The Colourlab AI Alternative for Real Estate Videography | Leumos AI

I've been a colourist for four years and a cinematographer for longer than that. Before I started building Leumos AI, I spent most of 2024 and 2025 testing every AI grading tool I could get a licence for — Colourlab AI, fylm.ai, color.io, Dehancer, FilmConvert Nitrate — running them against the kind of footage I see most often from working real estate shooters: an FX30 interior at 3200K, a Mavic 3 exterior at noon, a DJI Pocket 3 walk-through, all stitched into a 90-second listing reel due Friday at 5pm.

If you're a property videographer turning out 4 to 10 listings a week at anywhere from $250 to $1,500 a pop, you already know the math. The grade is the difference between a $400 reel that looks like a phone tour and a $1,200 reel that looks like the kind of work BoxBrownie or @virtualpropertytours puts on a Dubai luxury listing. But you don't have eight hours per property to sit in Resolve building node trees. You need consistency, and you need it fast.

That's the brief. So let's talk about Colourlab AI honestly, and then where a browser-based tool fits.

What Colourlab AI gets right

Colourlab AI is a serious piece of software. Dado Valentic and his team built it around an ACES 16-stop processing pipeline, which means it's working in a wide-gamut linear space the way the high-end episodic and feature world does. The AI Match engine — particularly in Colourlab 3 — does a genuinely impressive job pulling a reference still's tonal balance onto your footage, and the on-device processing means once you've paid for it, your shots aren't going up to anyone's cloud. The Resolve, Premiere and Final Cut integrations are solid; if you live inside an NLE, the round-trip is clean.

For a working narrative colourist grading a feature in DI, Colourlab is a legitimate tool. I'd recommend it.

The friction shows up when you map it onto a real estate videography week.

First, the price. Colourlab AI sits at roughly $300 for the entry tier and runs up to around $995 depending on the configuration and which NLE plugins you add. That's a real number for a one-person shop doing six listings a week. Second, it's a desktop install. You're tied to the machine you licenced it on — which for anyone editing on a 2021 M1 MacBook Air in a coffee shop between shoots is a problem. Third, and this is the one I felt the most: the ACES pipeline that makes it powerful for a DI suite is overkill when what you actually need is a Sony S-Log3 to Rec.709 transform, a reference image match, and a consistent look across thirty shots before the agent's deadline.

It's a screwdriver shaped like a power drill. It works. It's just heavy.

Where the real estate workflow actually breaks

Let me describe the day I keep hearing about from shooters who've reached out during our beta.

Monday morning: FX30 interior, mixed tungsten and window light, kitchen at 2900K, living room at 5600K because the blinds are open. DJI Pocket 3 for the staircase walk-through. Mavic 3 for the exterior reveal. 4K H.265 across the board because the cards are cheap and the turnaround is 48 hours. Tuesday: a different property, different agent, but the same brokerage wants the same look as Monday's reel because they're building a brand on Instagram.

This is where most AI tools fall over. Not because the algorithms are bad — they're good — but because the workflow assumes you have time to babysit each shot. You don't. You need to drop a timeline in, get an input transform applied, match every clip to a reference frame from last week's reel, and export.

That's the gap I built Leumos AI for.

If you're a real estate videographer, we're building this for you. Leumos AI launches in ~30 days — join the early-access list and you'll be in the first 500 (50% off the first year).

How a browser tool changes the run-and-run-again week

Leumos runs in Chrome. That's the single biggest practical difference from Colourlab. No install, no licence transfer, no "I left my licenced machine at the office and I'm editing from a hotel." You log in, drag in your H.265 files, and the AI Scene Cut Detection chops the upload into a shot timeline with thumbnails — no node-per-clip setup, no manual cuts unless the AI misses a hard transition (and if it does, the Manual Cut Tool is a single click).

Then you hit Input Color Space LUT and convert S-Log3 — or C-Log3 from a Canon B-cam, BRAW from a borrowed Pocket 6K, V-Log from a GH-series — into Rec.709 in one click. This is the step that eats fifteen minutes for new shooters in Resolve. Here it's a dropdown.

For the brand-consistency problem — the thing the brokerage is paying you for — there's Reference Image Grading. Drop in a still from last week's hero reel, or honestly drop in a frame from a BoxBrownie luxury listing or one of Eli Jones's tutorials, and the AI matches your new footage to that frame's tonal palette. Slide the intensity down to 60-70% if it feels heavy. That's the whole interaction.

Then Match All equalises exposure, contrast, saturation and hue across every shot on the timeline. The Mavic 3 exterior and the FX30 interior stop looking like two different listings. For the shot that needs a manual tweak — usually a window-blown living room — the Manual Primaries panel gives you Exposure, Contrast, White Balance and Saturation. That's it. No power windows, no curves, no qualifiers. Surgical, not architectural.

And if you want a baked look on top, the Preset LUT Library has cinema-grade LUTs with intensity sliders, and you can upload your own .cube files if your brokerage has a signature look you've already built.

The honest comparison

Colourlab AI will out-process Leumos on a feature DI. It has more stops of latitude in its working space, more granular skin-tone tools, and a deeper integration with the NLE you already pay for. If you're grading a Netflix limited series, that matters.

Leumos will out-pace Colourlab on a Tuesday turnaround. No install. No licence dongle. Runs on the laptop you happen to be holding. Built around the three operations real estate work actually needs — input transform, reference match, timeline-wide equalisation — and stops there. The pricing reflects that: Free at $0 for 2 uploads a day and 400MB max, Creator at $15/mo for 8 uploads/day and 1GB max with 14-day storage, Pro at $39/mo for 20 uploads/day and 2GB max with 30-day storage. A property videographer doing six listings a week sits comfortably on Creator. Pro is for the shop doing volume.

That's $180 a year on Creator versus $300-$995 once for Colourlab. Different tools for different weeks.

What AI grading still can't do — for either of us

I'm not going to tell you AI colour grading is magic. It isn't, not in Colourlab and not in Leumos. Mixed-light interiors with tungsten lamps next to north-facing windows still need a human eye on the white balance — the AI gets close but it doesn't know which light source you wanted to favour. Skin tones in a property reel where the agent walks into frame are still a judgement call, especially under warm practicals. And if the brokerage has a strict Pantone-locked brand colour for the front door, you'll be hand-rolling that in primaries no matter which tool you're in.

What AI is genuinely good at right now is the 80% — the input transform, the shot-to-shot consistency, the reference match. That's the 80% that was eating your evenings. Leave the 20% for the colourist eye you already have.

If you're shipping listings on a 48-hour clock and you've been eyeing Colourlab but flinching at the price and the install, browser-based AI grading is worth a real test. Leumos AI opens early access this month — the first 500 signups get 50% off the first year, and if you're already turning out work in the style of Modern Profitable Property or the Dubai luxury reel scene, this is built for the way you actually work.

Frequently asked questions

Is Leumos AI actually a replacement for Colourlab AI if I'm already grading in Resolve?

Honest answer: it depends on what you're grading. If your week is feature work or long-form narrative in DI, Colourlab's NLE plugins and ACES pipeline are worth the price. If your week is 4-10 property reels on a 48-hour turnaround, Leumos covers the 80% — input transform, reference image match, timeline-wide equalisation — without an install or a $300-$995 licence. A lot of real estate shooters end up keeping Resolve for the final export and doing the bulk of the grade in Leumos because the iteration speed in a browser is faster.

Does Leumos handle Sony S-Log3 and DJI footage from a Mavic 3 and Pocket 3?

Yes. The Input Color Space LUT covers S-Log3, S-Cinetone (graded as Rec.709 already), C-Log3, BRAW, V-Log and the DJI D-Log profiles. For a typical real estate kit — FX30 in S-Log3, Mavic 3 in D-Log M, Pocket 3 in D-Log — you'd apply the transform per source on the timeline, then run Match All to equalise across the whole reel. H.265 4K is the native container we test against because it's what 90% of the real estate shooters in our beta upload.

How fast can I actually turn around a listing reel in a browser?

From upload to export, our beta testers are running a 90-second listing in roughly 12-18 minutes, including scene cut detection, input transform, a reference image grade, Match All, and a final pass in Manual Primaries on two or three problem shots. Compare that to building node trees per clip in Resolve, which can run 45-90 minutes for the same reel if you're being thorough. The trade-off is you give up the deepest surgical tools — power windows, tracker-based qualifiers — but those rarely show up in property work.

What about brand consistency across listings for the same brokerage?

This is the use case Reference Image Grading is designed for. Save a hero frame from your first approved reel for that brokerage — a kitchen shot or an exterior is usually the cleanest reference — and drop it into every subsequent project. The AI matches the tonal palette across new footage with an intensity slider so you can dial it to 60-70% if the match is too aggressive. It's not perfect — mixed-light interiors still need a manual white balance tweak — but it gets the brand look 85% of the way there in one drop.

Is my client footage actually private if it's running in a browser?

Fair question and one I'd ask too. Uploads are processed on our infrastructure, encrypted in transit, and storage retention is tied to your plan — 14 days on Creator, 30 days on Pro, then auto-purged. Colourlab's on-device processing is genuinely more private if that's a hard requirement for your contracts. For most real estate work where the agent is already publishing the reel on Instagram a week later, the practical privacy bar is lower than it sounds, but it's worth knowing the difference.

What does the pricing look like compared to Colourlab AI over a year?

Colourlab AI's entry tier is around $300 one-time, scaling to roughly $995 with plugins. Leumos is subscription: Free at $0 with 2 uploads/day and 400MB caps, Creator at $15/month with 8 uploads/day and 1GB caps, Pro at $39/month with 20 uploads/day and 2GB caps. A property shop doing six listings a week sits on Creator at $180/year. Over three years that's $540 versus a one-time $300 for entry-level Colourlab — Colourlab is cheaper on paper if you'll use it that long without upgrading. The browser access and the iteration speed are what you're paying the difference for.

When does Leumos AI actually open and how do I get the early-access discount?

Early access opens in roughly 30 days from now. The first 500 signups on the early-access list get 50% off the first year, which puts Creator at effectively $7.50/month and Pro at $19.50/month for the first twelve months. After the 500th signup the discount closes and pricing reverts to standard. The signup form is on the leumos.ai homepage — drop your email and you'll get the launch link before the public announcement.

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Leumos AI launches mid-2026. The first 500 early-access signups get 50% off the first year. Join the early-access list →