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Hello

I'm confused into color management. Can someone sort this out?

I have Blackmagic Raw footage. In Davinci Resolve it is looking fine. I use ACES and sRGB Output Transform. (As far as I know I have to use Output Transform according to my monitor. I have DELL P2319H monitor and I assume it is in sRGB, not Rec.709, but correct me if I'm wrong about this.)

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Now I want to export this footage, to use it in Houdini/Nuke.

I turn off any Output Transform for exporting the exr sequence. It looks like this in Davinci:

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At this point I'm interested in getting the same image in Nuke and in Houdini what I have in Davinci.

In Nuke, if I set the Input Transform to ACES - ACES2065-1 on the Read node I get the same image, which is cool. See:

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The problem comes in Houdini.

First of all, am I right that Houdini 20.5 doesn't require ACES installation? As far as I know it has ACES built in. ...right?

I bring in the sequence and something is off. The colors are strange. See:

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Do you have any idea, what is going on? What should I do?

 

Regards,

Attila

 

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Anyone who's interested, I managed to find out that I have to convert the images like this:

(e.g. using Houdini COPernicus or Nuke)

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Or!

You can save this step by setting ACES Output Transform in Davinci to sRGB (Linear) - CSC at export. Probably this is the easiest way.

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Best wishes,

Attila

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