@@TZOBIEntertainment It's worth noting that dehancer and this bundle offer somewhat different things - Dehancer is very much in the "film emulation" camp where the goal is to (theoretically) faithfully emulate characteristics of analog film (including textural effects like halation and grain which I don't currently offer DCTLs for), whereas this bundle is maybe less suitable for a full on film emulation but more powerful and flexible when it comes to exerting authorship over your color look. Some tools, especially the Filmic Tone Curve and Split Tone DCTLs are of course borrowing from film but are not designed to recreate all the characteristics of a specific film stock. These DCTLs also may require a little more practice and patience to master. So definitely good to be aware of the differences so that you purchase the tools that serve you best.
@IridescentColor Thank you for this detailed response. Honestly, everyone is trying to mimic film with their emulators but the truth is that digital can never emulate film accurately. It just can't be done. I'm looking for something that complements my workflow and provides me with something different as opposed to everyone else. I bought Tetra + from you the other day and it's a great addition to my node tree to be honest. I have a few other dctls from different companies that add to my node tree instead of replacing everything. I downloaded the demos for these dctls but for some reason they were not doing anything when I was testing them out and I'm not sure why but I'll try them again. I'm using the Studio version so I'm not sure what I did wrong.
@@TZOBIEntertainment Very fair points! Odd that they weren't working for you. Could be that the download files got corrupted, which does happen once in a while. If you get around to it I'd be grateful if you could redownload and let me know if they still don't work. Would be helpful to know system specs too. DCTLs very rarely have system-specific issues luckily but I've heard of a few cases where AMD GPUs caused problems.
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I'm thinking about buying this for sure. I was gonna get dehancer but this looks like a great purchase here.
@@TZOBIEntertainment It's worth noting that dehancer and this bundle offer somewhat different things - Dehancer is very much in the "film emulation" camp where the goal is to (theoretically) faithfully emulate characteristics of analog film (including textural effects like halation and grain which I don't currently offer DCTLs for), whereas this bundle is maybe less suitable for a full on film emulation but more powerful and flexible when it comes to exerting authorship over your color look. Some tools, especially the Filmic Tone Curve and Split Tone DCTLs are of course borrowing from film but are not designed to recreate all the characteristics of a specific film stock. These DCTLs also may require a little more practice and patience to master. So definitely good to be aware of the differences so that you purchase the tools that serve you best.
@IridescentColor Thank you for this detailed response. Honestly, everyone is trying to mimic film with their emulators but the truth is that digital can never emulate film accurately. It just can't be done. I'm looking for something that complements my workflow and provides me with something different as opposed to everyone else.
I bought Tetra + from you the other day and it's a great addition to my node tree to be honest.
I have a few other dctls from different companies that add to my node tree instead of replacing everything. I downloaded the demos for these dctls but for some reason they were not doing anything when I was testing them out and I'm not sure why but I'll try them again. I'm using the Studio version so I'm not sure what I did wrong.
@@TZOBIEntertainment Very fair points! Odd that they weren't working for you. Could be that the download files got corrupted, which does happen once in a while. If you get around to it I'd be grateful if you could redownload and let me know if they still don't work. Would be helpful to know system specs too. DCTLs very rarely have system-specific issues luckily but I've heard of a few cases where AMD GPUs caused problems.