Pomfort Livegrade

What Pomfort Livegrade is

Pomfort Livegrade is a macOS application for DITs and directors of photography who need to manage a camera’s live image during film and other production workflows. Its primary and secondary grading tools work with SDR and HDR displays, and its look pipelines support ASC-CDL with LUT, ACES, FilmLight, and camera-specific options. Livegrade can monitor simultaneous feeds in multi-view, create tailored output views, and handle up to 4K/UHD. A shot library keeps production media, metadata, and looks organized as an automatic shot log. It can package references, looks, and metadata for downstream departments; when used with Silverstack Lab, look matching for dailies can be automated. Supported look devices include AJA ColorBox, AJA FS-HDR, Flanders Scientific BoxIO, Teradek COLR, and TVLogic IS-mini. Optional modules add synchronized multi-camera playback and audio, more outputs and streaming, keying and compositing, extra I/O capacity, or LED processing and control. Livegrade Frontier also supports OpenFX 1.5-or-newer image-effect plugins as nodes in its look pipeline. The standard edition allows up to three individual outputs, expandable to six with the Outputs and Streaming module.

Who it suits

Livegrade suits DITs and DPs managing looks and live camera images in production workflows, especially when they need HDR grading, multi-view monitoring, or a shot log. It can also suit teams handing looks and metadata to downstream departments or using compatible devices and optional modules.

Limits

The standard edition supports up to three individual outputs; the Outputs and Streaming module can extend that to six. The I/O Pack lists up to 50 input slots. The 10-day trial adds a watermark to created or exported stills and recorded clips.

Getting started

1. Visit the Pomfort Livegrade website.
2. Use the 10-day trial, or choose a Standard license: yearly subscription or a temporary 10-day, one-month, or two-month license.
3. Install and use it on a macOS machine; the yearly subscription covers one machine for one year.
4. Add optional extension modules if you need capabilities such as more outputs, extra I/O, or LED processing.

Verdict

Choose Livegrade if you need production-focused live image and look management, SDR/HDR grading, and a handover path for looks and metadata. Look elsewhere if you need a platform other than macOS or require more than three standard outputs without an extension module.