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DISKO Balance

Steady light, whatever the clouds were doing.

One click evens out every shot: clean exposure, natural skin, every camera matched.
Balance

Steady light, whatever the clouds were doing.

Rent it - $7.99: DISKO Balance, on disko.media Full details on disko.media

Pay once, no subscription. Every 1.x update is free; V2 comes later as a paid upgrade, and V1 keeps working.

Put Balance on a clip, or on one adjustment layer over a whole edit, and every shot is evened out to a clean, consistent Rec.709 look. Exposure is set without clipping highlights (they roll off softly) and without brightening a moody shot that is already right; white balance reads the grays in the frame; and faces are found (on macOS) so skin lands on a natural tone in every shot, whichever camera shot it. Choose a hero frame and every other shot takes on its look. Skin Tone sets how pink or golden skin should be overall, and eleven Looks (Teal & Orange, Blue Night, Moody Forest and more) go on top of the balance with skin protected. Everything is smoothed over time so the grade never pumps. It does its best work on footage that is already in Rec.709, so convert camera log with the LUT from the camera maker first; the Input menu can read common logs (S-Log3, LogC3, V-Log, Apple Log) as a rough starting point, not a replacement for that conversion.

Side A What it does

  1. Built for Rec.709 footage; Input reads common camera logs as a rough starting point
  2. Exposure with a soft highlight shoulder: no clipping, low-key shots kept low-key
  3. White balance from neutrals and faces (faces found on macOS); skin-tone line correction with a Skin Tone slider (pink to golden)
  4. Match every shot of an edit to a hero frame
  5. Eleven look presets on top of the balance, with skin protection and a Look Amount
  6. Temporal smoothing (0 to 3 s) with cut-aware weighting
  7. Protect Warm Light keeps golden light golden
  8. Analysis region controls
  9. Deterministic: the same result on every render

Side B In Effect Controls

  1. Balance Amount
  2. Target
  3. Reference Frame
  4. Input
  5. Smoothing
  6. Max Exposure Change
  7. Protect Warm Light
  8. Skin Tone
  9. Skin Correction
  10. Pixel Values
  11. Analyze Left / Top / Right / Bottom
  12. Look
  13. Look Amount

Specs

Version
1.1.0 (every 1.x update is free)
Plays in
After Effects 2024 or later, Premiere Pro 2024 or later
macOS
macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon and Intel (universal)
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Color
Follows the After Effects project's color settings (linear or video) automatically.
License
Pay once, no subscription. License codes work offline, on up to three computers you use.
Help
DISKO Motion support

Try it first. Every effect is fully featured before you buy. Renders carry a DISKO MOTION TRIAL watermark until you enter a license code. More about the trial at disko.media/motion

The box set

DISKO Motion V1

$59.99 instead of $79.90

Every disk on the shelf in one box: Typetrace, Flow, Shutter, Balance, Match, Glitch, Inferno, Unboil, Stitch and Neon. One by one they come to $79.90.

Once the disks in your caddy cost more than the box set, the caddy on disko.media swaps them for it.

The whole box set, $59.99 instead of $79.90