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Cinematic Looks

The print stocks films were actually projected on, plus the negative films that feed them.

A cinematic grade is not a colour preference, it is a specific contrast curve: dense blacks with a slight teal lean, warm highlights, and a shoulder that compresses the top end rather than clipping it. That curve comes from cinema print stock — the emulsion a finished film is printed onto for projection. Colourists apply it as the last node over already-balanced footage. Applied to a straight photograph it can look heavy; applied to flat, corrected video it is the foundation of the look.

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