Dec. 18 Studios · DaVinci Resolve tools
A growing kit of DCTLs and OFX plugins for DaVinci Resolve: film emulation, grain, hue tools and diagnostics. A bunch are free. The rest come with one low annual membership.
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Film stock emulation · OFX
Design your own film stocks. Be the chemist. A full photochemical pipeline that develops your digital footage the way a darkroom would, from photons to final print.
Film isn't just “old-school digital.” It's a chemical system. Photo Chemist runs your footage through a 17+ stage process, reverse-engineering RGB into a 43-band spectrum, then simulating exposure, grain, halation, dye formation, development and projection, so images look made in a darkroom, not filtered.
Reverse-engineer RGB into a 43-band spectrum via dye-sensitivity controls.
Shape the HD density curves; grain and red halation emerge from the silver itself.
Cyan / magenta / yellow as asymmetric Gaussian absorption curves.
Push/pull, silver retention and inter-image effects.
Beer–Lambert transmission. Design the light that reaches the screen.
The full kit
Free utilities and premium plugins for DaVinci Resolve. Click any tool for details, install notes and tutorials.