Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Technical Paper page 9

After you've imported the footage into your project and assigned a profile, After Effects converts
color values from the color space that you assign in the Interpret Footage dialog box to your
linear project working space for compositing.
Figure 3 - Interpret Footage — Cineon files scanned from camera negative film stock
Step 3: Simulate output for theater projection
As mentioned above, After Effects uses color management to compensate for the unique color
characteristics of your monitor, displaying the color values in your compositions accurately.
Color management also allows you to preview how colors will appear when they reach their final
presentation device. This kind of output simulation of final color can be executed using Simulate
Output commands in the View menu.
Follow these steps to engage this preview mechanism:
1 Choose View > Simulate Output > Universal Camera Film To Kodak 2383. This preset reinter-
prets DPX values as color that would be shown after film-out on an ARRI recorder to Kodak
intermediate stock 5242, which is then printed onto Kodak 2383 print stock in a Bell & Howell
Model C film printer, and projected in a theater with a xenon light source.
Once you have selected Universal Camera Film to Kodak 2383 from the Simulate Output menu,
After Effects uses this setting to adjust display colors to approximate colors as they will look
when filmed out and projected.
Figure 4 - Output simulation presets
iCC ProfilES SuPPliEd by AdobE
Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe After Effects CS4
install ICC profiles for several commonly used camera
negative film stocks and theater print stocks from
Kodak and Fuji. For more information on Adobe-
supplied ICC profiles, see Appendix B, "Adobe-supplied
profiles".
computer monitor
(your monitor pro le)
project working space
(Universal Camera Film Printing Density - linear)
color conversion
color reinterpreted (RGB numbers preserved)
Figure 5 - Output simulation for film-out workflow
Color management workflow in Adobe After Effects CS4
simulation -
lm projector
(Kodak 2383 Theater Preview (by Adobe))
output -
lm recorder
(Universal Camera Film Printing Density)
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