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January 22, 2022
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Converting Luts and Looks Into Presets

  • January 22, 2022
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Hello Everyone.

 

I have many Custom Luts, and I  noticed, every time I want to add a Luts to my Footage, I have to Browse and search for the Luts. So after applying the Luts to my Footage, I saved It as a Preset, and later instead of Looking for the Luts, I just Drag and Drop the Preset Into my footage. Is that Ok?

 

NOTE: I never add a Luts, or any Effects directly Into my Footage, I always use Adjustment Layers, so I can adjust the Opacity. For Example One Adjustment layer for Luts, another Adjustment For Color Correction, and so on. Also, I never depend on Luts only. I noticed many times, like shooting WIDE DR, my Footage looks better when I Color Correct Manually, rather depending on a Luts.

Thanks.

최고의 답변: R Neil Haugen

First, if you're LUTs are stored in the proper places,  you can easily use the dropdown lists in the Basic and Creative tab without needing to scan folders each time. I'm on a tablet so don't have the chart image available at the moment.

 

But it's something like Program Files/Adobe/Common/LUTs, and then add Technical and Creative folders to the LUTs folder. Park your LUTs there. The ones in the Technical folder will appear in the Basic tab drop-down list, Creative folders in the Creative tab.

 

Now, adding LUTs to a preset works beautifully also. Especially as you can have a lot of work already setup across the full Lumetri instance, and can even drop it on clips in a bin, so it gets applied to them as a Source setting, shown on the Source tab in the Effects Control Panel.

 

Most colorists use a lot of LUTs for specific things technically, but they tend to make their own. And they don't use them for 'grading' but conversions. It's faster to grade manually than pore through a bunch of LUTs testing out what they look like.

 

Neil

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January 23, 2022

First, if you're LUTs are stored in the proper places,  you can easily use the dropdown lists in the Basic and Creative tab without needing to scan folders each time. I'm on a tablet so don't have the chart image available at the moment.

 

But it's something like Program Files/Adobe/Common/LUTs, and then add Technical and Creative folders to the LUTs folder. Park your LUTs there. The ones in the Technical folder will appear in the Basic tab drop-down list, Creative folders in the Creative tab.

 

Now, adding LUTs to a preset works beautifully also. Especially as you can have a lot of work already setup across the full Lumetri instance, and can even drop it on clips in a bin, so it gets applied to them as a Source setting, shown on the Source tab in the Effects Control Panel.

 

Most colorists use a lot of LUTs for specific things technically, but they tend to make their own. And they don't use them for 'grading' but conversions. It's faster to grade manually than pore through a bunch of LUTs testing out what they look like.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    animationlife작성자
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    January 23, 2022

    Mr. Neil.

    This is the Where I have Installed my Custom LUTS. This is from Adobe Site:

    Thanks

     

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    February 21, 2022

    thanks for the tips, Neil!

     

    The dropdown in CREATIVE is cool, but if you have hundreds of LUTs, it's pretty difficult to audition each look.

     

    I'm aware of the Apply Lut in Lumetri then save as a preset option, but what if I have hundreds of LUTs? Gotta be a faster way to do this... right?


    My mind boggles at having hundreds of LUTs ... wow!  😉

     

    I'd spend more time trying to figure out which one and at what strength and what mods to it, than it would take me to start from scratch and build a look. Buit then, I'm pretty comfortable with the color controls and playing them against each other. And knowing when Lumetri will suffice, and when I need to bring in the Colorista panel and other RedGiant tools.

     

    Actually, the RG Magic Bullet/Universe plugins have a "Look" manager panel that's for working with tons of LUTs. I've done a little bit with it just to learn how it functions. But again, I don't feel a need for a ton of LUTs.

     

    I do love the quick Hue/Sat/Values tools in Colorista though. Two side-by-side circular tools. Grab one of the six color dots, on the left one, and you set saturation for that color by going out (upping) and in (lowering) saturation. But you can move them sideways also, so you can quickly say take the Greens towards Cyan and lower saturation at the same time.

     

    But go to the right-hand circle, and "out" makes that color brighter, "in" makes it darker. So between them you can quickly make the greens more cyan and darker, while moving yellows more to orange and brighter. As just one possibility.

     

    Another factor for me, is that making the colors jump through whatever hoop I can think of is just plain fun.  😉

     

    Below is the full chart for where Premiere scans for LUTs on launch. I use the 'all users' option, which to me is the easiest ... Program Files/Adobe/Common/LUTs/  with Techinical and Creative folders.

     

    I rarely use the Technical folder/Basic tab dropdown for LUTs ... you don't have control there. The Creative tab allows you to apply a LUT, choose a 'strength' for it, then go back to the Basic tab tonal controls to trim your clip into what the LUT 'needs' to see so  you don't get crushed blacks or clipped whites.

     

    Neil

     

     

     

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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