What is Sharpen for DaVinci Resolve?

Sharpen is the £34.99 Oculis Studio flagship OFX for putting bite back into soft CG, graded plates, hair, metal, texture, and type. It is a detail tool, not a generic unsharp-mask dump.

How is Sharpen different from Resolve Sharpen?

Stock Sharpen hits the whole image, so most people leave it off. This OFX puts bite where it needs to be: hair, metal, geo, and type after the grade. The product page compares original, Oculis, and Resolve Sharpen on a wide plate. Hair at viewer times six is original against Oculis.

Is Sharpen on sale yet?

Sharpen is £34.99 at first checkout. That is the early price. Checkout is not live yet; use the notify link on this page and we will email you when it opens. As features land, the public price goes up. Early buyers keep those features in the same licence.

It is a DaVinci Resolve OFX. Install notes ship with the download. Typical path is the OFX plugins folder, then a Resolve restart.

Extreme close-up of an edge with Sharpen on: hair, metal, or CG bevel

Last-node sharpen for Resolve.

Name: Sharpen
Brand: Oculis Studio
Author: Oculis Studio

Hair, metal and type pick up. Skin stays out of it.

£34.99Early price. One payment. Owner updates.

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Same frame, with and without.

Left is unsharpened. Right is this OFX. Same playhead, so you can see what it actually does to the plate.

Unsharpened plate, same framing as the crunch side

Unsharpened Sharpen on

Night, motion, skin.

The plates you usually leave alone, because stock sharpen wrecks the noise. This one is meant to sit on those shots.

Night plate with Sharpen applied to a moving, low-light shot

Unsharpened night plate with motion blur

Unsharpened Sharpen on

Against Resolve Sharpen.

Stock Sharpen hits everything, so most people leave it off. This is for hair, lace, rock, metal and CG edges.

Wide Fit in the viewer

Wide plate with Oculis Sharpen on hair, lace, and mountain texture

Original Oculis Resolve

Original Oculis Resolve Sharpen

DJI Nano.

Small sensor, so the plate goes a bit mushy. Use the button to turn Sharpen on.

Same DJI Nano plate with Sharpen recovering small-sensor detail

Hair at viewer ×6.

This is usually where a soft export starts looking unfinished.

Hair Viewer ×6

Viewer ×6

Hair at viewer times six with Oculis Sharpen

Hair at viewer times six with no sharpen

Original Oculis

How we use it.

Last node, after the look is signed off.

CGI

After the grade. No fat halo.

CGI stone head in jungle with Sharpen on geo and surface texture

CGI stone head in jungle with no Sharpen

Original Sharpen on

Live action

Finished commercial grade.

Pre-graded fish and chips plate with Sharpen recovering breading and print texture

Sony FS700

Older plate, same last node.

FS700 library portrait with Sharpen on hair, smoke, and fabric

Original Sharpen on

Drop it last.

Once the look is approved and the image still feels a bit soft. The grade stays. The detail comes back.

Host: DaVinci Resolve OFX
Use: CG and graded plates
License: £34.99, commercial use
Updates: Every new feature, free

DaVinci Resolve Inspector with the Sharpen OFX controls visible

License

£34.99 if you buy early.

First checkout is £34.99. As we add features, the public price goes up. Buy at this price and those features stay in your licence. No second payment.

Early

£34.99 at first checkout. Commercial use. One payment.
Later

The public price rises when new features land.
If you bought early

You keep the plugin, including whatever we add after. No upgrade SKU.

Questions

What is Sharpen?

A £34.99 flagship DaVinci Resolve OFX for edge crunch and texture on CG renders and graded plates. Hair, metal, geo, type. It is a detail tool, not a default unsharp mask.

How is this different from Resolve Sharpen?

Stock Sharpen hits the whole image, so most people leave it off. This OFX puts bite where it needs to be: hair, metal, geo, type. Drag both splits on the wide plate: original, then ours, then Resolve Sharpen.

Is it on sale?

Sharpen is £34.99 at first checkout. That is the early price. Checkout is not live yet, so hit Notify me and we will email you when it opens. When we add features, the public price goes up. If you bought at this price, those features stay in your licence.

Client work and updates?

Commercial use is included. One payment. New features stay free for people who already bought it. No subscription and no upgrade SKU. Later buyers pay whatever the public price is at the time.

How do I install it?

OFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve. Notes ship with the download. Typical install is the OFX plugins folder, then a Resolve restart. Exact supported Resolve versions will be listed on the download.

Not on sale yet.