Hi,
OverviewThe operating system is irrelevant. The core principle remains the same across any OS. Although MacOS has superior OS color management, it doesn't affect what's being rendered / encoded, rather how its being viewed.
There has been several ACES workflow forum threads here. There is the
official documentation and
my own resources about it.
However,
this is, hands down, recommended over ACES. Especially for digital imaging neophytes, which "statistically" represents the majority of the user base from renderer.
There is also this generic
Octane Color Management Guide.
To answer you (TL;DR):azumbrunnen wrote:I find it super hard to find proper workthrough on C4D Octane > AE. I use Camera Imager with Aces tone mapping on and exporting 32 Bit Open EXR.
Then in AE, I do open color io, color profile converter to srgb, but it's not correct when compared to redshift.
What's the proper way to export with aces?
1. 16-bit for beauty EXR, 32-bit is beyond unnecessary.
2. EXR = "neutral data output" (simply said), no OCIO, no ACES checkbox option will be applied, nothing.
3. In AE, whether it is ACES or another OCIO based system, it will have to be re-applied when exporting EXRs.
4. AE is not an appropriate post compositing software. Nuke, Fusion and similar are strongly recommended.
Do not hesitate to share any question you may have.