Graded entirely with Retrofi — no plugins
Warm 16mm
One download. Nine film emulations.
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You’ll find 18 labeled nodes, each crafted to mimic the real-world behavior of film. Grain, halation, halftone contrast, curve response — it’s all there, and it’s all yours to adjust.
Use it as-is, or make it yours. Retrofi doesn’t lock you in — it hands you the keys.
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Retrofi Film Emulation PowerGrades for Davinci Resolve
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Retrofi Film Burn Transitions + SFX
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Retrofi Teal & Orange Film Powergrades for Davinci Resolve
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Digital forgot how to feel. Retrofi remembers.
In a world of overbuilt, overpriced film emulation tools, Retrofi takes a different path. High-end plugins have their place. For some workflows, all those toggles and layers of control are exactly what’s needed. But if you’re after stunning results without the clutter — Retrofi delivers. Built for creators who value feel over fuss, Retrofi captures the soul of film without the bloat. No clunky plugins. No complex installations. No monthly fees.Just a clean, intuitive experience inside DaVinci Resolve — designed to get you from edit to emotion in moments. Each PowerGrade is handcrafted to emulate the color, character, and nuance of real Kodak, AGFA, Portra, and expired stocks. Whether you want glowing warmth, cool greens, pastel purples, or gritty vintage decay, Retrofi gives you a full palette of analog tones — all customizable, all deeply cinematic. And at just $30, it’s not a compromise. It’s a recalibration. Retrofi gives you the look and control you'd expect from tools ten times the price — without the overhead. Authentic. Elegant. Creator-first. The soul of film, reimagined for digital.
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Film is more than a medium — it’s an alchemy of light and grain, halation and color bleed, latitude and texture. It breathes in every frame, wrapping imperfections in beauty, turning shadows into story. What digital often corrects, film preserves — the subtle warmth, the organic movement, the tactile emotion of chemistry meeting light.
Film doesn’t see the world like a sensor. It rolls off highlights, lifts shadows gently, and handles skin tones with warmth and grace. We’ve emulated the unique tonal curves of classic film stocks to reproduce that rich, organic contrast — without the harshness of digital video.
How Retrofi does it:
We analyzed the dynamic range and contrast roll-off of iconic film stocks, recreating their response curves through a custom tone mapping engine. Our plugin applies highlight compression and shadow lift algorithms that mirror the non-linear behavior of celluloid, ensuring soft transitions and cinematic depth — especially in tricky lighting.
In film, bright areas bloom and bleed ever so slightly — a soft glow around the edges. Retrofi replicates this subtle optical effect, mimicking the glow caused by light bouncing off the film’s base layer. It’s one of the smallest details, but one of the most emotionally resonant.
How Retrofi does it:
Our halation engine simulates light diffusion around high-contrast edges, isolating bright highlights and layering a color-aware glow that subtly bleeds into surrounding tones. We base this on actual halation behavior from scanned 35mm frames, allowing users to dial in everything from mild warmth to rich red glow, depending on the stock.
Not just noise — grain. Real, layered, cinematic grain that breathes life into the image. Our scans are modeled after actual 35mm and 16mm stocks, complete with subtle fluctuations and movement across the frame. It’s never static. It’s never artificial.
How Retrofi does it:
We start with high-resolution grain plates scanned from real film, capturing not just size and pattern, but depth and movement. Retrofi overlays these organically — with randomized temporal variation, per-channel displacement, and light-reactive intensity — so grain responds like it would in-camera, never as a flat overlay.
Every film stock has a fingerprint — from the deep blues of Kodak to the muted warmth of Fuji. We’ve studied and emulated these palettes to provide looks that go beyond LUTs — they behave more like true film emulsion under light.
How Retrofi does it:
Rather than using static LUTs, Retrofi uses color models that respond dynamically to lighting and exposure. Our emulations are built on spectral analysis of real stocks, using channel remapping, gamma shifts, and saturation behavior that change depending on scene brightness and contrast — just like real film would.
Retrofi doesn’t just polish — it patinas. Dust, soft flicker, gate weave, light leaks — the details that used to be flaws are now part of the aesthetic. And each is applied with intention, to make your footage feel tactile and lived-in.
How Retrofi does it:
We layer in authentic 35mm and 16mm wear artifacts using real scanned assets — not generic effects. Flicker intensity adapts to brightness, dust varies per frame, and subtle gate movement adds that handmade, imperfect quality of a projected reel. You can fine-tune the level of "wear" depending on how subtle or expressive you want the effect to be.
A message from the creator
When I was a 12, I used to watch the world through an old Sony Bloggie camera, filming my childhood adventures. Racing home home to edit, chasing a look I didn’t have the ability to create yet— Something that felt like memory. That made everyday moments look a little more like dreams.
I didn’t know it then, but what I was chasing was the look of film — the warmth, the grain, the emotion baked into every imperfect frame.
And I never stopped chasing it.
Years later, that same kid still lives in me. Still obsessing over the way shadows fall. Still rewinding movies to study how the light bloomed around a window. Still trying to make digital footage feel like it came from another time.
That’s what Retrofi is. It’s not just a color grading tool. It’s a love letter to the look that made me fall in love with filmmaking in the first place. A way to take clean digital images and give them texture, soul, and something you can’t quite name — but you know it when you see it.
Retrofi is built for filmmakers like me — like that kid — who believe images are more than sharpness or resolution. Who believe that the best stories deserve to feel as beautiful as they look. That sometimes, the imperfections are what make it unforgettable.
This is the culmination of over a decade and a half of chasing the perfection that is film, never happy with the outcome, but everyday getting closer. I’m excited to share how far I’ve come with others.
I’m proud of what Retrofi has become, and I hope it helps you bring more feeling into your work. Thanks for being here, I hope to see the creations you make, and I hope Retrofi is that finishing touch you’ve been after.
— Josh