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AndrewTheGreat
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November 14, 2024
Question

Input Lut in Source Clip, Edit and Settings of Lumetri Color - THREE OF THEM!

  • November 14, 2024
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There are three drop down menus for the input lut in Premiere Pro (v.25) in the Lumetri color now:

the edit tab of the clip in the current sequence:

the source clip tab:

... and the Settings tab:

... so you can actually apply an input lut to a single clip three times. I know the difference between the Source and Sequence Lumetri color settings, but they make sence when you speak of the color, not the INPUT LUT.

Isn't the input lut - being the first and the only lut that should go before any color corrections - the essence of the"input"? Why are there now three tabs one can apply an input lut on? What is the correlation between them, which one goes the first if the three are applied at once? Won't they conflict with each other? Where should one apply an input lut, on which tab, if one wants it to be the input, that is the first one and in a single copy? Won't there be a conflict with the color settings if there's on input lut in in of this tabs and the color correction done on the other?

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 14, 2024

Like many other things in Premiere and other NLEs ... there are multiple ways to do the same thing.

 

Those are all ways to access the same setting. Set one, they will all show what they've been set to.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 14, 2024

My recommendation is actually to do all color management in the "proper" complete color management location ... Lumetri panel's Settings tab.

 

The tab named Settings! 

 

ALL color management options are there, and are 'context aware' if you are say clicking on a clip in a bin versus on a sequence in the timeline panel.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...