Livegrade 7 out now! Discover what’s new below and learn how to move from v6.5 easily in our Transition Guide.
What is Livegrade?
The industry-standard DIT software for look management and digital imaging.
Livegrade gives DITs and their DPs real-time control over the camera’s live image to get as close as possible to the final look. It unifies all aspects of creative image adjustments, technical monitoring, previewing, and sharing looks, references, metadata, and handover to other departments.
Why rely on Livegrade?
Guiding image excellence
Livegrade helps balance creative intent with technical requirements, enabling DITs and DPs to make informed, consistent decisions - keeping the entire production on track so the whole team can move forward with confidence.
Next-gen image processing
Livegrade’s image pipeline is more powerful than ever before. It enables flexible multi-views, handling multiple camera signals simultaneously, applying additional filters for tailored outputs - all with full 4K/UHD support.
Mission-ready yet flexible
Livegrade offers the flexibility to quickly adapt processes while staying aligned with industry standards and simplifying complexity. With optional extension modules, it scales effortlessly to match your needs and budget.
Own your setup
DITs choose from their favorite gear to customize their setup. Livegrade integrates with various LUT boxes, video I/O devices, routers and physical controllers to run every show exactly as needed.
Interactive color grading
Fast, precise control over your looks.
Livegrade provides all primary and secondary color grading tools to quickly visualize the DP’s creative intent on any SDR and HDR display. In addition, numerous grading modes enable working in industry-standard color pipelines (ASC-CDL + LUT, ACES, FilmLight, or camera-specific look pipelines) and seamless look transfers to dailies creation and post-production departments.
Dual pipeline looks
HDR/SDR in one comprehensive look.
A dual pipeline simplifies HDR/SDR workflows: Work in a single slot and one comprehensive look per camera. The look can diverge for the HDR and SDR pipeline where needed – for example, by using different output transforms or pipeline-specific adjustments (such as a custom highlight treatment).
Monitoring via LUT boxes and output devices can be switched flexibly between HDR and SDR, and when exporting looks or stills, you simply choose the appropriate pipeline, depending on the delivery requirements.
Made with Livegrade.
Ballad of a Small Player
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
Boots
Bullied gay teen Cameron joins the Marine Corps with his best friend despite risks. In boot camp they experience profound personal change amid danger, as their platoon confronts both literal and figurative landmines.
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
Good Fortune
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist.
I Swear
John Davidson: diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed.
The Life of Chuck
A life-affirming, genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
HIM
A young athlete descends into a world of terror when he's invited to train with a legendary champion whose charisma curdles into something darker.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
When Mary finds herself in a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
Centers on Amanda Knox's harrowing journey after being wrongfully imprisoned for her roommate's murder, her battle to prove her innocence and regain her freedom.
Honey Don’t!
A dark comedy about small-town private investigator Honey O'Donahue, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.
F1: The Movie
A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver.
The Last of Us S2
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
The Studio
Follows a legacy Hollywood movie studio striving to survive in a world where it is increasingly difficult for art and business to live together.
Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez follows four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an unappreciated lawyer, to help fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.
Gladiator II
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.
The Substance
A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Shogun
When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.
Deadpool & Wolverine
Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
Shot library
Your automatic shot log.
Livegrade records media and collects metadata from a wide range of sources: Directly from the cameras via HD-SDI, over remote network connection, and through manual input. All this information is automatically stored in Livegrade’s shot library alongside each look, creating a comprehensive shot log for the entire production. Retrieve camera settings from previously shot scenes, display reference images for visual consistency, and generate reports for the team on set and beyond.
Smart Groups
Let you organize your library based on metadata fields, creating purposeful overviews. Choose from predefined layouts tailored to different use cases – such as grouping by scene or viewing all shots from a specific location – or create your own hierarchy.
Shot library
Serves as the central visual memory of your film production. Each shot is a well-structured package that contains all related media items, the applied look and related metadata.
Viewer
Docked into the main UI, it shows the image of your selected outputs and supports both single and multi-view modes. Flexibly configure each output to control how the image is viewed.
Output Settings
Tailor various, independent views by using filters such as crop, metadata overlay or false color before distributing the signal to its final viewing destination, usually an SDI monitor.
Global Metadata Quick View
Quick entry of the most important metadata for new shots. It’s fully configurable, so you can tailor which global fields are shown based on your workflow needs.
Slot Bar
Shows all slots as individual slot cards. Depending on the input signal and the use case, there are four different slot types.
Markers
Multiple marker types allow you to establish reference points in a clip to document technical details or mark a specific frame as a look reference. During playback, you can easily navigate these markers using keyboard shortcuts, Stream Deck, or Tangent actions.
Node list
Provides a clear overview of your look pipeline. This is where you control, edit, and access each individual part of your look.
Grade controls
Give you precise control over your grading adjustments with standardized tools for primary and secondary color correction.
Slot interface
Managing looks across multiple cameras.
In Livegrade, image signals are organized using slots, each holding a camera’s live feed or a reference loaded from the shot library. A tab-like interface design guarantees quick access and setup overview.
Slots provide you with precise, real-time control over each signal, streamlining look application, grading, playback, review of stills, signal routing to various outputs, and metadata handling in one dedicated workspace. For efficient multi-camera workflows, slots can be linked for simultaneous adjustments across cameras or grouped into stages to manage independent scenes from multiple units – all within a single Livegrade system.
Sharing looks
Ensure the creative intent is carried on.
The looks created and previewed on set are essential for making lighting and exposure decisions in the camera department. But once approved by the DP the look information becomes even more valuable when shared across departments. They can be used in dailies creation, passed along to the editing room, shared with VFX teams, or carried through to final grading.
Livegrade enables look metadata export for a wide range of workflows. Basic compatibility is covered through ASC-CDL, supported by nearly all color grading systems. For advanced pipelines, formats like AMF (ACES Metadata Format) and CFE* (Colorfront Engine) preserve enriched metadata. Livegrade can also export 3D LUTs for many common products and shares complete look information seamlessly with its sibling product, Silverstack.
I highly recommend upgrading to Livegrade 7.
Learn it, embrace it, and share the benefits with other departments.
Aaron Picot, DIT
More features
All the tools you need.
Extension modules
A powerful standard. Expandable when you need it.
Easily expand Livegrade’s standard capabilities to meet the demands of complex productions, whether you need tighter collaboration with your DP and camera team or advanced tools for specialized, large-scale environments.
What you get with Livegrade 7 Standard
- Interactive color grading
- Multi-view and multi-grade
- All industry-standard color pipelines
- Dual pipeline looks for HDR/SDR
- Multiple tailored output views
- Comprehensive shot library
- Metadata, markers and stages
- Look and still export
- Image analysis tools
- Interactive router panel
- All device integrations
- and much more
Multi-Playback and Audio
Gives your DP or others in the crew everything they need for a comprehensive take review and full understanding of the scene.
- TC synced group playback
- Independent playback for multiple outputs
- Selection of in/out ranges
- Audio recording and playback
- Mixing of multiple audio input devices
Outputs and Streaming
Adds extra SDI outputs along with local and internet streaming options when the standard two-monitor DIT setup isn't enough.
- More outputs to create more tailored views
- Quick routing actions to manage outputs individually
- Dedicated "All Outputs" view
- Local streaming to Livegrade Viewer
- Various internet streaming integrations
Key and Mix
Activates the tools to provide a real-time, graded composite of VFX shots ensuring a convincing blend of foreground and background in post production.
- Chroma key filter with refinement options
- Blur filter for depth of field/focus effects
- Composite slots to blend foreground/background plate
I/O Pack
Some productions are simply bigger: more cameras, more monitors. Extends standard input capacity and adds support for additional SDI sources and outputs.
- More input slots (up to 50)
- More outputs to create more tailored views
- Quick routing actions to manage outputs individually
- Dedicated "All Outputs" view
- Dedicated slot size "Tiny" to overview large setups
Device integrations
Build your setup with the hardware you trust.
Hardware-based color grading
Livegrade enables external image processing with dedicated hardware devices. Handing over processing to external devices enables robust and scalable video setups, even on complex productions with 10 or more cameras. For unified HD, UHD/4K, and HDR workflows, Livegrade supports LUT boxes such as FSI BoxIO, AJA Color Box, Teradek COLR, or TVLogic IS-mini.
Coming soon in Standard edition: support of cameras and monitors with built-in processing capabilities.
Video I/O devices & SDI routers
Livegrade supports AJA, Blackmagic and Deltacast hardware for capturing multiple live signals and outputting tailored views for multiple monitors. In smaller setups where video recording or advanced monitoring isn’t required, LUT boxes and similar look devices can provide reference stills. Additionally, the integration of various AJA and Blackmagic SDI routers enables advanced DIT setups and fast switching between different signal routing configurations.
Physical controllers
Physical controls offer a significant productivity advantage. Direct access to frequently used functions builds muscle memory, significantly speeding up interaction with the entire DIT system. Livegrade supports grading panel controllers from Tangent, including customizable knob mappings. It also comes with a plugin for Elgato Stream Deck, allowing you to map Livegrade actions to keys, and supports MIDI controllers for additional flexibility.
Start your Livegrade 7 journey today.
Find the best license model for you.
Yearly subscription
- access to Livegrade for the subscription period of one year
- subscription period starts with purchase
- includes all major and minor updates released during the year
- automatic renewal each year, unless canceled beforehand
Temporary licenses
Available for a period of 10 days,
1 month, or 2 months. Choose either the standard edition of Livegrade or extend it with additional modules.
Single extension modules
Extend your existing subscription or temporary license with a specific module for short-term use, up to 2 months.
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