Advanced Grading Features

Using Node Presets for Looks and Offsets

In contrast to Look Presets, which store an entire look with all nodes in the look library, a node preset only contains one or several nodes of a look.

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Using the RGB Curves Editor

The RGB curves editor allows you to precisely grade your footage, either by applying a single master curve or by creating curves for individual channels luma, red, green, blue and/or a custom color.

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Using the ACES CDL Grading Mode

Livegrade implements the ACES color pipeline including IDT transforms, working color spaces such as ACEScct and ACEScc, LMT, RRT and ODT transforms to be used on camera live signals and still images (e.g.

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Using the Colorfront Film Grading Mode

Livegrade Studio supports the “Colorfront Film” transform of the Colorfront Engine. From Colorfront’s document “Using the Human Perceptual Model for Multiple Display Mastering”: “The Colorfront Engine is a state-of-the-art parametric color processing pipeline mapping various input formats, including camera original (scene-referred) and graded (display-referred) images, to a wide range of SDR and HDR output formats at […]

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Setting up PomfortVL for Foreground Grading

Note: This is documentation for features available with Livegrade Studio 6.0 or higher and the PomfortVL plugin (in Beta).

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Linked Looks

Livegrade allows to link slots and sync image processing nodes between slots.

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Legal and Extended – SDI-Signals and LUTs

HD-SDI signals Devices supporting HD-SDI (YCbCr) signals can be configured to carry either legal range signals (which is a standard use case for most of all HD-SDI signals) or extended range signals (which is only used in special, rare use cases).

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Color management with ICC profiles

For a color managed workflow for displaying digital images on a monitor, the color profiles of the source image data as well as the display device must be known.

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