Film Simulations
Allow users to bake-in film emulation techniques while shooting.
Consideration
I’m still on the fence on bringing this into a Pro Camera
I’m all for helping in speeding up workflows and building new creative tools
But does it belong in a Pro Camera? What if we just made a really good app for grading in post?
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bmerrel
Dec 3, 2025
This might not be “pro” but is probably a major driver of sales - “this app lets you shop pro but all apply recipes like Fuji”. The “edit first, SOOC” crowd is growing.
Perhaps LUT + a few sliders for grain, basic contrast/tone, etc…
Derick Baños
Dec 5, 2025
I second on the sliders for grain, bloom, halation, hell maybe even artifact imperfections, like particles and all the good stuff that makes film look like film, we already have luts we can bake in.
James Buchanan
Dec 5, 2025
I’d be happy with that too. Cherry on top would be to allow us to save the settings paired with a lut so they can be toggled as needed. A community could even spark from it where users share “recipes”
Devan Flaherty
Dec 5, 2025
Here is a quick wireframe for Looks when we first started MPC II.
Idea being a “Look” is a mixture of a LUT and some Simulations.
What I’m curious then is how much control is needed?
In the wireframes we were exploring keeping it simple - cause obviously you can go pretty deep in this feature and we want to keep the experience fast and light where we can.
I do think Mood does this experience incredibly well - so I’d want us to find our own flavor here.
Derick Baños
Dec 5, 2025
Looks good. As for how much control is needed i guess depends on what all is applied in the Simulation Strengths. Keeping grain separate is definitely a good start. Do folks really need separate control for halation, bloom/glow and the other features that make a film simulation. Maybe, maybe not.
Thach Tran
Dec 6, 2025
Looks good! The only thing I’d really love to have is the ability to swipe on the image to quickly switch between those LUTs/looks.
Devan Flaherty
Dec 8, 2025
Oooooo that’s great.
Phillip McDavid
Dec 16, 2025
Also if you could swipe left/right to switch LUTs/Presets and swipe/scroll up/down to change intensity % (0-100) that would be nice for quick adjustments.
James Buchanan
Dec 7, 2025
This looks great! You’re right that Mood does a great job with film emulation but that’s limited to photo only and no live view. Video is where Moment set itself apart. Being able to get something that looks similar to FilmVision II without the requirements of sitting down at a laptop and fussing with powergrades.
James Buchanan
Dec 5, 2025
I’d love to see this directly in pro camera as having it in camera can really streamline the workflow and be done in such a way that feels like added polish. While I do understand the thought process of just making it another app, that could also be interpreted by members as a cripple hammer and an annoyance to require secondary processing and likely another financial investment.
Ankit Kumar
Dec 5, 2025
Having this feature in the same app will help me and a lot of other users for simple experience and won’t have to fiddle between separate apps, which eventually leads to not using the app for dedicated feature.
Thanks
Emil
Dec 5, 2025
I mean it’s also built in to a lot of “actual” cameras so I see no reason why it couldn’t be in a pro camera app. Besides my view of a Pro Camera is that it should allow you to dial in the look and feel that you like and allows for your creative vision.
JD Waters
Jan 10
Would definitely love to see bleach bypass and/or technicolor simulations if this gets rolled out!
Chris Spiegl
Jan 29
To me, this kind of feels like it may even be a version of the natural processing, because as far as I understand, the natural processing is taking the raw sensor data, producing an ultimate raw file, but then applying a certain look. And that is kind of the same thing as if you were to open that pipeline up to us users, so that we can choose and create our own LUTs for photography. And of course, that then also would apply to videography, as it already does with the LUT files.
JD Waters
Feb 10
You know, I actually had a feature request for Natural Processing in video, but the team shelved it. Maybe time to rethink that, if we ever want film recipes in video.
Devan Flaherty
Feb 16
There is a patent prohibiting streaming RAW data to be visualized, via viewfinder or anything really. It’s pretty silly, and could be fought, but not a battle worth fighting for us right now. Which to do a RAW to video pipeline would require some visualization of that data in video stream.
So at most video will get a Natural Processing mode for video by taking LOG and converting to REC 709 - with some of our sauce.
BUT Film Simulations will be a part of Looks - they can be applied to video or photo, and will be controlled in the same workflow as you select and adjust your LUT.
Derick Baños
Feb 26
A “natural processing” mode for video would be awesome! Esp if its only colors being matched as natural processing for photo. That would save everyone a lot of hassle when it comes to baking in our own Luts, more so since lots of us create our own luts for Natural Processing photos. We wont have to create 2 different luts for the same look for photo and video.
James Rushton
Jun 16
I would love to see Film Simulations on the Moment Pro Camera II App
Anas Bataineh
Jun 20
We already have Luts, please add a slider for grain, glow and halation. This is the one feature im really missing on this App.
Jamm Hostetler
Jun 20
That’s what this post is for. This is planned.
Ryan Brice
May 21
Let us use XMP/DNG presets with live view please 🙏