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ARRI Film Lab

The soul of analog film

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Fine-tune your film look

ARRI Film Lab is a license-based OpenFX plugin for postproduction software tools that enriches digital projects with the look and feel of film. Compatible with RGB images from any camera brought into an ARRI workflow, it provides easy creative control of the grain, color, halation, and gate weave associated with analog film stocks and post processes.   

Adjustable settings

Film grain

Realistically emulated film grain can be set to the equivalent of a 50D, 200T, or 500T negative stock.

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Color

Color settings encompass different print stock characteristics, reversal film, and bleach bypass.

Color Stock Light 350x900

Halation

Replicates the red/orange halo around bright areas caused by light reflecting through film layers.
 

Halation Light 350x900

Gate weave

This setting simulates the slight unsteadiness sometimes seen in footage shot on film.
 

Gate Weave Light 350x900
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Enhancing your creative intent

What makes ARRI Film Lab so user-friendly is the fact that any combination of the plugin’s settings, at any intensity level, will result in an authentic and pleasing analog feel. Whatever looks have been developed and used on a project—whether LUTs in prep or color grades in post—ARRI Film Lab will respect and complement them. The results will be consistent even if material from different cameras is being mixed. 

 

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Wide compatibility, easy workflow

ARRI Film Lab is compatible with leading color grading environments including Resolve, Baselight, Nuke, and more. Delivering real-time 4K processing of RGB images from ARRI and third-party cameras, ARRI Film Lab supports LogC3 (AWG3) and LogC4 (AWG4) workflows. It can be used whether the acquisition format was ARRICORE, ARRIRAW, ProRes, or a third-party codec. And as with all ARRI offerings, future-proofing is a prority; Film Lab support for ACES 2.0 is already planned and in the works.

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On-set preview

A unique aspect of ARRI Film Lab is that non-destructive preview simulations can be viewed on set when recording ARRICORE or ARRIRAW with ALEXA 35 Xtreme or ALEXA 35 cameras. An approximation of the desired film look is achieved in-camera through a combination of special ARRI Textures and 3D LUTs, allowing filmmakers to see viewfinder and monitor images that give a strong sense of the intended grain and color attributes. The in-camera preview function will be enabled by a forthcoming ALEXA 35 firmware update.

 

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Built on ARRI’s film and digital legacy

From the ARRILASER and ARRISCAN of the DI era to REVEAL Color Science and the film-inspired image characteristics of ALEXA digital cameras, ARRI Film Lab distils decades of knowledge and experience into a powerful, real-time plugin for today’s post tools.

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New ARRI Look Library plugin included

Bundled with ARRI Film Lab is a special plugin version of the well-established ARRI Look Library, allowing users to explore its diverse range of LUTs in a plugin environment. This provides a new way to access the library’s 87 pre-defined looks, developed by ARRI to suit different environments and production types, and each offered in three intensities.

Voices on ARRI Film Lab

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Stijn Van der Veken ASC, SBC

Cinematographer

It is the first time I’ve seen a film look plugin that really helps create a vintage look on a period drama.

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Luisa Cavanagh

Colorist at Quanta Post

ARRI Film Lab makes digital feel like real film. It’s incredibly easy to use, yet feels like it carries a full color science lab inside—robust and cinematic. The color response is stunningly accurate, skin tones feel alive, shadows stay rich, and the definition is superb, providing that crisp, organic detail you get from true film.

Purchase options

ARRI Film Lab is available now via RE:Vision Effects. Cost-effective licenses for individuals can be purchased on a weekly, monthly, annual, or permanent basis, while licenses for companies are priced according to the number of users. Special rates are available for educational purposes.