Roundup

Colour grading plugins for Premiere Pro, compared

Updated 2026-11-03 · by the mouzeclick team

For film looks inside the Premiere Pro timeline, Dehancer and FilmConvert Nitrate are the closest fits, and Magic Bullet Looks suits editors already on a Red Giant subscription. Colourlab Ai works outside Premiere, swapping timelines through OTIO, and needs an Apple Silicon Mac. mouzegrade, which we make, covers scopes, looks, .cube LUTs and clip matching on Windows and Mac.

FilmConvert Nitrate is listed from $119, one-time purchase. Its watermarked trial has no time limit.
Dehancer lists 60+ films, 130+ camera log profiles and 8 halation profiles.
Magic Bullet Looks comes with the Red Giant subscription. Maxon's trial is 14 days, and the price is not published on the pages we read.
Colourlab Ai 4: $49/month, $399/year or $799 perpetual. It needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later.
mouzegrade (ours): waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope with a skin line, histogram and .cube LUTs, on Windows and Mac.
All prices and platforms were checked on 3 November 2026.

How did we pick these Premiere Pro colour grading plugins?

We picked five tools that grade clips or add film looks for Premiere Pro. On 3 November 2026 we read each maker's own pages for the price as shown, platforms, host apps, trial and licence. Where a page left something out, we wrote “Not published” rather than guess.

We make mouzeclick, and mouzegrade is one of its extensions. It has its own labelled section and does not sit at the top.

What we checked for each tool:

Where it runs. Inside the Premiere timeline as an effect, or as a separate app you send the timeline to.
What it is for. Correction and matching, creative looks, or film emulation with halation and grain.
Windows and Mac. As the maker states it.
How you pay. Subscription, one payment or both, and how long the trial runs.

We did not rank by image quality, because that depends on your footage and your taste. We did not time renders either.

Premiere's own colour tools have their own guide: auto colour correction in Premiere Pro. For plugins that do other jobs, see Premiere Pro plugins sorted by job.

One naming note: Adobe says Premiere Pro is now simply called Adobe Premiere. We keep “Premiere Pro” because that is what people type.

Which colour grading plugins work with Premiere Pro, side by side?

These are the five tools, checked on 3 November 2026. Each price is copied as the maker's page showed it.

Product	Price as shown (3 Nov 2026)	Platforms	Host apps	Best for
Magic Bullet Looks (Maxon Red Giant)	Not published; part of the Red Giant subscription, also in Maxon One	Windows, macOS	After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Unreal Engine, Autograph, Cinema 4D	Looks and film emulation plus the wider Red Giant toolkit
Dehancer (Premiere Pro & After Effects)	Subscription or lifetime licence; amounts not shown	Not published	Premiere, After Effects, Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Baselight, SCRATCH, Vegas Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One Pro, Affinity	Film stocks with halation, bloom and grain
FilmConvert Nitrate	from $119, one-time purchase	Windows 10/11, macOS 13+ (download page, not labelled per plugin)	FilmConvert plugins: Premiere Pro, Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, Photoshop	Paying once after an untimed, watermarked trial
Colourlab Ai 4	$49/month, $399/year or $799 perpetual	Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14+; Windows “coming soon”	Workflows for Resolve, Premiere Pro (OTIO round trip), Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer	Grading a timeline outside Premiere on an Apple Silicon Mac
mouzegrade (we make it)	$25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys	Windows 10/11, macOS 12+	Premiere Pro, After Effects	Scopes, looks, .cube LUTs and clip matching on the clip

Two columns need a caveat:

FilmConvert lists host apps and requirements for its plugins as a group, not for Nitrate alone.
Maxon says support can vary by tool and host version, and keeps a per-tool compatibility matrix on another page.

What does Magic Bullet Looks do in Premiere Pro?

Magic Bullet Looks is Maxon's colour grading and film emulation plugin, and it runs natively in the Premiere Pro timeline. It is part of Red Giant, Maxon's toolkit for motion graphics, effects and post-production. It comes with the Red Giant subscription.

Host apps. Maxon lists seven hosts for Magic Bullet Looks: After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Unreal Engine, Autograph and Cinema 4D. Maxon notes that support can vary by tool and host version, so check yours if you work in more than one app.

What else the subscription brings.

Universe: transitions, stylization and text effects that also run in a Premiere timeline.
Trapcode Particular and Form, for particles in After Effects.
Real Lens Flares.
The Maxon Studio template library.
Capsules assets.

If you would use those, the colour tools come along with them.

Price. Maxon's colour grading page says the colour tools are part of the Red Giant subscription, which is also included in Maxon One. It gives no price. We could not read a plan price from the buy page either, so the table says Not published. Maxon publishes no standalone price for Magic Bullet.

Trial and platforms. The trial runs 14 days through the Maxon App. It includes Red Giant, Cinema 4D, Redshift and the full Maxon One suite, and only the latest releases are offered as trials. Red Giant tools run on Windows and macOS.

Best for: editors who want looks plus Universe and Trapcode in one subscription, across several host apps.

Is Dehancer a good Premiere Pro plugin for film looks?

Yes, if film emulation is the job. Dehancer sells a version for Premiere Pro and After Effects that it pitches as cinematic grading “without LUTs”. The product page has a Download & Try option.

What it emulates. Dehancer's features page and home page list:

60+ films and 130+ camera log profiles
two motion picture print films: Kodak Vision Color Print Film 2383 and Fujicolor Positive Film Eterna-CP 3513DI
halation with 8 profiles and custom adjustments
film grain rebuilt by an algorithm rather than a scanned overlay, with profiles for 8, 16, 35 and 65 mm film plus custom settings
bloom, with profiles for the same four formats plus custom settings

Host apps. Dehancer is a plugin for eleven hosts:

DaVinci Resolve, Baselight and Assimilate SCRATCH
Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Adobe Premiere and Vegas Pro
Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One Pro and Affinity

The Resolve version lists more. Dehancer Pro for Resolve lists a LUT Generator, Film Damage, Overscan, and DaVinci Wide Gamut, ACES and Cineon pipelines. Those are listed for Resolve only, so don't assume each one exists in the Premiere version. A free Dehancer Monitor, with false colours and clipping indication, is also listed for the Resolve OFX line only.

Price and trial. The Premiere Pro and After Effects product comes as a subscription or a lifetime licence. The page showed no amounts, and the trial length is not published. The pages we read didn't state Windows or Mac requirements, so check the download before you rely on it.

Best for: editors who want a named film stock, a print film, and halation, bloom and grain in one effect.

What do you get with FilmConvert Nitrate?

Nitrate is FilmConvert's film-look plugin. It is listed “from $119” as a one-time purchase, with no subscription. FilmConvert says Nitrate brings the look of analogue film to digital footage.

What it does. FilmConvert says its plugins combine five things:

film emulation
natural grain
halation
diffusion
camera matching

It says they integrate with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Lightroom and Photoshop. The home page describes the plugins together, so it doesn't say which hosts or features belong to Nitrate alone.

The trial. This is the most relaxed trial in the list. You get full access to the controls and no time limit. Footage stays watermarked until you activate a licence, so you can grade a whole project first and buy at the end.

Requirements. The download page lists two blocks for Adobe hosts:

Windows 10 or 11, Adobe CC 2018+, and CUDA 10.1+ or OpenCL 1.1+
macOS 13+ and Adobe CC 2018+, Apple Silicon compatible

It also lists blocks for Premiere Pro 2025 or later, one of them needing macOS 15 Sequoia. None of the blocks is labelled by product, so read the one shown for the plugin you pick.

Price detail. What the “from” price covers, such as which hosts or tiers, is not published.

Best for: editors who want film looks with grain and halation, paid once, after a long trial on their own footage.

How does Colourlab Ai work with Premiere Pro?

Colourlab Ai is not a Premiere plug-in. Its Premiere Pro workflow FAQ says it exchanges timelines through OTIO and returns rendered media. You grade in Colourlab and bring finished clips back.

Limits of the Premiere round trip, as Colourlab states them:

video layers and audio come in; graphics are skipped
multicam and nested sequences are not currently supported
adjustments, film emulation and skin processing are baked into the rendered media, not returned as editable effects

Other editors. With DaVinci Resolve Studio connected, the workflow fetches the timeline, balances the clips in Colourlab and pushes the result back. Pushing overwrites the grade on the clips it touches. Colourlab also lists workflows for Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer.

Price and trial. Colourlab Ai 4 costs $49 a month, $399 a year or $799 perpetual.

The subscription includes every product except Filmlab Ai.
The perpetual licence includes free updates and one free major-version upgrade.
The trial is 14 days, started through the Houston app.

Platform. Houston needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) on macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Colourlab says Windows and Intel Mac support are coming soon. On 3 November 2026 neither was listed as available.

Best for: editors on Apple Silicon Macs who want a timeline graded outside Premiere and are fine getting rendered media back.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it): mouzegrade

mouzegrade is our point-and-click grading panel for Premiere Pro and After Effects, on Windows and Mac. It is one of mouzeclick's 22 extensions, and the one that runs in both editors.

What is in it.

scopes: waveform, RGB parade, a vectorscope with a skin line, and a histogram
six built-in looks
.cube LUTs, so the LUTs you already own load in (see free LUTs for Premiere Pro)
matching clips to a reference
the grade written as an ordinary colour effect on the clip

The mouzegrade feature library page lists all 47 items.

What it needs. mouzeclick must be installed on the same computer and running while you work. The app needs an internet connection while it runs.

Install the bridge once from the app's Tool wheel page.
Restart Premiere Pro.
Open the panel from Window › Extensions.

Our guide to installing Premiere Pro extensions covers the general case. Apple has not notarized the Mac app yet, so the Mac install steps show how to allow it once. There is no published minimum Premiere Pro version, so check yours during the trial.

Price and trial. mouzegrade isn't sold alone. It comes with the one mouzeclick plan (see pricing), which also includes the mouse app, its wheels and the other 21 extensions. The trial is 3 days with no card, and every Premiere Pro and After Effects tool works fully.

The two workspaces, captions and Retakes are Windows only. mouzegrade is not.

Where it is not the pick.

mouzegrade lists no film stock emulation, halation or grain. For film looks, Dehancer or FilmConvert Nitrate is the better choice.
mouzeclick has no DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut panel. If you also grade there, Magic Bullet Looks or Dehancer covers those hosts.

Best for: correcting and matching clips with scopes, looks and your own .cube LUTs inside Premiere Pro or After Effects.

Which Premiere Pro plugin adds halation, grain and bloom?

Dehancer publishes the most detail on halation, grain and bloom. FilmConvert lists halation, natural grain and diffusion for its plugins. Try those two first for a cinematic film finish.

Product	Halation	Grain	Bloom or diffusion
Dehancer	8 profiles plus custom adjustments	Rebuilt by algorithm; 8, 16, 35 and 65 mm profiles plus custom	Bloom: 8, 16, 35 and 65 mm profiles plus custom
FilmConvert (plugins as a group)	Listed	Natural grain listed	Diffusion listed
Magic Bullet Looks	Not published	Not published	Not published
Colourlab Ai	Not published (film emulation comes back baked in)	Not published	Not published
mouzegrade (ours)	Not in its feature list	Not in its feature list	Not in its feature list

Test it on the right shot. Dehancer describes halation as a red-orange halo around light sources, highlights and contrasting edges. Test it on a shot with a bright window or a practical light, not a flat interview.

Check it at full size. Grain and halation are easy to misjudge in a scaled-down preview. Look at an exported file at full size before you commit a whole project to a look.

The others. Maxon calls Magic Bullet colour grading and film emulation, but the pages we checked list no halation or grain controls. We haven't credited it with them. Colourlab Ai's film emulation is baked into the media it returns, so you can't fine-tune it later inside Premiere.

How do you choose a colour grading plugin for Premiere Pro?

Decide where the grade has to live, then check your computer, then how you want to pay. Go through these in order:

Inside the timeline or a round trip? Magic Bullet Looks, Dehancer, FilmConvert Nitrate and mouzegrade work on clips in Premiere. Colourlab Ai sends rendered media back. Graphics are skipped, and it doesn't take multicam or nested sequences.
Your system.
- On Windows, Colourlab Ai isn't available yet.
- Red Giant tools and mouzegrade run on Windows and macOS. mouzegrade needs Windows 10 or 11, or macOS 12 or newer.
- FilmConvert's Adobe requirements start at Windows 10 or macOS 13.
Correction or a look?
- Fixing exposure and matching shots with scopes: mouzegrade.
- Film stock looks: Dehancer or FilmConvert.
- Looks plus a large effects toolkit: Magic Bullet Looks.
How you pay.
- FilmConvert Nitrate: one payment.
- Dehancer: subscription or lifetime.
- Colourlab Ai: monthly, yearly or perpetual.
- Red Giant: subscription.
Count the host too. Adobe sells Premiere only as a membership, from US$22.99/mo on an annual plan billed monthly. That price is for the first year and new subscribers only, on Adobe's US page.
Trial on your own footage.
- FilmConvert: watermarked, no time limit.
- Maxon and Colourlab: 14 days.
- mouzeclick: 3 days, no card.
- Adobe's Premiere trial: macOS and Windows, no charge until it ends.
Grade the same three shots in each: a face in daylight, a night exterior and a backlit shot.
Other editors. If you also cut in Resolve, see the DaVinci Resolve plugins roundup and our Premiere Pro vs DaVinci Resolve comparison.

How do you apply grading effects faster in Premiere Pro?

Put the effects you use most behind a search box, a wheel or a mouse button, so you stop hunting for them. mouzeclick does this on Windows and Mac, with whatever grading plugins you have installed.

Search effects finds every installed effect and transition, plug-ins included. Exact and word-start matches come first, after your 12 most recent picks. Enter applies the effect. Shift+Enter applies it and pins it to the Tool wheel. See Search effects.
The Premiere Pro Tool wheel holds 112 tools in 12 segments, your installed effects among them. Open it with F10 or a held right button, then flick.
Per-app mouse buttons. A side button can open the Tool wheel in Premiere and do something else in every other app. Each button has eleven slots: tap, hold and move in four directions, a chord with another button, or hold and scroll. The guide to Premiere Pro mouse shortcuts walks through the setup.

The full set is on the Premiere Pro and After Effects tools page.

Try mouzegrade's scopes, looks and .cube LUTs in Premiere Pro, free for 3 days. One plan with everything included, $25 a month, or $249 for a year.

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Questions people ask

Is there a free colour grading plugin for Premiere Pro?

None of the five tools here is free outright. The closest is FilmConvert Nitrate's trial. It gives full access to the controls with no time limit, but footage stays watermarked until you buy a licence. Maxon and Colourlab Ai offer 14-day trials, and mouzeclick gives 3 days with no card. Dehancer's free Dehancer Monitor is listed for the Resolve OFX line, not Premiere. Free .cube LUTs are another route, and mouzegrade loads them.

What is the best Premiere Pro looks plugin?

For ready looks inside the Premiere Pro timeline, try Magic Bullet Looks and Dehancer first. Magic Bullet Looks comes with the Red Giant subscription and runs in seven host apps, which helps if you switch editors. Dehancer leans on film, with 60+ films, 130+ camera log profiles and two print films. FilmConvert Nitrate suits you if you want to pay once. mouzegrade, which we make, has six built-in looks plus .cube LUTs.

Which Premiere Pro halation plugin should I use?

Try Dehancer first. It publishes 8 halation profiles with custom adjustments, and describes halation as a red-orange halo around light sources, highlights and contrasting edges. FilmConvert also lists halation for its plugins, alongside natural grain and diffusion, but doesn't break features down per plugin. The Magic Bullet and Colourlab Ai pages we checked on 3 November 2026 list no halation controls. mouzegrade has none in its feature list.

Can I buy a Premiere Pro colour grading plugin once instead of subscribing?

Yes. FilmConvert Nitrate is listed from $119 as a one-time purchase with no subscription. Dehancer offers a lifetime licence for its Premiere Pro and After Effects product, but its page showed no amount. Colourlab Ai 4 has a $799 perpetual licence with free updates and one free major-version upgrade. Red Giant is a subscription. mouzeclick sells lifetime keys at $499, only the first 100 of them, and mouzegrade is included.

Do these colour grading plugins work on a Mac?

Most do, with conditions. Red Giant tools run on Windows and macOS. FilmConvert's Adobe requirements list macOS 13 or newer, Apple Silicon compatible. Colourlab Ai needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later, and it has no Windows version yet. mouzegrade runs on macOS 12 or newer, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Dehancer's pages we read don't state system requirements, so check its download before buying.

Is Colourlab Ai a plugin inside Premiere Pro?

No. Colourlab says its Premiere Pro workflow is not a direct plug-in connection. It exchanges timelines through OTIO and returns rendered media. Graphics are skipped, and multicam and nested sequences are not currently supported. Adjustments, film emulation and skin processing come back baked in, not as editable effects. If you want a grade you can still adjust on the clip, an in-timeline plugin suits you better.

Can I use .cube LUTs with a Premiere Pro grading plugin?

Yes, with mouzegrade: it loads .cube LUTs alongside its six built-in looks, scopes and clip matching. Dehancer goes the other way. Its Premiere Pro and After Effects product is pitched as cinematic grading without LUTs, though its Resolve Pro line does list a LUT Generator. The FilmConvert, Magic Bullet and Colourlab pages we checked don't mention LUT import, so we haven't listed it for them.

Which of these plugins also work in DaVinci Resolve?

Magic Bullet Looks, Dehancer and FilmConvert's plugins all list DaVinci Resolve. Colourlab Ai has a Resolve Studio workflow that fetches the timeline, balances the clips and pushes the grade back, overwriting the old grade on those clips. mouzegrade does not run in Resolve, because mouzeclick has no Resolve panel. Its mouse app, wheels and gestures still work in Resolve like in any other app.

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.