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Have been having a miserable time with Film Lab 3.0. (updated Windows 11 HP Envy 13th Gen iCore processor) I simply can not process bulk negatives taken with my Nikon Z7II. I loaded the pictures into the Windows File Explorer folder, and from there subscribed, down loaded and installed Film Lab. I selected this highlighted "folder" from the upper left corner of Film Lab, then clicked "select folder" in the lower right corner. Sometimes I wind up shutting down and retrying (dozens of times so far) when I get the "program not responding" and the spinning blue circle . Occaisionally it populates the screen with the color positives. But there is no reliable progress bar to tell you what is going on until it starts. (e.g., exporting "1 out of 1927" ) I make sure that processing is in the preselected J peg format and then select the "select all" on the edit menu, and then on " image" I select " flip horizontally" and then wait, sometimes for a very long time and get a "not responding" message. On the occaision the program starts its export function, and when all pictures have been exported, the progress bar vanishes. But nearly every time, NONE of the pictures have been converted into the selected color negative format. They remain in the color positive format. Most times I get the "triad" with the original negative, the "processed" but still with color positive pictures, but not inverted and the Film Lab Icon (mountain view) FPRC which I can click on and convert a single picture to color negative. But no way to do this with the whole batch. Only once out of the blue I had 4,350 of 5,023 in a folder converted to color negatives in a single batch, ( an 87% success rate ). I imediately saved these to a new folder. The rest were still color psotive, some individual, some in ckusters, and one in a super ckuster of 150 pictures.) This represents dozens of attempts. I then hand selected those that had not been processed on the first run and tried to run them again on a secondary folder and of those 673, only about 10% were successful in the second pass. This program had become a tar baby. And Micorsoft keeps adding so much bloatware and useless confusing redundancy with programs like Gallery, Co-Pilot, One Drive, Cloud, Quick Access etc that keep you distracted and confused from the traditional Windows Explorer system. So retreiving and destination are unnecessarily problematic. Clearly Film Lab 3.0 is not suitable for large batches. It is buggy as hell. I haven't gotten to individual photo modifications yet, but there doesn't seem to be a problem with those, eg., magenta, bightness and all those function addressing indvidual pictures, only with batch operations.

Fantastic program, I’ve just started using it. Will a histogram be added in future releases?

How much?

Interesting, it would be nice with DNG output though. And it is a bit pricy, I already pay Adobe for subscription, getting another one is out of the question. And the lifetime licens is just too expensive. I'd rather pay a fixed price for a full release version (lest say 50$) and then get the . releases for free, then pay for an upgrade when it's releasee for a 75% price (40$) .... that would make it reasnoable priced.

Hello there, thank you for the video. May I ask? Why is it even possible to choose the film stock? For a more accurate subtraction of the orange mask? Isn't this something that you can just adjust with the white balance sliders? Or does it somehow affect the shades that cannot be adjusted using white balance?

When is version 3 launching. It has been in beta for a long time.

I am have just done some very brief tests with some old NEF files from a Z7 and all goes well, however when I try NEF files from my Z8 that I made from copying color negatives today they do not load. Instead of the seeing the photo I just get a block of color across the top and many fine horizontal lines across the bottom instead of the photo. Are they presently not compatible? Thanks

Great but what are the filmlab settings to use if my negative is, for example, a kodak vericolor film, scanned with a flabbed scanner ?

The examples look wonderful. I am definitely looking forward to trying it out. I would love if this could be linked with Capture One Pro.

Hi, I just watched few of your last videos, tried v3 beta, and I am very impressed. Your goal and philosophy for this software precisely aligns with my vision from user perspective. Standalone app, fast processing, simple quick workflow with real nondestructive approach. Love the fact that conversions are saved, no need to repeat the whole process again after closing the app, if I want higher quality export in the future, for example. Love the catalog view. And absolutely admire your approach to color science behind the inversion. I am VFX artist. ACES, color management, understanding color transformations, ... is on my daily list. I studied photography and filmmaking, and I am shooting on film and printing in darkroom to this day, and i also worked in LAB equipped with Frontier scanner, as my first student job :D Your approach is like made for me. I hope you will succeed with v3. Right now I am combining manual approach with use of my knowledge about film emulsions and digital image processing, for my large format work, and using NLP for 35mm and medium format. I like the ability to control a lot of things when needed, but I don't enjoy the workflow - need to control lot of things a most of times. I was thinking about solution by Filmomat. My "Frontier memory" was happy about that workflow, but I want a bit more control, and also the ability to just convert and do not have to export / export just preview quality. But have it ready for HQ print export when I will need it. I have a few questions: My workflow is not a typical "DSLR" scan process. I am using Nikon Super Coolscan 4000. I like the "condenser enlarger" look and ability to just stick a film in it and let it do the whole role. I tested my scans in your beta trial. It worked quite nicely, but I want to ask what are intended settings for a scanner like this? Standard Camera + try to google / eyeball the light source? List of supported film stock is quite low right now. Do you plan to expand it? Also interesting idea would be to have custom setting with some exposed parameters for non-listed films - film mask compensation, maybe some other color balance to set its "film color space"...anything your algo need. I was able to hagle my way even with stocks like Orwo NC500, with its greenish color mask. But results weren't consistent. In one lighting situation: Fuji Superia 200 + standard Camera + NS CRI95 given me adjustable base. In others, Kodak Portra 400 + Nikon Camera + D65, because the last ones created base image with colors too of to be balanced buy "Adjustments" in the app. Do you plan to add a Saturation slider? I understand that this slider is maybe not very "true" to C41 + RA4 printing, but it would be nice :) Thank you very much, and sorry for the long message. I understand you don't have a huge team just for communication :) I am really thinking about buying a perpetual version of your software. That's why I am trying to find out answers :)

looks good and you dont have to use lightroom. I prefer to do adjustments in luminar .Golden question can you output as dng thanks for video

i always get an error with my jpeg and tiff files. both on 2.5.6 and 3.0 beta 8, Win 11: Error 1: TypeError Cannot read properties of null (reading 'backingStorePixelRatio') Call Stack  getPixelRatio   filmlab-desktop/./renderer/components/EditorView.jsx:92:30  handleCanvasResize   filmlab-desktop/./renderer/components/EditorView.jsx:108:20  eval   filmlab-desktop/./renderer/components/EditorView.jsx:151:5  commitHookEffectListMount   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:3922:112  commitLayoutEffectOnFiber   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:3931:64  commitLayoutMountEffects_complete   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:4122:612  commitLayoutEffects_begin   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:4122:326  commitLayoutEffects   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:4113:224  commitRootImpl   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:4584:35  commitRoot   filmlab-desktop/./node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:4541:209 Error 2: TypeError Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getError') Call Stack  _glGetError   C:/Program%20Files/FilmLab/resources/app.asar/dist/webgl-renderer.js:1:150883  undefined   C:/Program%20Files/FilmLab/resources/app.asar/dist/webgl-renderer.wasm:wasm-function[3778]:0x3db9d4:undefined:undefined  invoke_vii   C:/Program%20Files/FilmLab/resources/app.asar/dist/webgl-renderer.js:1:192602  undefined   C:/Program%20Files/FilmLab/resources/app.asar/dist/webgl-renderer.wasm:wasm-function[272]:0x13c99:undefined:undefined  undefined   C:/Program%20Files/FilmLab/resources/app.asar/dist/webgl-renderer.wasm:wasm-function[273]:0x14c34:undefined:undefined  tick   C:/Program%20Files/FilmLab/resources/app.asar/dist/webgl-renderer.js:1:114487

Excellent work!!! Please add a histogram! This software is excellent thank you for giving us an alternative to NLP and Lightroom.

Do you plan to release a Linux version?

Looking at negative managers right now and definitely will look at this since it is not a “plug in”. You should also comment on the B&W negative conversions.

Diamond ring shot is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Your lab scan should be be much larger. Noritsu can scan 135 to 6048x4011 (LS-600) and even larger with a HS-1800. Many labs also provide TIFs / uncompressed files.

Hi - I needed some help with the latest version of Film lab - getting wildly uneven results, I wanted to know if I was doing something wrong. Do you have a support page or an email I could write in to with some screenshots of what I think is going wrong? Maybe you could advise me? Also super cool eclipse images!

Oh, you might wanna hook up with @smartereveryday about this. He did the entire sequence on a single medium format slide.

I just gone done watching Dustin from smarter ever day do an incredible one on medium format slide film.

Walter White is a photographer! 📸 🤯

Nice work 👍🏾 Gotta give Filmlab a try one day

stunning!

FilmLab really needs an undo button / step back.

What a great video! Makes me want to go shoot some film again!

Best app I've tried with conversions. Good stuff, couldn't live without it now

looks great

I enjoyed you explaining the process and preparation but can't believe you didn't finish the roll haha

Wonderful video! At 22:43, there's a quality i really like about the beginning and end frame, it tells me a story of a shy corona first hiding as the camera isn't centred, and then becoming bolder i understand limiting it to just the five, and i may just be insane just outstanding results and it was a pleasure seeing the whole process on video

I wish there was a Capture One integration, but I think I’ll have to give film lab a serious look. I’m getting into film more and so far my negative conversion methods are… imperfect. 😅

OMG this is amazing!! I'm using the free trial, definitely buying this. The colors are lovely, I really don't like to have to do color correction/callibration on my scans. I understand artists like that control, but I just want my film scans to have the colors from the Film

Does this only work for DSLR scans? What about scans from a Plustek scanner?

does "scanning device" section have Panasonic options? Specifically Full Frame.

I've been using NLP for a years now. I checked FilmLab 3 beta and it is absolutely amazing!!! I tried all hard cases that NLP had hard time with. FilmLab just processed them in great. I already bought lifetime license. This will be mine main converter starting from now on.

What would you recommend for film stocks that aren't available like Pro400H, Lomo Purple or even something like Lomo 800? Same question when using the CS-Lite in its blue mode to cancel out the orange mask. Do you have a recommendation for Lightsource?

Is there an option to view the histogram to ensure the highlights and shadows are not getting clipped?

Can the FilmLab software work with Noritsu raws?

Is FilmLab 3 natively compatible with Mac M1/M2/M3 Silicon? I couldn't find anything on line? Thanks

Are we going to see any advanced features in the IOS version and/or TH-cam videos showing users the "in's and out's" so to speak?

3.6 crashes trying to export tiffs. Does ok with jpegs though

Gotta be honest, I used to think your software was bad, now the colors are killing it. Looks brilliant!! Gonna try and compare results with nlp. Looks like I'm switching to yours 🙌

Here's my two cents for what it's worth. I've been scanning and/or printing film for over 20 years now. I also workded for Noritsu for 5 years as a service technician and instructor. DSLR scanning is advancing rapidly and the results you are getting are absolutely stunning, and in my opinion are way better than the Noritsu scans. From what I see online these days, Noritsu scans have an overall red/magenta color cast to the scans. I use a Fuji SP2000 and SP3000 scanner at the lab I run. I prefer the scans from the Fuji over the Noritsu, but no matter what scanner is being used your film is still in the hands of a film lab technician that has the final say on how your film scans look. If the person scanning your film doesn't have a really firm understading of film characteristics and color theory then you will not get good scans. The bottom line is the person scanning the film is as important as the scanner being used. With all of that said, the DSLR scans you did in this video look stunning and do look better than the Noritsu scans that were probably done in about 2-3 minutes time for the entire roll. Unfortunately, the Noritsu and Fuji scanners only let you export the scans as JPEG's or TIFF's. RAW is not an option from what I know, but I could be wrong and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am. With all that said, I'm looking to add film scanning with film sprockets included so I would love to test out Film Lab 3 once I get the Negative Supply film holder and light source. Keep up the great work with improving your software.

It just keeps getting better and better. I have been using FilmLab since version 2 and you guys have made massive improvements to each iteration. Is there any chance that you might get Olympus profiles as an option as that is what I use for all of my macro and film scanning projects?

This is absolutely amazing! I'm blown away by the improvement in this version.

What other scanning options are in the scanning device drop down?

What a HUGE improvement over the last few beta versions! Great job guys 👌

Is Filmlab still a living product? Sorry to ask the question but without any news or publication since the August announcement, I need to be reassured before subscribing. Even the blog on the website hasn't been updated in over 5 months! After a few weeks of testing (2.5 and 3.0 beta), I came to the conclusion that Filmlab is the best solution for me who wants to reproduce all my old negatives with my camera, thanks to its simplicity and efficiency. But this silence is worrying and not very normal for a company that plans to develop itself. Version 3.0 was planned for the end of 2023... if it's just a delay, it's not very serious but in this case why not simply communicate? Please take these words as a friendly question not an attack. I sincerely hope that your product has a bright future and I will be happy to contribute to it.

Where is Version 3.0? This video is now 5 Months Old!

Okay, here's an endorsement. I am a wedding photographer that shoots thousands of film frames a year. I have struggled with Labs giving my shots the time of day, so I moved to self scanning. I have been using another very popular Lightroom solution, but have never been satisfied with the results. I just tried this software on some film frames from a wedding I had already scanned, and it is the best scans I have ever achieved across any software/lab. It completely changes the game. The user interface is so easy as well. So much better than a plugin in Lightroom. I am buying a lifetime license and not looking back. What an amazing tool, you deserve all the success coming your way.

I am in the process of putting together a “digital darkroom”. Since I shoot 95% b/w film and wonder if a dedicated program is necessary or beneficial?