Colour Management Preferences

Working Colour Space box

Select the default Colour Space for the project. This is available as the "From Project" option in various colour space menus.

Name box

Enter a name to use for your exported policy, then click Export.

Export Policy button

An exported Colour Policy contains the Input and Viewing Rules, and the Working and Action default colour spaces. It also contains any user-created colour spaces. (It does not contain the Graphics/Broadcast Monitors since these are workstation specific.) The exported policy consists of a directory of files that is created at the Shared Path location shown below. The policies are available when creating new projects. (To change the policy of an existing project, you must edit the project.) Exporting as a Locked policy will make these preference values read-only in any new projects created with the policy.

Broadcast Colour Space box

Select the colour space that best describes your Broadcast Monitor.

Graphics Colour Space box

Select the colour space that best describes your Graphics Monitor.

Action Colour Space box

Select the default colour space to be used in Action.

Default Look Transform field

Specifies the colour transform that is used when the defaultLook alias is referenced inside the viewing transform. The ACES Output and several other view transforms are set up to work with a Look transform.

Clear button

Sets the value of the defaultLook alias to the identity transform, which has no effect on colour values.

Browse button

Browse to select a different colour transform for the defaultLook alias.

Collaboration and Services Shared Path

When collaborating with or using services from remote workstations, this is the location used to share user-created colour spaces and transforms. There will be a soft link created in this location back to the colour space data of this project. This path is set in the Flame Setup application.

Input Colour Space Rules Table

The Input Rules allow you to assign a colour space to media based on its filename. The Extension field applies to the file extension (do not include the dot). The Pattern field applies to the entire path (except the file extension). The fields use Unix "Glob" style pattern matching. A "*" matches any characters. Brackets "[]" may be used to match groups of characters. Note that the matching is case-sensitive. For example, "dpx" only matches "dpx", whereas "[dD][pP][xX]" matches "dpx", "DPX", "Dpx", etc.

You can also duplicate existing rules and delete rules, using the Duplicate and Delete buttons.

Viewing Rules table

The Viewing Rules allow you to define how viewports show media and how thumbnails are displayed. Start by selecting a View Transform for the rule. In a viewport, a rule will only be available if the tagged colour space of the media being viewed matches the Allowed Colour Spaces of the rule. You may make this rule only apply to a specific colour space, or use one of the "Any ..." settings to make it available to a family of colour spaces. The choices available in Allowed Colour Spaces are based on what the selected View Transform may accept (e.g. you may not allow scene-linear colour spaces into View Transforms intended for video). If the actual tagged colour space of the media does not match what the View Transform expects, auto-conversion will be applied to connect them. The Allowed Display setting controls whether a rule will be available based on your Graphics and Broadcast monitor settings. For example, if a LUT produces Rec.709 values you can choose to only show this rule when on a Rec.709 monitor. If you choose one of the "Any ..." options, auto-conversion will be applied to correct the output of the View Transform for the actual monitor. Toggling off the check mark in the left column allows you to temporarily bypass rules.

Create Rule button

Use to create a new rule.

Duplicate button

Use to duplicate an existing rule.

Delete button

Use to delete a rule.

Priority Up button

Click to raise the priority of a rule. Rules higher in the table take precedence over lower ones.

Priority Down button

Click to lower the priority of a rule. Rules higher in the table take precedence over lower ones.

Import Rules button

Click to browse and replace either these Input or Viewing Rules with another.

Diagnostic Shortcuts table

Use this table to create shortcuts that will set specific Exposure, Contrast, and Gamma settings in a viewport. These settings are stored with your User.

Reset All button

Reset all of the values set in the Diagnostic Shortcuts table.

Sync with OS button

Available on Mac systems. Automatically uses the ICC profile specified in your computer's preferences as the Graphics Monitor setting. This also creates a user Display colour space from the ICC profile which is labeled with the workstation and date.