Add VFX to Cinematic RAW and LOG Footage (the right way) | ACES Part 2
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
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In this video, we dive into Davinci Resolve and Blender to see how to utilize ACES to easily add VFX to RAW and LOG footage. We’ll be building on the concepts of color gamut and gamma that were covered in Part 1. So if you haven't watched the first part yet, go check it out!
Mario Cazares’ tutorials:
ACES Setup in Blender: • Setup ACES in Blender
Image Configuration: • Using ACES in Blender ...
Daniel Brylka's awesome Blender+ACES resources - www.toodee.de/
Filming help:
Tim Moder - / timothymoder
Chloe Collins
Modeling help:
Spacecraft Model - www.blendswap....
Robot Model - / artfromrachel
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As I receive feedback I will update this comment with any necessary corrections:
1) EXR's are not the only file type that can store ACES data. 16 and 32-bit .tiff files work as well. In addition, .hdr files are used for HDRI's (as I did in this tutorial). EXR files are still most common for plates and renders.
Basically any footage will work if it is in known color space and gamut and properly IDT is there. I think any of listed 10 bit log footage will also be linearized inside blender.
@@MichaelWeizenfeld Def true, however if the goal is to comp including footage, going from a camera raw file like .braw to 10bit log will introduce quality loss which isn't practical going into a vfx workflow. Coming out of vfx to grade or finish could be more suitable to just store in a 10bit log file for speed and storage on a budget. In resolve it would still be possible to keep working in ACES with that log footage and maintain more than enough dynamic range for finishing.
That's not true in every case, because EXR is optimized for footage with linear gamma and TIF for perceptually encoded images. So if you want to save linear ACES frames, you should use EXRs over TIF
can you please please do tutorial of aces with your robot clip used in this video, and tutorial for how to work flow with blender and davinci while footage shooted in green screen, tutorial for adding VFX in that i guess it will help others, well thankyou, i hope you will think about this.
Bad workflow...
This: an excellent tutorial about proper color workflow
Me: Lemme up contrast + saturation and call it a day since that's all my ape brain can handle
I asked these questions in comment one of your video. and you didnt reply. but you are amazing. i love how you do maths. 🤩🥰
Bro if you have an ape brain the rest of us are amoebas haha
and there will be a day when you will love to have a good color representation
The lord himself is here
@@michaelhere985 ?
Your editing, voice, perfect words, all the technical aspects. So impressive and soo good! Thank you so much ❣️
I appreciate it, Vidya! Thanks for watching!
This is incredible!
I'm an independent Brazilian filmmaker and I've been looking for ways to incorporate VFX into the low-cost productions of my audiovisual collective.
This fits like a glove! Thank you very much for sharing this workflow, it is of immeasurable value to us, it will take our productions to another level!
Thank you, thank you and thank you!
Amazing! I'm so happy this information will help you!
Dude, I’ve only just stumbled across your channel as I’ve embarked on the ACES journey as a (relatively) long time Nuke compositor.
Your content is absolutely brilliant. Thanks so much for producing this, it’s absolutely stellar, and more lovingly put together than a lot of paid training out there.
Hey Charles, that's very kind of you! I'm glad you found the channel!
I've been studying aces workflow for months, pondering bunch of websites, even the one you references, but you compile and makes everything so easy to understand !
ssame thing i was thinking, nice work tho
IDT ODT ACES ACES sRGB sRGB sRGB, got it.
Precisely ;)
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Have never seen ny1 explaining stuff with such levels of professionalism
Excellent video! Glad to see both your ACES videos are finally out!
Thanks, Mario! Hoping plenty of people utilize your awesome resources.
Bro, you want breakfast with your coffee?
Because this is beyond helpful, thanks so much for spending the time to create this!
Haha I'm a BIG breakfast guy. Glad you found it helpful!
@@InLightVFX I posted a comment earlier about my shadowcatcher not working, but seems to work fine once I actually render, just looks weird in the viewport. Okay so NOW the issue I'm having is... how the heck do I denoise the shadow pass layer??? Even with denoising data turn on and using the denoise node, it's still super grainy :(
If you are working with soft shadows just blur it!
@@Raimundo3D Indeed! However, I only asked because I have a project that may require hard shadows. I just discovered though that you can use the Denoise node on the Alpha (my mistake was trying to do this on Combined) and then Multiply it onto the background footage.
@@smortonmedia Oh! That's right! Thank you for reminding me of that. I'm just about to use that method.
such immaculate workflow. Thanks for putting in all this effort into this man. Great work
Thanks, Sai!
InLightVFX: So, let's talk about how to to set up a video for proper handling of cg objects. For this you will need to use a camera that record in Raw.
Me, who uses a Samsung M31 for recording: Interesting
here's an optional step for anyone who doesn't want giant file sizes and image sequences on their exports: instead of setting the ODT to sRGB, set it to S-Log3 or any Log of your choosing, export it using a normal video format, then you can set it back to sRGB using OpenColorIO in the programs that support it.
Haven't touched the camera for a while since I switched my career from photography to VFX. Really lovely stuff here. Kit pursued! Looking forward to ur following videos!
Thanks for your support, Luo! Hopefully this can maybe bring together your past camera/photo experience and VFX!
I didnt understand anything. But you used 3 programms. They all looked pretty cool and you used a lot of words ive never heard before. So i like it
Haha thanks for hangin' in there despite those things
lol
This video explained the theory, and clearly gave an example that Aces is easy to setup and not much of a problem. Just select Aces in the huge menu.
I have become fan of this channel with its amazing content, about CG, compositing and the overall presentation of the content!
If you forgot, please subscribe him!
Thank you, Hardik! I'm glad you found it helpful.
How are half of your videos direct answers to questions I've had that I couldn't find anywhere else? However you're doing it, including mind reading, please continue!
Today i git the full advantage of this video.. thank you very much for this my friend!!
I wish you Good luck 👍
I wasn't even looking for this video, but it just popped up to me. However, i like how you talk and explain things, especially the ending of the video, i like how you make people feel that they are in this together with you. Keep up the good work and can wait to learn more from you.
Hey thanks, Yousef! That certainly is my hope - that my channel can be one of many which cultivate a community of artists that work together to make great work. Glad you can be a part.
This tutorial is so beautiful!!! I love it. I'm definitely supporting this channel getting the Kickstart kit!!
Awesome, Eddy! Glad to hear and thank you for your support!
i never knew that this was there... thank you buddy!
So fuckin solid. This is gonna seriously up my game. Thank you! Everybody, PLEASE support this dude on Patreon, it's worth it!
Thank you, Gehrig! Appreciate your support!
So perfectly clean and dense with information! No fat on this edit, excellent job!
Dude. This is one of the best made educational videos I have seen period (school or otherwise.) Makes me regret giving up After Effects for Nuke lol. Bravo!
Thank you for this! Your walk-through helped me in every place I was tripping up while I worked through the pipeline.
Great to hear!
Nice work. Hopefully Blender Colormanagement will be fixed one day to allow proper conversion with OCIO in the background.
Thanks, Hartmut! Yes I hope so too.
Yes, this is still broken.
@@danielbrylka2228 habe you heard anything about a timeline or interest in getting it fixed?
@@HartmutNoerenberg No, I did not. I hope this will get fixed soon.
@@danielbrylka2228 let's just hope for the best. They merged the colormanagement threads into some bigger issue tracks and at some point I lost track.
Before exporting out of blender to Davinci, do I need to turn off the sRGB ODT in Blender? Also keep up the good work. This is the best compositing series I’ve seen period
On a related note, what would be the process if I were doing a digital set extension/green screen a La Ian Hubert style? Thxs!
Same
Fantastic tutorials. You are obsolutely capable of creating an online Vfx Academy. Your videos looks very simple, impressive and professional, even though you look so young. Congrats and All the very best.
Never seen such qualified content
THANK YOU. AT LAST a tutorial for this!!
You're very welcome!
EXR Lossy DWAA saves a ton of data without sacrificing noticeable quality. If you have limitless data storage and transfer facilities then go lossless.
Best blender content bro keep it up !! Enjoy watching u
Hey man, thank you for this tutorial. I have recently started learning about linear and Aces workflows when working with CG and inside of Fusion. It's all very complicated and I'm very new to video and CGI however I understand the concept. Very well explained 👏🏻 subbed and looking forward to more content. Thanks.
Captain D style. LOVE IT!!
Wow, that's high praise!
InLightVFX, You Deserve It. Bought the kit! I even showed this video to a friend and even though he has nothing to do with rendering, he found it interesting and never got distracted. He found it more fun to watch then to do! Also, great sock on that mic!
There is a filter icon on the outliner witch makes the view layer setting easyer. Also it makes the outloner wider, but you can see what is in render layer, or holdout or what ever you need. :)
Yes! I didn't know that when I made this video but now I use those buttons. Thanks for the reminder :)
@@InLightVFX now i see this is a 2 years old video, but learnt a lot from it. :)
Thank you, ur videos are amazing. Please make more advanced vfx tutorials
Suuper approachable! Great tutorial!
You are a awesome teacher! And you’re in Wisconsin!
brilliant, thank so much
Your results look great! Thanks for the comprehensive tutorial!
Exciting
yeesss
The best informative content on Blender and more. Keep up the good work man! 🔥👍
This is amazingly clear and concise. Well done and thank you!
Awesome to hear! Thanks for watching.
can't wait to see more video from you🔥🔥🔥
Thanks, Tresna!
i was looking for high quality ACES video and here it is!! thank you 💝
Amazing. Great work man. This was one of the best tutorials I have seen on any topic. Wouldn’t even call it tutorial anymore since it’s so well created (research, concept, recording, created assets, animation, music, editing) and with a nicely designed info graphic to top it off. Will support you in your journey.
When converting textures for Aces - you only need to convert maps that display color right? So Albedo would need a transform but not a bump map.
Would be great if you extended this series to include Material/texturing workflow as well- how to set things up and how to handle different input sources for your texture maps. best wishes.
Hey, thanks! If you watch Mario's tutorial (linked in the description) he goes over both textures that use color data vs. non-color data. Both have specific transforms that need to be applied which he goes over. Thank you for your words of encouragement!
THIS IS GOLD
Absolutely love your work. I'm curious why you're compositing in Blender and not in Fusion since it is free as well?
Thanks, Manning! Just wanted to keep it simple for this tutorial since it's not about compositing. But I'm definitely looking forward to trying Fusion, Nuke, etc. in the future. Just need to get around to it.
Dont make him leave blender 😀😀😀😀
@@InLightVFX I appreciate your response! I wish you luck in diving into those programs!
@@InLightVFX stick with fusion :) nuke is the dark side of the moon :D
@ prize-wise for individuals or freelancers. Fusion Studio is damn affordable and in some technical aspects even better than Nuke.
Wow. Amazing video. Thank you so much. This is definitely going to impact my blender workflow.
This is a very rare information. Thank you!
you are so organized and researched this feild
hello! from the first second > music. voice and edit vibes. wohouuuOOOOOAoooAOOooo !!! metling brain awesomeness unfolding ! thank you. ( ps : had to stop the video at 0:22 to put this comment ;)) HAHAHAAAA !!! cheers and have a wonderfull rest of your knowledge sharing adventure ! merci, yann.
well explaned
Excellent stuff, well explained and the graphics you use are so nicely done as well.
Such a great tutorial
Great tutorial 💥,
And it looks like your voice is going to crack my speakers😂.
You got great audio.
Crack your speakers? That doesn't sound so great haha
thanks! this is great content.
These tutorials are HQ! Thank you🙏🏽
Absolutely awesome!
Great. I think this is a very beautiful editing workflow.
Thank You for this wonderful tutorial!
Of course!
Thank you so much
Really great video I finally understood how all this system of odt idt and colorspaces works
Thanks😉
Happy it helped you, Francesco!
Excellent video! 👌
My brain can't handle this 😭
Very nice and informative.
But the only thing I could add is neutral grading.
It's better to neutralize your plate even though you use RAW as each sensor has different lighting response.
Neutral grade makes lighting in DCC apps much easier.
Ah yes, I've yet to add that neutral grade step to my workflow but I definitely hope to. I have the color checker/white balance cards and now just need be diligent about capturing them during the shoot.
Love the sock
u deserve more subs
This is amazing, I will check out your kit my friend.☕️
Many thanks, Richard!
nice that i found that at pure begininning of my learning)
So, ill have time to incorporate all seen and get used to this workflow.
Thanks!
That is an amazing tutorial. Looking forward to watch more of your videos! :)
Waiting for more blender compositing tutorials.
Wow, what amazing tutorial man!!! 💎🔥
Thank you.you made my day
Great tutorial! His mic is socks!
awesome video. Keep it up!
This is a masterpiece tutorial. Very usefull, very well explained, and full of talent. Congrats! I'm gonna support you buying the ACES Kickstart Kit, for sure.
A little tip tha can save you some work. When you don't have a render layer in the compositor, you don't need to setup a camera nor the render engine.
Regards.
Thanks much for the support! Roger that on the tip, I will have to use that in the future.
This is incredible information, thanks for this.
Sure thing, Nicolas!
This is awesome. I use Cinema 4d but I already have tutorials on how to set up Aces. Working with it in Resolve was the missing link.
Very very very fine information. Thanks
Congratulations and thank you very much for such a well done tutorial... it gets a bit too time compressed eventually but i pause and rewind... now i have to figure out the way to incorporate more IDT's to the list my Davinci Resolve's displays (there are tons of cameras missing here, for example: right now i'm editing a z-cam E2-F6 footage) and also make sure about the proper way to check the LOG format from the video file metadata wich could be easily confused with the LUT specification... and i'm confused too... but your tutorial has been a perfect starting point :)
Great explanation of ACES thank you!
Thank you
Sure thing! Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much for your tutorials! They are really helpful. It would be amazing if you can make an ACES workflow for AE too!
okay i will try this
Absolutely love your tutorials, Can you please make a tutorial on use of Metadata in VFX workflow...
Thank you, Manish. I will add that to the idea list!
Great job man!
great job !
Not a bad breakdown overall, however I highly suggest against rendering the composite in Blender as that is destructive. The compositing should be done in Fusion instead. Fusion's handling of ACES is a little odd yes, but doing the compositing in there allows for Resolve to still use all the original clip's RAW file info. I just wrapped up a short film (using the bmpcc4k with the ACES and Blender workflow) and we used Fusion to do all the compositing. It was a big help as not only did we retain the original clip info, but as it was non-destructive, we were able to make adjustments the composition any time we wished in the process. Which was VERY beneficial as we needed to render out different versions of the CGI with minor changes at some points and we didn't have to redo nearly as much work.
That does sound nice and I definitely hope to look into Fusion more in the future. However, the workflow I present should retain all the original RAW file info. See the adjustments I make near the end, all that highlight detail is retained from the original raw clip.
You literally earned my subscription, Keep making such quality content videos... Lots of love from India ❤
Awesome, thanks much Swagat!
@@InLightVFX BTW in Hindi Swagat means "Welcome" hehehe So technically you told my reply to yourself .. 😁😁
Hahaha oh gosh, well I do talk to myself a lot... :)
@@InLightVFX haha noice
awe man that was so helpful :3
Yo finely thx man
yay!
yipee!
a tip : use dwaa for smaller size :)
Blender, Davinci, and Aces. I am still surprised by the fact that they are free
Great tutorial. the only thing that looks off to me is the lack of proper reflections of the wooden floor in the chrome sphere. they look obviously different. but the rest seem very well integrated.
Damn this is soo good
thank you for your video... it's very useful
You are most welcome!
Great work! Thank you very much! Waiting for new video)
Hey just watching this video now, and it seems like After Effects has been implemeneted with a proper ACES Working Space. I tried it out on an EXR sequence and you don't need to interpret indivisual footage color profiles, or use any plugins. Just change the Working Space to "ACES Academy Color Encoding Specification SMPTE ST" or "ACEScg ACES Working Space AMPAS S-2014-004" and the Depth to 32 bit float, and even the viewer exposure works with the files properly. I also exported it as OpenEXR and it worked straight away in Resolve, and looks indistinguishable from the original Braw.
So this means I have to convert every texture in 3d scene to ACES? Thats a lot of converting.... thanks for the great tutorial!!!