After Effects
DuME can render and transcode After Effects compositions.
You can either drop an After Effects project in a graph (or select a project from an input file node), or send a composition directly from After Effects using the provided After Effects script.
Send a composition from After Effects
If you’ve installed the After Effects with DuME, you should find a DuME panel in the Windows menu in After Effects.
TODO: write AE scripts doc.
After Effects settings in DuME
TODO: write doc about the AE settings in the DuME input file node.
After Effects and ACEScg
- Set After Effects to use OCIO and select the ACEScg 1.3 config.
- Set the working color space to ACEScg.
- Set the display space to either:
sRGB - Display/ACES 1.0 - SDR Video. This option adds a nice tone map to the conversion.sRGB - Display/Un-tone-mapped. This option makes the config simpler to use, but you’ll have a bit more work to find nice looking colors in your comp.
Render to PNG from After Effects
You have to manually set the output color space to sRGB - Display/ACES 1.0 - SDR Video to make sure PNG look like the comp viewer if you’ve set the display space to use the SDR Video transform. It’s not listed by default, you’ll have to check the Show All option to reveal the whole list of color spaces.
If you’ve chosen the un-tone-mapped workflow, just select an sRGB output space.
Render to openEXR from After Effects
By default, AE output EXR using the working space, ACEScg, which is fine.
Transcode ACEScg EXR files with DuME
- In the color settings of DuME, set the path to the After Effects OCIO Config.
On Windows it’sC:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2024\Support Files\OpenColorIO-Configs\ACES 1.3 CG v1.0\cg-config-v1.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.1.ocio
To output the colors exactly the same as in the comp viewer, we need to tell DuME to use the exact same transform.
- In the input node for EXR files:
- Set the EXR options to use the color conversion in
Set view transformmode- Set the input color space to
ACEScg - Set the Display device to
sRGB - Display - Set the View transform to
ACES 1.0 - SDR Videoorrawfor un-tone-mapped workflow
- Set the input color space to
- Set the Color Interpretation to sRGB (use the preset to automatically set all parameters):
BT.709primariessRGBtransfer curveFullrangeRGBmatrix