Could someone explain how the controls operate with ACES compared to DWG? I noticed the shift in the wheels. It seems like everything has a more refined movement. It doesn’t take as much in ACES. I also noticed a different feel to my grading now, or is it just me?
Hi there,
ACES color management and DWG (DaVinci) use completely different display rendering transforms to form the final image. It’s a bit of an unfair comparison unless you would use the same display rendering and only switch the working space (something you could test for fun in Resolve Color Managed).
So whether you visually like what you see more when handling the wheels between one or the other is subjected to the rendering too.
The other component is the color space itself. One isn’t perse better than the other, but depending on how far out the primaries are from neutral axis, the wheels become more or less sensitive because of the nature of non-colormanaged ‘basic’ tools that do add/subtract or divide/multiply directly on the r,g,b values of the working space.
DWG is significantly larger than AP1 which is the name for the primaries of the ACEScct color space you use when grading in an ACES workflow.
They are also slightly angled against eachother so when you would add green it’s a different tint than adding the same green in the other color space because the context changed.