Extreme close-up of an edge with Sharpen on: hair, metal, or CG bevel
Macro money shot 01-hero-detail.jpg 1600 × 2000 · 4:5 · or 01-hero-detail.mp4 (4-7s mute loop)

Drop a tight macro here: hair, metal, fabric, or a CG edge. Sharpen already on. This is the first thing people see.

Last-node sharpen for Resolve.

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

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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.

Same frame with Sharpen applied
Sharpen on 03-crunch.jpg 1920 × 1080 · 16:9 · pixel-locked to 02

Same frame, Sharpen on. Readable subject. Edges should bite at web size. Avoid ringing and white rims.

Unsharpened plate, same framing as the crunch side
Before 02-soft.jpg 1920 × 1080 · 16:9 · identical camera to 03

Same still as 03-crunch.jpg with no OFX. Pick a subject with hair, type, or a hard CG edge so the compare is obvious. Export both from one playhead.

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
Sharpen on after.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same playhead as before.jpg, Sharpen on. Keep motion blur as motion. Recover skin, blood, and metal without crunching the noise.

Unsharpened night plate with motion blur
Before before.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

The raw night plate. Motion blur, low key, blood, metal.

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 DaVinci Resolve Sharpen
Resolve Sharpen hair-wide-davinci.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same wide frame, stock Resolve Sharpen.

Wide plate with Oculis Sharpen on hair, lace, and mountain texture
Oculis hair-wide-oculis.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same wide frame, Oculis Sharpen on.

Wide plate with no sharpen
Original hair-wide-original.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same wide frame, no sharpen.

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.

DJI Nano lake plate, unsharpened Same DJI Nano plate with Sharpen recovering small-sensor detail
Small sensor small-sensor-before.jpg 3840 × 2880 · toggle to small-sensor-sharp.jpg

DJI Nano plate, then Sharpen. Use the button to switch.

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
Oculis hair-close-oculis.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · viewer ×6

Same hair, Oculis Sharpen, exported from the viewer at ×6.

Hair at viewer times six with no sharpen
Original hair-close-original.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · viewer ×6

Same hair, no sharpen, exported from the viewer at ×6.

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
Sharpen on cgi-sharp.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same playhead as cgi-before.jpg, Sharpen on. Stone, geo, and foliage bite without a fat halo.

CGI stone head in jungle with no Sharpen
Before cgi-before.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

The unsharpened render. Soft geo after the grade.

Original Sharpen on

Live action

Finished commercial grade.

Pre-graded fish and chips plate with Sharpen recovering breading and print texture
Graded plate 11-grade.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

A finished live-action grade with Sharpen last. Texture on food, print, and metal. Proves it is not only a CG tool.

Sony FS700

Older plate, same last node.

FS700 library portrait with Sharpen on hair, smoke, and fabric
Sharpen on fs700-sharp.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same FS700 playhead, Sharpen on. Hair and smoke should bite without a fat halo.

Unsharpened Sony FS700 library portrait
Before fs700-before.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

The raw FS700 plate. Soft hair, smoke, books.

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
In Resolve 08-inspector.jpg 1600 × 1200 · 4:3

Inspector with Sharpen selected. Dark Resolve theme. Crop tight on the plugin so knob names read at 800px wide.

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.

  1. Early

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

  2. Later

    The public price rises when new features land.

  3. If you bought early

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

Questions

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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Graded live-action plate with Sharpen last: breading, paper and metal
Graded plate 11-grade.jpg 3840 × 2160 · 16:9

Same still as above. Kept in frame so the texture holds.

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