ARRI Film Lab is a new tool that is claimed to bring the timeless look of analog film into your digital workflow.
What can you adjust?
Film grain
Realistically emulated film grain can be set to the equivalent of a 50D, 200T, or 500T negative stock.
Film Grain
Color settings encompass different print stock characteristics, reversal film, and bleach bypass.
Color Stock
Replicates the red/orange halo around bright areas caused by light reflecting through film layers.
Gate weave
This setting simulates the slight unsteadiness sometimes seen in footage shot on film.
What can you use it with?
ARRI Film Lab is compatible with leading color grading environments, including Resolve, Baselight, Nuke, and more. Delivering real-time 4K processing of RGB images from ARRI and third-party cameras, ARRI Film Lab supports LogC3 (AWG3) and LogC4 (AWG4) workflows. It can be used whether the acquisition format was ARRICORE, ARRIRAW, ProRes, or a third-party codec. And as with all ARRI offerings, future-proofing is a prority; Film Lab support for ACES 2.0 is already planned and in the works.
Not Destructive Previews
A unique aspect of ARRI Film Lab is that non-destructive preview simulations can be viewed on set when recording ARRICORE or ARRIRAW with ALEXA 35 Xtreme or ALEXA 35 cameras. An approximation of the desired film look is achieved in-camera through a combination of special ARRI Textures and 3D LUTs, allowing filmmakers to see viewfinder and monitor images that give a strong sense of the intended grain and color attributes. The in-camera preview function will be enabled by a forthcoming ALEXA 35 firmware update.
ARRI Look Library Special Version
Bundled with ARRI Film Lab is a special plugin version of the well-established ARRI Look Library, allowing users to explore its diverse range of LUTs in a plugin environment. This provides a new way to access the library’s 87 pre-defined looks, developed by ARRI to suit different environments and production types, and each offered in three
Pricing & Availability
ARRI Film Lab is available now via RE:Vision Effects. Cost-effective licenses for individuals can be purchased on a weekly, monthly, annual, or permanent basis, while licenses for companies are priced according to the number of users. Special rates are available for educational purposes.
There are several types of licensing options for both interactive and render-only plug-ins: floating license, non-floating license, and volume license (read the licensing overview for more information). If you are interested in volume licensing or have other questions about these license options, please contact RE:Vision Effects. All floating licenses require installing their floating license server.
ARRI Film Lab is pretty expensive, and given the current state of the industry, I am surprised that ARRI isn’t at least offering this for free to owners of ARRI cameras. It is also interesting to see ARRI outsourcing this software to RE:Vision Effects instead of selling it directly. In saying that, the software does look to offer impressive results.
You can explore the plugin with a watermark-free trial for seven days after installation.
LUT packs for LogC3 and LogC4 are available at https://www.arri.com/log-c
Sample footage from ARRI cameras is available here: https://www.arri.com/samplefootage
Download test footage and explore the features of ARRI Film Lab at https://www.arri.com/filmlab
