Some Input LUTS and Looks not appearing in drop-down menus after adding

[EvaB_Editor]

Hi there, 

In Lumetri Color of Premiere Pro version 25.3.0, I have pasted my .cube files for Input LUTS into the folder at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2025\Lumetri\LUTs\Technical.  They appear in the Input LUT drop-down menu under Basic Correction, but when I go to select them I can't and it defaults to another one from the end of list.

Same thing happens in the Creative section under Look.  I pasted my .cube files into the folder C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2025\Lumetri\LUTs\Creative.  Some are selectable in the list as they should be, but some at the end of the drop down menu list are unselectable as I desctibed for the Basic Correction.

How do I get the LUTS/Looks to be selectable?  Is this a bug?

My .cube files are from a pretty reliable third party source.

Thank you!

[R Neil Haugen]

Do not ever add LUTs into the Program's Lumetri/LUTs folder! EVER!

Why?

The app only scans that folder by relative location in the folder, not by LUT name!

So it goes for "5th LUT down" not "Abracadabra Teal Orange" ... as it only expects the original LUT files to be in that folder.

They have a chart in the User Help documentation for LUT placements, there are two different places users can put them and the app will scan those folders at startup and add them to the appropriate lists.

One is something like:

Users/<Username>/Roaming/Adobe/Common/LUTs, the other is 

Program (package) Files/Adobe/COMMON/LUTs ...

I use the latter and have for years.

Then you need to add in the following folders at those locations ...

Input for Input LUT use in color management options;

Technical for Basic tab use in Lumetri;

Creative for Creative tab use in Lumetri.

After adding those folders in the chosen (above) location, CLOSE Premiere, and relaunch.

It will scan and add those to the dropdown lists on restarting.

[EvaB_Editor]

Hi Neil, Thank you so much for the info.  I will try this out.  Obviously I'm a newbie at this, so your response really helps!

[R Neil Haugen]

It can be really confusing, too ... for years, I've requested (like many others) a rebuild of their systems for things like LUT use/storing/accessing, presets for various things, and for getting a 'refresh' option so you can make and add a LUT say while Premiere is open, and it will now actually see that LUT to use it.

Which it won't ... until you close and reopen the app.

NOT intuitive at all.

[EvaB_Editor]

Agreed!  A refresh button would be nice.  Earlier I was struggling with trying to figure out how to activate the new setup and took me a bit to think to restart.

Also update, I followed your instruction and it's all working now!  Much appreciated!

The info I was going on previously came from a misinformed tutorial.

[R Neil Haugen]

There are so many misinformed tutorials out there. Yowza ... it's a right mess!

I work with and teach both Premiere and Resolve, and the mess of stuff on them both is just incredible.

On Resolve, with the nature of that beast coming from a pro grading app, therefore containing many color and media management options Premiere still doesn't have ... the settings many suggest using to get the most out of your media and hardware are ... so very, very!!!! wrong.

They often suggest changing a lot of the into-the-weeds settings most highly trained pro colorists don't ever, ever muck with. And straightening out that mess, once someone went down that road, is a real difficult thing.

So yea, getting the right information is just not as simple as we would all hope.