Creative Look Preview bug

[emilio8888]

I'm having a problem navigating through my Creative Looks Previews. Whenever I load a Look on an adjusment layer and decide afterwards that I want to try another Look by clicking the right arrow, Premiere reverts back to the very first Look on the list. I then need to re-scroll froward to the last Look I used and so forth for each time I want to try a look. Ideally, Premiere should stay on the current Look and when pressing the right arrow, move to the next one on the list, not to the begining... This is very counter-productive. Has anyone encounter this bug before and perhaps found a solution?

Premiere v24.5

Mac OS 14 sonoma
Macbook Pro M3

[Carlos Ziade]

Did you try to reset the preferences?

Did you try it directly on the clip instead of an adjustment layer?

[emilio8888]

Will try resetting this evening. 
I did try on a single clip, same result. One thing I noticed however is that if I select one of the adobe film looks (fuji, kodak) and try to select another later, it would not revert back to the first look. It seems to be functional with the adobe provided luts. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Have you mixed your LUTs into the folders the Adobe LUTs are in? I can't tell from your comments.

As if so, that is an absolute no-no.

Because user LUTs need to be in one of the two approved (and used by the apps) outside locations.

[emilio8888]

I followed the instructions from this page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/premiere-pro/using/looks-and-luts.html

 Under the "Install Custom LUT files" section. I created the two folders in question. I put my own LUTs in the Creative folder. The Adobe LUTs seem to be in that folder as well. 

How would you separate them?

[R Neil Haugen]

Thanks for the clarification, as you followed the instructions and did it correctly. A LOT of people just add their LUTs to the folders in the Premiere Pro program/package files, where the Adobe LUTs are stored. That is what I was worried you might have done, as there are numerous issues with that practice.

So what you're getting in the first post is 'normal', it always starts at the top, which yea, can be annoying.

The second post, that it doesn't do this with Adobe LUTs, I've not noted the difference. You may be right, because I don't use LUTs very often. I can build something better in the time it takes to select a LUT. So ... why?

But we all work differently.

[emilio8888]

Hi, starting at the begining of the list when selecting a Look for a new session is definetly normal. The issue is when selecting the 4th for example, and wanting to try the 5th after doing a task, it would revert back to the begining of the list. So in this instance for example, I would need to click the arrow 5 times to try this new LUT. Ideally, Premiere should lock in the 4th LUT in Lumetri and when clicking the arrow go the 5th directly instead. I find I am wasting too much time browsing and its really not a fun way to try looks. 

The exception for this, is when selecting one of the Premiere provided Kodak or Fuji LUTs. It actually works the way I described above. It locks on the LUT and lets me freely move back and forth, not going to the begining. 

I remeber having this issue a while ago and I believe I had found a solution. But I can't remember what I did. There was the refresh LUT toggle or some setting that somehow fixed it for me. 

By the way I just recently installed a fresh copy of the software, so there's that. And yes, I could build my own look but for project deadline reasons I resort to LUTs for faster delivery. Thank you

[R Neil Haugen]

The entire "Look" navigational system is slow and sorta clunky, that is pretty obvious. And it hasn't changed in years. We need also the ability to make bins or folders, to group Looks for far faster sorting through to find the needed ones.

That's been asked for for years.