LUT Limitation

LUT Limitation – The Best Of Both Worlds

November 3, 2015

The main pain when working with LUTs is not knowing exactly what they are doing. Dan shares his technique of LUT Limitation.

Tutorials  /  LUT Limitation – The Best Of Both Worlds

As the captain of negativity when it comes to working with LUTs I have good news for once. After some experimentation, I stumbled upon the idea of LUT limitation and it seems to work!

I had a great week grading and after working on another job where using a LUT would have been useful but I was afraid to use them I took another stab at using them.

The idea and technique is simple and effective but I have to admit I never thought about it until this week.

Check out my video below and try it for your self!

This won’t make everyone happy but I think it’s worth having in the back of your mind just in case!

Enjoy!

– Dan

Member Content

Sorry... the rest of this content is for members only. You'll need to login or sign up to continue (we hope you do!).

Membership options
Member Login

Comments

Homepage › Forums › LUT Limitation – The Best Of Both Worlds

Viewing 4 reply threads

    • Jason Bowdach
      Participant
      November 3, 2015 at 7:31 pm

      Great idea! I attempted a similar approach on that project i got “stuck” on, but wasn’t entirely successful. It ALMOST worked but the part I reversed (too much teal in the mid shadows) was just too much of the look to be “removed” without looking strange (as you mentioned). Likely limited to this specific project and Ill be try this on future projects before “throwing it out” . Thanks!!

      PS – That TalkTalk chart sure has been useful.


    • Craig W
      Member
      November 4, 2015 at 1:45 pm

      Great Insight Dan. I have to ask – how the hell have you managed to get your LUTs organised into parent folders in your LUT list? Even if I put mine inside of parent folders on my hard drive they always end up in one giant list inside of Resolve.

      Thanks!

      Kraig.


    • Dan Moran
      Guest
      November 4, 2015 at 2:38 pm

      Hey Kraig!

      I just made lots of parent folders. As you said folders within folders doesn’t work so well so I break up the folders that the LUTs come in and then make my own folders like. Koji_Alexa, Koji_RED etc..

      Takes a few minutes to do but makes it so much easier!


    • Craig W
      Member
      December 12, 2015 at 8:00 am

      Only just noticed this reply! Thanks man, I’ll give it a try 🙂


    • marcus l
      Member
      February 29, 2016 at 5:12 pm

      Hey Dan! What LUT-package do you mostly use? I have the Impulz kit, but thinking about the Koji color packing… any recommendations? Thanks!

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 4 reply threads
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Prev Next
Dan Moran
Insight # ML 0388
Type Video
Duration 7:42
Skill Level Beginner
Skills DaVinci Resolve
Categories Technique Theory VFX & Grading

Hundreds of Free Tutorials

Get full access to our entire library of 900+ color tutorials for an entire week!

Start Your Free Trial
About

Mixing Light provides industry leading tutorials and training for color correction and color grading. Come learn with us!

Read The Mixing Light Story
MixingLight.com Uptime Status
Contact
Subscribe

Enter your email to receive occasional color grading tips and tricks!

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

© 2022 Mixing Light, LLC. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   |   Terms of Use

Loading...