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Lacerta Film Lab

Grade digital media with the advantages of film development

A film laboratory inside DaVinci Resolve. Grade camera-log with film-plane exposure, negative density, printer timing, print, and projected light: one connected density-domain process that renders in real time on your display.

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THE PROOF WALL

Built to hold together.

A short-haired person against a blue wall with a narrow band of warm light crossing their eyes.

A man reading paperwork at an office desk in front of large, brightly lit windows.

Two people sitting beside a campfire near a red pickup with a rooftop tent in a forest clearing.

A family and their dog playing a board game in a warmly lit living room at night.

A dark pickup passing a yellow curve sign on a desert road beneath pale mountains and a blue sky.

A tattoo artist working on a client beneath a bright circular task light in black and white.

INSIDE THE LAB

One connected system.

Every stage in Lacerta is coupled to the next, the way a lab is. Push the development and the print responds. Time the printer lights and the move travels through the print curve. Each control reaches the image through the same continuous density-domain path from sensor data to screen render.

CAMERA INPUT NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENT PRINTER LIGHTS PRINT PROJECTION DISPLAY

A backlit dancer with red, green, blue, and white characteristic curves crossing the frame. — NEGATIVE RESPONSE PRINT TIMING

01 THE IMAGE PATH

The Negative
& Printer Lights

Lacerta exposes the image into one of 57 modeled negatives, then carries the resulting density into LAD-calibrated RGB printer timing. Negative response and printer lights share one continuous path, so exposure and color decisions arrive at the print as lab timing rather than disconnected digital adjustments.

57 modeled negative stocks
Neutral timing at 25-25-25
0.025 log exposure per point
12 printer points per stop

02 SPATIAL RESPONSE

Halation

A two phase process models a natural halation that will only enhance and never distract from your shot.

EMULSION SCATTER EXPOSURE-DEPENDENT BASE BOUNCE

Matched square frame with halation turned off. — Drag or use the arrow keys to compare halation off and on.

Matched square frame with Lacerta halation turned on. — Drag or use the arrow keys to compare halation off and on.

03 DENSITY TEXTURE

Grain by gauge

Grain is generated in density, and modeled by the selected negative's documentation.

DENSITY-DOMAIN GAUGE-SCALED

04 DEVELOPMENT

Process, then re-time.

Push and pull behave like chemistry: contrast, interlayer behavior, fog, grain, and toe move in tandem. Exposure compensation re-times the negative. Bleach bypass retains metallic silver on the negative or print for denser contrast and restrained color.

Coupled push and pull response
Exposure compensation
Negative and print bleach bypass

Source frame of a bartender mixing a drink before the Lacerta transform. — Drag or use the arrow keys to compare the supplied matched frames.

Matched frame of the bartender rendered through Lacerta. — Drag or use the arrow keys to compare the supplied matched frames.

Source frame of a craft worker shaping wood before the Lacerta transform. — PRINT RESPONSE PROJECTED COLOR Drag or use the arrow keys to compare the source and Lacerta render.

Matched frame of the craft worker rendered through Lacerta. — PRINT RESPONSE PROJECTED COLOR Drag or use the arrow keys to compare the source and Lacerta render.

05 THE PRINT

Negative and print, balanced together.

Thirteen print stocks carry the timed negative into projection. Direct projection is available for reversal originals. Negative and print are system-balanced, and projection models dye interaction so neutrals remain neutral while color separations mix through the modeled dyes.

13 print stocks plus direct projection
Independent print cross-curve character
Modeled dye interaction in projection

06 OUTPUT & DELIVERY

The final display rendering stage.

Lacerta sits at the end of the node tree in place of the output CST. It carries the complete color pipeline into SDR or HDR delivery, saves repeatable lab profiles, and exports the non-spatial transform as a 33-point or 65-point cube.

Rec.709, sRGB, P3-D65, PQ, HLG, and DWG
Profile export and recall
33-point and 65-point cube export

A projected 2383 color checker sample showing neutral and saturated patches. — 2383 COLOR CHECKER DISPLAY RENDERED

ALSO IN THE LAB: NEGATIVE & PRINT CROSS-CURVES CURVE VIEWER LAMP STATUS READOUT

Film character emphasizing neutrality held across the full length of the curve while allowing each stock's unique attributes shines through.

CREATIVE LOOKS

Take the same density model somewhere expressive.

False-color infrared and the full solarization module extend the lab into materials and chemistry built for deliberate character.

Matched source frame before the false-color infrared response. — Drag or use the arrow keys to compare the supplied matched frames.

Matched frame rendered through Lacerta false-color infrared. — Drag or use the arrow keys to compare the supplied matched frames.

FALSE-COLOR MATERIALS

Infrared response.

EIR and Aerochrome render chlorophyll-bright foliage in reds and magentas, the way infrared-sensitive emulsions have. The IR Response control sets how strongly foliage's near-infrared glow is synthesized. It has no effect on any normal stock.

EIR AEROCHROME DIRECT PROJECTION

SOMETHING OLD - SOMETHING NEW SOLARIZATION

The Strange and Beatiful, Now In Your Control.

In the darkroom, solarization is the Sabattier effect: a part-developed negative is flashed with light, and tones and colors fold and invert past a threshold. The boundary between reversed and unreversed regions creates bright and dark "Mackie lines". Retained silver lays a cool, pewtery veil over the image.

Lacerta's engine allows this process because it models the actual chemical development process. Conveniently placed at the critical moment, you can solarize any image accurately.

Flash Intensity sets the depth of the reversal and can be keyframed. Chemical Timing moves where the flash lands in development. Metallic Sheen controls the silver veil. Mackie Line Contrast etches the reversal contour. It renders live in the plugin and remains outside exported LUTs.

FLASH INTENSITY CHEMICAL TIMING METALLIC SHEEN MACKIE LINE CONTRAST

Matched source frame before solarization. — Drag or use the arrow keys to move through the reversal boundary.

Matched frame solarized in Lacerta. — Drag or use the arrow keys to move through the reversal boundary.

Lacerta Solarization teaser. Click to play.

Visual transcript

A sequence of Lacerta solarization using keyframed exposure shows colors and tones crossing the reversal threshold, with metallic density and bright-dark Mackie contours changing across the frames.

Solarized infrared sample. Click to play.

Visual transcript

Leaves hang into frame against a pale, near-white sky and drift slowly. Reversal renders them in magenta, lilac, and pale green, and bright green Mackie contours trace every leaf edge while the background holds a smooth, even density.

COLOR SCIENCE

Density first.

Lacerta processes the image in density space through continuous H&D-style characteristic curves, the same terms a lab uses. The negative and print are balanced as one system; printer lights are LAD-calibrated timing moves; projection models dye interaction; grain and halation respond to the densities on the film, not the pixels on screen.

Lacerta's core tonal response is derived from published manufacturer sensitometric and densitometric specifications, including cinema system and LAD references, and has been dialed to taste for neutrality. Stock-to-stock color, grain, and handling are modeled from published film characteristics. A small number of archival stocks for which no public primary curve document could be located are historically informed approximations.

Lacerta is an independent product and is not sponsored, approved, or endorsed by any film manufacturer. Product and stock names belong to their respective owners and are used for identification.

DENSITY-DOMAIN H&D MODEL

LAD TIMING: 25-25-25
PRINTER POINT: 0.025 logE
POINTS PER STOP: 12
NEG × PRINT: system-balanced
HALATION: two-phase
GRAIN: density, gauge-scaled
NEGATIVE STOCKS: 57
PRINT STOCKS: 13 + direct
LUT EXPORT: 33 / 65-point cube

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Lacerta Film Lab

Built to hold together.