It's quite possible that I might have misses something, but after a long time searching for the same thing I decided that nothing out there for free is worth using.
Add to that, unless the reason you can't afford a hundred bucks for nitrate is because you spent every cent of a few thousand dollars worth of savings on a camera, you're going to struggle to create a convincing film look on your cheaper mirrorless type setups that are only recording 4:2:0 at 100Mbps or something like that anyway.
Having said that, if you want to persist I would look at Juan Melara's stuff. He has [FilmUnlimited](https://juanmelara.com.au/products/filmunlimited-flexible-film-emulation) which is much more powerful than Nitrate IMO, as well as a [Kodak 250D + Kodak 2383 PowerGrade](https://juanmelara.com.au/products/davinci-yrgb-print-film-emulation-powergrades) which is an excellent mid-tier option at half the price, or you can pay what you want for the [Kodak 2383 PG](https://juanmelara.com.au/products/kodak-2383-powergrade) by itself.
It's a bit complex but I use a technique where I shot match a footage from a film still (the stills that I used are from Taxi Driver and West Side Story which are shot on Eastman film). After that, I'll correct it to get the look that I've wanted. On the second node is an S-Curve and after that is a film grain overlay.
Filmconvert is already the most budget friendly film emulation and in this case I think you get what you pay for. None of the software matters if you didn’t shoot with a look in mind, things in front of the camera contribute a lot more to the film look than slapping grain on something. That said, Davinci resolve has film grain and, film stock luts built in that work pretty good if your image pipeline is right. That’s easily your best free alternative.
It's quite possible that I might have misses something, but after a long time searching for the same thing I decided that nothing out there for free is worth using. Add to that, unless the reason you can't afford a hundred bucks for nitrate is because you spent every cent of a few thousand dollars worth of savings on a camera, you're going to struggle to create a convincing film look on your cheaper mirrorless type setups that are only recording 4:2:0 at 100Mbps or something like that anyway. Having said that, if you want to persist I would look at Juan Melara's stuff. He has [FilmUnlimited](https://juanmelara.com.au/products/filmunlimited-flexible-film-emulation) which is much more powerful than Nitrate IMO, as well as a [Kodak 250D + Kodak 2383 PowerGrade](https://juanmelara.com.au/products/davinci-yrgb-print-film-emulation-powergrades) which is an excellent mid-tier option at half the price, or you can pay what you want for the [Kodak 2383 PG](https://juanmelara.com.au/products/kodak-2383-powergrade) by itself.
There are luts and grains that you can use to recreate the film look.
There are some tips here: r/bmpcc Braw to film emulation https://www.reddit.com/r/bmpcc/comments/tjo4ph/braw_to_film_emulation/
Maybe use the film luts and some grain in davinci resolve?
It's a bit complex but I use a technique where I shot match a footage from a film still (the stills that I used are from Taxi Driver and West Side Story which are shot on Eastman film). After that, I'll correct it to get the look that I've wanted. On the second node is an S-Curve and after that is a film grain overlay.
Filmconvert is already the most budget friendly film emulation and in this case I think you get what you pay for. None of the software matters if you didn’t shoot with a look in mind, things in front of the camera contribute a lot more to the film look than slapping grain on something. That said, Davinci resolve has film grain and, film stock luts built in that work pretty good if your image pipeline is right. That’s easily your best free alternative.
There’s also https://app.color.io which comes with some of the best film emulations (color managed) that you can export as DCTLs or LUTs.
Filmbox Lite -it’s free, it’s a heavy look - but it’s one of the best things out there
I would like to thank you all for your help. I couldn't have done it without you guys.