How to install PowerGrades and effects in DaVinci Resolve

Open the Color page, right-click anywhere in the Gallery panel and choose Import. Select the .drx file and it appears as a still. Right-click that still and choose Apply Grade, or drag it onto a clip. The whole labelled node tree comes with it — you are not applying a flattened look, you are dropping in the tree itself.

Double-click the .drfx file while Resolve is closed and it installs itself into the effects library. If Resolve is already open, quit and reopen it — the library is only read at startup. The effect then appears under Effects, in the Open FX category, and you drag it onto a clip like any native effect.

On macOS: /Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/LUT/. On Windows: C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\LUT\. Drop the .dctl file there, then in Resolve open Project Settings, Color Management, and click Update Lists. The DCTL appears in the DaVinci CTL node's dropdown.

That means the .cube files shipped alongside the .drx have not been copied into your LUT folder yet, so Resolve cannot resolve the reference. Copy the whole LUT folder from the download into the LUT path above, then click Update Lists in Project Settings, Color Management. Reapply the grade and the node resolves. This is the single most common install issue, and it is not a fault with the grade.

The PowerGrades and every Fusion effect work in the free version. DCTLs — currently Lens Flare — require DaVinci Resolve Studio, because Blackmagic restricts DCTL support to the paid version. Each product page states which of the two it needs.

Resolve 18, 19 and 20 on macOS, Windows and Linux. Older projects made in 17 will usually open the grades, but we do not test against it and cannot support it.

The PowerGrades ship with conversions for Sony S-Log3, Canon C-Log3, Panasonic V-Log, ARRI LogC3, Blackmagic RAW and DJI D-Log. If your camera is not on that list, bring your footage into the same color space with your own conversion first, and the rest of the tree behaves normally.

The PowerGrades and effects are built on Resolve's node graph and Fusion, so they do not transfer. The SFX Pack is plain 48 kHz WAV and works anywhere.

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