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Autodesk Lustre
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre 2025 subscription | last Lustre release · Autodesk stopped selling or renewing 3-year Lustre subscriptions on May 7, 2024 | On request |
As autodesk.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Autodesk Lustre's own pages
- Animation
- The Channel Editor uses keyframes and interpolation curves to animate grading parameters and Sparks effects. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Color management
- Lustre supports floating-point scene-linear workflows, legacy 1D and 3D LUTs, Autodesk transforms and ACES input transforms. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company facts
- Autodesk reports that it was founded in 1982, is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and had about 14,300 employees worldwide as of January 31, 2026. · autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Autodesk's corporate materials identify the maker as Autodesk, Inc. · investors.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The Lustre 2025 help hub includes release notes, what's new, installation, keyboard shortcuts, workflow, interface, interoperability, grading, secondaries, stereoscopy and rendering topics. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Dolby Vision
- Dolby Vision mastering uses a connected Content Mapping Unit and 12-bit video raster to create real-time trim-pass metadata for lower-dynamic-range displays. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Flame-family integration
- Autodesk documents Lustre alongside Flame, Flare and Flame Assist, with Wiretap Gateway, Lustre Burn and Lustre SR components. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1982 · autodesk.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Grade preservation
- Grades are stored as shot metadata, leaving the original image media unchanged. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California · autodesk.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Independent discontinuation record
- Wikipedia records April 11, 2024 as the discontinuation date, with Lustre 2025 as the final version. · en.wikipedia.org, 15 Oct 2026
- Independent hardware note
- Wikipedia describes CPU and GPU optimization for real-time playback of high-resolution grading media. · en.wikipedia.org, 15 Oct 2026
- Independent history
- Wikipedia reports that Lustre began as Colorfront's Colossus and originated as a Flame plug-in called Colorstar. · en.wikipedia.org, 15 Oct 2026
- Independent listing reviews
- Diskod's Lustre listing shows no customer reviews and a review count of zero. · diskod.ma, 15 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Installers are downloaded through an Autodesk Account; trial and educational versions are not separate downloads. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- License model
- Autodesk lists Lustre under single-user and multi-user commercial entitlements with product code K100. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: performance
- A longtime user on Logik Forum said Flame grading was less performant than Lustre on the same hardware. · forum.logik.tv, 15 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn company profile
- LinkedIn lists Autodesk as a public software-development company founded in 1982, headquartered in San Francisco, with more than 10,000 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Multi-user licensing
- Multi-user licensing uses a local network license server and can be borrowed for temporary offline use. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- Autodesk's September 6, 2007 release said Lustre 2008 added a multilayer timeline, ASC-CDL support, automatic region tracking and more GPU-accelerated grading. · investors.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Platform support
- The 2025 licensing table lists Lustre entitlement on Linux and none on macOS. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Praise: workflow flexibility
- The same Logik Forum user described Flame as more flexible and powerful after moving from Lustre. · forum.logik.tv, 15 Oct 2026
- Primary grading
- The application provides interactive grading for continuity work and artistic looks in logarithmic or linear color spaces. · help.autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Product discontinuation
- Autodesk announced on April 11, 2024 that Lustre 2025 would be the final release and that no further features or updates would be developed. · autodesk.com, 15 Oct 2026
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