electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Hello. We are testing Affinity Photo for use in an ACES workflow, and have looked at the video tutorials on OpenColorIO setup. However we have immediately run into an issue. 1. Go to Preferences --> Colour 2. Set OpenColorIO Configuration File - in our case /Library/Application Support/OpenColorIO/aces_1.2/config.ocio (downloaded from https://github.com/imageworks/OpenColorIO-Configs ) 3. Infinity Photo asks to restart the application 4. Go to Preferences --> Colour 5. No OpenColorIO Configuration file is set anymore. It has forgotten what was just set Are we doing something wrong? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tristan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 macOS 10.14.6 (18G4032) Affinity Photo 1.8.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff James Ritson Posted April 14, 2020 Staff Share Posted April 14, 2020 Hi @creamelectricart, I've previously tested ACES 1.0.3 with no issues, and managed to get 1.0.2 working here. I would suggest copying the OCIO configuration file and supporting files to a general folder rather than Application Support—there might be a sandboxing/permissions issue here. If you copy the files to Documents for example, then point the configuration and support directory options to them, does it load successfully? Hope that helps! Quote Product Expert (Affinity Photo) & Product Expert Team Leader @JamesR_Affinity for tutorial sneak peeks and more Official Affinity Photo tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 Hey @James Ritson - thanks for the suggestion! I copied the OpenColorIO configs to another directory in the User directory and it worked fine. Strange though, because the fnord OpenColorIO plugins for Photoshop and After Effects can read from this location fine. Is there a system-wide location that should work? Maybe Users/Shared? I ask because we try to distribute software automatically to our workstations, and per user is always more of a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 Hi @James Ritson. So it is a permissions issue it seems. Changed the group to staff and it works now (either in Application Support or Users/Shared) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 @James Ritson Thanks so much for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 Btw, this location is the location that the fnord OpenColorIO plugins look for the configs (which is mainly why we have them here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricart Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 @James Ritson Ok, so I did some more testing and it seems that Affinity Photo needs write permissions for config.ocio which seems like a bug to me. Surely it shouldn't need write permission for this file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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