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Film emulation grade in DaVinci Resolve

You want digital footage to feel like film (soft highlights, rich color separation, subtle grain) and you want the agent to build the node tree, not bake a filter

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On the timeline "[TIMELINE]" (a duplicate), build a film emulation look on a single clip first: "[CLIP NAME]". Footage is [camera and log format, for example Sony S-Log3 / S-Gamut3.Cine].

Node tree, each node labeled:
1. "INPUT CST": Color Space Transform from [camera color space and gamma] to DaVinci Wide Gamut / DaVinci Intermediate.
2. "BALANCE": neutral white balance and exposure. Do not push contrast here.
3. "CONTRAST": gentle S curve, lift the blacks very slightly so pure black never happens (film rarely sits at true zero).
4. "SEPARATION": warm the skin and highlights slightly, cool the shadows slightly. Subtle, max a few points.
5. "SAT": reduce saturation in the very brightest highlights (highlight rolloff), keep mid tone saturation.
6. "HALATION" (Studio only, or skip on Free): a faint reddish glow around bright edges.
7. "GRAIN" (Studio only, or skip on Free): fine 35 mm grain, low strength.
8. "OUTPUT CST": DaVinci Wide Gamut to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 with tone mapping.

Rules: keep each node subtle, I will push it myself. Tell me which nodes need Studio. Save the result as a still and a PowerGrade named "AgentCut Film Base" and do not apply it to other clips until I say so.

Before you run it Fill in anything in [brackets]. If it edits a project, use a duplicate and read the agent's plan before you say go

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Written by AgentCut. Free to copy, edit and use in your own projects

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