FILM ELEMENTS
DCTLS
INTRODUCTION
The “Film Elements” pack contains four DCTLs designed to simulate key characteristics of analog film. These tools allow you to add subtle imperfections and visual effects that bring a vintage, filmic aesthetic to your footage.
FILM DIRT
DCTL
Film Dirt refers to dust particles and smudges that settle on the film surface during shooting, processing, or scanning. These particles can become embedded in the film or stick to it as it moves through various stages of handling. When the film is digitized, these imperfections become visible in the image, appearing as dark or white specks, depending on how the light interacts with the debris.
VIGNETTE
DCTL
Vignetting is an optical effect where the brightness of an image fades gradually toward the edges, typically due to the physical limitations of lenses or the use of wide apertures. In older or less corrected lenses, the light doesn’t distribute evenly across the entire image plane, resulting in darker corners and a naturally brighter center. This falloff directs the viewer’s focus toward the middle of the frame, giving images a more cinematic, centered composition. It can also be intentionally introduced to recreate the aesthetic of vintage lenses or older film stocks.
HALATION
DCTL
Halation is an optical phenomenon that occurs when intense light hits the emulsion layer of film, scattering through the base layer and reflecting back into the image. This causes a red or orange glow to appear around high-contrast edges, especially near bright light sources. The effect is more pronounced with thinner emulsion layers in film stocks, which struggle to contain the light, resulting in this distinctive halo.
CHROMATIC ABERRATION
DCTL
Chromatic Aberration occurs due to the inability of a lens to focus all wavelengths of light onto the same point. This happens because different wavelengths refract at slightly different angles when passing through the lens elements. As a result, you get color fringing—typically red, green, or blue—around high-contrast edges or at the image periphery. This optical imperfection is most common with cheaper lenses or wide-open apertures and contributes to the organic, imperfect feel of vintage optics.
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INSTALL GUIDELINES
- Open “Project Settings.”
- Go to “Color Management” and choose “Open LUT Folder.”
- Drag and drop the folders with the DCTL files into this directory.
- Restart DaVinci Resolve to apply the changes.
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FILM ELEMENTS
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