Film Elements is a collection of professional DCTL tools from MonoNodes designed to recreate the optical, photochemical, and physical characteristics of analog film inside DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Instead of applying a single film-look effect, the toolkit separates film characteristics into individual modules for grain, halation, dirt, vignette, chromatic aberration, edge softness, lens distortion, gate weave, flicker, MTF, and reframing. This modular workflow gives colorists precise control when building custom film emulation pipelines.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• MONO-CA-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Dirt-Hair-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Dirt-Spots-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Edge-Blur-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Flicker-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Gate-Weave-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Grain-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Halation-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Lens-Distortion-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-MTF-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Reframe-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Vignette-Edge-v2.0.dctle
• MONO-Vignette-v2.0.dctle

FEATURES

• Organic, exposure-responsive film grain
• Adjustable red-orange film halation
• Film dirt, dust, spots, hair, and fiber simulation
• Optical vignette and directional edge shading
• Chromatic aberration with individual RGB channel control
• Natural edge blur and optical softness
• Radial and edge lens distortion
• Adjustable gate weave with horizontal and vertical movement
• Frame-to-frame exposure flicker
• MTF-based detail and perceived sharpness control
• Reframe tools for scale, rotation, position, flip, and aspect-ratio guides
• Modular node-based film emulation workflow
• GPU-accelerated DCTL processing

RECOMMENDED FILM NEGATIVE WORKFLOW

MTF → Chromatic Aberration → Lens Distortion → Vignette → Vignette Edge → Edge Blur → Film Grain → Halation → Dirt Spots → Dirt Hair → Flicker → Gate Weave

SPECIFICATIONS

• Version: 2.0
• DCTLs Included: 13
• Format: Encrypted DCTL / DCTLE
• Package: MONO-Film-Elements-v2.zip
• Package Size: 150 KB
• DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.1 or later required
• Minimum RAM: 16 GB
• Minimum GPU: 4 GB VRAM
• Recommended RAM: 32 GB
• Recommended GPU: 8 GB+ VRAM

COMPATIBILITY

DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.1+, macOS, Windows, Linux