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Cinematic Look · Cinematic video editor

A look across the whole edit.

Cinematic Look reads the colour and light in each clip, then grades the picture — contrast, warmth, vignette, film grain, split tone, and bloom when a light is in frame. The cut underneath does not move.

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Grades every clipFrom the footage you shotTune the lookLeaves the cut

Source picture

Cinematic Look

The same footage before Cinematic Look: flat, ungraded source pictureBefore
The same footage after Cinematic Look: contrast, warmth, vignette, and film grainAfter

  1. 01 Source

    The same take

  2. 02 Read

    Light + colour

  3. 03 Grade

    Contrast · warmth

  4. 04 Look

    Grain · vignette

What is a cinematic look on video?

A cinematic look is a whole-edit visual treatment: contrast, colour, warmth, and texture that make the picture feel like one graded piece rather than a stack of raw clips. Cubix Cinematic Look is that treatment as a workflow. A filter on one shot is Video Effects. Lighting a person in the frame is Make It Pop.

Same footage. A different picture.

The same shots, before and after Cinematic Look. Nothing is recut. The grade, grain, and vignette sit on the picture you already shot.

Ungraded source footage used for the Cinematic Look before stateSame footage
The same footage after Cinematic Look: a whole-edit cinematic gradeWhole-edit lookContrast, warmth, vignette, grain — the cut underneath does not move.

A grade for the video, not a filter on one clip.

Video Effects restyles a single shot you pick. Cinematic Look runs across every clip on the timeline, each analysed on its own footage, so the look belongs to the whole edit.

A single-clip filter changing only one shot instead of grading the whole editOne clip

Video Effects

A look you pick for one shot. The rest of the timeline stays as it was.

Cinematic Look grading the whole edit from the footage that was shotWhole edit

Cinematic Look

Every clip graded from its own picture, so the cut shares one cinematic finish.

What Cinematic Look actually applies

  1. 01

    Reads the footage you shot

    Cubix samples each clip and grades from that picture — exposure, warmth, and how colourful the scene already is. It does not load a LUT library or emulate a named film stock.

    Sampled
  2. 02

    Grades clip by clip

    Every visual clip gets its own grade. A dim interior and a bright window are not forced onto one recipe. Clips split from the same source share one analysis.

    Per clip
  3. 03

    Contrast, warmth, and vignette

    The grade writes brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and vignette. After it lands, those five live as sliders on the card.

    Grade
  4. 04

    Split tone, grain, and wash

    Split tone, film grain, and a colour wash can ride with the grade. Each is a toggle after the pass. Grain has a strength slider.

    Texture
  5. 05

    Bloom when a light is in frame

    Bloom appears only when the look calls for it and a bright light source was actually detected. No light, no bloom row.

    Bloom
  6. 06

    Leaves the cut and the frame

    No recut, crop, letterbox, or aspect change. Subject glow and punch-ins live on Make It Pop. Energy treatments live on Make it a Banger.

    Cut stays

The look lands as clip treatments you can still turn off or revert.

How Cinematic Look works

  1. 1

    Add picture to the timeline

    Video or stills. Cinematic Look needs something to grade. It does not record inside Cubix.

  2. 2

    Run Cinematic Look

    Cubix analyses each clip and writes a grade, plus grain, split tone, wash, and bloom when the footage supports them.

  3. 3

    Tune the picture

    Sliders move brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and vignette together across graded clips. Toggle split tone, film grain, color wash, and bloom. Revert clears the look. Open Full editor for the colour panel.

One look, built from the picture.

Source footage is sampled. Grade, grain, and vignette land on every clip. The sequence stays the same.

Source video

Grade
Split tone
Film grain
Vignette

Cinematic Look

Cubix grades it. You still steer the picture.

There is no look picker before you press it. Cubix classifies the footage, then the card gives you the real sliders and FX toggles.

Warmth

Cool to warm bias on the grade. This is the Warmth slider, not a three-preset menu.

Brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and vignette are sliders. Film grain, split tone, and color wash are toggles. Looks such as Moody Cinematic or Golden Glow are what the analysis can land on, not a menu you pick first.

Also on the card after it lands

  • Brightness
  • Contrast
  • Saturation
  • Vignette
  • Film grain
  • Split tone
  • Color wash
  • Bloom when a light was found

Want a look on one shot only? Open Video Effects →

Cubix grades the picture. You keep the layers.

Nothing here recuts the timeline. Every part of the look can be turned down, toggled off, or reverted.

Cubix handles

  • Sampling colour and light per clip
  • A grade on every visual clip
  • Brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, vignette
  • Split tone, film grain, and color wash
  • Bloom when a light source is in frame

You control

  • Which footage to grade
  • The five grade sliders after it lands
  • Split tone, grain, wash, and bloom
  • The colour panel in Full editor
  • Revert back to the ungraded picture

Made for footage that should share one picture.

Product footage after a whole-edit cinematic grade

Brand and product films

A set of product shots that should feel like one grade, not a filter on a single take. Local overlays still belong on Video Effects.

Brand and product films →Video Effects

Travel footage with a warm cinematic grade across the edit

Travel and documentary

Scenes shot in different light. Each clip is graded from its own picture so the cut can still share a cinematic finish.

Travel and documentary →

YouTube-style footage graded with cinematic contrast and warmth

YouTube films

A longer cut that needs a consistent picture. Subject glow is Make It Pop. This pass is the whole-scene look.

YouTube films →Make It Pop

Interview scene after a cinematic whole-edit grade

Interviews

Talking footage that should look finished without restyling the speaker as a subject effect.

Interviews →

Marketing footage with a cinematic colour treatment across the timeline

Marketing videos

Campaign cuts that need one mood across shots. Energy treatments are Make it a Banger, not this grade.

Marketing videos →Make it a Banger

Creator footage after Cubix Cinematic Look

Creator films

A camera-facing or lifestyle cut where the picture should feel graded. Everyday talking-head finishing is Creator Polish.

Creator films →Creator Polish

Whole-edit grade, not a clip filter.

Video Effects

“Pick a look for one shot.”

  • Black & White, Vignette, Bad TV, and other clip looks
  • You choose the shot and the treatment
  • Does not analyse the rest of the timeline
  • The right tool when one clip should break the pattern

Cinematic Look

“Grade the whole edit from the footage you shot.”

  • Every clip analysed on its own picture
  • Contrast, warmth, grain, vignette, split tone
  • Does not recut, crop, or apply a LUT file
  • Subject emphasis is Make It Pop, not this pass

See Video Effects →

Need the subject to pop? See Make It Pop →

Cinematic Look FAQs

It applies a whole-edit visual treatment — colour, contrast, texture — so footage reads as one graded picture. Cubix Cinematic Look is that workflow. It is not a camera, a LUT pack, or a per-clip effects panel.

Brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, vignette, plus split tone, film grain, a colour wash, and bloom when a light source is in frame. Clip order and duration stay put.

No. Cubix samples the clip and writes a grade from that picture. Looks such as Moody Cinematic or Golden Glow are analysis outcomes, not a LUT menu and not a film-stock simulator.

Video Effects is a look you apply to one clip by hand. Cinematic Look grades every visual clip on the timeline from its own footage.

Make It Pop emphasizes the person — glow, punch-ins, depth. Cinematic Look grades the whole scene. They are different jobs.

No. Framing and crop are Reframe. Cinematic Look does not add bars, anamorphic stretch, or HDR.

Yes. The card exposes brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, vignette, split tone, film grain, color wash, and bloom when it was available. Revert clears the look. Full editor opens the colour panel. The editing agent can run the pass; those sliders are on the card, not published as agent tweaks.

No. Each clip is graded from its own footage so a dark interior and a bright exterior keep their own recipe. The pass is a look across the edit, not a shot-matching suite.

Cuts that should share one picture: product films, travel, interviews, YouTube, campaign videos. A talking-head that needs captions and tighter pacing is Creator Polish or Maximum Retention.

Want a filter on one shot instead of a whole-edit grade? Open Video Effects

Other workflows

See all workflows
Make it PopFind the subject and emphasize them with glow, punch-ins, depth, and motion accents.Spotlight MeLight the subject and calm the edges of the frame — without recutting or changing aspect ratio.Make it a BangerTurn the energy up with zooms, shakes, flashes, speed ramps, and transitions — without recutting.

Grade the whole edit.Leave the cut underneath.

Contrast, warmth, grain, and vignette from the footage you shot — still yours to change.

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Finished cinematic Cubix grade on the same footage, still editable