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FILM GRADE

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The Authentic Film Emulation Plugin

Crate’s Film Grade is designed to breathe life back into your footage by emulating the chemical and physical characteristics of real motion picture film.

Unlike standard color grading tools, this plugin uses advanced tone mapping and linear coloring to simulate how light interacts with physical film stock.

It includes the iconic physical properties seen in film and retro polaroids, including halation, bloom, vignetting, grain and more.

A powerful color grader

Quickly dial in your look using the Base Color and Tint controls to mimic the unique color science of vintage stocks, or use the Shadow, Midtone, and Highlight pickers to create a sophisticated, cinematic grade that feels organic, not digital.

It uses an experimental linear-light processing algorithm that aims to replicate the way light works in the real world.

Curated Library of Cinematic Presets

Crate’s Film Grade features a versatile collection of built-in presets designed to replicate specific film stocks and iconic color palettes instantly.

Whether you need a high-contrast noir look or the warm, sun-drenched tones of a vintage 16mm home movie, the Plugin Presets menu provides a professional jumping-off point.

Pro Tip

The "Skin Preservation" feature allows you to color your footage, without losing the color of skintones. This powerful isolation feature helps you enhance and color the world around your characters, without it appearing overprocessed.

Every detail considered

Crates Final Grade is an all-in-one plugin that handles:

Halation & Bloom

Red light scatters more than blue light, creating red halos around bright areas. With bloom, light naturally diffuses around the lens to create soft glows equally.

Grain

Realistic, physical looking granular specks, with light dirt scattered arund the image.

Vignette

A soft, darkened circular outline around the lens, interacting with the light linearly.

Softness

We apply a smart, gamma-aware blurring method to soften the pixels.

Coloring

Real-film has color shifting due to chemical imbalances, we expose all controls to manipulate this to replicate the unique look of film stock.

GPU Accelerated Performance

We know that color grading is an iterative process, which is why Crate's Film Grade is built for speed and performance.

The plugin is highly optimized and GPU-accelerated, allowing you to stack complex effects like Grain, Halation, and Tone Mapping without killing your playback.

Ready for Premiere Pro

Crates Film Grade is built to be used in Premiere Pro for long-form videos. By combining all our effects into a single plugin, your videos only pass through one process, instead of several.

This keeps your renders fast, and makes it ideal for the drag+drop effect in Premiere Pro.

Make your VFX and Motion Graphics feel Real

Crates Film Grade is an excellent way to "degrade" the quality of your projects in an aesthetic beautiful way.

This makes it ideal for making compositetd VFX feel integrated into footage, or adding character to mograph animations.

Included with all ProductionCrate Plugins

ProductionCrate hosts an ecosystem of over 20+ professional plugins. Purchasing a Pro membership gives you access to all plugins, including Crates Glass, Easy Glow, Chromatic Aberration and more.

POWERFUL + FAST

Crates Film Grade is a unique plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro. It's GPU-accelerated, fast and ready for realtime workflows.

COMPATIBLE ON WINDOWS + MAC

Crates Film Grade plugin is compatible on Windows and Mac devices on the latest versions of After Effects!

INCLUDES 20+ PLUGINS

Crates Film Grade is included in the ProductionCrate Plugins collection, with 20+ exciting plugins such including Chromatic Aberrations, 3D Fractals, Glows and Hologram Generators.

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Crates Film Grade is a Pro plugin with all of our other ProductionCrate Plugins. Plugins available for Pro Users can be tried with a watermark. Simply install Portal, register for a Free account, and install the ProductionCrate Plugins.

The ProductionCrate Plugins is a collection of 20+ powerful plugins. With a Pro subscription, you can unlock these plugins, and access the entire ProductionCrate asset library.

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