Colourful promotional image for split.
Colourful promotional image for split.

Split

£30.00

Split is a project-level colour tool that lets you independently control highlights and shadows with precision and ease. Each range is fully unlinked and comes with six intuitive controls — strength, hue, weight, pivot, zip, and fork — giving you complete creative freedom. A global bi-directional saturation mask allows you to limit the effect based on colour, while smart handling under the hood keeps your adjustments smooth and consistent. Designed for flexibility and clarity, Split makes it easy to craft the perfect highlight-shadow balance for bold, polished looks.

Split is a project-level colour tool that lets you independently control highlights and shadows with precision and ease. Each range is fully unlinked and comes with six intuitive controls — strength, hue, weight, pivot, zip, and fork — giving you complete creative freedom. A global bi-directional saturation mask allows you to limit the effect based on colour, while smart handling under the hood keeps your adjustments smooth and consistent. Designed for flexibility and clarity, Split makes it easy to craft the perfect highlight-shadow balance for bold, polished looks.

Look Development Bundle
Look Development Bundle
£165.00

  • This tool features a total of 13 sliders: six for highlights, six for shadows — strength, hue, weight, pivot, zip, and fork — plus a global saturation mask that modulates the entire split curve. While some of the control names may seem unconventional at first, they’ve been chosen for clarity and intuitiveness, and many will feel familiar in practice.

    Hi Strength: Controls the strength of the highlight split.

    Hi Hue: Sets the target hue for the highlight split.

    Hi Weight: Defines whether the highlight split is additive, subtractive, or a blend between both.

    Hi Pivot: Marks the starting point of the highlight split.

    Hi Zip: Marks the end point of the highlight split.

    Hi Fork: Adjusts the strength of constant hue divergence at the upper highlight range.

    Lo Strength: Sets the strength of the shadow split.

    Lo Hue: Sets the target hue for the shadow split.

    Lo Weight: Defines whether the shadow split is additive, subtractive, or a blend between both.

    Lo Pivot: Marks the starting point of the shadow split.

    Lo Zip: Marks the end point of the shadow split.

    Lo Fork: Adjusts the strength of constant hue divergence at the low shadow range.

    Sat Key: Modulates the effect in either low sat or high sat regions.

    Show Curve: Overlays the adjustment curve on the image.

    Highlight Sat: Displays the isolated sat key over a checkerboard to preview the affected area.

  • This tool is currently designed specifically for use with DaVinci Intermediate. Support for additional transfer curves may be added in future updates based on user feedback and requests.

  • Split is a look-development tool best used toward the back end of your image pipeline, such as within a post-group or timeline adjustment that affects your entire project. Since it’s designed for DaVinci Intermediate, it should be applied before your output display transform. While I wouldn’t recommend Split for shot-level grading due to its built-in restrictions, it’s perfect for building consistent project-wide looks. The exact placement of a Split scheme alongside other look-development adjustments, like Contrast or Palette-based tools, is flexible and encouraged—experimenting with their order can help you achieve the best creative results.

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