Filmbox Pro includes 100+ presets that configure its many parameters to deliver a wide range of commonly needed or hard-to-implement aesthetics—ideal for look development. Apply them as starting points and customize freely.

This same Looks library powers the Filmbox Looks version of the plugin, which is grade-compatible with Filmbox Pro.

Using Looks with Filmbox Pro

Switching Interfaces

Click Switch to Filmbox Looks at the bottom of the plugin to open the Looks interface. Select a look and apply its configuration to Pro for advanced customization. If you choose Switch to Filmbox Pro without applying a look, you’ll return to your previous Pro configuration.

Opening Grades Between Versions

Filmbox Pro can directly open grades and projects created with Looks. When opened, the Looks interface is shown; apply the look to Pro to continue with advanced grading.

Filmbox Looks can open grades created or changed in Pro, but it can only display library presets. Pro-only adjustments won’t render (they’ll appear at defaults), though they’re preserved in the grade and will reappear if opened in Pro again.

About the Looks

Looks are organized into Families that share common characteristics. Families with the II prefix are general-purpose emulations sorted by “filmicness.” At the top of this range, the looks have minimal texture, halation, and filmic color distortion; these traits intensify as you move down, culminating in 8mm, which exhibits the most pronounced photochemical characteristics. The other families are sorted by aesthetic.

Clean & Commercial

Contains looks designed for product work, advertising, or any project that needs just a hint of filminess. They feature accurate colors, neutral whites, minimal grain and halation, and no gate weave or dust. Each profile is based on cinema or photo negatives prepared in the most neutral and objective way possible. Pop variants use Acutance to boost clarity. The Beauty variant softens detail for smooth skin rendering.

Idealized 35mm

Offers a more filmic aesthetic than Commercial but stops short of the heavier character found in Full 35mm emulations, making it suitable for a wide range of projects. It provides film-like color with slightly more permissive and neutral tonality, uses lower-grain stocks, and avoids dust or gate weave.

Full 35mm

Aims for maximum authenticity, replicating printed or scanned film with all its organic behavior intact. Color reproduction is true to photochemical processes, with accurate gate weave, dust, grain, and halation.

16mm

Evokes the texture and tone of gritty indie cinema, educational films, and music videos. The smaller gauge introduces stronger grain, larger halation, more visible gate weave, and a rougher, handmade vibe.

8mm

Captures the nostalgia of amateur movies. Its tiny frame produces dramatic halation, gritty grain, strong gate weave, heavy dust smudges, and flicker.