Post Production
Color Management Part 6: Understanding the CIE 1931 diagram
In Part 5 we started to look at the CIE 1931 Chromaticity diagram, the distinctive rainbow tongue that pops...
Post Production
Color Management Part 5: Introducing CIE 1931
Anyone who’s ever looked up color management – especially using Google – will have seen the funny, multi-colored tongue...
Post Production
Color Management Part 4: Maxwell’s Spinning Discs
Have you ever stopped to think about where RGB values came from? We all use digital color pickers every...
Post Production
Color Management Part 3: It’s all in the brain
In order to manage colors in film and television production, we need a way to measure them. Unfortunately, measuring...
Post Production
Color Management Part 2: Newton’s Prisms
Color management may not be fun, but we once we break the topic down into small parts it becomes...
Post Production
Color Management Part 1: The Honeymoon is over.
Welcome to the first part of my new series on color management. Although it’s exciting to launch a new...
Adobe Insights
Quality: 14 tips to improve your After Effects projects
Quality is a tricky subject, covering everything from technical specifications, client expectations and budgetary restrictions, through to subjective opinions...
Post Production
AE 2022: Multi-Frame Rendering has arrived!
Last week Adobe released After Effects 2022, which includes a number of new features that massively improve performance. I’m...
Post Production
Binning it: Understanding layer rendering order in After Effects
After Effects revolves around a layer-based timeline, and this core functionality is largely responsible for defining what After Effects...
Adobe
Using EXRs and DWA in After Effects
Codecs aren’t the most exciting thing to write about, but a recent update to After Effects included a tiny...
