FilmConvert Nitrate - Next Generation Film Look Conversion

After the recent announcement of CineMatch, the team at FilmConvert revealed FilmConvert Nitrate. This new version is an upgrade of the original FilmConvert plugin. Let's take a look at what's new!

[KrunoslavStifter]

The biggest problem I had with the original FilmConvert was the aggressive LUT's they were applying by default. Usually they were way too much and you would have to back it up. First impression, at least for now they seem to be giving us more controls, although after all the tools on the market that are available and have become available in last few years, I was hoping for more innovation. Looking forward to testing it when it becomes available.

[BrianSladek]

Looking forward to the release for Final Cut Pro

[dragonstone]

Very nice. I absolutely love filmconvert. Hopefully, they release the OFX version at the same time as the Premier version.

[Terry_Williams]

Only for Premiere? Will Nitrate come to OFX?

[focuspulling]

I trust that I'm not the only one finding his explanation utterly confusing -- but I write this as a longtime FilmConvert user who wants it to keep working, with regular updates (and wish they'd just fix the old version unchanged since 2016, rather than re-branding it with largely the same features).

Besides minor UI changes and the ability to limit grain to certain ranges of luminance (things that won't matter to me), the whole "log versions of the original film stock emulations" simply doesn't connect with reality. We too easily forget what the acronym LUT stands for: it's a precise Look-Up Table for "flattening" an image in many ways in-camera, only to be "un-flattened" THE PRECISELY EXACT SAME WAY during post. Lumetri in Premiere is by now fully developed, and a mandatory part of that NLE's color correction workflow. Effects applied to clips are cumulative, in order of application. So we are better off using the native tweaking controls of Lumetri as a further layer to FilmConvert's obvious and limited function: emulating a common film stock look based on varying custom camera profiles tailored to specific log formats like S-Log3, C-Log, V-Log, Blackmagic Film, etc.

They had better do a much, much better job of explaining the value they think they've added, otherwise this looks like an excuse to simply press reset on their upgrade cycles and raise revenue from existing customers, shuffling around descriptions without really changing true capability.

[adriansphoto]

I bought filmconvert for premiere a couple of days ago, does that mean I get the Nitrate upgrade?