Enable use of all OCIO tools in Adobe color managed

[Shebbe]

Hi,

I brought this idea up back when OCIO was in beta. Placing it here in ideas now.

Currently the OCIO Look Transform, Color Space Transform and Display only function with project management set to OCIO for the config file path.

While the implementation of project wide OCIO is very welcome, there will still be a lot of usecases and reasons where one will desire to have the project itself run "non managed" / hybrid managed context in Adobe color mode and use conversions through effects only.

It would be nice to have AE function like this:

- OCIO config file/path is always read and can be defined regardless of the project being in Adobe or OCIO managed color mode.

- OCIO effects mentioned above will by default always read the path from the project settings.

- Extra parameters will be added to those effects labeled OCIO configuration: [From Project] as it's settings which would be default but can be overridden by a custom path or one of the other configs that are in the software's OCIO folder.

- The OCIO Configuraton dropwdown menu on the effects can be greyed out when project wide OCIO is enabled.

This is what that could look like.

Implementing this would completely remove the need for the fnord plugin and be very welcome!

[mattgiovanni]

I'd like to add my voice here and second Shebbe's request - it would be much more helpful if ACES could be used on a per-comp basis rather than project wide. This mimics the legacy OpenIO plugin. As a motion designer, and speaking to others in my community, we face the issue that we are working on entire campaigns in After Effects - not just the 3D elements. Therefore it's very disruptive to have to implement ACES across 2D branding, and it's causing issues when collaborating with other designers and in-house teams used to the standard Adobe colour space. It would be amazing to be able to use the colour transform effects in the Adobe-managed colour space to achieve an ACES workflow, like the legacy OpenColorIO plugin. A hybrid workflow is far more beneficial to designers, who are generally not just working with purely CG elements. Thank you, hope to see this implemented!