< Previous | Contents | Next >
Images converted to a linear gamma don’t look correct. They usually look very dark, with extremely bright highlights and oversaturated colors. Happily, even though the image may appear to be incorrect, the fact that Fusion can work entirely with floating-point color data means that you’re not actually clipping or losing any image data. It just looks completely wrong when viewing the linear state of your image data directly.
A clip displayed with a nonlinear, log gamma curve (left) and the clip transformed to linear gamma (right)
It would be impossible to work if you couldn’t view the image as it’s supposed to appear within the final gamut and gamma you’ll be outputting. For this reason, each viewer has a LUT menu that lets you enable a “preview” color space and/or gamma conversion, while the node tree is processing correctly in linear gamma.
Apply a Gamut View LUT to preview the image in your intended output color space.
1 Enable the LUT button above the viewer.
2 From the Viewer LUT drop-down menu, choose either a Gamut View LUT, or a LUT from the VFX IO category that transforms linear to Rec. 709 or sRGB.