Film Effects

Film Effects Pro adds the texture and highlight behaviour of film on top of your grade. It works with or without the film engine.

Grain

• Amount: how visible the grain is.
• Size: how coarse. Larger grain reads as faster, older film.

Grain also breaks up banding in smooth areas like skies and dark gradients.

Halation

On film, bright light can scatter back through the emulsion and leave a red-orange tint around highlights. It's most famous on CineStill 800T.

• Amount: how strong the tint is.
• Radius: how far down into the highlights it reaches. Higher values tint more of the image, not just the brightest points.
• Hue: the colour of the tint. Red-orange is the classic.

Luttie's halation is based on each pixel's brightness: it tints bright areas rather than spreading a glow into the dark areas around them.

Bloom

• Amount: how much bright areas lift and soften.
• Threshold: how bright something has to be before bloom affects it.

Bloom gives highlights a soft, luminous quality, like diffusion filters or older lenses.

In exported LUTs

A LUT can only change colours, not add texture, so grain isn't included when you export a LUT. Halation and bloom are, because both depend only on each pixel's brightness. All three are included in image and video exports.