CinePerfect

Film emulation for Final Cut Pro

Your image isn't too sharp.
It's too digital.

CinePerfect rebuilds the whole chain — log decoding, lens defects, photochemical response, print. In real time, with no pre-render.

Buy — CHF 149 See the chain

Organic precision

The real diagnosis

What gives a digital image away isn't its resolution.

It's the absence of everything an optical system and an emulsion add: the micro-dispersion of the low-pass filter, light scattering back through the base, the way colours grow darker as they gain density.

Taking sharpness away fixes nothing — it just blurs. CinePerfect puts the phenomena back, each one at the stage where it actually happens in the chain.

The path of light

Ten stages, in the order light meets them.

The order isn't cosmetic. Lens veiling added after the film curve can only wash the image out; added before, it compresses like real light.

01
Log decoding
16 input formats — V-Log, S-Log3, C-Log2/3, Apple Log, F-Log2, D-Log, N-Log, LogC3, LogC4. Manufacturer curves, validated on the test bench.
02
Exposure and white balance
True von Kries chromatic adaptation in CAT02 cone space — not a red/blue gain.
03
OLPF — optical low-pass filter
The birefringence of a cinema camera's anti-aliasing filter. This is the stage that breaks the video look.
04
Lens
Radial chromatic aberration and edge softness, in scene light — so the stages that follow diffuse them.
05
Vignette
Computed in linear, before any diffusion.
06
Mist, bloom, halation
Three distinct phenomena: a filter in front of the lens, veiling inside the glass, scattering back through the emulsion.
07
Photochemical response
Contrast pivoted on 18% grey, subtractive density, four-band printer lights, split toning in scene light.
08
Film curve
Tonemap and gentle gamut compression to Rec. 709. Or, if you pick a Kodak or Fuji print stock, the measured response of the positive instead.
09
Rolloff, skin, saturation
A skin mask evaluated in perceptual space — so it covers darker skin and faces in shadow too.
10
Grain, dithering, output
Grain weighted by tonal band, TPDF dithering against banding, optional broadcast-safe range.

What sets CinePerfect apart

Every setting is measured, not guessed.

The whole pipeline runs on a test bench that executes the real shader and reports in screen points. No gain was ever chosen by eye.

47.0%
Where 18% middle grey lands on screen
reference, preset “None”
−5.7 pts
What density takes off a skin tone, for only +0.016 of saturation
calibrated against Kodak 2383 / 2393 / Fuji 3510 prints
ACEScg
Scene-linear AP1 working space, with no clipping before output
latitude stays available until the very last stage

Print stocks are not filters.

When you choose a Kodak 2383 or a Fuji 3510, it replaces the film curve instead of stacking on top of it, and receives the image Cineon-encoded — as it would on a telecine. Without that, a 90% white came out blocked at 97.5%; with it, it lands at 87.6%, the value of the real positive.

Eight 3D tables, ten styles

Five looks, three print emulations.

Each defends a distinct axis — colour and curve. Not five variations on the same grey.

CinePerfect 1 — neutral
The clean starting point. Slope 1.61.
CinePerfect 2 — orange & teal
Shadows at 199°, midtones at 36°. Whites left alone.
CinePerfect 3 — soft
Slack contrast, chroma pulled back. Slope 1.29.
CinePerfect 4 — cold
Blue across the whole range, deep blacks. Slope 2.04.
CinePerfect 5 — faded
Lifted blacks, flattened contrast. Slope 1.07.
Kodak 2383 · 2393 · Fuji 3510
Three measured print stocks, one of them not Kodak.

Ten styles by genre, and a strength slider.

Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, Romance, Comedy, Science fiction, Period, Black & white — plus a neutral. The slider multiplies each setting's distance from neutral, bounded so ×3 saturates instead of running away. And “None” is genuinely inert: the plugin never imposes a look you didn't ask for.

Video demonstrations

Before / after comparisons are coming here next week.

Licence

One purchase. No subscription.

149 CHF CHF 249

Launch price, limited time.

  • Perpetual licence, all version 1 updates included
  • Eight 3D tables, three of them print emulations
  • Ten genre presets with a strength slider
  • Full manual and a calibration chart
  • Apple Silicon, real time, no pre-render
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Final Cut Pro 10.6+ · macOS 13+