AI Color Match

Match the colors of one shot to any other shot with AI.

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1. Description

AI Color Match grades your footage to look like a reference. Pick a style image, click Match at Playhead, and a neural network compares the two frames and matches exposure, contrast, white balance and more.

The match is turned into a 3D LUT once and then applied to every frame, so playback and rendering stay fast. Use it to unify shots from different cameras or changing light, or to copy the grade of a scene you like.

AI Color Match Pro adds 16 and 32 bits per channel output and Save LUT, which exports the match as a .cube file for use in other software. The standard version outputs 8 bits per channel.

Requirements

  • Mac: runs on the GPU through Metal when available, otherwise on the CPU.
  • Windows 64-bit: uses an NVIDIA GPU (CUDA) when available, otherwise the CPU.
  • Runs locally: frames never leave your computer.

2. Installation

2a. Baskl installer (all host apps)

Every Baskl plugin installs through the Baskl installer. It sets up AI Machine, the local engine the plugins run on, and puts AI Color Match in the right place for After Effects, Premiere Pro and OFX hosts (DaVinci Resolve, Nuke). Close your host apps before running it.

macOS

  1. Click Download on baskl.ai, unzip Baskl.Installer.zip and open Mac/Baskl Installer.app. You need an Apple Silicon Mac; the installer stops on Intel Macs.
  2. If macOS asks, confirm you want to open an app downloaded from the internet, then enter your Mac password so the installer can write to the system plug-in folders.
  3. Click Let's Get Started, select AI Color Match in the plugin list and click Install. The first install also downloads AI Machine, so give it a few minutes.
  4. When you see Installation Complete, restart your host app. The effect is in the Baskl category.

Windows

  1. Click Download on baskl.ai, unzip Baskl.Installer.zip and run Windows\Baskl Installer.exe.
  2. Click Yes when Windows asks to allow the app to make changes. The installer needs administrator rights.
  3. Click Let's Get Started, select AI Color Match in the plugin list and click Install. On NVIDIA cards the installer picks the matching CUDA build for you. The first install also downloads AI Machine, so give it a few minutes.
  4. When you see Installation Complete, restart your host app. The effect is in the Baskl category.
  • The AI model loads the first time you click Match at Playhead, so the first match takes a little longer.
  • Without a license AI Color Match runs as an unlimited trial with a watermark.

Activating your license

  • After Effects / Premiere Pro: in After Effects, click Register at the top of the effect in Effect Controls (next to Reset), paste your license key and click Activate. In Premiere Pro, click the small icon button at the top right of the effect in Effect Controls to open the same dialog. The license is saved for the whole computer, so registering in one of the two apps covers the other.
  • Resolve / Nuke: click Register at the top of the effect's controls, paste your license key and confirm. Once activated, the button reads License Info.
  • Where to find your key: if you bought on baskl.ai, it is in your purchase email and under Account → My Licenses, with a Copy button. If you bought on aescripts + aeplugins, activate through the aescripts + aeplugins manager app, or paste the key from your aescripts account into the same Register dialog.
  • Without a license, AI Color Match runs as a trial: everything works, but renders carry a watermark until you register. Activation needs an internet connection, and each key works on a limited number of computers (shown under My Licenses).

3. Parameters

Help and license

Help / Contact

Opens the Baskl contact page with your plugin version filled in.

Register

Resolve and Nuke: opens the license window. In After Effects and Premiere Pro, click Options next to the effect name instead.

Color match

Color Style Image

The layer whose look you want to copy. In Resolve and Nuke this is a second input on the node: connect the reference clip to it.

Style & Reference Images

After Effects and Premiere Pro: thumbnails of the style frame and your frame, with a hint when something is missing (no style layer, no match yet, or the playhead is outside the style layer).

Match at Playhead

Runs the AI on the current frame of your layer and the style layer and stores the result. Put the playhead on a representative frame first. Click again whenever you change the style or want a new match; the match does not update by itself.

Save LUT

Exports the current match as a 32-point .cube LUT. Available once a match exists. Requires AI Color Match Pro.

Intensity

Strength of the match, 0% to 200% (default 100%). Above 100% the effect is pushed further with diminishing returns: 200% is about 150% strength.