Adobe 65008009 Workflow Guide
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cinema workflow 14 Animation/Flash export workflow 19 Appendix A: Color spaces and color manage- ment 23 Appendix B: Adobe-supplied ICC Profiles 29 in Adobe After Effects CS3. http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aftereffectscs3_color_mgmt.pdf Getting started This guide is - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 2
, you will be able to view color consistently across these applications. Both Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator® will use ICC profiles embedded in your files. Currently, Adobe Premiere® Pro does not support color management. • Simulate different output conditions without altering color values in your - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 3
provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 to achieve more accurate color monitor (your monitor pro le) HD reference monitor Interpret Footage - vector graphics (PDF) (ICC pro le embedded in image) project working space (HDTV (Rec. 709 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 4
this case may be still images created or edited using Photoshop. In these cases, you can import the footage confident (your monitor pro le) HD reference monitor Interpret Footage - vector graphics (PDF) (ICC pro le embedded in image) project working space (HDTV (Rec. Adobe After Effects CS4 4 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 5
that support embedded ICC profiles. Using the HDTV (Rec. 709) profile in Photoshop CS4 If you are editing high-definition stills/footage in Photoshop CS4, dialog box in Photoshop. See the Image state adjustment in Adobe After Effects CS4 color workflows white paper from Adobe for more information - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 6
bpc (bits per channel) raster files and presents a consistent appearance match with After Effects CS4. Photoshop supports embedded profiles for 32-bpc TIFF and PSD files. (See the sidebar for information on gamma profile to compress luma levels. Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 6 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 7
chapter provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using Adobe After Effects CS4 and Photoshop CS4 to achieve accurate and consistent color footage (MOV, AVI) (HDTV (Rec. 709)) Interpret Footage - vector graphics (PDF) (ICC pro le embedded in image) computer monitor (your monitor pro le) - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 8
color spaces, see Appendix A: "Color spaces and color management".) Interpret Footage - vector graphics (PDF) (ICC pro le embedded in image) project working space (Universal Camera Film Printing Density project working space for compositing. Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 8 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 9
setting to adjust display colors to approximate colors as they will look when filmed out and projected. ICC profiles supplied by adobe Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe After Effects CS4 install ICC profiles for several commonly used camera negative film stocks and theater print stocks from Kodak and - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 10
and embeds profiles when saving to file formats that support embedding ICC profiles. Cineon/DPX files do not support embedded profiles. Select the footage you would like to in your image sequence. Figure 7- Photoshop Assign Profile dialog box Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 10 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 11
profile to your image using the After Effects Interpret Footage dialog box prior to editing in Photoshop, use the Assign Profile dialog box (see the section above on Cineon/ DPX files) the Save dialog box. Figure 9- Photoshop Save dialog box Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 11 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 12
support embedded ICC profiles, Photoshop assumes that files using 32-bpc encoding are encoded with a 1.0 (linear) gamma. Some applications that produce and process 32-bpc files do not encode 1.0 gamma but use the monitor gamma to define the tone reproduction of the image. Figure 10 Adobe) - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 13
the Color Profile Converter effect to the new adjustment layer and use these settings: Input Profile: Kodak 2383 Theater Preview 2 (by Adobe) Output Profile: Project Working Space Rendering Intent: Relative Colorimetric The first instance of the Color Profile Converter effect translates the linear - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 14
instructions for using Adobe After Effects CS4 to achieve more accurate color in an animation workflow exporting to SWF files and FLV files. This workflow is commonly used when creating animated content for viewing within an HTML web page using Adobe Flash® Player Editing graphics in Photoshop CS4. 4 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 15
option can also be set in the Color Settings dialog box in Photoshop to create an appearance match with After Effects. Choose Edit > graphic that you wish to import. Interpret Footage - vector graphics (PDF) (ICC pro le embedded in image) computer monitor (your monitor in Adobe After Effects CS4 15 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 16
with file formats that support embedded ICC profiles (such as TIFF, PSD, or JPEG). Photoshop color settings The Photoshop CS4 color settings may In some cases, you may want to create a Flash animation project and output to different types of display technologies in Adobe After Effects CS4 16 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 17
These are the most common choices for output simulation for a Flash animation workflow: • Macintosh RGB: Select Macintosh RGB from the View > Simulate Output menu. This Output Profile menu. Figure 6 - Color management output settings for FLV Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 17 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 18
same as the profile used as the working space, no color conversion will take place when compositions are rendered and output. Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 18 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 19
workflows, like the workflows outlined for After Effects CS4 in chapters 2-4. Device dependence When you select RGB values in an Adobe application, like After Effects or Photoshop, you're specifying relative amounts of primary colors you want to use in the image or project. However, defining an - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 20
a gamma of 2.2, to define the color appearance of an image in a color-managed application such as Photoshop or After Effects. If your monitor has a gamma of 1.8, color values sent to your monitor will be translation of device-dependent colors. Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 20 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 21
CIE xyY. Adobe provides color profiles for commonly used devices in video and digital cinema workflows. (See Appendix B - "Adobe-supplied ICC using RGB values. So how does After Effects use color management to support accurate and consistent color? This is where the project's working color space - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 22
panel will not change after import. This can be helpful to those that are familiar with 10-bit log values and prefer to control color using these values. • In some cases, converting as project working space eliminates this potential problem. Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 22 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 23
10-bpc DPX 3200 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5500 printing density 10-bpc DPX 3200 printing density 10-bpc DPX 3200 printing density 10-bpc DPX 3200 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5500 printing density 10-bpc DPX 3200 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5500 printing density Color management workflow in Adobe - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 24
DPX 5900 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5900 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5900 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5900 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5900 printing density 10-bpc DPX 5900 printing density 12-bpc 5900 gamma 2.6 DCI_P3.icc DCI P3 RGB (Gamma 2.6) 5900K (by Adobe) DCI reference projector - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 25
found here: http://www.colour.org/tc8-05/Docs/colorspace/61966-2-1.pdf computer display and TV monitor presentation environment Color space with a range 5000 RGB 0-255 full range 5000 RGB 0-255 * T he Adobe-supplied ICC profiles can be divided into two general categories: scene (scene - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 26
range of a scene viewed outside during the day in natural light could be 10,000:1. However, a scene viewed on a television or computer monitor may built for those devices. As an example, the video camera profiles provided by Adobe are based on the range of colors and tones available in those scenes - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 27
255 These profiles are built to support video workflows that require the user super white or overbright). This presents a problem. When these analog IRE voltage values manually tweak each piece of footage to comply with the requirements of your output. RGB=0 RGB (After Effects project) The Adobe - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 28
range. RGB=255 Y=255 overbrights Y=235 RGB=0 RGB (After Effects project) Y=16 super black Y=0 YCbCr Figure 3 - Luma compression for video output Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 28 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 29
also provides lists of profiles and in some cases preference information to application software. ColorSync on Mac OS®, ICM 2.0 on Windows, and Adobe Color Engine are examples of CMSs. color matching functions: The relative amounts of three additive primaries needed to match each wavelength of light - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 30
inside a color space can be defined unambiguously in terms of appearance. For example, the RGB color model contains a number of color spaces, including Apple RGB, Adobe RGB (1998), and sRGB. Though each of these define color by the same three axes (R, G, and B), they differ in gamut as well as other - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 31
After Effects, the project working space is the color space used for all compositing functions. XYZ color model: see CIE XYZ Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4 31 - Adobe 65008009 | Workflow Guide - Page 32
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TECHNICAL PAPER
Color management workflow
in Adobe After Effects CS4
Getting started
°is guide is intended for professionals in the motion graphics, video, and film produc-
tion industries who need a reliable approach to achieving accurate and consistent color
in their workflows. Before we get started, let’s first talk briefly about why accurate and
consistent color is difficult to achieve, and how color management technology in Adobe
Aſter Effects CS4 can help.
What is color management?
Color management technology enables you to achieve more accurate and consistent
color reproduction. To achieve this goal, color management technology performs two
essential tasks:
Identifying a specific color appearance for red, green, and blue (RGB) num-
•
bers in a digital file
Attempting to maintain that color appearance by changing, if necessary,
•
the color numbers needed by an output device to produce the specified
color appearance
To perform these two tasks, the color management features in Aſter Effects rely on ICC
(International Color Consortium) color profiles and a color management system (CMS).
°ough you can read more about ICC profiles in Aſter Effects Help, for now you simply
need to know that profiles give the CMS the data needed to maintain color appearance
when color values are sent to a device. For example, if the color represented by the num-
bers R235, G56, and B70 captured by a digital camera is tomato red but appears closer
to brick red on a monitor, the CMS can translate the RGB numbers to those needed
by the monitor to preserve the tomato red appearance. In this way, color management
helps you produce consistent color—independent of the unique color characteristics of a
particular device.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Getting started
3
High-definition video workflow
7
Digital cinema workflow
14 Animation/Flash export workflow
19
Appendix A: Color spaces and color manage-
ment
23 Appendix B: Adobe-supplied ICC Profiles
29 Appendix C: Glossary
32 Appendix D: Additional resources
PREVIOUS VERSION OF THIS DOCUMENT
This white paper describing color manage-
ment workflows in Adobe After Effects CS4 is
an update to the original “Color Management
Workflows in Adobe After Effects CS3” white
paper published with the release of Adobe
After Effects CS3.
Use the link below to access the original white
paper covering color management workflows
in Adobe After Effects CS3.
fects/articles/aftereffectscs3_color_mgmt.pdf