Overview
- Honor and ARRI worked together to tune the Magic9 Pro Max’s video pipeline to follow ARRI’s LogC3 tonal curve and support the ARRI Wide Gamut 3 color space for grading.
- The phone ships with 87 preloaded ARRI Looks and accepts third-party LUTs so users can apply cinematic treatments while recording or prepare footage for professional color workflows.
- Honor redesigned processing and added a dedicated Honor H1 imaging chip that performs noise reduction on RAW data before further processing to preserve detail and dynamic range.
- ARRI tuning is implemented on the Magic9 Pro Max’s main and telephoto cameras but not on the ultrawide, and studio demos show close color and tonal parity with ARRI ALEXA footage while sharpness and fine detail still lag behind cinema cameras.
- For creators this lowers the barrier to capture footage that matches professional color pipelines, though independent testing of claims such as stabilization and overall image performance is still needed.