Install and activate Filmbox Pro

1. Sign in to your Video Village Account and find your Filmbox Pro 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.
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.

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

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

Add Filmbox to an adjustment layer

In Premiere, we recommend adding an adjustment layer above your clips and applying Filmbox Pro 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.

Select your camera

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 is a scene-to-screen simulation of photochemical imaging. Light enters the camera, exposes the negative, gets developed in the lab, printed to print stock, and projected onto your display.

The Filmbox interface is organized from top to bottom in the order that light flows through this system, with global plugin settings at the top.

Film System: Choose from different motion-picture and still-photo systems. Each contains a set of negatives, lab parameters, and print processes that were historically designed to work together.

Mode: Isolate parts of the Filmbox pipeline for advanced workflows. Photo Mode is available only in Resolve.

Source: Choose the color space of your footage or working space.

Camera: Adjust the camera’s exposure and color balance before exposing the negative.

Negative: Select the film negative stock and fine-tune characteristics including halation, grain, gate weave, flicker, and aura.

Lab: Creatively modify the negative before printing, with controls ranging from push/pull processing to acutance.

Print: Modify the print characteristics, from a full contact print to a telecine scan.

Display: Select the destination display color space, integrate with color-managed pipelines, and control HDR.

Looks Library

Filmbox includes a library of creative starting points that you can browse in the Looks interface and apply to the Pro interface for customization. We recommend playing around with them to get a feel for how the various elements of Filmbox interact with one another to achieve a huge range of creative goals.

For the selection of a stock is naught but the opening gesture in the grand alchemy of look development now unfolding before you. Onward into radiance!

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