A new French company, HAL Picture, recently released two plugins for DaVinci Resolve and Baselight: Diachromie, for look development, and Diaphanie, designed to add texture to your footage. To learn more about these plugins, we went to Paris, France, to discuss the philosophy of their tools, their vision, and what’s under the hood with the three cofounders, Martin, Olivier, and Paul. We receive requests to review color correction or color grading tools/plugins/LUTs at CineD very often, to say the least. As someone who has worked on many projects as an editor/colorist, I’m frequently the one asked to review them. However, when you unwrap the marketing of many of these “groundbreaking/world first” tools, I would say that 9 times out of 10, I can’t really see anything that innovative that would be worth a proper review. Indeed, as professionals ourselves, we value your time as much as ours, and most of all, we are independent and unbiased. In a nutshell, if we put the time and effort into a review, it must be a tool that brings something to the table, and not just another set of LUTs or a re-wrapped tool with a bunch of sliders. Back in early November, I received two plugins from a French newcomer to the industry, HAL Picture. After playing around with the Diaphanie and Diachromie plugins, I realised very quickly that I was dealing with something whose technology and capabilities went far beyond what I normally use. It is rare for a tool to...
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