Linear Color Workflow in AE7: Part 3 (after effects | motion)
Using guide adjustment layers to mimic a eLin workflow

Added: March 13th 2006
Submitter: Stu Maschwitz
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This tip is authored by Stu Maschwitz, and kindly mirrored here with his permission. Stu has a great site covering using After Effects for high end film work -- prolost.blogspot.com -- be sure to visit it and check all of his great tips.





OK, so maybe you don't like all this ICC color management stuff. Maybe you long for the simplicty of eLin.* Maybe you want parallel color pipelines in all your floating-point comping apps.

Remember this article? It described using the eLin color model in Shake, and this one talked about Fusion. Now you can use this same true floating-point implementation of the eLin color model in After Effects 7 as well. The Anim Presets below follow the same naming convetion as the Shake and Fusion Macros, and do exactly the same things.

To work with them in AE7, leave color management off (set Project Working Space to None), and set up Guide Adjustment Layers (AKA >LUT layers) to hold your lin2vid Presets, just like you did for eLin.

eLin_float.zip (17.1kB zip file UPDATED 2/11/06)





AE 32-bit Linear Workflow Tips

Linear Color Workflow in AE 7: Part 1 - Setting up Your Project
Linear Color Workflow in AE 7: Part 2 - Working in Linear Float
Linear Color Workflow in AE 7: Part 4 - Rendering
Linear Color Workflow in AE 7: Part 5 - Working with Cineon Imagery