Source: [Adobe Quick Start](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/getting-started/adobe)

# Adobe Quick Start

## Install and activate Filmbox Looks

1. Sign in to your [Video Village Account](https://license.videovillage.com) and find your Filmbox Looks license page.
2. Download the **Video Village Plugins** app.
3. On the license page, select `Activate on this device` to launch the Video Village Plugins app and install your license automatically.

### If you can't open the activation link

Select `Get activation code` on the license page and copy the code. Open the Video Village Plugins app, select `Activate a product`, then paste the code when prompted.

4. In the Video Village Plugins app, select `Adobe`, then select `Install`. (Premiere Pro and After Effects must not be running during installation.)

## Color management

In Premiere, it is typically necessary to enable `Display Color Management` under `Premiere Pro › Settings › Color`. We also recommend changing `Viewer Gamma` to `2.2 (Web)` under `File › Project Settings › Color` to mitigate viewer inaccuracies.

Premiere Pro › Settings › Color
![Display Color Management enabled in Premiere Pro preferences](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/premiere-display-color-management-1ca08f4e.png)

File › Project Settings › Color
![Premiere Pro project color settings with Viewer Gamma set to 2.2 Web](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/premiere-viewer-gamma-1ec8817a.png)

On Windows 11, enable `Automatically manage color for apps` under `Settings › System › Display › Color Management`.

![Windows 11 Color Management with Automatically manage color for apps enabled](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/windows-auto-color-management-380feac3.png)

In After Effects, set `Working Color Space` to `sRGB IEC61966-2.1` under `File › Project Settings › Color`.

![After Effects project color settings with sRGB as the working color space](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/after-effects-working-space-3e3c099c.png)

## Add Filmbox Looks to an adjustment layer

In Premiere, we recommend adding an adjustment layer above your clips and applying **Filmbox Looks** to it from the `Effects` panel. Filmbox can also be applied directly to a clip if necessary, but Premiere will render it at the clip’s native resolution instead of the timeline resolution, which may significantly reduce performance and texture quality.

In After Effects, apply Filmbox to an adjustment layer or directly to the layer that needs emulation.

![A Filmbox adjustment layer above a clip in Premiere Pro](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/adobe-adjustment-layer-f740e2d2.png)

## Select your camera

![Filmbox Source control set to Arri LogC4 and Arri Wide Gamut 4](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/full-guide/source-selector-36fd434a.png)

Set `Source` in Filmbox to match the color space your footage was recorded in or the working space you have transformed it into.

- **For graphics** or clips that were not recorded in a log color space, you can set `Source` in Filmbox to `(Inaccurate) Rec.709 Gamma 2.4`. This will be less accurate than working with scene-referred footage, but it may still produce a useful result.

## Interface Tour

![Filmbox Looks interface with Source, Camera, Looks Family, Look, and characteristic controls](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/interface-83e28ed6.png)

- **[Source](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/source-camera):** Select the colorspace your footage was recorded in.
- **[Camera](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/source-camera#camera):** Adjust true Exposure, Temp, and Tint of the footage, just like on the camera.
- **[Looks](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks):** Select a Look from a Family of looks with similar characteristics.
- **[Look controls](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/grading):** Adjust basic characteristics of the selected look.

## Looks Library

Looks are organized into Families that share core characteristics. “II” Families are general-purpose emulations ordered from cleanest to most filmic: grain, halation, gate weave, dust, and photochemical color character generally intensify as you move toward 8mm.

![General-purpose Looks families from Clean and Commercial through 8mm](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/full-guide/looks-film-families-f653a5ba.png)

- **[Clean & Commercial](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#clean-and-commercial):** Neutral color with minimal grain and halation; no weave or dust.
- **[Idealized 35mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#idealized-35mm):** Versatile film color with restrained grain and texture.
- **[Full 35mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#full-35mm):** Authentic 35mm color, grain, halation, dust, and weave.
- **[16mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#16mm):** Gritty small-gauge texture with stronger grain, halation, and weave.
- **[8mm](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#8mm):** Nostalgic home-movie texture with heavy grain, halation, weave, dust, and flicker.

![Aesthetic Looks families including Pastel, Photography, Iconic, Vintage Cinema, Black and White, and Extreme](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/full-guide/looks-aesthetic-families-c112eb0a.png)

- **[Pastel & Low-Contrast](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#pastel-and-low-contrast):** Soft, airy color with restrained contrast.
- **[Photography](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#photography):** Popular still-film negatives, including halation-heavy CineStill looks.
- **[Iconic](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#iconic):** Homages to movies with distinctive visual identities.
- **[Vintage Cinema](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#vintage-cinema):** Period looks based on older, often expired cinema stocks.
- **[Black & White](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#black-and-white):** Monochrome looks with varied tone, grain, and texture.
- **[Extreme](https://videovillage.com/learn/filmbox-looks/full-guide/about-the-looks#extreme):** Unconventional film looks that push color and style.

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