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Choosing After Effects color management settings

Choosing After Effects color management settings

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Choosing After Effects color management settings

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- [Instructor] With all of our render passes saved to disc, we are ready now to composite them together, and we could really use any compositing or post-production application for that, but I'm choosing to use AfterEffects. In AfterEffects, we need to set up our color management settings, so let's go into the File menu, and go into the Project Settings window, click on the Color tab, and here we see Depth and Working Space. The color depth should be 32 bits per channel, not 8 bits, so let's switch that over to 32 bits per channel, and that of course, is for high dynamic range imagery. The files that we've saved out are half precision 32-bit images, meaning that they use up the entire exposure gamut, but it just has less precision, to save disc space, and so don't confuse that with 16 bits per channel here, we definitely want to choose the 32 bits per channel float as our color depth. Then we come to the working space,…

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