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To override the input color space for differently recorded clips in the Media Pool:
1 Enable DaVinci YRGB Color Management as explained above.
2 Save and close the Settings dialog.
3 In the Media Pool, select the clip or clips you want to assign a new Input Color space.
4 Right-click one of the selected clips.
5 Choose the Input Color Space that corresponds to those clips from the
contextual menu.
Using RCM eliminates a few steps, since the input color space math used to transform the
source preserves all wide-latitude image data, making highlights easily retrievable without any
extra steps. With RCM enabled, there is no need to insert CineonLog or Gamut nodes while in
the Fusion page. The transforms from and to linear are done automatically based on the
RCM settings. Switching to the Fusion page converts the images to linear and enables the
LUT button in the viewers with the Managed LUT selected. The Managed LUT uses the RCM
settings to take a linear image and display it based on the RCM output color space.
For more information on Resolve Color Management, see Chapter 7, “Data Levels, Color
Management, and ACES” in the DaVinci Resolve manual.
Using ACES Color
Management in Resolve
The ACES (Academy Color Encoding Specification) color space is another standard for
managing color throughout an entire production. It’s designed to make start-to-finish, scene-
referred color management a reality for digital cinema workflows. Just like DaVinci’s RCM, ACES
makes it easier to extract high-precision, wide-latitude image data from raw camera formats, to
preserve high-quality image data from acquisition through the color grading process and to
output high-quality data for broadcast viewing, film printing, or digital cinema encoding.
ACES works by assigning an IDT (Input Device Transform) to every camera and acquisition
device. The IDT specifies how media from that device is converted into the ACES color space.
At the end of the pipeline, an ODT (Output Device Transform) is applied to convert the image
data from ACES color space into the gamut of your final output.
Similar to setting up RCM, DaVinci Resolve’s color management project settings can be
configured for ACES, which carries through the Edit, Fusion, and Color pages.
NOTE: When using Fusion Studio, the OpenColorIO (OCIO) framework is used for
ACES color management.
The Color Science drop-down menu in the Color Management panel of the Project Settings is
used to set up the ACES color management in DaVinci Resolve.
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