what's up everybody Jay Lippman here
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talking about LUTs I'm gonna show you
how to install and work with LUTs in
DaVinci Resolve but before we actually
jump into DaVinci and I show you how to
do all this let me explain what a LUT is
LUT L-U-T stands for look up table and
without going into a lot of the
specifics and the way that it works it's
basically an overly technical and more
complicated Instagram filter for your
video footage you can also use them in
Photoshop but that's a totally different
video if you're new to creating videos
and you're not really sure how to
manually color grade your footage or if
you do know how to color grade your
footage but you're in a time crunch and
you need a specific look in your video
LUTs can be a huge lifesaver personally
I usually choose to manually color grade
all my footage especially since I jumped
over to DaVinci Resolve from premiere pro
prior to that though especially when I
was daily vlogging and I was just
constantly on a time crunch I used LUTs
all the time now there are two different
types of LUTs that we are going to
discuss in this video the first most
people refer to as a utility LUT the
second is a creative LUT utility LUTs
are usually used in log footage to make
it look more like rec.709 or the normal
footage that you would get out of a DSLR
creative LUTs are what most people think
of when they think of LUTs it's the
actual you know color grading and making
your footage look the way that you want
it to look this is gonna make a lot more
sense when we actually jump into the
tutorial so let's just go ahead and do
that okay so here we are in DaVinci
Resolve we're in the color tab
and as you can see I have three clips
that are lined up and ready to go the
first is a clip of log footage that was
sent to me by RYN Photography RYN
Photography has an amazing channel with
loads of information that will help you
step up your photography and filmmaking
game make sure that you check him out I'll
link his channel in the description below
Ryan thank you so much for sending me
this footage it's bringing so much value
to this video you don't even know the
next clip that I have is just a piece of
regular rec.709 footage of a girl
sitting on the beach I just got this
from Pexels which is one of my
favorite stock footage sites and this
third clip is a clip of me sitting in my
desk and this wasn't shot in log but it
was shot in a very flat profile which
means I went into the neutral picture
profile in my camera and I brought the
saturation and the contrast and the
sharpness all the way down in order for
me to have more room to work with it in
post
now DaVinci Resolve comes with a bunch
of LUTs built into it a lot of them are
utility LUTs some of them are creative
LUTs but let's say you don't like any of
them and you actually want to import
some of your own LUTs maybe you
purchased Peter MacKinnon's LUTs or
Matti Haapoja's or maybe even mine and
you want to import them into DaVinci
Resolve in order to use them on your
footage I'm gonna show you how to do
that right now
alright so importing a LUT is super
super easy we're just gonna go over to
file project settings I'm gonna go over
to color management go down to look-up
tables
we're gonna click open LUT folder and
this folder that opened up in my
computer is the folder that contains all
of the LUTs that are in DaVinci Resolve
now most of the LUTs in here I added
especially the ones that are in the
folders but there are some good creative
LUTs and some good utility lots like the
Sony s log 2 to rec 709 or Canon log to
rec 709 Canon log to cineon you get the
idea those are all utility LUTs and
what we want to do is add a new LUT to
this folder so all we're gonna do is go
to where we know we have a LUT which I
believe is over
in here we have this test dot cube which is
a quick little LUT that I threw together
in Photoshop yeah you can create LUTs in
Photoshop that's a totally different
video maybe I'll do that let me know in
the comments below if you want to know
how to create Luts in photoshop I'm
gonna go ahead and copy that and go back
to our main LUTs folder that davinci
opened for us we're gonna put this in my
folder 2019 ctrl V to paste and get out
of there and we're gonna click update
lists let's talk about the LUTs
workflow real quick if your camera
doesn't shoot log then the LUTs
workflow is fairly simple you color
correct your footage you add the LUT and
then you adjust I'm gonna show you how
to do that in just a minute if you are
working with log footage or raw footage
then you're gonna want to apply a
utility LUT before you color correct
let's jump back into DaVinci and I'll
show you what I mean we're gonna start
with this piece of log footage sent to
me from RYN Photography the first thing
that we're going to want to do is add a
utility LUT and I know that somewhere in
my folder I have an s log 2 to rec 709
LUT so we're gonna go ahead and just
type in S log Sony s log 2 to rec 709
I'm just gonna hover over here and
that's gonna be way overexposed both of
these are that's s log 3 but we're gonna
go ahead I'm gonna go ahead and drag
that utility LUT onto my node we're
gonna hit alt s to create a new node
we're going to do some quick color
correction and just in the interest of
time I'm gonna just auto this out we're
still gonna bring
highlights way down and once you have
your footage looking the way that you
want it after color correction you're
gonna go ahead and hit alt s for yet
another node and we're gonna go ahead
and apply a creative LUT so we're gonna
go into my folder and hit 2019 get rid
of my search I'm just gonna scroll
through these LUTs to see if there's any
that really looked good cinema looks
pretty good not so much emerald shadows
film that looks good
I like this one we're gonna go ahead and
go with trifecta so we're gonna grab
that LUT again by just clicking on it
with your mouse and we're gonna drag it
over to the node and there's not really
much I would do to this except for maybe
bring up the highlights so we're going
to add yet another node and we're just
going to bring the highlights up a
little bit more and that looks good so
with log footage we add a utility LUT we
color correct we add a creative LUT and
then we adjust all right let's take a
look at my next clip which is just a
rec.709 clip and we're gonna go through
the process again this one doesn't
need a utility LUT so we're just going
to color correct add a LUT and adjust as
necessary so we're looking at this clip
of the girl in the sand we're gonna just
for the sake of time we're gonna auto
correct this hit Auto and not much was
done there this actually is fairly well
exposed and the colors seem to be about
right the clouds look white everything
seems pretty good so now we just need to
add a new node and for this image we're
gonna use another one of my LUTs called
starting point so we're gonna grab that
drag it on to the node hit alt s to add
a new node and from here we're gonna
correct a little bit so we're actually
going to bring up the gain not quite to
a hundred percent but almost and we're
gonna bring that lift down just a couple
notches and that looks pretty good
I'm looking finally at the clip of me
sitting at my desk gonna go ahead and do
some quick color correction then we're
gonna go ahead and search for a LUT
that's gonna look good here go ahead and
start with home even though that's gonna
require quite a bit of adjustment so
let's go ahead and do that we're gonna
first bring those highlights down
because my skin tones are way too bright
let's bring that down to the 896 line
add another node add a qualifier to
tweak those skin tones a little bit then
one more node we're gonna bring those
highlights down again
go back to our skin tones the last thing
that I'm gonna do is bring down that
lift just a little bit to add a little
bit more contrast and we're done now if
you want to experiment with using LUTs
for yourself there are tons of free LUTs
out there there's also paid LUTs
including my brand new just released
today 2019 cinematic LUTs pack which
is a set of 10 cinematic LUTs including
the ones that I used in this tutorial
the link to that LUTs pack is in the
description below along with a coupon
code that will give you 20% off for the
very first week that these LUTs are out
and if you do decide to go ahead and
purchase those LUTs and download them
and use them in your own footage make
sure you tag me on Twitter or shoot me a
comment in this video and let me know
what you thought about the LUTs I'm
really proud of them I think they came
out way better than the 2018 ones did
and I'm excited to hear what you guys
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