About colorgrade.video

Colour grading used to mean a desktop editor, a learning curve and, often, a subscription. The free online alternatives mostly ask you to upload the clip first, then put a logo on it or hold the full-resolution file back. colorgrade.video was made for the space in between: someone with a phone clip, a drone shot or a few minutes of log footage who wants it to look finished, and who would rather not hand the file to a stranger’s server to get there.

What you can do with it

• Browse around 300 original looks, from clean naturals to film stocks, vintage home movies, teal and orange, black and white and colour splash, each previewed live on a frame of your own video, then set its Intensity.
• Correct before you style: Auto colour for a quick neutral balance, Pick white for a stubborn cast, and Match colours to bring a clip in line with a photo or a frame from another video.
• Open Pro tools for the controls a colourist expects: a waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope and histogram; lift, gamma, gain and offset wheels; curves; eight-band HSL; log input for a dozen camera profiles; and LUT import with tetrahedral interpolation.
• Take the grade with you. Copy grade carries it to your next clip, and Export .cube turns it into a LUT for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut Pro or CapCut desktop.

How it works

The site is a set of static pages and one grading engine that runs in your browser. The video is decoded with the WebCodecs API and the open-source mediabunny library. Every colour operation in your grade is folded into a single 33-point 3D look-up table, which a WebGL2 shader applies to each frame on your graphics chip; on devices without WebGL2 the same arithmetic runs on the processor. Grain, vignette, halation and bloom are added in a second pass. Preview and export share that code, so the file you save looks like the picture you approved. Formats your browser cannot open are converted on the device with ffmpeg.wasm.

What we promise

• Your video, your reference images and your LUTs stay on your device.
• Free to use, with no watermark, no sign-up and no limit on the number of clips.
• The looks are original. Every LUT you export from them is yours to use in your own projects.
• No adverts. Google Analytics shows which looks and guides get used, and you can switch it off at any time with Cookie settings in the footer; the privacy page spells out what is measured.

What it is not

It is not a full editor. There is no timeline, no masking and no keyframing, so one grade covers the whole of the clip you export, and HSL changes a colour wherever it appears rather than on a single object. Grading can’t restore colour the camera never captured, and every export is a fresh encode. For a long multi-camera project, a desktop suite is the right tool, and the guides to DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro show how to get started there. For everything else, from a holiday clip to a quick log conversion, this site is meant to be the quickest route to a finished look.