Visual Consistency
Across every scene
Multi-model AI produces stunning individual shots. It also produces five different color palettes, lighting temperatures, and contrast levels. Athaia's grading pipeline unifies every scene into one consistent cinematic look — automatically.
Before & after color grading
Before
After
The problem with multi-model AI
Five models. Five color palettes.
Runway outputs warm, cinematic tones. Kling skews cooler and more saturated. Sora has its own signature look. Stack them into a 10-minute video without grading and you get something that looks like a ransom note — technically impressive shot by shot, visually incoherent as a whole. Professional color grading is the step that turns AI clips into a film.
The Problem
Why color grading matters for AI video
When you use multiple AI models, each produces clips with different color profiles, contrast, and tone. Without grading, the final video looks like a patchwork.
Without Color Grading
Each model outputs a different visual profile. Cutting between them feels jarring and unprofessional.
With Athaia Color Grading
After LUT-based grading, every clip shares the same color palette, contrast, and tone. The video feels like one cohesive piece.
Technical Pipeline
How the grading pipeline works
A three-stage FFmpeg pipeline that normalizes, grades, and finalizes every clip before assembly.
Color Normalization
Each clip is analyzed for color space, gamma, and white balance. FFmpeg normalizes all clips to a consistent base — Rec.709 color space, balanced exposure, neutral white point.
Input normalization via FFmpeg color filters
LUT Application
A professional-grade 3D LUT (Look-Up Table) is applied to every normalized clip. The LUT transforms colors to match the chosen cinematic preset — from documentary natural to Hollywood teal & orange.
3D LUT color transformation via lut3d filter
Final Polish
Micro-adjustments for contrast curve, shadow lift, highlight roll-off, and subtle vignetting. This stage ensures the grade looks natural and doesn't clip highlights or crush blacks.
curves, colorbalance, and vignette filters
Film Look Presets
Choose your cinematic style
Select a preset or let Athaia choose the best one for your content. Each preset is a carefully calibrated LUT designed for specific genres.
Documentary Natural
Clean, naturalistic grade with slightly desaturated tones and lifted blacks. Inspired by BBC Earth and National Geographic productions.
Look: Natural tones, cool shadows, warm highlights
Cinematic Orange & Teal
The classic Hollywood blockbuster look. Warm skin tones pushed toward orange, cool shadows shifted to teal. High contrast.
Look: Orange highlights, teal shadows, high contrast
Noir
Heavily desaturated with deep blacks and dramatic contrast. Subtle cool tone cast. Vignetting applied at the edges.
Look: Desaturated, deep blacks, cool cast
Vintage Film
Emulates analog film stock with faded blacks, subtle grain enhancement, and warm color shift. Nostalgic, timeless feel.
Look: Faded blacks, warm shift, film grain
Vivid
Enhanced saturation with punchy colors and bright highlights. Clean, modern look ideal for educational and explainer content.
Look: High saturation, bright, clean tones
Monochrome
Full black-and-white conversion with fine-tuned luminance channels. Dramatic contrast curve with rich shadow detail.
Look: Black & white, high contrast, rich shadows
Source-agnostic
Doesn't matter if a clip came from Runway, Sora, Kling, or Veo. The normalization step brings all clips to the same baseline before grading.
Batch processing
All 60-80 clips in a documentary are processed through the pipeline simultaneously. Color grading an entire video takes seconds, not hours.
Professional quality
LUTs are the same technology used in Hollywood post-production. The same color science that grades feature films now grades your AI video.
Output
What you actually get
Raw footage
Flat, desaturated · No color science applied
After Athaia grading
Cinema LUT applied · Deep ocean grade · Teal-orange color story
LUT applied uniformly across all 67 scenes · Consistent look, zero manual work
Cinema-grade color in every video
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