Universe. I think the plugin, and many others, are not designed to work in OCIO so they don't look right. Is there a workaround for this that anyone knows of? After Effects built in effects work fine.

LOVE this video YES!

Great content man ! like and subscribe. thank you. just last question with which encoding format should we export from blender before compositing ?

why the color picker changes to grey instead of pure white, when we change to aces workflow. thank you and well done for the tutorial

You switches from Fusion to AE?

Color management in AE was always alien to me, Untill now, thankyou!

Great explanation, very helpful! Thanks!

incredible, thank you!

CAN YOU PLZ PROVID LINK OF ALL PROJECT FILES ASAP...

Part of the income of my new VFX job is being earned by you right now, actually <3

Amazing description, can't thank you enough!

Fantastic. Really nice explanation.
Thank you very much for bringing more clarity to me.

Thank you so much for the clear explanation of the workflow.
Literally saved my day!

scientist. :)

For some reason I don't have the V-Log output on my render options, even after pressing show all.

You are awesome man thanks for your effort

Thanks for that video - helped me a LOT!!

It is just crazy to me how convoluted this process is.

People... After Effects hasn't worked in years. It's not that it's just buggy, it's not that it's slow and unpredictable, it's not that it crashes at random and uses archaic methodology to achieve sub-standard results that always take more time to fix than any other compositing and animation software on the market since 2015... It's that it's ALL OF THESE THINGS. Instead of calling out Adobe on years of negligence we make videos about how AE got a colour system that should have been introduced at least two years ago, and everyone just ignores the fact that the program is going to crash at least twice before you even get into the workflow.

PLEASE stop posting videos about how great After Effects is and start posting about the issues that Adobe has ignored for years while they happily take our money and increase the fees as to no proactive result.

Referring to footage as input confuses the audience. We don't have to "discuss another time". Color management is a "filter" that has Input and Output. We need to set a correct Input (color space of our footage), and a correct Output (desired colorspace of our footage).

I've been learning about color managed workflows and messing around with AE old horrible system. Perfect timing for this to come out

I was super excited about this but I think I prefer the old workflow where I stacked OCIO adjustment layers I could just copy/paste. Maybe I’m just being stubborn!?

Does bitdepth play a role?