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Thanks for simplifying a topic which is usually made very complicated by others. Appreciate it 🙏

Very helpful. I look forward to checking out the site. I have a feeling I will be learning a lot.

Amazing! Thank you so much! It will help me in my new films ❤

ACES is a gamechanger for me. It works so much better in my workflow. Thank you!

Always helpful, thank you.

Very interesting. Thanks a million!

Thank you!

Really well explained and clear thank you

For me, that was one of your best videos yet, well done and thank you. Does davinci colour managed work in the same way?

very interesting thanks

Thank you very much

Superb!

That's pretty cool all the science going into color. I love it.

Perfect timing of this video for me showing ACES. I have been doing a lot of test clips with my new iPhone 15 ProMax shooting ProRes 422 Log. I have got some power grades and lots that convert to Aces and now I have some insight into how to use them and not avoid them. I also have some to DWG and it will be an interesting comparison for me to see where to venture next. Thanks for the articulate explanation and examples.

Thank u dear for the explanation, and if you can help people who have to color grading and correcting Gopro flat potages as cinematic look.

Thanks for the video Alex! I don't see this option though, is it only available in the Studio version of resolve?

That’s really helpful stuff for a noob like me😂 but I’ve got the idea of „the node tree” I would call, so basically u tell resolve what color system you use, and it translates information to fit it to your monitor, I’ll try to work on dcp-I and rec709 as my monitor support 100% of this color spaces.

However…I’m glad your passing this knowledge on to us learners

Getting more and more into color grading, that sounds very interesting! Unfortunately I hate working with a color managed workflow - I prefer CSTs. How would I set this up? In the project settings I set my timeline to ACEScct and my output to REC.709 Gamma 2.4. Then I group each Profile - in my example SLOG3 - I then apply a CST to the Pre-Group with Input Color Sony S-Gamut3.Cine and Gamma SLOG3 to Output ACES (AP1 or AP0??) and Gamma ACEScct in each clip grade - after the cst I make my adjustments and then the last node is another cst from ACES to Rec709. (Especially what Output Color Space? - Gamma I can choose ACEScct but do I choose ACES (AP1) or ACES (AP0) at the output?) And what are the differences between ACES vs ACEScc vs ACEScct vs ACEScg in the Timeline and Gamma Settings?

Quick question (maybe not so quick) for anyone who can help. I've used essentially every variable in CST transformation of Nraw footage in Resolve. Setting it up in the raw panel in REC 2020 and linear then doing a CST transform from that to Arri, then applying an arri lut works well. However, nothing looks as good as setting up the whole project in the project settings panel in ACES, Sony Raw input, REC 709 output. The colors just sync into place. It looks perfect. The quicktime export looks just like the Resolve window when I compare them, so it transforms well. Here's the hitch, when I bring it into KZfaq, the video is always brighter, no matter what I do. Usually when uploading to youtube, I set the output to 709 A, which KZfaq seems to like. When I do that, each visual matches - the Resolve window, the quicktime export, and the youtube window. Each match up perfectly. But you can't get 709A in the ACES export settings. Only when I use non managed settings or color managed settings do I get a 709A option, however the colors just don't look as good as ACES. So, long story short, my quicktime export from ACES matches Resolve's window, but the youtube upload does not. It's as if they raised the exposure by 2 stops. How do I get the KZfaq window to match my quicktime export, since I want to stay in ACES? Thanks!

This was amazing. Is there any use of this, for people not working with log footage?

How to do the filmic pro vlog3 10 bit SDR input transform ?

How does it compare to DWG?

Hi Jordan, great video. Really helps me understand the rationale for using ACES. What camera input should i use for GoPro flat footage? Many thanks, Richard

I tried using ACES in a music video I shot, my first mv shoot, and it just destroyed the red end of the spectrum, and it makes sense because if you see the diagram of ACES and rec709 and DWG on the visible colour spectrum, it cuts off right around that red area and instead, what you get there is more noise compared to the Davinci Wide Gamut and just less richness in the red tones especially. The moment I switched to DWG, all that noise almost went away and my red tones became richer.

Why not DVR Wide Gamut though? Gonna play with it. Thanks!

Color noob here, so this may be a stupid question. How do I find out what color space is used in things like mobile phone cameras? I have a Samsung S21+ and shoot in 4K.

Thanks. What's the difference between using ACES 1.0.3, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ?