Industry standard, community involved, on-set end-to-end look development & delivery extensions/plugin for Directors, Cinematographers, DI Artists and Post Production Agencies. Compatible with Davinci Resolve Studio.
01 | Brief
Filmverse Project offers a set of robust film-look building DCTL plugins. It does that by following standard film-profiling practices making sure the final colorimetry matches the film data as closely as possible & then making sure users can ultimately bend, mend & stretch the “film-look” towards DP’s/Director’s creative intent without costing visual sense or image fedility.
Long term goal of Filmverse Project lies in exploring better methods of picture making for the future of digital cinema, rather than mimicking film one on one.
*Filmverse Plugins are compatible with Davinci Resolve Studio Only. Filmverse Look Pipeline is rendered via DCTLs installed via Filmverse Sync app.
Ryan Joseph, Cinematographer
Built for frames that command domination: A small glimpse of what’s possible with Filmverse Arsenal. your starting point for building cinematic looks that carry your signature. From here on, it’s your vision, Filmverse gives you the freedom to define your story’s visual identity, not just match someone else’s.
02 | Current Systems
Input: Davinci Wide Gamut
Output: Davinci Wide Gamut
Input: Davinci Wide Gamut
Output: Display Rec. 709 / Davinci Wide Gamut
Input: Rec709/sRGB
Output: Rec709/sRGB
Input: Rec709/sRGB
Output: Rec709/sRGB
04 | Reliable DCTL Management System
One of its kind – Filmverse Sync is a desktop application for macOS & Windows designed to streamline Filmverse DCTL installation and maintenance.
Compatible with Windows & MacOS (Intel & Silicon based).
$349 / Lifetime / 2 Seats Filmverse Pro & Filmverse Lite.
Updates managed via Filmverse Sync
$699 / Lifetime / 2 Seats Filmverse Arsenal, Filmverse Pro & Filmverse Lite.
Updates managed via Filmverse Sync
Click on the button on the top right corner of the website, run the FilmverseSync app & click on install Demo Button. No signup needed.
A. Filmverse Lite is a lightweight Print look + Custom DRT Plugin. DRT is our custom lightweight transform (log-to-rec709) designed for Creators & Web Filmmaking. It is coupled with a minimal print look that is derived from Filmverse Pro (500T + 2383D60). It accepts wide gamut input across multiple cameras & outputs a Rec709 2.2/2.4 picture. You also get texture (Grain, halation & dust) included within a single DCTL.
DCTLS included => Filmverse Lite 1.3
B. Filmverse Pro is a wide-to-wide gamut (scene-referred) look designer plugin. It works inside a sandwich of nodes. Node 1: CST (Camera Color Space to Davinci Wide Gamut) => Node 2: Filmverse Pro Plugin => Node 3: DRT (Color space transform – Davinci Wide Gamut to Rec709 or Rec2020)
* The aim here is to give maximum flexibility to for look development with common negatives & print as the start line. Filmverse Pro boasts providing maximum flexibility for look development in a scene referred space. Third node could easily be replaced with Filmverse Lite by clicking on “Disable Look”. This only keeps the DRT function active.
DCTLS Included => Filmverse Pro 1.2, Filmverse Pro 2.1, Filmverse Texture Type A, Filmverse Texture Type B.
C. Filmverse Arsenal is designed to be a look-designer and the final delivery tool. It’s designed with primary focus on DPs and DI artists; the goal is to standardize the process of look delivery on set/on the go and fast forward the delivery process by integrating the same configuration in the postproduction process. It relies on our powerful image formation architecture that places more focus on authorship & intent of individuals (Directors & DPs) trying to create images.
DCTLS Included => Filmverse Arsenal 1.0, Texture type A & B
Yes. We are working to incorporate a method to generate an upgrade coupon on your account page, this way if you have paid for Filmverse Lite, you only need to pay the difference to upgrade to Pro. When you do so, you always get backward access to the previously licensed product.
That means, if you upgrade to Filmverse Pro you get access to Filmverse Lite, & when you upgrade to Filmverse Arsenal you get access to Filmverse Pro & Filmverse Lite as well.
You can activate FilmverseSync by grabbing your licenses from the Account Page.
Filmverse DCTLs can only be accessed & updated via FilmverseSync App. FilmverseSync app allows you to run and maintain one instance of Filmverse DCTLs. Hence all your DCTLs can officially run on a single machine. We advise creatives to install the final versions of DCTLs on the main production system.
If you need to switch the system on which DCTLs are installed, you need to drop an email with your purchase email to support@filmblade.com for us to delink the device, after you have clicked on “Deauthorize Machine”.
Currently FilmverseSync Support Windows & MacOS(Intel & Silicon chips)
Filmverse DCTLs run flawlessly on Nvidia, Apple Silicon & AMD Architectures, however we STRONGLY advise running the Demo versions of our DCTLs available through FilmverseSync App.
FilmverseSync is a certified app. On Windows the certificate carries “Filmblade” as the publisher and on MacOS the author of the app is “Jaideep Panjwani”, as long as these are the traced certificates, it’s safe to run the app.
However since it’s a fairly new application, some ecosystems might flag it with initial warning. Here’s what to do in case your system prevents FilmverseSync from running.
Simply open the FilmverseSync app and click on the button “Refresh Plugins”. That’s all. Even with a running Davinci Resolve setup, once you click on “Refresh Plugins” Davinci Resolve will automatically run the DCTLs, if it doesn’t – simply reload the DCTL.
In case there were important settings present on the DCTL you might want to restart resolve to automatically load the previously set settings without causing any changes to the Project.
We believe it would be a nightmare if they expired often. Currently all the DCTL’s loaded via Filmverse Sync carry an expiry of minimum of 9 to 12 months from the time they are uploaded on the server. If somehow you join the Filmverse Project towards the end of an expiry period, refreshing them ensures a 9 to 12 months validity. But because of the nature of development of DCTL projects, there are always bug fixes or updates or improvements being delivered in a frequency of 6 to 9 months ideally leaving no DTCL expired at any point of time.
That being said, you will ALWAYS have access to active Filmverse DCTLs via Filmverse Sync app, making sure you never run lose a project because of expired DCTLs
There are two types of updates:
CASE 1: The name of the DCTL remains the same. For example, if 2.1 gets a 250D Stock, the name of the DCTL remains the same. When you click on “License | Version” checkmark reveals what sub-version you are on. The text in the preview window will display the sub version in 2.1.x format, x being the current subversion of the project.
CASE 2: The name of DCTL shifts by 0.1, For example, if 2.1 gets an additional control – say “Extreme Blacks”, then the version number changes by .1 – making the DCTL file as 2.2. Why is it like this? This helps loading older projects where filmverse was applied with ease, it allows you to access filmverse without messing up the look control settings. This ensures compatibility across different versions of Davinci & across different versions of Filmverse
