Fusion Monitoring Part 2: Accurately Viewing Compositions In ACES Workflows

How to Color Manage ACES Correctly in Fusion

Color management is an incredibly important skill for any colorist to master, and to do so requires both a technical understanding of color pipelines and an ability to keep up with the latest industry developments. This Insight will help you do both!

In this Insight, you’ll learn how the Fusion image pipeline behaves within an ACES DaVinci Resolve project. By understanding its specific tonal and gamut requirements, we can correctly color manage our compositions – and, more importantly, see our work accurately represented in Fusion’s viewers.

Part 1 of this series covers how to do this when working in HDR Davinci Wide Gamut Intermediate.

Work Accurately with ACES Color Management, inside Fusion

The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is a popular industry color management standard allowing post-production workers across multiple disciplines to convert camera formats to a single wide gamut of color space.

It is used worldwide for managing projects captured in various raw camera formats and then output to every conceivable viewing platform, from digital cinema to HDR broadcast and streaming services.