Dec. 18 Studios · DaVinci Resolve tools
A growing kit of DCTLs and OFX plugins for DaVinci Resolve — film emulation, grain, hue tools and diagnostics. A bunch are free. Buy the premium tools together for one low annual price.
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Film stock emulation · OFX
Design your own film stocks — be the chemist. A full photochemical pipeline that develops your digital footage the way a darkroom would, from photons to final print.
Film isn't just “old-school digital” — it's a chemical system. Photo Chemist runs your footage through a 17+ stage process, reverse-engineering RGB into a 43-band spectrum, then simulating exposure, grain, halation, dye formation, development and projection — so images look made in a darkroom, not filtered.
Reverse-engineer RGB into a 43-band spectrum via dye-sensitivity controls.
Shape the HD density curves; grain and red halation emerge from the silver itself.
Cyan / magenta / yellow as asymmetric Gaussian absorption curves.
Push/pull, silver retention and inter-image effects.
Beer–Lambert transmission — design the light that reaches the screen.
The full kit
Free utilities and premium plugins for DaVinci Resolve. Click any tool for details, install notes and tutorials.