The After Effects Illusionist

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THE UTILITY EFFECTS

As the name implies, the Utility effects are utilitarian in purpose. Nothing showy or flashy here. These effects, in general, will be more useful to those in more professional workflows, including those working with film, managing color spaces, and using HDR color. The exception here is the Grow Bounds effect, which is useful for all After Effects users. Interestingly enough, the Utility effect category is the only effects category in After Effects that contains visual effects that all work at 32 bits.

The Cineon Converter Effect

To understand the Cineon Converter effect, we first need to back up a little and look at the Cineon (CIN) file format. CIN files are most commonly used as a file format for scanned film. Let's ...