Studio · Image tools · Node-based
OPTICA
LINGUA
Image tools drawn from an experimental film practice. Starve the signal until the codec shows through; put color on a clock you control. Built for DaVinci Resolve.
Free Resolve, no Studio needed Drag onto the Edit page
Of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is a construct.
Optica Lingua — tools that work outward from form
The effects
Two ways in.
Start free with Pulse Gain, or take the whole set. Both drop straight onto the Edit page — no Fusion graph required.
Pulse Gain
Rhythmic brightness on a clock you set — sine, square, or sawtooth. The free gateway to the pack.
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$15 · 5 effects
Starve & Pulse Pack
Bitrate Starve datamosh plus the full Pulse family — gain, saturation, hue, and a Pulse Master that drives all three.
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The practice
Effects built like film, not filters.
Optica Lingua is the studio of Jim Frelinger — an experimental filmmaker in the structural / materialist tradition. These tools come out of that work: they foreground the material of the image — its compression, its channels, its clock — rather than hiding it. Controlled breakdown you can score to a cut. Frame-accurate, repeatable, and yours to keep.
Stay in the loop
New effects, when they drop.
No noise — just the next tool and the occasional breakdown of how it was built.