SPECTRAL FILM SIMULATION · DAVINCI RESOLVE

Film, simulated
from the crystal up.

Not a LUT. Not a grain overlay. Emulsion exposes your footage onto a simulated film stock, develops it and prints it, crystal by crystal.

Try it in Resolve How it works

SAME FOOTAGE · DRAG TO COMPARE

Digital in, film out

The same ungraded frames: a standard digital transform on the left, Emulsion on the right.

DEEP ZOOM · KODAK VISION3 500T

Zoom until the grain
becomes crystals

Drag or pinch to zoom from the whole frame down to single crystals. Every level is in-engine footage, rendered fresh at its own magnification. Switch to Mid-development to freeze the film halfway through processing and see the crystals themselves.

Image from Grain

There is no clean picture underneath with grain on top. Every pixel is built from the crystals inside it.

Image from GrainCrystal by crystalAbout 54 ms per 4K frame.

AccurateThe same statistics, fasterAbout 34 ms per 4K frame.

FastFor previewsFor scrubbing and rough cuts.

REAL LENSES · RAY-TRACED FROM PUBLISHED DESIGNS

Put a classic lens
in front of the film

Thirteen designs, from an 1840 Petzval to a modern cine prime. Light is traced through every glass surface, so softness, distortion, colour fringing and fall-off all come from the optics.

Pick a lens to see it on the frame above. Reconstructed from published patents and literature; not licensed or endorsed by any lens maker.

HALATION · LIGHT RETURNING FROM THE BASE

The glow is the film,
not a filter

Light bounces off the film base and comes back up into the red layer first. That's why halation is red. Rem-jet keeps it faint; remove it and it blooms.

54 STOCKS IN THE LIBRARY

Every curve from the datasheet

Built from each manufacturer's published data. Pick one.

GO DEEPER

Every stage is real

How it worksInside the film's layers, development step by step, every gauge from Regular 8 to IMAX, long exposures, push, pull and bleach bypass, and how it is tested against Kodak's published data.See the physics → Stock StudioChange the film itself: spectral sensitivity, layer order, crystal shape, chemistry, dyes and age. Build a stock that never existed and share it.Build a stock →

READY TO GRADE

Start creating in DaVinci Resolve

Download the OpenFX plugin and Stock Studio. Works natively on macOS with Metal acceleration.

OpenFX Plugin · macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel)

Download the free beta

Free while in beta. Includes 54 film and print stocks built from manufacturers' data, and Stock Studio (Apple silicon).

Film, simulatedfrom the crystal up.