DCTLs for DaVinci Resolve: 22 free files to bring into your own work, each with notes on what it contains and what it needs, linked to its original source.
22 free project files
Patrick Gawron shares RCS Film Grain, a free MIT-licensed film grain DCTL for DaVinci Resolve that the README says was built from scratch rather than decoded from a commercial .dctle.
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GitHub user fabiocolor shares Faded Balancer, a free MIT-licensed Transform DCTL for balancing the RGB channels of faded film scans in DaVinci Resolve.
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Stephan Wagner (shitsukan) shares Shitsukan Diffusion Kit, a free MIT-licensed emulation of optical diffusion filters such as Black Pro-Mist and Glimmerglass for DaVinci Resolve Studio.
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Moaz Elgabry shares a set of DCTLs for DaVinci Resolve as a free GPL-3.0 GitHub repository. The 20 files include filmic contrast and localized contrast tools, a hue curve, hue tetra and smooth tetra DCTLs, an exposure…
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Wavechaser shares NamiColor, a free GPL-3.0 DCTL that uses DaVinci Resolve's colour pipeline to linearize scanned film images.
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Richard van Uffelen shares UffyLook, a free film-look system for DaVinci Resolve Studio built from component DCTLs and adjustable as a look development tool.
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Mikael Sundell shares Photographic DCTLs, a free BSD-3-Clause GitHub set of 17 DCTLs that experiment with the maths behind colour science such as LogC, ACES AP0 and Cineon.
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Troy James Sobotka shares AgX-Resolve, a free GitHub repository that brings AgX picture formation to DaVinci Resolve as two DCTLs, Camera-AgX and Kraken-AgX.
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Juan Pablo Zambrano shares a set of DaVinci Resolve DCTLs for free on GitHub, with optional donation links in the README.
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GitHub user hotgluebanjo shares a free halation DCTL for DaVinci Resolve. It uses exponential falloff rather than a plain Gaussian blur and includes two methods, neither of which relies on Sobel or similar edge…
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Kaur Hendrikson shares a free MIT-licensed GitHub set of tools made in the DaVinci Color Transform Language. It is organised for learning: boilerplates for creating new DCTLs, code snippets such as a bell curve and HSL…
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Nico Fink of Demystify Color shares a free MIT-licensed GitHub set of DCTLs for DaVinci Resolve, including technical transforms, colour space models and other tools.
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Thatcher Freeman shares utility-dctls, a free MIT-licensed GitHub collection of creative and utility DCTLs that the author developed for DaVinci Resolve.
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Jed Smith shares Open Display Transform, a free GPL-3.0 GitHub collection of tools for rendering wide-gamut scene-linear images for SDR or HDR displays.
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GitHub user npeason shares Tetra-DCTLOFX, a free MIT-licensed DCTL of the Tetra colour transformation described by Steve Yedlin ASC.
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xtremestuff shares resolve-dctl, a free MIT-licensed GitHub library of 20 DCTLs for DaVinci Resolve. It includes S-curves built from sigmoid functions, tools that highlight or isolate middle gray at 18% reflectance…
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GitHub user roukou3 shares free MIT-licensed DCTLs that correct fisheye lens distortion and convert fisheye video to ultra-wide-angle video.
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Paul Dore (baldavenger) shares DCTLs, a free GPL-3.0 GitHub library of 251 DaVinci Resolve CTLs. The largest folder holds 147 DCTL OFX tools such as lens distortion, film density and CRT effects, alongside 50 technical…
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Cary Knoop shares a small free GPL-3.0 GitHub collection of DaVinci Resolve DCTL files that may be useful when checking a grade.
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Cullen Kelly offers a free Exposure Chart DCTL on the Cullen Kelly Color toolkit page, aimed at both look development and colour grading.
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Cullen Kelly offers a free Greyscale Ramp DCTL on the Cullen Kelly Color toolkit page for checking what looks and LUTs do to an image.
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Cullen Kelly offers a free Phantom IDT on the Cullen Kelly Color toolkit page for grading footage from Phantom cameras. The page explains that this DCTL takes a Phantom Log 1 or Phantom Log 2 source and maps it properly…
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