Autodesk Lustre
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Plans and prices
From Autodesk Lustre's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre 2025 subscription | Priced on request | last Lustre release · Autodesk stopped selling or renewing 3-year Lustre subscriptions on May 7, 2024 |
The facts
Each one read from Autodesk Lustre's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Animation
- The Channel Editor uses keyframes and interpolation curves to animate grading parameters and Sparks effects.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Color management
- Lustre supports floating-point scene-linear workflows, legacy 1D and 3D LUTs, Autodesk transforms and ACES input transforms.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The Lustre 2025 help hub includes release notes, what's new, installation, keyboard shortcuts, workflow, interface, interoperability, grading, secondaries, stereoscopy and rendering topics.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dolby Vision
- Dolby Vision mastering uses a connected Content Mapping Unit and 12-bit video raster to create real-time trim-pass metadata for lower-dynamic-range displays.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Flame-family integration
- Autodesk documents Lustre alongside Flame, Flare and Flame Assist, with Wiretap Gateway, Lustre Burn and Lustre SR components.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Grade preservation
- Grades are stored as shot metadata, leaving the original image media unchanged.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent discontinuation record
- Wikipedia records April 11, 2024 as the discontinuation date, with Lustre 2025 as the final version.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent hardware note
- Wikipedia describes CPU and GPU optimization for real-time playback of high-resolution grading media.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent history
- Wikipedia reports that Lustre began as Colorfront's Colossus and originated as a Flame plug-in called Colorstar.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent listing reviews
- Diskod's Lustre listing shows no customer reviews and a review count of zero.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Installers are downloaded through an Autodesk Account; trial and educational versions are not separate downloads.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License model
- Autodesk lists Lustre under single-user and multi-user commercial entitlements with product code K100.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: performance
- A longtime user on Logik Forum said Flame grading was less performant than Lustre on the same hardware.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Multi-user licensing
- Multi-user licensing uses a local network license server and can be borrowed for temporary offline use.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- Autodesk's September 6, 2007 release said Lustre 2008 added a multilayer timeline, ASC-CDL support, automatic region tracking and more GPU-accelerated grading.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Praise: workflow flexibility
- The same Logik Forum user described Flame as more flexible and powerful after moving from Lustre.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Primary grading
- The application provides interactive grading for continuity work and artistic looks in logarithmic or linear color spaces.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Product discontinuation
- Autodesk announced on April 11, 2024 that Lustre 2025 would be the final release and that no further features or updates would be developed.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company facts
- Autodesk reports that it was founded in 1982, is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and had about 14,300 employees worldwide as of January 31, 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Autodesk's corporate materials identify the maker as Autodesk, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1982checked 4 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, Californiachecked 4 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn company profile
- LinkedIn lists Autodesk as a public software-development company founded in 1982, headquartered in San Francisco, with more than 10,000 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform support
- The 2025 licensing table lists Lustre entitlement on Linux and none on macOS.checked 15 Oct 2026
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