FilmLight introduces its free Prelight software

London-based FilmLight is also gearing up for NAB, which kicks off this Monday in Las Vegas. Now they have introduced Prelight, a free Mac OS X application designed for cinematographers and other industry professionals to generate and review their looks from the pre-production and shooting stages.

Prelight has a simple interface where it is possible to check how shots recorded with a look or LUT applied would look. You can import files from virtually any camera and generate color references based on DoP decisions. Once this is done, we can take still images (for reference), along with 3D LUTs, ASC CDLs or BLGs (Baselight Linked Grade). These BLGs are able to transport the corrections in a non-destructive way to other systems, for example with Avid or Nuke plugins, or import them into Baselight (with an extended license) to use them as a basis for color grading.

One of its major advantages is that it incorporates FilmLight’s Truelight Colour Space technology, which ensures color consistency until the end of the process regardless of the cameras and formats used.

In addition, Prelight can be connected to external LUTs or monitor boxes.

This software comes as a complement to FLIP and Daylight, two other products from the company aimed at taking control of color correction and other post-production processes from the shoot. At the moment this is all we know about Prelight, we will give you more specific data as they come out.