Colour Management and Data Management
Archiving
When performing a Project Archive, all colour management settings are archived & restored.
When performing a Clips/Sequence Archive, the content's colour management settings are archived. When the content is restored to a different project, the colour management data of the content is also restored and the project colour management settings are updated accordingly:
- If the content requires a User Colour Space not available in the project, the original Colour Space is created and the project is updated.
- If the content uses an already existing Colour Space, the Colour Space of the current project is used.
- Changing a User Colour Space used by a clip with caching will not invalidate the cached media so you must manually flush the cache and then re-cache the media.
- Re-archiving content that is already part of an archive that references an updated User Colour Space is seen as the original archived content and is not re-archived.
- Network Transfer of clips and sequences that reference unavailable User Colour Spaces recreates the User Colour Spaces on the destination project.
- Media Export Presets: When you create an Export preset using a User Colour Space, a CTF of the User Colour Space is saved alongside the export preset.
- Media Export using a remote Wiretap Gateway: When exporting content using a remote Wiretap Gateway server, the Export jobs contain all the data to complete the encoding tasks on the remote server. There is no need to copy User Colour Spaces to the remote server.
- Rendering content using Burn: In a distributed rendering environment, where all Burn nodes share the same file system mount-points, no extra configuration is required.
User Colour Spaces from Legacy Versions
Because User Colour Spaces from the 2017 release can be used in 2017 Extension 1, but cannot be managed (i.e. archived), the naming of these Colour Spaces is displayed with a suffix of "non-archival". These Colour Spaces may appear in menus in:
- The Media Hub (Auto convert mode).
- The Colour Management node (Auto convert mode).
- The Input Rules (Input Colour Space menu).
Using a Centralized Location for a Workgroup
When working in a Workgroup with Flame Family products or collaborating with Wiretap-based services (i.e. Wiretap server, Wiretap Gateway, Media Converter), it is important to share the same colour management policies (including User Colour Spaces) for all the workstations to have access to the same data. There are many advantages of using a centralized location for colour management, such as:
- Project creation is easier because all Colour Policies are centralized.
- Remote applications and services share the same User Colour Spaces, Rules, etc.
- A Lustre workstation grading a sequence from a remote Flame will not be able to display content with project-based User Colour Spaces, unless the User Colour Spaces are copied to the project location.
- Burn.
- Media Converter used on a remote Wiretap Gateway will not be able to encode content with the specified colour management.
Configuring a Centralized Colour Management Location
Create a shared folder on a server. This can be /opt/Autodesk/ (which should already be exported) or any other location.
Make sure this folder is exported (modify /etc/exports and /etc/fstab) and that its permissions are set to full read/write.
On every workstation and server that is part of a workgroup, do one of the following:
Use the Colour Management tab of the Flame Setup application to define the centralized shared location.
Alternatively, you can edit the SynColor configuration file to set SharedHome to the centralized shared location, found here:
/opt/Autodesk/Synergy/SynColor/<version>/synColorConfig.xml
However, note that in this case you need to append "/transforms" to the actual intended centralized location.
Restart background services (Stone+Wire and Wiretap Gateway).
Start the applications and create a project.
- Although the User Colour Spaces continue to be stored under the project, symbolic links are created in the centralized shared location (via /hosts/IP address/PROJECTHOME/synColor/policy/user_color_spaces) to ensure the content is available on all workstations and servers that are part of the workgroup.
- User Colour Spaces for any newly created projects will be available from the centralized shared location.
- Shared User Colour Spaces are also part of a Project Archive, even when using a centralized shared location.