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Video Relight and Color Palette: Two Standalone Editing Tools on Higgsfield

2026-08-20 · blog launch post · Higgsfield · original

Topic: Post-production & finishing (also: Cost, credits & plans) · mode: Tutorial

In a launch post of 20 August 2026, Higgsfield's blog announces Video Relight and Color Palette as standalone tools that bring Cinema Studio's lighting and colour controls to clips you have already generated or filmed. It walks through Video Relight's six presets, Auto mode and custom lights, then Color Palette's 50+ presets and reference images, with a workflow for each. Both cost 135 credits ($6.75) per 15-second clip, and Higgsfield points to them when only the lighting or grade of finished footage needs changing, leaving bigger changes to Cinema Studio 4.0.

What is said

  • When to Use the Standalone Tools vs Cinema Studio 4.0

What is said

★ — how much it matters to the source.

  • ★★★ Higgsfield launches Video Relight and Color Palette as standalone products for editing existing footage, bringing Cinema Studio's lighting and colour controls to clips already generated or filmed. · Cinema Studio
  • ★★ Video Relight changes the lighting of an existing video without regenerating it: upload a clip, choose a lighting or colour treatment, and the new version keeps the composition and motion.
  • ★★ Video Relight has six lighting presets (Practicals, Silhouette, Contre-jour, Soft Cross, Window, Overhead Fall) plus Auto, which picks a light direction from the footage.
  • ★★ Higgsfield suggests Video Relight's Silhouette preset for a mood shot where shape matters more than detail; it flattens the subject against a bright background.
  • ★★ Beyond its presets, Video Relight builds custom lights by colour, brightness, diffuse and angle, up to two custom sources in one pass, either of which can be described in a prompt instead.
  • ★★ For a custom light in Video Relight, Higgsfield says a simple prompt naming key and fill (position, colour, brightness, softness) is enough for a usable result.
  • ★★ Color Palette applies colour grading to an existing video without changing the shot itself: upload a clip, pick a grading preset, and the grade is applied across the footage. · Color grading
  • ★★ Color Palette has more than 50 grading presets, from subtle to stylized, among them Film Colors, Black Gloss, Candy Pink, Lime Jam, Nostalgic Blue, Soft Palette, Overtime and Crimson Vigi.
  • ★★ Color Palette can also recolour an uploaded video from a reference image with the wanted colour treatment.
  • ★★ Higgsfield says regenerating a whole scene in Cinema Studio to fix one variable, such as flat light or a mismatched grade, is slower than needed when composition, motion and performance are already right. · Cinema Studio
  • ★★ Higgsfield suggests Video Relight for a shot whose light does not match the scene's mood (a day shot that must read as dusk, a flat interior) and for matching light direction between a generated clip and filmed footage.
  • ★★ Higgsfield suggests Color Palette to give clips generated or shot at different times one consistent look without regrading each by hand, and to test a style by running one clip through five or six presets.
  • ★★ For footage that is structurally finished but needs both its lighting and its colour adjusted, Higgsfield suggests running the clip through Video Relight and Color Palette in sequence.
  • ★★★ A 15-second clip costs 135 credits ($6.75) in Video Relight and the same in Color Palette. · credit
  • ★★ In Video Relight, review the result and, if the light does not land, adjust the preset or the custom settings and run it again.
  • ★ In Color Palette a custom grade can be built directly instead of picking one of the 50+ presets.
  • ★★★ Higgsfield advises Video Relight or Color Palette when the footage already exists and only its lighting or grade needs changing, since both apply directly to a finished clip.
  • ★★ Higgsfield advises Cinema Studio 4.0 when lighting and colour are set together with camera, lens, character and era as part of building a shot. · Cinema Studio 4.0
  • ★★ Video Relight and Color Palette use the same lighting and colour systems as Cinema Studio, so a look built in a standalone tool carries over exactly into a Cinema Studio project. · Cinema Studio 4.0, Cinema Studio

Threads in this video

  • launched · Video Relight — Higgsfield launches Video Relight as a standalone product that relights existing footage with Cinema Studio's lighting controls.
  • launched · Color Palette — Higgsfield launches Color Palette as a standalone product that grades existing footage with Cinema Studio's colour controls.
  • refine · How do you fix the light or colour of a finished shot without regenerating it? — Higgsfield advises Video Relight or Color Palette when the footage already exists and only its lighting or grade needs changing, since both apply directly to a finished clip.
  • refine · What does an AI clip, shot or film cost? — A 15-second clip costs 135 credits ($6.75) in Video Relight and the same in Color Palette.

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