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Rocketbottle
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June 27, 2023
Question

AE Mocha color space

  • June 27, 2023
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Hello

Am I doing something wrong or...?

Project in ACES colour space, source LogC3. Looks nice in After Effects.

Open the layer in Mocha and the whites are clipped so I cannot get decent details for tracking. How to get a working colour conversion in Mocha.

This started to bug me so much that I decided to post here.

 

Left AE screen capture with colour settings. On the right side is the same layer in Mocha AE. All log information is lost.

 

 

Help, please.

 

 

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    Chris Brearley
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    June 6, 2024

    Did you ever figure this one out? I'm having the same issue. Working in ACEScg, everything looks as it should in AE but I can't get anything to look anywhere near correct in Mocha AE. I've tried all manner of color spaces and output transforms.

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    Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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    June 27, 2023

    If you go to the Classic workspace, there is a little sun near the end of the Selected Layer toolbar and two value boxes. You can adjust the color values in Mocha using those controls. I recently did it to put some detail in a blown-out window so I could get a good track. Make sure that the color correction is turned off. If that does not help, turn it on (the sun turns blue) and adjust the gain and gamma values. 

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    RocketbottleAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 27, 2023

    Yes, in this kind of case, I have to work in Mocha turning AE colour management off. Otherwise Mocha clips the over-bright and turning the brightness down does not bring anything back.

    Remembering to turn off colour management is a cumbersome way to work. I was hoping that the colour settings in Mocha would preserve the original values. I was wondering why Mocha has colour management with OCIO configuration then? sometimes Mocha image looks low-bit with a lot of posterisation when working with 32-bit and log.  

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