Anfisa Zelentsova

5 DAYS LEFT before submissions closes!

Last chance to enter Dehancer Colourist Awards since the submission deadline is set on December 15, 2023. Make sure you don't miss it!

To participate in the competition, simply click the 'Submit Now' button and fill in the submission form.

Join the contest: https:/awards.dehancer.com

Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce our first colourist awards! Dehancer Colourist Awards is an annual competition for colour enthusiasts, created by colour experts. It’s a great opportunity to share your own story about colour and film aesthetics with the world!

You can submit a movie for the following categories:

• Feature Film
• Short Film
• Documentary
• Music Video
• Mobile Video (shot on mobile)

Important dates to remember: submission opens today on September 15, 2023 closing on December 15, 2023.

The winners will get generous cash prizes of 6,000 USD each, Lowepost subscriptions and more!

To participate or learn more, please visit: https://awards.dehancer.com
Good luck everyone!

Join our first Dehancer Colourist Awards!

Dehancer Colourist Awards is an annual competition for colour enthusiasts, created by colour experts. It’s a great opportunity to share your own story about colour and film aesthetics with the world!

You can submit a movie for the following categories:

• Feature Film
• Short Film
• Documentary
• Music Video
• Mobile Video (shot on mobile)

Important dates to remember: submission opens today on September 15, 2023 closing on December 15, 2023.

The winners will get generous cash prizes of 6,000 USD each, lifetime licenses for shortlist nominees and more!

To participate and learn more, please visit: https://awards.dehancer.com
Good luck everyone!

Hello guys,

Our beta test for Final Cut Pro is finally out!
We welcome you to join the Beta test:

https://blog.dehancer.com/dehancer-for-final-cut-pro-beta/

Dehancer Benchmark 5.3.1

• Updated core: Dehancer Engine v5.3
• Grain Film Type and Grain Generator options
• Results Export (File → Export to File)
• Command line interface for third-party applications

Download for free: 
https://blog.dehancer.com/dehancer-benchmark/

Hello guys,

We have made significant changes to the Film Grain tool:

• The dependence of the optical resolution on the resolution of the timeline has been fixed. Now with a timeline size less than 4K the image no longer has a blurry look, and the maximum value of Film Resolution = 100 provides full detail of the source footage.
• The distortion, which could slightly change the scale of the image and cause it to shift by a few pixels, has been fixed.
• Added Negative / Positive processing mode switch.

Negative:

An improved grain algorithm. The grain is more pronounced in the highlights and the image has a slightly higher microcontrast, which is more typical for negative films.

Positive:

This old algorithm, slightly improved, reproduces a softer grain, which is less pronounced in the highlights and more typical for reversible positive films.

• A new grain type and the corresponding Analogue / Digital mode switch has been added.

Analogue:

The ‘legacy’ type of grain. Requires more processing power.

Digital (Experimental):

Additional (new) type of high performance simplified grain. It can be useful for dithering tasks (for example, to eliminate the posterization of 8-bit videos from drones), as well as for low-resolution projects, rendering for Youtube, etc.

Compatibility of the plugin settings with different Dehancer OFX versions:

Starting from version 5.3, the default setting is Negative mode. To get the grain look as close as possible to older versions of the plugin (4.0 – 5.2), use Positive mode in combination with your existing grain settings.

This is a free update for the license owners.

Download and get 2-week FREE trial:
www.dehancer.com

Good day everyone,

New Dehancer 5.2.0 update is out!

What's new:

• OFX performance improvements
• Memory optimizations
• New Options group
• New Quality selector (Normal – Fast / High – Slow)
• Target White in Print section fixes
• OFX Overlay Vignette Interaction fixed
• New Bloom default parameters

This is a free update for the license owners.

Download and get 2-week FREE trial:
https://www.dehancer.com/#download

Hello everyone,

Dehancer OFX 5.1.0 is finally here with performance breakthrough:

* Up to 2× FPS with several GPUs, incl. new Apple Silicons
* Memory optimizations for Metal and CUDA
* Ported to CUDA 11 with various architectures supported: Pascal, Volta, Pascal, Turing, Ampere, etc
* OFX interactions optimized
* Minor fixes

This is a free update for the license owners.

Download and get 2-week FREE trial:
https://www.dehancer.com/#download

2 hours ago, Keidrych wasley said:

Perceptually matching digital sensors to film has already been demonstrated by Steve Yedlin. Further to that, Star Wars The Last Jedi was shot 50/50 film and digital, with cutbacks to the same shot on film and then digital. As Steve Yedlin described it, "It's the best display prep demo".  If digital "can't match the color separation of film", how was this possible and how is it possible that he demonstrates just that not only via his work, but also in the Display Prep Demo, the Display Prep Demo Follow Up and the Resolution Demo? Using a matrix and tone curve is not enough to match one digital sensor to another, and certainly not enough to match eg an Alexa to a negative scan. The lack of a match in Dehancer is not the problem of digital sensors, it's the methods being used to gather the data and the mathematical implementation of that data. If you are using a matrix and tone curve to match cameras or filming color charts, and your source film data set is from limited measurements of color charts printed to and then measured on photographic paper then I think that would be the source of any mismatch, not the fault of the digital sensor.  I'm sure there is good reason Steve Yedlin used a SkyPanel and 6000 measurements to profile the Arri digital sensor and 5219 rather than color charts or any other method.

I enjoy Dehancer, however just yesterday I was trying to use Dehancer for grain, but finding that deep reds are shifted considerably to the degree that I could not use it and don't want to have to 'correct' everything back. I have everything switched off here, and all grain settings are at 0. The transform into aces is not the cause, just turning grain on and off creates this shift. 

Grain Off:

 

Grain On:

Dear Keidrych,

Mr. Yedlin has successfully solved a very particular technical case based upon the well-defined and strictly determined conditions. Dehancer, on the contrary, is made to solve a much more multipurpose and challenging task, involving more unknown variables in the input, while delivering the consistent outcome which can be easily altered to your taste, resulting in a wide range of possible creative variations, aesthetically pleasing and technically accurate.

Within this context, increasing the number of samples does not solve the aesthetic task and makes the entire method less versatile, i.e. more demanding for strict adherence to the conditions. In this case, according to our observations, increasing the number of samples may subtly refine the color accuracy but it is more likely to degrade the overall aesthetics and smoothness thus limiting the universal applicability of the tool under a wide range of input conditions.

And of course, all this does not change the fundamental impossibility of distinguishing between two neighboring hues in postprocessing if they were not initially separated when shooting.

As for the grain, it is not superimposed on the image. The image consists of grain. Consequently, reliable simulation is impossible without deconstructing and restructuring the image. In particular, the black and white points are altered (otherwise there would be no visible grain in the shadows and highlights, which does not correspond to reality). Obviously, when the grain is applied, the color changes slightly as well. This is an indication that Dehancer simulates grain just as if you were shooting on film.

On 12/1/2021 at 2:45 PM, Keidrych wasley said:

Interesting. Thanks for putting in the work. I think it demonstrates that the colour science is quite a ways off. Hopefully that means a better and more accurate 5219 profile and under the hood colour science will be in Dehancers future. It would be great if a company would be willing to go to the lengths Steve Yedlin did to profile his film path, particularly in how the cameras were profiled etc but in terms of the public domain it seems no one has gone to those lengths yet, or had the knowledge for how to do so.

On 12/1/2021 at 3:23 PM, Tom Evans said:

Agree, Dehancer is guesswork at the best. I beta tested Ravengrade over the weekend, it seriously put all the "film profiling" apps to shame.

On 12/2/2021 at 8:35 AM, Travis Ward said:

 

I'd love to hear more of your thoughts/criticism on this sample. I'm still fairly new to film emulation but have read a lot of Yedlin's papers/articles and watched his demos and would like to learn more about what Dehancer could improve on.

To my eye, some cameras (like the BMPCC 6K) have some clear differences in luminance and saturation (like in the red of the shirt) but it seems correctable. Even Yedlin's examples/matches had noticeable differences to the naked eye, which he admitted as such. 

I'm not familiar with Ravengrade but I'll check it out!

Dear Sirs,

On behalf of Dehancer team I'd like to explain some key points about the plug-in:

1. The plug-in offers camera profiles solely for the convenience of the creative process and they are aimed primarily at an aesthetic interpretation of the source material, and not technical matching. At the same time the peculiarities of the color rendering of different cameras can be preserved.
2. When working with color, the technical quality of color separation for each specific camera plays a decisive role. Color separation is primarily determined by the density of the bayer color filters on the matrix. Denser filters - better color separation, but less light and more noise. If you make the filters more transparent, then the color will become worse, but with more light and less noise. For example, in RED cameras, the sensors are equipped with denser filters, which give better color separation, but less light, more noise, more demands on lighting and correct exposure.
   
   No existing camera sensor is capable of fully matching the color separation capabilities of film. Therefore, the best result we can achieve is always limited by the difference in color separation between the media sources.

Hello everyone, 

Here's a new test our team did!

Check the article about this test and download source files and grade in our blog:
https://blog.dehancer.com/articles/dehancer-vs-16-mm-film/

Test shots of the same scene captured with 4 different cameras:

* ARRIFLEX 416 Plus with Kodak Vision 3 500T 7219 16 mm
* BlackMagic Pocket 6k (Film Log with Gen5 Color)
* Red Epic (IPP2)
* Kinefinity Mavo LF (CinemaDNG) 

Film developed in MOSFILM film laboratory (https://en.mosfilm.ru/dept/filmlab/), scanned to Cineon Film Log and graded in Dehancer with Kodak Vision Color Print Film 2383 profile.

Digital footages graded in Dehancer using Kodak Vision 3 500T film profile and Kodak Vision Color Print Film 2383 profile.

Lenses used:

* Ultra Prime for Arriflex
* DZOfilm pictor zoom for digital cameras

Good day everyone,

We are thrilled to announce our NEW plug-in: Dehancer Film 1.0.0 for Adobe Photoshop / Lightroom Classic

For macOS only at the moment.

Our team would like to offer a free 2-week trial for anyone who is curious to try. Head over to our website to get yours:
https://www.dehancer.com/store/pslr

You can learn more about the installation of this plugin in our dedicated article:
https://blog.dehancer.com/articles/dehancer-film-plugin-for-adobe-photoshop-and-lightroom-classic-installation/

Good day everyone, 

Dehancer 5.0.0 update is finally out!

What's new in DEHANCER PRO DEHANCER PHOTO EDITION:

*Print profiles with Target White setting
*Kodak Vision 2383 Color Print Film profile
*Kodak Professional Endura Glossy Color paper profile
*Cineon Film Log support
*DVR WG source input
*Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)
*Optimizations

What's new in DEHANCER LITE:

*Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)
*Optimizations

You can install new version together with existing versions.

This is a free update for Dehancer plugin owners.

Download & Get FREE Trial:
https://www.dehancer.com/#download

Buy license:
https://www.dehancer.com/store

Hello everyone,

We're glad to announce that the beta test for  Dehancer Pro 5.0.0 is open!

Dehancer Pro 5.0.0 Beta 7

• Print profiles with Target White setting
• Kodak Vision 2383 Color Print Film profile
• Kodak Professional Endura Glossy Color paper profile
• Cineon Film Log support
• DVR WG/Rec.709 source input
• Source white balance (Temperature and Tint compensation)
•  Optimizations

You can install beta in parallel with existing versions. 

More information here: https://blog.dehancer.com/beta-testing/

Beta available for Mac and Windows Cuda at the moment.

Hello everyone,

We released a new update - Dehancer. 4.2.1

What's new:

• Now compatible with DaVinci Resolve 17.3
• Fixed Lut Generator behavior with Camera Source
• Profile database updated
• Optimisations for MacOS and Windows

NOTE: Please download and update profiles after installation (Download button will appear inside the plugin).

Download:
https://www.dehancer.com/#download

Meet Fujifilm Instax film profiles in Dehancer!

Two versions are included:

1. Fujifilm Instax
2. Fujifilm Instax (Digital Intermediate)

The first profile reproduces Instax colors naturally (by means of Dehancer unique film sampling technology).

The second profile represents Fujifilm Instax color in ‘hybrid‘ process, where the scanned print is additionally edited with black and white levels correction.

Just push ‘Update’ button in your Dehancer plugin.

Download plugins or buy license:
www.dehancer.com

Good day everyone,

New update for Dehancer is out.

What's new?

• OpenCL support for Windows / AMD
• CUDA performance greatly optimised (20-30% faster now)
• ACES Flase Colors bugfixes for macOS & Windows
• Fixed Total Impact behavior in Gate Weave tool for macOS & Windows (now Impact reduces motion amplitude instead of ‘opacity’ in this tool)
• Other bugfixes for macOS & Windows
• Optimizations for macOS & Windows

This is a free upgrade for all Dehancer license owners.

If you are not Dehancer license owner yet, you can buy license on our website.

Cold and hot, light and dark, sweet and bitter - are some of the fundamental contrasts in our life. And it's our job to adjust them and somehow find the balance to avoid feeling overwhelmed and miss out on the details. Same in the photography or filmmaking. With the only difference - we call it shadows and highlights clipping. 

Dehancer was designed to gently treat an image and has a set of tools that can help you soften and make it more harmonious. However, there're cases when it becomes more challenging.

To learn more read our latest blog article "How to manage image contrast and avoid clipping": https://blog.dehancer.com/articles/how-to-manage-image-contrast-and-avoid-clipping/

Beyond the visible and creative. That's how we would describe Dehancer False Colors plugin for DaVinci Resolve that you can get for FREE!

Here’s why False Colors is a cool tool:

• Great instrument for technical image control;
• Emphasises some details that otherwise aren't visible to a human eye;
• Can help to examine and adjust the exposure;
• Especially useful in filmmaking;
• Reveals invisible patterns;
• Useful for adjusting skin tone exposure.

To download the plugin, go to our website to the “Download & Buy” section: https://www.dehancer.com/store

Already included in Dehancer Pro toolset.

Hello guys,

Just wanted to let you know that new update is available on Dehancer.

Dehancer 4.1.0:

1. Fixed issues with Windows accounts containing non-latin characters
2. Fixed hardware uid activation error
3. Numerous optimisations for better performance and lower memory consumption

Attention: After this update your license will be re-activated automatically.

In case of any errors please contact Dehancer support via mail@dehancer.com

Hello guys,

We're happy to introduce our new BW film profile: Kodak Plus-X Pan 125 (Exp. 1979)

It's our 60th film profile! Film profiles are heart and soul of Dehancer. The crowd of films is enormous. We are constantly working on new profiles and exploring exotic processes to deliver you the best analogue experience.

Just push ‘Update’ button in your Dehancer plugin.

Hello everyone,

Our team would like to offer a free 2-week trial for anyone who is curious to try. Head over to our website www.dehancer.com to get yours.

Compatible with macOS and Windows with DaVinci Resolve 16 and 17

Hello everyone!

Great news - Windows release is officially here!

•New engine runs on Apple Metal and Nvidia CUDA (AMD support will be provided later)
•Halation and Bloom are totally redesigned for a more realistic effect and allow better control and additional settings
•False Colors output filter for visual quality control is released as a separate FREE plugin

You can download updated plugins at www.dehancer.com
Previously purchased licenses are valid for activation on Windows.

Enjoy!

Hi guys,

Meet our new BW film profile!

Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 is a highly appreciated BW film with the distinct character. Artistic yet versatile, it provides wide dynamic range, 3-dimensional feel and delicate tones.

Carefully printed on the famous Slavitch Bromportrait photopaper, Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 profile combines the benefits of classic emulsion and the warm tones of baryta paper. It will bring to life any BW scene, remaining flexible and easily adjustable.

To get this new film profile, click the Update button within your Dehancer Pro, Lite or Photo Edition plugin. You can download Dehancer plugins for DaVinci Resolve on our website.

Hello everyone,

Great news: one more new film profile!

Kodak Supra 100 is a professional color negative film. Used for reportage, landscape and subject photography. Produced at the same time with Kodak Portra VC and NC. This film has fine grain and balanced colors.

Kodak Supra 100 film and its Dehancer profile are characterized by warm hues, natural skin tones and delicate highlights.

Kodak Supra 100 profile becomes especially expressive and authentic with Halation, Bloom, Grain and Vignette effects.

To get this new film profile, click the Update button within your Dehancer Pro, Lite or Photo Edition plugin. You can download Dehancer plugins for DaVinci Resolve on our website.