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Can you adjust lumetri color CURVES over time with keyframes

Contributor ,
Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

I see you can adjust just about everything else in the lumetri color pannel with keyframes but I don't see this option for the curves (like the hue vs hue or hue vs luma curves) am I missing it or is it not possible?

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LEGEND ,
Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

Nope, you can't keyframe curves. So you have to pick other options. For instance, if you can do it with an HSL, that you can keyframe.

 

Another option ... with an otherwise clean Lumetri tab, set your curves to what fixes your ill, then use the 3-bar menu up by Lumetri title to 'export .cube' and save it on your computer where you store LUTs properly (NOT in with the program package file LUTs!) using the chart below:

Lumetri LUTs Looks Findable Locations.PNG

You do need to add the final folders, Technical for Basic tab use, and Creative for Creative tab use.

 

Park it in the Creative folder, and use the Creative tab's drop-down LUT selection tool to apply it.

 

You can keyframe that usage with the "Intensity" slider in the Creative tab, which has the stopwatch option.

 

Or ... add an adjustment layer over the clip, use the Lumetri effect with the AL selected. Set your curve as needed for full effect, then use opacity on that layer to keyframe the curve in.

 

Or ... add an instance of Lumetri with only this curve directly to the clip. With the curve set. In the ECP, on that instance of Lumetri, set a mask on the involved section or the whole image. Then set the mask opacity to 0 for no effect from that curve, and keyframe ... and set to 100% opacity for where you want full effect. Again, keyframed.

 

Neil

 

 

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Contributor ,
Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

Thanks

 

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Community Expert ,
Dec 12, 2020 Dec 12, 2020

If you still want to use curves use cross dissolves between settings.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 14, 2023 Oct 14, 2023

You can create an adjustment layer, modify the adjustment layer to what you want the end of the clip to look like and then put keyframes into the adjustment layer modifying the opacity. Not exactly what you were asking for but I think it would have a similar result.

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Explorer ,
Aug 25, 2025 Aug 25, 2025

Now I know I don't  understand why you can't use keyframes for Lumetri Curves, whether it for technical reasons or not. But everytime I come across oddities / inconsistiencies like this it is infuriating and makes me think am I actually wasting my time trying to learn this software. This is second time to today. Earlier I found out Premiere didn't support scaleable vector graphics. Even native .ai files. Bizarre!

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LEGEND ,
Aug 25, 2025 Aug 25, 2025
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In all full-on grading apps, there are tools that cannot be keyframed. Including of course both Resolve and Baselight. Yea, it can be frustrating.

 

And besides that, there are tools that can't be used in creating a new LUT ... which is also frustrating. But there's solid technical reasons for both. Just ... a bit more complex to discuss than fits a forum.

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