#After effects system color picker upgrade#
#After effects system color picker windows#

There is simply no way to have an artist get a rendering of the color they are attempting to choose otherwise.Īpplying a transfer curve (intensity curve) is not enough and never will be. When the reference space layout of the color wheels is mapped to an output, it must route through OCIO for this very reason. Every single display will have tremendous variations in the color (chromaticity) of the R, G, and B colored lights. Even broad categories have tremendous variation from a 75% sRGB to a 95% sRGB to a wide gamut. All displays too have unique dispositions, even within identical models. Every output context is unique from paper to display screens. The other half is the actual chromaticity of the R, G, and B channels. My addition to this is that the reference space, that is the internal working float buffer space, will almost always have different primaries from the output space, and most certainly twisted from the display's unique output.Įxtending the basic example of the color wheel, when we map the relative RGB values of minimum (0.0) to maximum (1.0), these require a transformation of intensity to the low dynamic ranges of displays and other outputs. I tend to agree with maisef here in that language is useful. Please review these documents and bug reports: Having the numerical inputs in DDCS doesn't fit the context these values are in. The final display color is influenced by external factors such as light sources. For materials the values represent the amount of reflected (or transmitted) light a surface will produce. It only makes sense to change the color pickers behavior back to SLCS to match.įinally the color values in the context of materials and compositing don't represent actual display colors. The behavior of the Combine HSV node also cannot be changed, existing shaders rely on this SLCS behavior. Having them different doesn't make sense and is confusing. This property is important for creating materials and for compositing.Īlso note that nodes such as the Combine HSV node accept SLCS inputs, and having the color pickers numerical inputs match this SLCS keeps everything consistent. 5) and use an Add Shader Node to add them, the result is equivalent to a signal Diffuse Node with color RGB(1, 1, 1)/HSV(0, 0, 1). What this means is this: If you create two Diffuse Nodes and set their colors to RGB(.5. The numerical inputs should be in SLCS for Material Editing and Compositing. The problem here is with the numerical inputs, not the on-screen color display wheel (which is correct as far as I can tell). The numerical inputs within the context of the Node Editor should be in SLCS. In the color picker there are two places for user interaction: The wheel (or box) that displays color on the screen, and the numerical input fields.

I'm going to abbreviate some words here to save space: Till then, back to the good ole Title Tool for me.Ok, there seems to be some confusion of the issue here. Ah well, maybe in an upcoming revision, they'll iron this out. Something like Premiere's implementation of title controls. Given what they're trying to do with Title+, to me it begs the question of why they don't integrate all those text controls into the single effects mode control window. To my eyes, it looks like there's a bug or something is broken in how the controls in that mini control panel talks to the larger, regular effects control panel. I can't close the color picker window, get out of effects mode, or quit the program, even though the program hasn't completely frozen up.

#After effects system color picker windows#

I can move my cursor around and access the pull-down windows but all functions are greyed out. when I use the color picker in the mini control panel that appears for Title+, the Avid seems to lock up. Like Scully, I want to believe! But to the point. Currently very anti-intuitive in its implememtation. and while I like a lot of the new improvements (it certainly feels snappier on my mid-2014 MBP!), I wanted to chime in on this particular point because I'd been reading about how the new Title Tool+ is something of a hot mess - and boy howdy it is, at least to my mind.

#After effects system color picker upgrade#

I just finished a job that gave me time to upgrade to 2020.4 on my personal system.