I've been searching for the perfect film look ever since i experienced it
through the actual film camera.
While i'm very much thankful for modern cameras and lenses for their convenient features,
the images i get often lack certain analogue characters I've been looking for.
For this reason I've spent good enough amount of money and time trying to emulate the very
specific look I wanted in my film.
However, my numerous attempts have always left me unsatisfied.
Then, recently I've encountered with Dehancer which works with Davinci Resolve.
Dehancer opened a new gateway that i have been long waiting for.
It gives you 62 different film emulations and it allows you to
adjust some of the basic and advanced color grading settings.
Also it enables you to add various effects such as Film Grain, Bloom, Halation and many more.
Let me show you by examples these three effects that I frequently use.
First, Film Grain.
The Film Grain enhancer generates is by far the best film grain I've ever witnessed and used.
The grains are organic, meaning they're fully alive as with the footage that's being applied on.
To be more precise, they're not just overlays on top of the images.
Rather, they're implemented as if they're already natural part of the images themselves.
The plugin recognizes the highlights and shadows and apply the grains accordingly resulting in
natural rendering of the images, instead of creating two recognizable separate entities.
Second and Third, Bloom and Halation.
I grouped these two features together
because often these are the effects of the mist filters I use. They usually go hand in hand.
Bloom gives you control over the amount of light spreading in the highlights
and Halation gives you subtle red glow around bright light sources.
Both of these effects are desirable in many stylistic choices I make in an attempt to emulate
vintage soft and bloomy look of the film.
If you get a pro version of it you can get all these effects plus some other effects such as
Film Breath and Gate Weave.
Film Breath, according to Dehacner Team is an effect that is noticeable
as an accidental change in exposure, contrast and color from frame to frame as a filler moves.
Gate Weave refers to the mechanical swinging of a film strip while it is being pulled through
a frame window in a film camera projector or video coding device.
If you are like me, trying to achieve a film look, try Dehacner Pro.
You can use my promo code Film Story, to get 10 off of your purchase.
Thanks for watching and I hope my video somehow helped you create new things!