Plug-ins for DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere and After Effects

This overview documents earlier FF Pictures plug-ins and their functions. Please ask about current availability, licensing and compatibility with your software version before purchasing:

HDR Heatmap

False-colour displays in preview monitors and cameras are a popular way to check exposure.
The HDR Heatmap plug-in for Resolve generates such images with reference to absolute luminance on an ideal display. For HDR, for example, you can mark all highlights above 1,000 nits in red and luminance from 800 nits in yellow.
The plug-in can also be configured for SDR with adjustable gamma and peak luminance, or for percentage signal levels. Supplied presets help you get started; you can save your own settings and recall them from a drop-down menu the next time you start the software.
You can configure up to five colours and luminance values. An optional legend rendered into the image helps interpret them. You can also apply the heatmap to just part of the picture or colour only selected luminance ranges.

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Snapshot
Snapshot for Resolve saves the current video frame as an image file at full or reduced resolution. User-defined presets specify the format—8-/16-bit TIFF or JPG—the resolution and output settings such as folder, filename and watermark. Each preset can be used with a single button press. If you have ever needed to send dozens of preview images from a timeline to a customer or colleague, this can save considerable time: no repeated file dialogs, just a click and the image is in the intended folder.

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IntraTiles

IntraTiles turns a small section of an image into a moving tiled pattern. Select the size and position of the source area, then repeat it directly or mirror it horizontally and vertically. The tiles can be rectangular, triangular or hexagonal.
Lines or transition patterns can be placed between the tiles.

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Mandala

Mandalas are familiar circular patterns. The Mandala plug-in for Resolve creates repeated circular patterns from the moving video.
A few adjustments create dynamic structures based on the source picture. Controls for the number of axes, source area and mandala size, together with a selectable background, offer a range of effects.

Combined with Snapshot, Mandala and IntraTiles also let photographers turn pictures into artwork and quickly save the results as image files.

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Phosphorescence
Like the persistence of phosphor in a CRT or fluorescent paint, Phosphorescence makes bright parts of the image glow after they have appeared.
The “Glow Reduction (%/frame)” control sets the duration. At 1%, for example, the brightness of a bright pixel falls by 1% per frame, producing noticeable persistence over several seconds.
There are two modes: “Normal” retains the original colour, while “Color” lets you choose the colour of the afterglow. A bright white pixel can therefore continue glowing green for several frames.
Depending on the settings and source footage, this creates an organic or artistically distorted look. The plug-in is particularly suitable for night-time timelapses and light art.

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HDR Histogram

In the Resolve version described here, the built-in histogram could not be switched between different EOTFs or adjusted to a selected display range.
FF Pictures’ HDR Histogram plug-in calculates and scales the histogram for the chosen EOTF. Grading changes before the plug-in node are reflected directly, or in real time on a sufficiently capable computer.

For example, you can examine the 0–100-nit range of an HDR signal or find out how much information in the current frame falls below 10 nits.
Scales, colours and background are customisable. The diagram is rendered into the output and can therefore appear in the finished video when required. The plug-in can also simulate a camera view with a built-in histogram.
As with most FF Pictures plug-ins, analysis can be restricted to part of the image.

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Further plug-ins from the historical product overview

HDR SDR Mapping
HDR productions often also require an SDR deliverable.
Different EOTFs and colour spaces make it difficult to preserve the intended appearance using standard grading tools when changing gamut and peak luminance.
Correct mapping—for example from HDR at 1,000 nits in BT.2020 to SDR at 100 nits in BT.709—requires several calculations and parameters.
The HDR SDR Mapping plug-in separates these calculations and parameters and makes them configurable. Processing can even be interrupted to insert a node in linear-light space, adjust the signal, and convert it to the target colour space in another node using a second plug-in instance.
Because this process is relatively complex, FF Pictures supplies conversion presets. Colorists can also save their own presets as files and recall them later.
The plug-in can be used to convert an entire timeline with one configuration, or combine HDR and SDR material within a project.

HDR SDR Mapping was described as part of the earlier HDRmaster Toolset. Ask us about current availability and package contents.

General information:
The GPU-accelerated plug-ins were optimised for DaVinci Resolve with NVIDIA graphics (CUDA) or OpenCL. Most also ran in Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Effects. Confirm compatibility with your current application version.

For HDR analysis and quality control, see the current InnoPQ™ HDRmaster offer at a one-time price of EUR 799 excluding taxes. A licence covers one active workstation at a time and can be transferred after deactivation. New versions are currently free of charge. The historical Toolset annual fees do not apply to this offer.

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