News and Release Notes

  • System Requirements for this Update:

    ⚙️ Intel & Apple Silicon
    🖥️ macOs Ventura 15 or later
    🎬 Final Cut Pro 11 or later

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    Update for all Final Cut Pro Plugins.

    • Stability improvements

      • fixes an issue where plugins would cause FCP to crash

      • other small improvements

    • ensures compatibility with Final Cut Pro 11

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    Free Upgrade

    Starting in October, I discontinued all plugin bundles and upgraded you to the Studio Collection (the All-In-One-Bundle).

    Today, I discontinued all paid plugins and upgraded you to the Studio Collection for free.

    Why?

    I’m still a one-man-show and the administrative overhead of keeping 40 individual products alive was too much.

    Now, there is only one major product, the Studio Collection, to maintain which ensures more frequent updates.

    I’m sorry if you wanted to purchase an individual plugin, but it’s just not feasible anymore.

    As a middle-ground solution, I dropped the price of the Studio Collection dropped from 225€ to 145€.

  • Starting today, the plugin bundles

    • Utilities Collection

    • Aesthetic Alchemy

    • Lens Harmoniser

    • Essentials Collection (former Lightroom Controls)

    are discontinued and will no longer receive any updates.

    👉 You are eligible for a free upgrade to the Studio Collection. Please send an email to info@ericlenz.photography

  • This update adds:

    • "Classic" variant based on the colour science of the 5D classic

    • support for HLG

  • Adds support for:

    • DJI

      • D-Log M

    • ARRI

      • ARRI LogC3 ARRI Wide Gamut 3

      • ARRI LogC4 ARRI Wide Gamut4

    • RED

      • RED Log3G10 Red Wide Gamut

    This update has the following issues:

    • incorrect LUT for Sony HLG

    • incorrect recommendations in the PDF-guide regarding the correct settings for FCP

    → I'll fix that next week. Sorry everyone! 🫠

    • added LUTs for use on Camera & Monitors

    ⚠️ Sony cameras support LUTs up to a size of 33 points. To ensure best quality, all my LUTs come as 65 point cubes. I added a folder called "EOS Alpha LUTs - Camera & Monitor Version". In there, you'll find all the same LUTs. These are meant to be loaded into your camera or monitor.

  • Added the following LUTs:

    Canon

    • C-Log BT709

    • C-Log BT2020

    • C-Log 2 BT709

    • C-Log 2 BT2020

    • C-Log 3 BT709

    • C-Log 3 BT2020

    Fuji

    • F-Log 2

    Sony

    • HLG (Important info below)

    Olympus

    • Flat BT709

    • OM-Log 400 BT2020

    • OM-Log 400 P3-D65

    ⚠️ Sony HLG: According to Sony’s white paper, HLG, HLG1, HLG2 and HLG3 share the same gamma-curve. They only differ in noise-reduction. Therefore, the HLG LUT can be used for all flavours of HLG.

  • EOS Alpha LUTs - Launch Version 2

    • this is Version 2! Please check the PDF in the folder you will download

    • re-built from the ground up

    • new PDF guide

    • tweaked colour science

    False Colour LUTs

    • various improvements

    New Plugin for Final Cut Pro

    • introduced the “Density” plugin - a plugin for subtractive saturation (film-like saturation)

    • Automatically included in “Aesthetic Alchemy” and “Studio Collection”

    All Plugins & Plugin Bundles

    • performance improvements and bug fixes

    • improved user interface consistency between the plugins

    • new default values so plugins work straight out of the box

    • all plugins now have a “Mix” slider that lets you adjust the overall intensity of the effect

    • new “Density”-plugin is automatically included in the update for “Aesthetic Alchemy” and “Studio Collection”

    Adjustment Layer

    • fixed an issue with wide-gamut and HDR projects

    Anamorphic Lens Flare

    • added a boost slider

    • general improvements

    Animated Letterbox

    • added a version with auto-animation

    Bloom-Mist

    • added boost slider

    • enhanced light scattering process

    Check Layer

    • fixed an issue where underlying footage would be visible when using the eye-dropper mask

    • added “Sweep” slider for “Chroma Only” - Lets you sweep the range so you can spot all colours

    Channel Mixer

    • added missing controls

    • added alpha channel

    Halation

    • fixed an issue where the halation would disappear on projects with a wider aspect ratio than 16:9

    • improved halation process

    • I rewrote the entire guide and it’s much more useful now

    • this update fixes a major mistake in version one on where to put the colour space transformation LUT

    • “Colour for Creators” is a program where I share training sessions on specific topics to help you develop your craft and become a better colourist in Final Cut Pro

    • from now on, I’ll try to write a weekly email featuring colour grading insights and many other great things, featuring:

      • weekly colour grading insights

      • participate in YouTube Videos (colour grading your footage, community questions, etc)

      • sign up here

    • this is a fresh start for all plugins - I’ll keep the release notes tidy from here on forward ✌️

    • introduction of the False Colour LUTs