The Offset Podcast EP019: Color Management

Color management pipelines play an integral part in modern postproduction, but these pipelines still cause a lot of confusion for many people.

In this episode of The Offset Podcast, we discuss essential concepts & vocab about color management pipelines to prepare you to dive deeper into these concepts.

Specific topics discussed include:

- Why understanding color management so important in modern workflows
- Understanding the concepts of scene and display referred
- How LUTs can be considered part of a managed pipeline - but with some limitations
- The parts of a color-managed pipeline
- Choosing an intermediate/working space
- Project-wide, node-base, and layer-based approaches to color management
- The power of color space-aware tools
- Printer lights & contrast in a managed pipeline
- Output metadata tagging
- Using OFX and DCTLs in a managed pipeline
- The danger of too much fiddling with transforms

You can also find this episode on all major podcast platforms.

Big thanks as always to our sponsor Flanders Scientific, and our editor Stella!