FILMCONVERT UPDATE: NIKON SUPPORT, NEW CONTROLS, AND MORE CAMERAS

Continuing their tradition of extending support to as many camera platforms as possible, Rubber Monkey Software releases the next update to its’ FilmConvert suite of digital film emulation tools. With support for Nikon cameras for the very first time, this update includes direct profiles for Nikon’s D800 and D7000 DSLR cameras. Not content to stop there, this update also includes all new profiles for the Panasonic GH3, as well as the Canon 550D/Rebel T2i and 600D/Rebel T3i digital SLR cameras.

This release also introduces a new, user-requested feature to FilmConvert that gives filmmakers the ability to independently choose both the amount of film colour, and the film contrast shift that is applied in the film emulation.

“With the news of film labs closing all over the place, and as filmmakers ourselves, keeping the organic look and feel of actual film alive and available to artists is keenly important to us,” says Lance Lones, Head of Research and Development at Rubber Monkey Software. “We’ve also been looking forward to seeing and supporting Nikon cameras for quite some time now, so it’s great to be able to offer these profiles to filmmakers.”

This release also updates the C300 CanonLog profile with a revised exposure target. “We received quite a lot of feedback telling us that many filmmakers are exposing quite high up on the CanonLog curve,” says Lones. “So we’ve taken this opportunity to revise our exposure aims on this profile accordingly, in the hope that folks will find it a better fit to the way they’re actually working.”

For current license holders, the new profiles and current update are completely free of charge.

The FilmConvert technology is available as a standalone application, with plugin versions also available for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Final Cut X and Final Cut Pro 7. Individual items are priced at $199, with a full bundle of all the plugins and standalone available for $299.