Adding a User LUT as a View Transform
You may create an OCIO view transform from one of your LUTs. This will be saved with the project's overrides to your OCIO config. It will get archived with your project. Creating a view transform happens as part of the process of creating a view.
Do the following to use one of your LUTs in a viewport:
- In Colour Management Preferences, click on the Views editor, press Create View to create a new view.
- Press in the View Transform column and choose "+ Add New" from the "View Transform" sub-menu. This will give you a dialog box to create the view transform.
- Browse to import your colour transform or LUT. Note that the application will make a copy so that it gets archived with your project, however any future changes to your LUT file will not be picked up.
- Enter the name for the view transform. This will be added to the View Transforms section of overrides to the OCIO config.
- Set the Incoming Colour Space to whatever your LUT expects as input. For example, if your LUT expects ACEScct as the input, select "ACEScct" from the menu. OCIO will automatically translate from the tagged colour space of the media to the colour space expected by your LUT. It needs to be a "real" colour space, do not select something like "Raw".
- Set the Display Colour Space to whatever your LUT produces as output. For example, if your LUT produces Rec.709, select "Rec.1886 Rec.709 - Display" from the menu. If your actual Graphics Monitor or Video Preview Device settings differ from this, OCIO will translate from what your LUT produces to what your actual display hardware expects.
- If your colour transform contains a 3D-LUT, set the 3D-LUT Interpolation to either tetrahedral or trilinear. Tetrahedral is somewhat higher quality and trilinear is somewhat faster.
- Click Add to create the User View Transform.
- Configure the other options for your new view. Please see: The Views Editor.
Note: In order to add a view transform via the application user interface, the OCIO config must use the equivalent of "ACES2065-1" as the scene-referred reference space and "CIE XYZ-D65 - Display-referred" as the display-referred reference space (the actual name strings used for those colour spaces in the config may differ). The preset configs that ship with the application and the configs produced by the OCIO ACES configs working group are set up this way, but configs from other sources may not be.