Huesmith01 · BUILD BASE
Seven labeled nodes, in the right order
One click builds the tree on your clip: conversion in, exposure, balance, contrast, skin, look, conversion out. The Color Space Transform is set for your camera and your timeline.
Huesmith for DaVinci Resolve · free beta
A pro-looking grade in a couple of clicks. And you see how it’s done.
Huesmith is a panel inside DaVinci Resolve Studio. It converts your camera’s log, builds a labeled node tree on your clip, puts skin on the skin line and grades the rest of the timeline the same way. Every step says what it did and why, so you learn grading while you work.
Free for life for beta testers who post feedback in r/Huesmith
Test the plugin on your own footage, tell me in r/Huesmith what worked and what didn’t, and you’ll never pay for it. Sign-ups close on 15 November.
S-LOG3HUESMITH
New in 1.8.0
It looks at the whole picture now, not just the face
- Parks stay green. Without a face in the shot, leaves, grass, sand and paper screens are no longer taken for gray, so a green park isn’t pushed to magenta and a warm room isn’t cooled down. When it can’t tell what the light is, it keeps your camera’s white balance.
- Small faces. Huesmith looks again at full size, and in two more frames of the clip, before it decides there’s nobody in the shot.
- Skin stays the person’s own. A face that’s already in the natural range next to the skin line keeps its hue. Only faces outside it are moved, so fair skin doesn’t turn pink.
- Apple Log 2 and DJI D-Log2. Resolve 20 has no conversion for them yet, so Huesmith converts them with its own LUT. Read as Apple Log or D-Log, they came out too colorful.
- White sets with depth. Clean, slightly cool whites, deeper darks, and warm skin that stands out against the wall.
- Three new styles: Dark & moody, Soft greens and Cinematic greens, with skin protected.
- Breakdown video. Steps you show are numbered 1, 2, 3 in the video, and a masked node outlines its mask even when the change inside is subtle.
Dev diary
r/Huesmith is where the plugin gets built
I post every update there: what’s new in each version, what I’m working on, what’s next on the roadmap, and short clips of things that went wrong and how I fixed them. It’s also where your feedback goes. Tell me what you shoot and how you grade, and I’ll shape Huesmith around that. The free license after the beta goes to testers who left their feedback in r/Huesmith.
Join r/HuesmithHow it works
Four things it does for you
All of it happens on Resolve’s own frame and on its own grade version, so your original grade is always one click away.
02 · SKIN
Skin on the skin line
Huesmith finds the face, measures how far it is off the skin line and moves the Balance node until it sits there, checking Resolve’s real output after each step.
−8.7° Slightly off
+0.1° On the line
03 · TIMELINE
Then the whole timeline
Build it on this clip, on every clip from the same camera, or on the whole timeline. Below, nine clips from one timeline: the left half of each is after one build, the right half is straight from the camera.
04 · GUIDE
It shows you why
The guide walks through a grade one step at a time, checks each step on your frame, tells you what to move and why, and can do it for you. You end up knowing how to do it by hand.
In 20 seconds
From log to a finished base
- 15 camera logs: Sony S-Log3, Canon Log 3, Panasonic V-Log, ARRI LogC, Fujifilm F-Log2, Nikon N-Log, DJI D-Log, Apple Log, RED, Blackmagic Film Gen 5 and more.
- Live vectorscope with the skin line, waveform and false color on Resolve’s own frame.
- Undo, and every change on its own “Huesmith” grade version.
- Your own grades as one-click templates.
- English and Ukrainian.
The beta
Test it, tell me what you think, keep it free
- Sign up with the form. It takes a minute. The download appears as soon as you send it.
- Grade real footage with it. Your own clips, your own timeline, the way you normally work.
- Post your feedback in r/Huesmith. What worked, what didn’t, what confused you. Screenshots help a lot. Other testers see it too, and I answer there.
- Keep it. When Huesmith for Resolve goes on sale, beta testers who posted feedback in r/Huesmith get their license free. Signing up alone isn’t enough.
You need
- DaVinci Resolve Studio 20 or later. Blackmagic only lets plugins like this run in Studio.
- Windows 10 or 11 for the installer. On a Mac you can install it by hand; it hasn’t been tested there yet, so tell me how it goes.
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Questions
Before you sign up
What does “free for life” mean?
Sign up by 15 November, use the beta and post your feedback in r/Huesmith. When the plugin goes on sale, you get a license at no cost, and you never pay for it. No card, no subscription. The license goes to testers whose feedback is in r/Huesmith, so post it there, under the name you’ll use to claim it.
What kind of feedback do you need?
What you graded, what Huesmith got right, where it got it wrong, and anything that was confusing or slow. Screenshots of the panel and the frame help the most. Post it in r/Huesmith: that’s where I read it, answer, and keep the roadmap.
Will it touch my existing grades?
No. Every change goes on a new grade version named “Huesmith …”, and Undo brings back what you had. Your original grade stays one click away: Color page › right-click the clip › Local Versions.
Does anything leave my computer?
No. The plugin reads frames from Resolve and does all its work on your computer. It doesn’t upload footage or frames anywhere.
Windows warns me about the installer
The installer isn’t code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen shows a warning the first time. Click “More info”, then “Run anyway”. Signing comes before the paid release.
I use the free DaVinci Resolve
Blackmagic only allows Workflow Integration plugins in Resolve Studio. For the free version there’s the Huesmith Starter Kit: the same node trees as Gallery grades, with the conversion set for your camera. Download the Starter Kit (free, 2.8 MB). The Huesmith web app is free too and works next to any editor.