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Participant
February 24, 2017
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Add Lut support for new Red weapon cameras?

  • February 24, 2017
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Hey Adobe,

Will you be adding lut support for the new Red Weapon DSMC2 cameras so that the lut will automatically load to the footage when playing in premiere? I know whenever you play an arri alexa file, premiere automatically detects the lut and plays the file with it loaded on. However, with the new Red cameras, you must manually load the lut on to each clip. This isn't a huge issue except for when you hand over your files to a client and have to explain to them where to find the lut file and apply it. This just becomes one extra step and may cause them to use the imagery incorrectly.

Red just added the ability to use 3D luts in their new cameras that came out this year. Previously they only were capable of "looks". They do it by adding which lut you use as a 3d lut cube file in to the same folder as each original video file. It would be great if premiere had a plugin that could detect these luts next to the file and automatically load them on to the footage. I'd highly recommend it for a future update and it would make a lot of filmmakers happy to have this support.

Thanks a bunch!!

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Legend
February 24, 2017

I'm actually kind of hoping they don't.  LUTs should always be applied manually by the editor.

I say this because I have the reverse problem.  PP adds an unremovable LUT to CinemaDNG which is not the one I want.