LUT Organization

No one is saying the old way is good. Period. 

We agree with wanting the change. Period. 

I want adobe to provide a real solution and I cannot stand when users on this forum always post the old archaic solution as a response to my request. I know the old way of doing it, I want a new way. It feels like such a waste of time to be re-iterated the old way when I'm clearly asking for a new up-to-date solution.

I mention in my original post verbatim : "Its 2025, I should not have to go find an obscure folder directory in order to import my LUTs." and someone will respond by telling me the folder path..... gauranteed. Its downright dismissive - as if the conversation should end there. What is going on here? Do we feel like we have to make excuses for adobe? We pay a lot of money we should be able to demand something new - which is what I'm demanding. 

Everytime I post in these forums its like this. I say "hey we should have this new thing and it would make this a lot easier" and people will say garunteed "you gotta do it this old school way" - explaining the exact process I'm trying to remove. Why does posting a new idea in the "ideas" forum get so dismissed? I know the old way, you dont have to explain it to me, I'm literally complaining about it - get on board and complain with me maybe some changes will happen. That is why i'm frustrated. This is supposed to be where we bring new ideas and talk about the NEW ideas, not re-iterate the old methods. 

Why on earth did you assume either MyerPj or myself thought a desktop shortcut a good "final" solution? I simply don't understand the leap of logic there.

We simply noted a possible workaround for what is totally accepted as a major lack in the program. That is all. As a simple, practical thing to make it less of a pain, while pushing for the new changes.

Personally, as noted, I've been pushing for a completely rebuilt organizational structure for years. And upvoted this abd the several other similar requests over the years.

And with the shortcut you can add as many LUTs as a time as you wish.

Just because never EVER add your LUTs into the folders with Premiere's own LUTs. You mangle the order of everything there.

this is a fine solution if you only ever use one lut i guess? Sounds horrible to me to have to go find in explorer it every time for hundreds of projects. I import mine into the lut folder manually with that god awful folder path. And i hate it. Just give us a button that lets us import a lut permanantly.... and maybe save it in the cloud so we never have to do it again? Why cant we just get basic things like this. Every single free app has cloud sync settings and how much money do we pay? 

This is exactly what I mean by its 2025.... Answers like this one. You have accepted a complex work around when there could just be a button! And you're telling others this solution like it fixes everything. I do exactly what you say and I HATE it. I also reformat my working computers twice a year so I have to relink or re-create those folders each time. And It doesnt help that premiere settings cannot sync in the cloud.... Its just so much work - also why cant this stuff be cloud synced? We pay so much and they can provide us with 15mb of space to save our LUTs in the cloud?! I cannot believe you accept this as your solution, its embarrasing to me. Anyone at adobe : Are you embarrased by this?  I have free apps everywhere that save settings in the cloud. I dont accept age old work arounds like this, its 2025 we shouldnt accept a convoluded folder path as a solution and people should not be pawning it as a practical permanant solution, you should still want something better. Are you really happy with having to remember these folder paths as a part of your workflow? How hard is it for them to add a button to import luts? Why are we subjecting ourselves to this archaic standard and telling ourselves its ok? Think about how much money we pay and we cannot get basic QoL features that we see in free apps; is that really ok to you? Lets stop extending out excuses for adobe and demand better solutions

PS and if anyone wants to write - just switch to davinci, thats also not a real solution to the specific problem i'm talking about so GTFO. 

Oh, here's the link for your shortcut in Windows. Just paste this as is into File Explorer or create an icon:

C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common

Is it 2025? 

I actually keep an desktop icon link to that handy folder. Not just Luts go there, but also mogrts, and if you want to clear the cache manually, the folders are there also. I keep a .cmd (.bat) file there to quickly delete the cache each time an upgrade is installed, and that includeds the beta software which can be installed more than once a week.

Can we get proper import button for LUTs in lumetri. Its 2025, I should not have to go find an obscure folder directory in order to import my LUTs. Please just implement a button where we can import luts in Premiere simply and quickly.

When I came back to some older projects, I noticed that the LUTs in my adjustment layer were wrong.
It seems that Premiere saves the info of the selected LUT via its position in the drop-down list, rather than the specific LUT itself. But then when you (or the updates) bring more LUTs into the Lumetri 'Creative' list, the previous selection gets pushed out of place and replaced with another. IE; what was 10th down the list could now be 14th, and the new 10th is ugly.

The evidence of this is that when I had *browsed* my folders for a LUT, it is not affected by the described changes to the internal list.

I don't currently share projects with other Premiere users (my subcontractors are all using Final Cut), but if I were to team up with another Premiere user, our projects aren't going to match when we share if we don't have the same LUT list. This is a very unprofessional flaw.

OS: Windows 10, PR version 23.6.0