A new medium. A familiar ambition.
As digital cameras entered filmmaking, filmmakers wanted to bring the qualities they valued in film into a digital workflow. Our work began during that transition.
Working with cinematographers, colourists and productions, the people behind Colourlab developed film profiles that helped shape digital cinema. That experience continues to inform our technology.
More than a colour palette
Cinematic appearance emerges from colour, tone and texture: highlight response, shadow depth, colour relationships and the character an image retains as exposure changes.
Film emulation involves understanding these qualities as a connected system that holds together across images, lighting conditions and scenes.
Decades of experience. New possibilities through AI.
Our research combines colour science, perceptual analysis and practical film and television experience. Over the past eight years, AI analysis and processing have helped deepen that work.
Look Designer / Film character. Creative freedom.
Look Designer brings our research into a dedicated tool for colourists. Its fourth generation lets professionals develop their own film colour profiles in film density space.
Filmlab Ai / Research in professional application
Available by application, Filmlab Ai connects precise film profiles with specialist grain, lens, halation and spatial-processing tools for high-end finishing.
Astra Film / Find your cinematic language
Astra makes spectrometric film emulation accessible through prepared profiles and real-time processing. Start free, add film packs and open profiles created in Look Designer.
Research that reaches the screen
Our understanding develops through an exchange between research and production. The laboratory gives us ways to model appearance. Working filmmakers give that research a purpose and a demanding environment in which to refine it.