Ypresets Color Lab for DaVinci Resolve

Ypresets Color Lab is a plugin for DaVinci Resolve that helps you give your footage a cinematic look. You choose the pack for your camera, pick a look, adjust it with simple sliders, add film effects like grain and halation, and save your favorite grades to My Looks. It works inside DaVinci Resolve and doesn't replace Resolve's advanced grading tools.

Creators who shoot iPhone Apple Log or DJI Log footage and want a finished, cinematic look fast, without leaving DaVinci Resolve. It suits first-time Resolve users and experienced editors who want a quicker workflow.

No. Choose the pack for your camera, pick a look and adjust a few clearly labeled sliders. The free trial lets you try the full plugin before you buy.

It depends on what you shoot and the look you want. If you shoot iPhone Apple Log or DJI footage and want a finished look fast, Color Lab is built for that: pick the pack for your camera, pick a look and adjust a few sliders, in DaVinci Resolve Free or Studio. If you want to recreate specific film stocks, a film emulation plugin such as Dehancer or FilmConvert is the better fit. Our beginner's guide to Resolve color grading plugins compares them.

On the Color page, drag Ypresets Color Lab onto a node, choose the iPhone Apple Log pack (it's also the pack for Apple Log 2) and pick a look. Then nudge exposure or white balance if the shot needs it. Don't add a Color Space Transform or conversion LUT first, because the looks already include the conversion.

Yes. Choose the Osmo D-Log M pack for Osmo Pocket 3 and other D-Log M Osmo cameras, such as Osmo Action, Osmo Nano and Osmo 360. Osmo Pocket 4 D-Log footage uses the Osmo D-Log pack, and Osmo Pocket 4P D-Log 2 footage uses the Osmo D-Log 2 pack. DJI drone footage uses the Drone D-Log or Drone D-Log M pack.

One click analyzes the current frame and corrects exposure (up to about 1.5 stops), white balance (temperature and tint) and a lifted black point before the look is applied, without moving your own sliders. Clipped highlights are ignored, and strongly colored scenes like sunsets aren’t neutralized. If the shot is already fine, you’ll see “Already balanced, no change needed.” Use Auto Balance Amount to dial it back, or Reset Auto Balance to undo it. Auto Balance is set per shot, so it isn’t saved in My Looks. It reads the frame on Resolve’s Color page, not the Edit page, and is confirmed in DaVinci Resolve Studio so far.

Yes. DaVinci Resolve is free from Blackmagic Design, and Color Lab works with version 20 or later. Open your clip on the Color page, drag Ypresets Color Lab from Effects onto a node and pick a look. The install guide and step-by-step article walk you through it.

Color Lab covers iPhone Apple Log and standard iPhone video, DJI drones in D-Log or D-Log M, the Osmo Pocket series in D-Log M, D-Log or D-Log 2 (each has its own pack), and other Osmo cameras. Choose the matching pack in the plugin. Shooting Apple Log 2? Use the iPhone Apple Log pack. Shot D-Log 2 on a Pocket 4P? Use Osmo D-Log 2. Not sure which pack to use? Email hi@ypresets.com.

No. The looks are made to go straight onto your log clip. Adding a separate conversion LUT or Color Space Transform first will convert the image twice and make the grade look wrong. Just choose the pack that matches the profile you shot.

Not really. Color Lab is for creators who want a finished look fast, not for colorists who build every grade by hand in their own node tree. It works like a normal Resolve effect, so experienced editors can still use it as a quick starting point and keep grading on top.

No. Color Lab is a dedicated DaVinci Resolve plugin. In addition to the Ypresets LUT library, it includes LUT intensity control, Auto Balance, color adjustments (including Highlight Roll-Off, Highlight Warmth, Protect Skin and Skin Warmth), Film Grain, Halation, Bloom, Vignette, cinematic Borders, Before / After comparison, Split Screen and custom saved looks.

They solve different problems. Dehancer and FilmConvert are film emulation plugins built around film stock profiles. Color Lab is built around the Ypresets looks for iPhone and DJI footage, with color controls, Film Grain, Halation, Bloom, Vignette, Borders, Before / After and My Looks on one node. If you want to recreate specific film stocks, a film emulation plugin is the better fit. If you want a finished look on Apple Log or DJI footage fast, Color Lab is. Read our Dehancer vs FilmConvert vs Color Lab comparison.

If you want film-stock emulation like Dehancer, a free option is spektrafilm OFX, and Resolve Studio also includes Film Look Creator. If you shoot iPhone Apple Log or DJI Osmo / drone Log and want a finished look without learning to grade, Ypresets Color Lab is the simpler alternative: pick the pack for your camera, pick a look and adjust a few sliders, in DaVinci Resolve Free or Studio. You shouldn't have to become a colorist just because you shot Log. See our Dehancer vs FilmConvert vs Color Lab comparison. Auto Balance is confirmed in Resolve Studio so far.

FilmConvert Nitrate is a film emulation plugin built around camera packs. A free film-stock route is spektrafilm OFX; Resolve Studio's Film Look Creator is another no-extra-cost option. If you shoot iPhone or DJI footage and want a finished Ypresets look fast rather than specific film stocks, Ypresets Color Lab is the better FilmConvert alternative for that job: camera packs for Apple Log, Osmo D-Log M / D-Log / D-Log 2 and drone Log, with color controls and film effects on one node. Fair side-by-side: Dehancer vs FilmConvert vs Color Lab.

Yes. Ypresets Color Lab is an OpenFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve with an iPhone Apple Log pack (also used for Apple Log 2). Drop it on a Color page node, pick a look and adjust a few sliders — no Color Space Transform first. It works in Resolve 20 or later, Free and Studio, on Mac and Windows, with a free watermarked trial. The no-cost route without a plugin is Resolve's Color Space Transform or a conversion LUT. Step-by-step: How to grade Apple Log and DJI footage in DaVinci Resolve.

The complete Ypresets video LUT library is accessible directly inside Color Lab. Color Lab is a separate product from the standalone downloadable Ypresets LUT packs.

No. The included Ypresets looks are designed to be used directly inside Color Lab. Purchasing Color Lab does not include the standalone downloadable .cube LUT packs.

Color Lab works with DaVinci Resolve 20 or later, both Free and Studio. On Mac, it supports Apple silicon (M1 or later) and Intel Macs, and GPU acceleration is supported on Mac. On Windows, it supports Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit.

Yes. Color Lab works with both DaVinci Resolve Free and DaVinci Resolve Studio, version 20 or later. Auto Balance, added in 0.9.12, is confirmed in Studio so far.

Download and run the installer for your operating system, then restart DaVinci Resolve. Color Lab will then appear inside Resolve. You can begin your trial or enter your license key to activate the full version.

Step-by-step instructions for Mac and Windows are in the Color Lab install guide.

Restart DaVinci Resolve after installing. On the Color page, open the Effects library and look under OpenFX for the Ypresets group, or search for “Ypresets”, then drag Ypresets Color Lab onto a node. Still missing? The install guide has troubleshooting steps for Mac and Windows.

Yes. Download the full plugin free. It adds a watermark until you activate a license key.

Your license key arrives by email after your purchase. It starts with YCL-. Enter it in Color Lab inside DaVinci Resolve to activate the full version and remove the watermark.

Color Lab is a one-time purchase with no subscription. Your license can be active on up to 2 computers at the same time. Getting a new computer? Just deactivate the old one in Color Lab and activate the new one. Once activated, it works offline. Your license includes free future plugin updates.

Yes. Every LUT can be adjusted using the Intensity control, allowing you to make the look more subtle or more pronounced.

Auto Balance, Exposure, Temperature and Tint are processed before the LUT so that you're correcting the footage before applying the creative transformation. Contrast, Highlights, Shadows and Saturation are then applied afterwards for final refinement. This gives Color Lab a more natural grading workflow.

No. Film Grain is generated live inside Color Lab. It changes from frame to frame and automatically scales with your footage resolution.

Halation creates a warm red-orange glow around brighter areas of the image, inspired by the behavior of traditional film. Color Lab generates this effect from the highlights in your actual footage.

Bloom creates a soft glow around brighter parts of the image. Color Lab gives you independent controls for Bloom Amount, Radius and Threshold, allowing you to decide both the strength and which highlights produce the effect.

Yes. Color Lab includes adjustable horizontal and vertical borders. You can independently control the Top / Bottom and Left / Right border size and choose the border color.

Yes. My Looks saves your complete Color Lab setup: pack, LUT, intensity, every adjustment, effects and borders. Saved looks work in every project on that computer and can be renamed, recalled or deleted inside the plugin. Auto Balance isn’t saved, because it’s set for each shot.

Yes. Because Color Lab works like a normal Resolve effect, you can use DaVinci Resolve's normal workflow to apply it across multiple clips. You can copy grades, use Group or Timeline nodes, or apply Color Lab to an Adjustment Clip.

No. Color Lab is designed to make common creative grading tasks faster. You can create a complete grade entirely within Color Lab or use it as the starting point for a more advanced Resolve grade.

Auto Balance (up to about 1.5 stops) and the exposure controls can correct moderate exposure and white balance problems, but no plugin can recover image information that wasn't captured. For the best results, particularly when shooting Log, footage should still be exposed correctly during recording.