Keep AI footage consistent from grade to handoff. Transduce works in one shared linear colour space — so matching, effects, and resize all speak the same language.
That middle step — the working space — is ACEScg: scene-linear light finishing facilities already understand.
AI generators usually deliver display-ready SDR files. If you grade each one in its own gamma soup, siblings drift. Transduce converts into a consistent working space first, then lets colour, grain, bloom, and resize operate where light still behaves like light.
That does not invent camera dynamic range the generator never supplied. It protects a controlled finishing pipeline — so what you match and what you deliver stay trustworthy.
Three practical outcomes — no colour-science seminar required.
You can finish without memorizing these names. They are here when a colourist or VFX vendor asks “what space is Transduce in?”
ACEScg is Transduce’s internal working space — an Academy Colour Encoding System variant built for scene-linear grading and compositing.
Scene-linear means brightness values behave proportionally to light in the scene, not to a TV set’s display curve. That is why grades and optical effects add up cleanly.
AP1 / D60 are the primaries and white point that define ACEScg. You do not need to set them day-to-day — they are the rules of the working space.
One grade. Different exits. Exact format matrices live on Universal Compatibility.
| You need | What Transduce does |
|---|---|
| Review / editorial | SDR deliverables (Rec.709 / sRGB-style) for the timeline — expected looking SDR from ordinary AI plates |
| VFX / composites | Default OpenEXR in ACEScg (floating-point scene-linear) for editorial or VFX that expect the working space |
| ACES facility handoff | Optional ACES 2065-1 (AP0) EXR with chromaticities and the ACES container flag — when someone asks for an ACES interchange file |
Preview is a managed conversion to SDR so you can judge the finish on a normal display. It is designed for ordinary AI SDR footage — not a second “filmic” surprise on top of the generator.
Short reference. Deep matrices and measurements live in the colour science document.
| Topic | Ship-honest note |
|---|---|
| Working space | ACEScg · AP1 · D60 · scene-linear — grade, effects, resize |
| EXR default | ACEScg / AP1 linear, 16-bit half by default |
| ACES EXR option | ACES 2065-1 / AP0 · AP0 chromaticities · acesImageContainerFlag |
| Negatives | Preserved through ACEScg working path and EXR; display/SDR export clips for delivery |
| Not claimed here | Full camera-log IDT ingest catalog · Academy ODT monitoring · OCIO config shipping in-app today |
Keep shots consistent. Process cleanly. Hand off what the next department actually asked for.