Description
This is a collection of 20 look-up tables (LUTs) that will quickly transform your footage to give it a cinematic look. Each LUT creates a unique look that can be used on its own, or in combination with your traditional color grading workflow.
The entire collection of looks was created by Tom Antos to aid in his workflow over the past few years. These original looks have been used in numerous films, music videos and documentaries that Tom has worked on.
LUTs are like a magic brush that paint your video to give it a specific look. It’s a simple process of drag and dropping each LUT onto your footage to see if you like the look that it creates. That’s it!
For advanced workflow, you can use standard RGB color curves to further tweak each look.
If you are not sure how LUTs are supposed to be used, then watch this quick video
LUTs can also be used on various field monitors that have LUT support such as the Atomos Shogun or Small-HD DP7-Pro
Compatible with most digital video and stills cameras!
CineColor LUTs work with Rec.709 footage, which is the standard color space. So if your camera shoots in Rec.709, then you can directly apply any of the CineColor LUTs to your footage.
If your camera shoots in a flat LOG profile, like S-Log (Sony A7S, FS-7, etc.), or C-Log (Canon C100, C300, etc), then you can apply one of our additional LUTs, to convert your footage to Rec.709
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The CineColor LUTs come with four additional LUTs that will convert your footage to the standard color space (Rec.709):
- LOG – flat color space (BMD Film, RedLogFilm, Cinestyle)
- C-LOG – Canon’s semi-log color space – somewhere between LOG and Rec.709
- S-LOG – Sony’s log color space called S-Log2
- Flat – semi flat color space like the Cinestyle-D on the Panasonic GH4 & other similar cameras
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To use the CineColor LUTs, you will need one of the following applications:
- Adobe Premiere CC 2014, 2015 and later versions
- Adobe Speedgrade
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 and later versions
- Adobe After Effects CS5 and later versions
- DaVinci Resolve FULL/lite
- Apple Shake
- Assimilate SCRATCH
- Nuke
- Apple Final Cut Pro X – requires either the LUT Utility or the FCPX LUT Loader (free as of time of writing)
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and later versions (requires LUT Buddy which you can download for free here)
- Final Cut Pro 6,7 (requires LUT Buddy which you can download for free here)
- Apple Motion 3,4 (requires LUT Buddy which you can download for free here)
- or any other application that supports 3D LUTs
List of the LUTs
Dawn on Fire
Dry Wind
Fun in the Sun
Golden Grass
Green 2 Red
Happy Split
Heatwave
Kodak Vision
Kodak Vision Cool
Kodak Vision Warm
Miami Streets
Neon Kiss
Pool Party
Transformer
United in War
Urban Cinema
Urban Pop
War Bleach
Warm War
Winter War
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Chas Wilder –
Using these in the Lumetri Panel in Premiere CC 2015.1 on Canon DSLR video I found that the preview within the Program Monitor didn’t represent the output of rendered footage. There was quite a dramatic shift. Some experimentation led me to export the opened LUT from the panel as a new native Pr .cube LUT and use that instead. This gave more accurate, and less frustrating, results. My final video is now close to the working preview. Not sure why this is the case, maybe some change in the way that Pr CC 2015 uses the LUT at the render stage but not when displaying the preview. The same problem applied to Technicolor CineStyle LUT as well, solved the same way, so not unique to Tom’s LUTs.
Tom Antos –
My LUTs are already in .cube format so there is no need to convert anything as .cube file format works right in Adobe Premiere.
Chas Wilder –
Tom, thanks for your response. I owe you a public apology…
After further experimentation I’ve found that my issue lay with the CineStyle LUT I was applying as basic correction in the Lumetri panel. It was this, that had been converted to .cube with LUT Buddy, that was to blame. Re-saving this with PR CC 2015.1 solves the issue entirely. Please feel free to remove my review as I don’t want it to appear in any way negative as your LUTS perform as advertised.
Memory loven –
Very good