Monochrome March

Let me point you to the commandline version of the tool I have been using to do pretty much every monochrom edit in the past years:

I designed it (spoilerhead did the coding) many years ago, because all monochrome converters have at least on of a group of major design flaws in my opinion:

a) they try to bring film 1:1 to digital, which is a nuisance, because with digital workflow we are not limited to hardcoded films, filters or papers but can do anything parametric.

b) they work on a pure mathematical model without going for perception.

c) they ignore the fact that a good monochrome conversion has to build upon a perfect color edit. So a monochrome converter has to be the last step in the edit process, not somewhere inbetween.

If you want to try out a graphical implementation of Silicon Bonk, you would have to get a version of AfterShotPro (30 days tryout if i remember right) and install the plugin.

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