Project Settings in After Effects (Color, ACES & Performance)
How After Effects Project Settings work — including Mercury GPU acceleration, color management (ACES & ICC), bit depth, LUT interpolation, gamma, audio sample rate, and the expressions engine.
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00:00 Mercury GPU Acceleration (Metal, CUDA, OpenCL, Software Only)
00:52 Time Display Style & Frame Rate Defaults
01:56 Frames vs Timecode & Feet + Frames
02:35 Frame Count (Timecode Conversion)
02:58 Bits Per Channel (8 / 16 / 32 bpc)
03:12 Color Management – Adobe Color Engine vs OCIO
05:05 ACES Workflow & OCIO Configuration
06:15 Custom Color Settings
06:23 Bit Depth & Performance (8 vs 16 vs 32 bpc)
07:14 LUT Interpolation (Trilinear vs Tetrahedral GPU)
07:59 Working Color Space & Display Color Space
08:48 Gamma 2.2 vs 2.4 (sRGB vs Rec.709)
09:23 Linearize Working Color Space & Gamma 1.0
10:10 Compensate for Scene-Referred Profiles
11:01 Audio Sample Rate (44.1 vs 48 kHz)
11:55 Expressions Engine (JavaScript vs Legacy ExtendScript)
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