ARRI Film Lab
The soul of analog film
Film grain
Grain can be set to emulate 50D, 200T, or 500T negative stock in film formats from 8 mm to 65 mm. Grain size can also be adjusted.
Rendition of detail
Changes perceived sharpness. Combine with grain size adjustment to fine tune your look.
Color
Color settings encompass different print stock characteristics, reversal film, and bleach bypass.
Halation
Adjust the intensity and spread of the halos around bright areas that are inherent in analog images.
Gate weave
This setting simulates the slight unsteadiness sometimes seen in footage shot on film.
Film formats
Users can select presets for 8 mm, 16 mm, 35 mm, or 65 mm film formats. This can just be a starting point, though, since the grain size and rendition of detail parameters - both adjustable in a range between 0.75 and 1.5 - allow looks to be created that fall between the distinct aesthetics associated with each format.
Anamorphic ratio control
The anamorphic ratio setting lets users recreate the horizontal stretching of film grain and halation glow evident in analog footage captured at eight different anamorphic squeeze ratios ranging from 1.25x to 2.0x.
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.
Default Rec. 709
Grain: 50D I Film Format: 35 mm I Color: Premiere
Default Rec. 709
Grain: 50D I Film Format: 35 mm I Color: Premiere
Wide compatibility, easy workflow
ARRI Film Lab is compatible with leading color grading environments, including Resolve, Baselight, Nuke, and more. ARRI Film Lab offers real-time 4K processing of RGB images from ARRI and third-party cameras, with LogC3 (AWG3), LogC4 (AWG4), and ACES 2.0 being supported as color spaces. It can be used regardless of whether the acquisition format was ARRICORE, ARRIRAW, ProRes, or a third-party codec. And for anyone looking for an on-set preview solution, both Resolve Live and Pomfort’s new Live Grade Frontier are available.
ACES Color Workflow
ARRI Film Lab supports ACES 2.0 workflows with ACEScc and ACEScct input and output color spaces, enabling seamless integration into ACES-based color grading pipelines. Colorists can apply Film Lab while maintaining a scene-referred workflow and full creative control over film grain, halation, color, and gate weave. Together with LogC3/AWG3 and LogC4/AWG4, the ACES I/O options provide flexible integration for ARRI and mixed-camera productions, from VFX through final grading.
Three choices for a working color space
Voices on ARRI Film Lab
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.
Maurice Morales
Digital Imaging Technician, Colorist
ARRI Filmlab allows me to assist cinematographers in printing their creative intent into the editorial dailies. This is especially valuable on commercials, where cinematographers are sometimes not part of the final color session.
Operating the ARRI Filmlab OFX is not dissimilar to operating an ALEXA camera system. There isn’t the decision fatigue that can come from numerous sliders, dropdown menus, and tick boxes. Instead, the focus stays on the shot and lightly seasoning the image.
I’m confident in ARRI’s ability to create and replicate the texture of film because of their decades of experience with ARRISCAN, which shares the same imaging lineage that ultimately led to the ALEXA camera systems.
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.
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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.
