Color, effects and stabilization

Genesis comes with the finishing tools of a professional editor. You can use them:

in the Video editor, from the Effects tab of the inspector;
as standalone tools on Home;
from the CLI;
from any AI connected via MCP.

The editor's preview applies the same 3D LUT as the export (the Rust engine computes it and the GPU uses it as a texture). What you see is what you export.

#Effects tab (Video editor)

Select a video or image clip and open Effects.

Section	What it does
Color look	9 built-in looks, each with Strength: Cine (teal shadows, warm skin), Warm, Cool, Film, Vintage, Vivid, Soft, Black and white, and Day for night. Also Temperature and Tint.
LUT (.cube)	Load your camera's LUT (for example LOG → Rec.709) or one you bought. It's applied before the look. Supports 3D and 1D LUTs, with `DOMAIN_MIN/MAX`.
Green screen	Removes a green or blue background. The Eyedropper picks the color by clicking on the preview (on the original image, without effects). Adjust it with Tolerance and Edge softness; it also removes the green or blue spill from the subject. Put the clip on a track above the new background.
Detail	Sharpen, Blur, Vignette and Reduce noise. Noise reduction is only visible when exporting.
Stabilize	Removes handheld camera shake. It creates a stabilized copy and puts it on the clip; you can undo it with Ctrl+Z.

For green screen, the mask is computed on the untouched image and the color is adjusted afterwards. That way the look doesn't change what counts as background.

#Tools

Tool	What for
`video.effects`	Look, LUT, temperature and tint, vignette, sharpen, blur and noise on a video.
`video.chroma_key`	Replaces the green or blue background with an image, another video or a `#RRGGBB` color.
`video.stabilize`	Two-pass stabilization with vid.stab: analyzes the motion, smooths the path and applies an automatic zoom to hide the edges. If FFmpeg doesn't include vid.stab, it uses `deshake`.
`color.looks`	Lists the available looks.
`video.compose`	Each clip accepts `fx` with the same fields: `key`, `grade`, `vignette`, `sharpen`, `blur` and `denoise`.
Cinematic finish recipe	Stabilizes and applies a look with a soft vignette and a bit of sharpening.

#From the CLI

Green background replaced with an image:

Terminal

genesis run video.chroma_key input=interview.mp4 background=office.jpg

Cine look at 80 % with a vignette:

Terminal

genesis run video.effects input=walk.mp4 'fx={"grade":{"look":"cine","strength":0.8},"vignette":0.3}'

Camera LUT and a little warmer:

Terminal

genesis run video.effects input=clip_log.mp4 'fx={"grade":{"lut":"SLog3_to_709.cube","temperature":0.2}}'

Stabilize with 30 frames of smoothing:

Terminal

genesis run video.stabilize input=walk.mp4 smoothing=30

All together with the built-in recipe:

Terminal

genesis run recipe.acabado-cine video=walk.mp4 look=pelicula

Results are saved next to the original:

interview_fondo.mp4
walk_efectos.mp4
walk_estable.mp4
walk_pelicula.mp4

#Values

All amounts go from 0 (off) to 1.

grade

Field	Value
`look`	The look's id.
`lut`	The path to the `.cube`.
`strength`	0–1.
`temperature` and `tint`	From −1 to 1.

key

Field	Default
`color`	`#00FF00`
`similarity`	0.15
`blend`	0.08
`despill`	`true`