Awesome tutorial Chad - even though I can do things like these probably blindfolded at this point of my 20 yr long career, I watched whole thing, your pace of teaching is very good and it was pretty nice to follow along.
One of the best intermediate/advanced tutorials I've watched concerning round trip compositing. I'd give it three thumbs up if I had a third hand (which I could probably accomplish with round-trip compositing, lol). Cheers!
According to Aces docs . One should be using aces Ap0 / linear exports for “transport” to other studio/artist and not Aces CG or Ap1. While acesCG should be used in compositing. This got me all sorts of trouble since grading studio uses baselight with aces AP0 / linear , my shots always looked wrong.
Ah yeah that is true - thank you for mentioning it. Normally I would include the format in the filename to avoid confusion - but I never touch AP0 personally.
What is the advantage of using Affininty over Fusion's paint tools? Great video by the way. Also, please make a video about setting up a fusion render farm.
Both methods are valid - some people are more fluent in paint tools in Fusion, so people like to use more automated tools like Patch Tool, Healing Brush etc.
Chadwick, thank you for the video. Quick question, is there a reason why you wouldn't just take a frame at the frame you want to use as a reference vs extracting every frame? Take the one image over to your photo editor, do what you did and then bring that back into fusion. Or am I missing something?
ACEScg is great, because it allows one to standardize what is generating the source footage, and then any ACES version complaint app can manipulate it using it's own tools, and output back in an identical ACES format so there is no cross application contamination. With that said I'm a huge fan of DWA formats, but it should be pointed out that they are technically lossy formats, but the loss is so imperceptible vs the file size saving that it is absolutely worth it unless one is planning to do 50+ iterations of the process, which is so unlikely that it's almost a laughable counter argument when one is working from first or even second generation footage; however, one should be aware of it if the purpose is an archival clip one means to reuse multiple times in the future. If that's the case then one might, and by this I mean rarely, want to work with one of the EXR lossless compressions.
Photoshop is cool, but I'm not a fan of adobe and their business leadership. I'm trying to do as much as I can in tools that support creatives - like affinity and blackmagic.
@@CreativeVideoTips Oh I was Adobian early when Macromedia was king... I was on Adobe Premiere 4.0, Photoshop 5 to teaching it collegiately in 2015. I bucked the subscription system. I used Corel for minute. Yes, its good and still around. So happy Affinity came around ...
They do have an aces transform view but it does not match the current OCIO version. My guess is they are more focussed on Resolve Color Management, but I'm thankful we do have the option to load the config file.
I leave that on YRGB (not color managed). You can of course use the project level management too, you just loose some control doing it globally or at the timeline level.
@@CreativeVideoTips Thanks. Got it! Color science is set to DaVinci YRGB. What did you set Timeline color space and Output color space to in your project?
Yep, DWAA DWAB - both great options for EXR, often poo poo'd by big studios because they are compressed. I think they're a great format and not much of a compromise for most situations.
Cutting Club ➡ creativevideotips.com/cuttingclub
OCIO Display Transform ➡ github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO-Config-ACES/releases
Fusion Reactor ➡ www.steakunderwater.com/wesuckless/viewtopic.php?t=3067
00:00 - ACES Workflow for Resolve Fusion Compositing
01:19 - Shot Naming for VFX
02:05 - Transform to ACES CG
03:05 - ACES Render Settings
09:15 - Denoised Plate for Fusion
14:23 - Fusion OCIO ACES View LUT
17:12 - Save Fusion Default View Settings
19:26 - Fusion Buffer Split Wipe
20:21 - Freezing a Frame Still from Fusion
22:01 - Affinity Photo ACES Settings
24:15 - Affinity Photo Logo Removal Cleanup
26:57 - Important Affinity Export Checkbox
27:52 - Fix Jagged Alpha Channel
28:33 - Testing the Reference Patch
29:08 - Planar Tracking the Clean Plate
31:30 - Tracking Quality Check
32:23 - Planar Transform Match Move
34:55 - Applying Grain Noise to the Patch
39:42 - Render and Deliver ACES Comps
41:00 - Color Grading for ACEScct
Just joined the cutting club. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge!
Welcome! Thanks for that - it really helps offset the hosting cost and time it takes to do niche deep dives like this.
Awesome tutorial Chad - even though I can do things like these probably blindfolded at this point of my 20 yr long career, I watched whole thing, your pace of teaching is very good and it was pretty nice to follow along.
One of the best intermediate/advanced tutorials I've watched concerning round trip compositing. I'd give it three thumbs up if I had a third hand (which I could probably accomplish with round-trip compositing, lol). Cheers!
@@TheRealBarkinMadd hey thanks so much! Feel free to share with any comp friends
Excellent video. I like it because it touches many aspects of postproduction, well explained and in a pleasant way. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm sure this of great value to people who have any idea of what it is about. I've done a bit of DaVinci Resolve editing but have never heard of ACES.
Thank you for your feedback - aces is a color management standard, but I did sort of jump right past that in this one.
I love your stuff and thanks for all you do, but boy oh boy this patch replacement stuff is ten times easier in After Effects.
Thank you so much for this incredible Lesson
EXACTLY what i needed, exactly when i needed it! Thats a like + sub
perfect! thank you
Really good tutorial!
Thx 4 a great tutorial! I’ll be clicking that subscribe button like a mad cow ❤
Could you please make a video about grading and exporting for Dolby Vision?
According to Aces docs . One should be using aces Ap0 / linear exports for “transport” to other studio/artist and not Aces CG or Ap1. While acesCG should be used in compositing. This got me all sorts of trouble since grading studio uses baselight with aces AP0 / linear , my shots always looked wrong.
Ah yeah that is true - thank you for mentioning it. Normally I would include the format in the filename to avoid confusion - but I never touch AP0 personally.
What is the advantage of using Affininty over Fusion's paint tools? Great video by the way. Also, please make a video about setting up a fusion render farm.
Both methods are valid - some people are more fluent in paint tools in Fusion, so people like to use more automated tools like Patch Tool, Healing Brush etc.
Chadwick, thank you for the video. Quick question, is there a reason why you wouldn't just take a frame at the frame you want to use as a reference vs extracting every frame? Take the one image over to your photo editor, do what you did and then bring that back into fusion. Or am I missing something?
ACEScg is great, because it allows one to standardize what is generating the source footage, and then any ACES version complaint app can manipulate it using it's own tools, and output back in an identical ACES format so there is no cross application contamination. With that said I'm a huge fan of DWA formats, but it should be pointed out that they are technically lossy formats, but the loss is so imperceptible vs the file size saving that it is absolutely worth it unless one is planning to do 50+ iterations of the process, which is so unlikely that it's almost a laughable counter argument when one is working from first or even second generation footage; however, one should be aware of it if the purpose is an archival clip one means to reuse multiple times in the future. If that's the case then one might, and by this I mean rarely, want to work with one of the EXR lossless compressions.
I am glad to see you are using Affinity software. Why did you use it over Photoshop which it looks like you have.
Photoshop is cool, but I'm not a fan of adobe and their business leadership. I'm trying to do as much as I can in tools that support creatives - like affinity and blackmagic.
@@CreativeVideoTips Oh I was Adobian early when Macromedia was king... I was on Adobe Premiere 4.0, Photoshop 5 to teaching it collegiately in 2015. I bucked the subscription system. I used Corel for minute. Yes, its good and still around. So happy Affinity came around ...
I am curious why the OCIO View LUT is not already a built-in feature in DaVinci Resolve
They do have an aces transform view but it does not match the current OCIO version. My guess is they are more focussed on Resolve Color Management, but I'm thankful we do have the option to load the config file.
What settings do you start with in Project Settings/Color Mangement?
I leave that on YRGB (not color managed). You can of course use the project level management too, you just loose some control doing it globally or at the timeline level.
@@CreativeVideoTips Thanks. Got it! Color science is set to DaVinci YRGB. What did you set Timeline color space and Output color space to in your project?
@@CreativeVideoTipsgreat tutorial L, just wondering if your timeline color space was also set to ACES and which one. Thanks again
Ain't DWAA is also good?
Yep, DWAA DWAB - both great options for EXR, often poo poo'd by big studios because they are compressed. I think they're a great format and not much of a compromise for most situations.
Hi creative video, good product, I will like to discuss on your product.
Could we?
Nitpick: This video should have been called “Acing ACES”. 😅
ha, that would have been great