HTSoccer00$ wrote:Thank you both for your responses. However, both the aces transform node and the color transform node still produces very different images between the fusion viewer and the timeline viewer.
Are you using the correct viwer luts in Fusion. The transformation that happens in the node area to for example linearize the nodes and processing will not look good on your monitor, image will be either darker or lighter depending on what conversions you are doing. Hence we have viewer luts to help us see correct and expected images, so we can work on them and judge what we are doing. Without the viewer you will see a diffence, because there is a difference.
Depending on what workflow you are doing, say its manual conversion, you would first convert all your nodes with media in or whatever method you use to bring footage into the node area in fusion. You would use Color Space Transform or ACES or way to conform everything to linear. Work on the nodes in Fusion and before you send it out to media out or out of fusion, you would convert them back either to original format or something you need for the edit or color page or delivery page.
This is for Fusion to work with nodes. But your viewer experience in fusion is going to be changed, as I've said, either too bright or typically to dark image. So for that we use viewer luts in viewers to see correct image for us to be able to judge what we are doing in expected way, while fusion itself works with linear space.
If you are not using correct viewer lut, you will see everything looks too dark or too bright or not enough saturated or too much. This is not wrong for the way fusion should work, but its wrong in the way you expect to see the image. So we correct it by using viewer luts. If you are using them, look into it, and all will work as expected.
If you let fusion manage everything to linear space, you might still have to assign each clip what source footage it is in the media pool and you might have to use viewer lut anyway, but this might have changed in fusion 19, I haven't tested it myself.
If you are doing everything manually, than what I suggested is the way.