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The Adaptation slider is designed to compensate for large differences in the viewer’s
state of visual adaptation when viewing a bright image on an HDR display versus
seeing that same image an SDR display. For most “average” images this setting
works best set between 0–10. However, when you’re converting very bright images
(for example, a snow scene at noon), then using a higher value will yield more image
detail within the highlights.
Choosing “Clip” hard clips all out-of-bounds values.
Gamut Mapping Method accommodates workflows where you need to transform one color
space into another with a dramatically larger or smaller gamut by helping to automate an
expansion or contraction of image saturation in such a way as to give a pleasing and naturalistic
result with no clipping.
Choosing None results in no Gamut mapping at all.
Choosing Saturation Mapping from this menu enables saturation mapping to fit the
range of saturation values from the Input Color Space and Gamma into the Output
Color Space and Gamma. It enables the Saturation Knee and Saturation Max. controls.
The Saturation Knee slider sets the image level at which saturation mapping begins.
Below this level, no remapping is applied. All saturation values from this level on
up are remapped according to the Saturation Max. slider. A value of 1.0 is maximum
saturation in the currently selected output color space.
The Saturation Max slider sets the new maximum level to which you want to either
raise or lower all saturation values that are above the Saturation Knee setting. A
value of 1.0 is maximum saturation in the currently selected output color space.
Choosing “Clip” hard clips all out-of-gamut values.
NOTE: While this plug-in has ACES settings, it does transforms to the ACES color
space colormetrically, which is not actually correct for ACES workflows. For actual
ACES workflows, use the ACES Transform plug-in, which uses transforms specified by
the Academy.
Color Stabilizer (Studio Version Only)
Designed to deal with clips that have inconsistencies in exposure and color, caused by manual
changes to a lens’ aperture setting or by a camera’s auto exposure settings causing unwanted
changes to color and brightness in the middle of a shot. The Color Stabilizer plug-in analyzes a
frame of the clip that represents the desired exposure and color, and automatically adjusts
every other frame of the current clip to match the analyzed levels.
IMPORTANT The Color Stabilizer gives you the best results with clips that don’t have
clipped highlights. When used in the Color page, it’s recommended to grade the
image to bring all the highlights you want somewhere at or under a value of 1023, and
then apply the Color Stabilizer to a node after this adjustment.
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