FLUX 3 Archival Formats — style skill for color grading & LUTs
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Give FLUX 3 video a period look by naming the recording format and its artifacts, not a mood.
- Type: Style · Color grading & LUTs
- Slug:
flux-3-archival-formats - Status: live
- Publisher: Black Forest Labs (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/black-forest-labs/skills/tree/master/skills/flux-3-archival-formats
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: BFL API key (BFL_API_KEY)
- Cost: Billed by Black Forest Labs (API credits)
- Adoption: 101 installs, 135 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Makes FLUX 3 video look archival or period-accurate by naming a recording format instead of a mood and describing that format's specific degradation and artifacts. It adds templates, a control probe to prove a style word works, and montage and review guidance.
Use when
- A VHS, film-stock or newsreel look
- Period or found-footage scenes
Install
- Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add black-forest-labs/skills && /plugin install flux-3-video@black-forest-labs - Codex:
npx skills add black-forest-labs/skills --skill flux-3-archival-formats -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add black-forest-labs/skills --skill flux-3-archival-formats -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add black-forest-labs/skills --skill flux-3-archival-formats -a gemini-cli
Models it drives: flux_3
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/flux-3-archival-formats.mp4 — FLUX 3 'Vintage (4:3)' example from BFL's video prompting cheatsheet: 4:3 home video of a 90s birthday party with a grainy camcorder look; 0-8 s (credit: Black Forest Labs, https://docs.bfl.ai/guides/prompting_video_camera_terms)
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Run the generation on varg
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- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
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