Reference analysis
Luminance percentiles, black level, saturation, and the color balance of shadows, midtones and highlights, measured with medians so a few extreme pixels do not skew the result.
Precision Shot Matching & Color Balance
LUMERIX
Match one shot to another in seconds, then keep control. LUMERIX compares a reference frame with the current shot using robust frame statistics and fills in the correction for you. Built for video editors and colorists, not photo editing.
TargetMatched
Real footage, real match
TargetMatched
Analyzed once from a real reference shot and applied to real footage by LUMERIX - not a mockup.
What it does
Exposure and contrast
Works in linear light. Contrast is matched with a curve pivoting at 18% grey; exposure is solved after it so the two do not fight each other.
White balance
Temperature and tint are estimated from neutral-weighted chromaticity ratios, not a naive average of RGB.
Tonal color balance
Separate shadow, midtone and highlight bias when the two shots differ in how they color their tones.
Skin protection
Likely skin is found by hue on the vectorscope skin line in Y'CbCr. Skin keeps its color while its brightness still follows the match.
Highlight protection
Bright areas keep their hue and are rolled off instead of clipping when the match brightens the shot.
Dynamic-range aware
For SDR footage the solver will not push the top of the frame into clipping. HDR and log workflows are supported through the Input Encoding setting.
Controlled strength
Match Strength blends the original and the corrected frame in linear light. Reset and Show Original are one click.
Workflow tip: matching a whole scene at once
LUMERIX works per-shot, but Resolve's own Copy Grade / Paste Grade lets you apply one captured reference to every shot in a scene in seconds: grade the first clip, right-click its node → Copy Grade, select the rest of the scene's clips, then Paste Grade. The reference and every LUMERIX setting carry over instantly.
The interface
- REFERENCE
- Analyze Reference
- MATCH
- Exposure, Temperature, Tint, Contrast, Saturation, Match Strength, Show Original, Reset, Apply
- ADVANCED — Color Structure
- Black Level, Shadow Bias, Midtone Bias, Highlight Bias
- ADVANCED — Protection
- Skin Protection, Highlight Protection
What it is - and is not
- It is a deterministic algorithm. It is not machine learning and makes no such claim.
- It matches statistics. Two shots with very different content (a face versus a landscape) match less well than similar content.
- It cannot recreate lighting that was never captured. If a subject moves into shadow or a different light source than the reference frame, that difference is real scene content - matching corrects a systematic color offset between two takes, not a change in the scene itself.
- It is a fast, editable starting point for a grade, not a substitute for your eye.
- All analysis runs on your computer. Reference frames and footage are never uploaded.
Requirements
- Windows 10 or 11 (x64)
- DaVinci Resolve with OpenFX support (see the compatibility list on the Installation page for the versions that have actually been tested)
- macOS is planned; the code is structured for it but no macOS build is offered yet