DaVinci Resolve plugin · beta
The 91 looks, on a Resolve node.
Lost Media Emulator for DaVinci Resolve is an OpenFX plugin in beta: eight effects, one of them a unified effect with the full 91‑look dropdown. It works in the free edition of Resolve on macOS, and it ships only with the Ultimate Bundle.
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Node in, look on, in four moves
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Search “Lost Media” on the Color page
After install, the effects sit in Resolve's own Effects library under a Lost Media Emulator group: the unified effect plus seven individual engines — CRT, VHS, Film, Digital, Mask, Signal and Tint. Drag one onto a node like any other OpenFX.
- 8 OpenFX effects in one group
- Works on the Color page node tree
- Runs in the free edition of Resolve
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Pick a look from the dropdown
The unified Lost Media Emulator effect carries the app's whole preset table: 91 looks in one dropdown, from VHS‑C Camcorder and Betamax to RealPlayer 240p and Vertical Livestream. Pick one and the parameters set themselves.
- 91 looks, the same table as the Mac app
- Era‑named presets, not abstract numbers
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Dial it in like any Resolve parameter
Look Intensity blends the whole treatment against your source, and three trims — Scanline, Grain, Colour Bleed — nudge the chosen look to taste. They're standard OFX parameters, so they keyframe like everything else on the node.
- Look Intensity, 0 to 1, for the whole treatment
- Scanline, Grain and Colour Bleed trims
- Keyframable on the node
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A real grade in your node tree
It's a normal corrector node: scopes react, it stacks with curves and windows, and the grade renders on export like anything else in your timeline. This is the LME test card through VHS‑C Camcorder (1993), live in free Resolve.
- Plays with curves, windows and your existing nodes
- What the viewer shows is what renders
What “beta” means here
In the box today
- The unified effect: 91 looks, intensity, three trims
- 7 individual engines — CRT, VHS, Film, Digital, Mask, Signal, Tint — with their parameters exposed
- Verified in the free edition of DaVinci Resolve 21, on Apple Silicon
- An installer that puts everything where Resolve actually scans
- No license key needed while it's in beta
Not carried over yet
- Some app‑side controls have no Resolve counterpart yet — the basic grade axes, pixel‑sort and datamosh, media‑aging and burn‑in, among others
- Looks that lean on those will read close, not identical, to the Mac app
- macOS only for now
Grades made in the Mac app can also travel to Resolve the classic way — exported as a .cube LUT.
Only in the Ultimate Bundle. $69.
The bundle is the Mac app plus the Premiere / After Effects extension, $19 less than buying them apart — and the Resolve plugin rides along in beta. Already own the bundle? It's already in your downloads — open the link from your receipt again.
Install takes 30 seconds: run Install.command, enter your Mac password, restart Resolve. Full install steps ▸