DaVinci Resolve plug-in · Now in private beta

Match any camera to any camera — and to real film.

StudioMatch erases the differences between cameras from measured color data, not eyeballed guesswork. Pick your source, pick your target, and the image transforms to match. Realtime at 6K, native in Resolve, no quality loss.

Private beta now · Early-adopter price $150 one-time (then $200) · No subscription required

Camera → camera Camera → film Realtime 6K Windows + macOS Native OFX
StudioMatch
Source frame Target frame
STUDIOMATCH ON

Drag the divider to compare, and toggle StudioMatch on and off. Open the full comparison tool →

The problem you already know

Cameras don't cut together. Matching them by hand is slow and expensive.

Every modern shoot runs a mixed fleet: a cinema A-cam, a smaller B-cam, a gimbal rig, a crash-cam, and increasingly a phone. Each renders color, contrast, and skin tone its own way. Put two side by side and the audience sees the seam, even if they can't name it.

A≠B

Matching cameras

Getting two brands to agree has always meant a colorist working shot by shot, eyeballing differences and dialing them out by hand. It's slow, costly, and depends on one specialist's eye.

Multicam at scale

Hand-matching doesn't scale across a large mixed fleet or a long-form schedule, and it has to be redone every time the camera mix changes.

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Matching to film

Want the texture of a real film stock on top? That's another layer of skilled, manual work, and most "film looks" are aesthetic guesses, not measured renditions.

What StudioMatch does

One plug-in. Camera-to-camera and camera-to-film, from real measurements.

Drop StudioMatch on a node in DaVinci Resolve, choose the source camera the footage came from and the target camera or film stock you want it to look like, and the image transforms to match. It runs on the GPU, realtime, at full resolution, the same transform for playback and final render. No draft mode, no quality split.

◆ The premium differentiator

The only tool doing measured camera-to-camera and camera-to-film in one product.

Other tools pick a lane. Camera-match plug-ins match cameras. Film-emulation plug-ins fake a look. StudioMatch does both, and its film match isn't an aesthetic guess. It's a measured rendition of a real motion-picture stock (Kodak Vision3 500T / 5219), captured on the same chart-on-film references as every camera in the library.

For film targets you also get a Neutralize control to pull toward a cleaner rendition and a Coupler control that drives film's dye-coupler saturation behavior, the way real stock builds color as exposure climbs. Both come straight from the measured chart-on-film data, so you're finishing with the stock's real response, not a stylized preset.

  • Camera to film matches a photochemical emulsion, not another sensor, so it lands as an excellent starting rendition you grade into.
  • Camera to camera is where the numbers are tight: measured matches that hold up on a scope, not just on paper.
The StudioMatch Camera Match panel in DaVinci Resolve, matching an Alexa 35 source to a Film 5219 target.

Realtime, full-res, no quality loss

Full 6K in real time on the GPU, CUDA / OpenCL on Windows, Metal on Mac. No render waits, no proxy dance. It's also crash-hardened: if the GPU path faults, it falls back to CPU rather than taking Resolve down.

Native in your tree

It's an OFX node, so it sits anywhere in your node tree and composes with everything else you run: CSTs, your own LUTs, grades, the lot. Nothing new to learn, no new app to open.

Built to behave on real scenes

Matches are post-processed to roll off cleanly in highlights and stay smooth on skin and gradients, instead of just scoring well on a chart and falling apart on texture.

◆ On set, in real time

The same measured match, live on set in Pomfort Livegrade.

StudioMatch isn't only a finishing tool. The same measured matches you grade with in Resolve run on set through Pomfort Livegrade, so your monitors, dailies, and editorial all see a unified look from the first take.

Shoot a mixed fleet and watch it cut together live, before anyone touches a grade. What the DP approves on the day is the same transform the colorist picks up in post, with nothing lost in translation.

  • On-set looks that carry straight through to the Resolve grade.
  • One measured match, from the monitor on the day to the timeline in post.
Pomfort Livegrade Studio app icon.
Measured, not guessed
35,112
measured color points, per camera

Every camera is measured against the same controlled references, and not just reflective charts, which are limited in gamut. We also measure emissive targets across Rec. 2020 for full-gamut coverage. The matching rests on measured fact, gathered in conditions nobody else can casually reproduce. That data is the moat, and it only deepens as more cameras are added.

110trained match pairs
11cameras + film stock
~2.8 ΔEavg camera-to-camera
6Krealtime on GPU
How it works

Three steps. No new app, no render queue.

It behaves like any other tool on the timeline, except this one erases the differences between your cameras.

Pick your source

Tell StudioMatch which camera the footage came from: Venice, Alexa 35, Mini LF, Lumix, Nikon ZR, DJI Ronin 4D, Pyxis 12K, iPhone, and more.

Source ▾

Pick your target

Choose the camera you want it to match, or choose the film stock to lay a measured film rendition over the whole show.

Target ▾ · Neutralize · Coupler

Adjust mid-grey to your exposure

If it needs it, line up mid-grey with your footage's exposure, watch it transform in realtime, and grade on top. The creative look stays entirely in your hands.

Exposure · Grade on top
See it for yourself

We put a number on it. Nobody else does.

Every other matching or "emulation" tool sells you a hero shot and never says in numbers what a good match actually is. We decided to put a real figure on it, across the whole color spectrum and not just one flattering frame. Every StudioMatch pair is measured in ΔE (Delta E), the visual standard for how far apart two colors look to the human eye, where anything under about 3 is the point the average viewer stops seeing a difference at all. Success here isn't a vibe or a nice still, it's a number you can hold us to. Drag the live compare up top, then check the ΔE below.

Straight numbers

A ΔE around 2 is roughly where a trained eye starts to notice a difference at all. We weight the training toward where it matters most in real footage, skin tones and neutrals, which often land below 2 ΔE and are effectively imperceptible.

~2.8 ΔEaverage camera-to-camera
~2.4 ΔEstrongest pairs
<2 ΔEskin & neutrals
~5 ΔEcamera-to-film · a different problem

Accuracy scorecard

Camera-to-camera, measured. The strongest pairs in the library, straight off the scope.

2.84mean ΔE
0.83best ΔE
110pairs
SourceTargetΔE
Lumix V-LogNikon ZR0.83
Lumix V-LogLumix LogC0.91
Lumix LogCNikon ZR0.92
DJI 6KNikon ZR1.04
Lumix LogCLumix V-Log1.08
DJI 8KDJI 6K1.14
Sony VeniceNikon ZR1.19
ARRI Mini LFNikon ZR1.20
DJI 8KNikon ZR1.28
DJI 6KDJI 8K1.33
Nikon ZRLumix V-Log1.46
Sony VeniceDJI 6K1.57
Alexa 35Nikon ZR1.62
DJI 8KLumix V-Log1.64
Sony VeniceLumix V-Log1.70
Nikon ZRDJI 6K1.75
Sony VeniceLumix LogC1.82
BM Pyxis 12KNikon ZR1.82
Alexa 35Lumix V-Log1.83
Nikon ZRSony Venice1.96
ARRI Mini LFSony Venice2.06
Lumix LogCSony Venice2.07

Live and sortable, all 110 pairs: open the full scorecard →

Pricing

Buy it once. Yours forever.

A perpetual license with two machine activations, at early-adopter pricing before public launch. Step up to the Livegrade tier for the same measured match live on set.

On set

StudioMatch + Livegrade

Everything in StudioMatch, plus the same measured match live on set in Pomfort Livegrade.

$300$350

One-time · perpetual · yours forever

  • Everything in StudioMatch
  • Pomfort Livegrade integration: the measured match, live on the day
  • One match from monitor to timeline, DP approval carries into post
  • Windows + macOS · license key · 2 machine activations
  • Founder bonus: our standalone Chroma Compressor DCTL, free
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We don't like subscriptions either.

So it's up to you. This is a full product and it works forever, no strings. If you see the value in where it's going and want future cameras, film stocks, print stocks, even better matches as we gather spectral data on digital cameras, run more data shoots, and push the algorithm further, there's an optional updates subscription. Skip it and what you bought keeps working exactly as it is.

Payments aren't live yet. Beta access is by request while licensing and checkout are being set up. Pricing shown is the planned launch price and is subject to change before public launch.

Questions

FAQ

What host does it run in?
StudioMatch is a native OpenFX (OFX) plug-in built for DaVinci Resolve. It installs as a node you drop into your tree and composes with everything else you already do: CSTs, LUTs, and grades.
Windows or Mac?
Both. StudioMatch runs on Windows and macOS, GPU-accelerated on each: CUDA and OpenCL on Windows, Metal on Mac. It's already been validated on outside machines, not just the developer's.
How does licensing work?
It's a perpetual license. Buy once, own the version you purchased. You paste your license key in once to activate, and each license covers up to two machine activations. You can deactivate a seat and move it to another machine.
Does it work offline? What about my footage?
All color processing happens locally on your machine, on the GPU. StudioMatch does not access, collect, or transmit your media, footage, projects, or grades. Licensing and activation are the only parts that talk to a server.
How accurate is the match, really?
Camera-to-camera matches land at roughly 2.8 ΔE average across the library, with the strongest pairs near 2.4 ΔE, about the threshold where a trained eye starts to notice a difference at all. We weight the training toward skin tones and neutrals, where it matters most in real footage, so those often land below 2 ΔE and read as imperceptible. Camera-to-film is a different problem, matching a photochemical emulsion rather than another sensor, and lands around 5 ΔE: an excellent starting rendition you finish into, not a one-click final. Every pair is validated against measured reference data.
Which cameras are supported?
Today's library covers Sony Venice, ARRI Alexa 35, ARRI Mini LF, Panasonic Lumix S1 II (LogC and V-Log), Nikon ZR, DJI Ronin 4D (6K and 8K), Blackmagic Pyxis 12K, and Apple iPhone (Apple Log), plus a motion-picture film stock (Kodak Vision3 500T / 5219). Any one matches to any other, that's 110 trained directions today, and the list grows.
What do subscribers get?
The subscription is optional, for people who want to keep up with where StudioMatch is going. We plan to add more cameras, more film stocks, and print stocks, gather more training data to push the matches as close to imperceptible as we can, and measure spectral data on digital cameras that manufacturers don't publish. Subscribers get those additions as they ship. If you skip it, the version you bought keeps working forever exactly as it is.
Join the beta

Get a coherent image fast. Keep the grade in your hands.

StudioMatch is built, installed, and running on Mac and Windows today. Request beta access to be among the first colorists, DITs, and DPs to put it on a node.

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No payment required during beta.