Welcome to anther part of the Resolve tutorials!
This time I'll talk about LUTs,
specifically how to work with film LUTs in Resolve.
Resolve has some nice pre installed LUTs
and I'll show you how to work with them.
I'll also show you
how to import your own LUTs and how to
adjust the opacity and so on. Enjoy!
Two things before I get started.
I'm doing this series together with Jonah Plank,
so have a look at his channel as well.
And he will also upload some more
videos on Resolve soon.
Also I want to mention that the tutorial experts
from DVD Lernkurs made a great tutorial
on DaVinci Resolve. It's a detailed
course that takes about
eleven hours. It's very detailed.
I recommend it for everyone who wants to use
DaVinci Resolve as their main cutting program.
Just have a look. The link is in the description box.
It's an affiliate link, so you can also support
Jonah and me. But now let's get started!
I'm in Resolve now and I just opened a clip
from Iceland. As you might know if been to Iceland in September/ October.
It's a c log 2 clip made with my C200
in raw light.
And I will now start grading it with a film LUT.
First I'll open a couple of notes.
As a rule of thumb: most LUTs you'll work with are
output LUTs so you should
add them at the end of your colour grading rather than the beginning.
In the beginning you should use input LUTs
like Rec 709 transform LUTs
to change a log profile into a nice
Rec 709 profile. But film LUTs are usually output LUTs
so you'll add them
at the right corner, right here.
You'll find the pre installed LUTs up here.
Just click on LUTs and choose film looks.
I've mentioned them before. Here you'll find some Fuji and Kodak
film stock LUTs. I like to work with the
one's at the bottom.
My favourite is
the Kodak D60 LUT. I'll add that to my footage
with a double click. But as you can see
it still needs some work. It'll be the same
if you use it with a Rec 709 profile.
It also won't look great. So the question is
how can I use these LUTs if they don't
look good in a Rec 709 or log profile?
The answer is you have to combine them.
These LUTs work best with a Rec 709 colour profile
but a gamma curve of a log profile.
Or rather they work best with
a Arri log curve.
How can I do that? I've showed
you before in a different tutorial.
just use the colour space transform plug in and drag it
onto the first note.
And edit your input colour space to
Canon Cinema Gamut
and c log 2 gamma curve.
Of course it doesn't look good like that. We have to
adjust the output colour space to Rec 709.
And output gamma arri log c
This colour space transform works best
with 10bit footage, or even
better 12 bit. If you're
working with 8bit footage some artifacts
might occur. It works best with about
10bit footage. Of course you can
also work with Sony profiles.
Just change it to s gamut or s gamut 3
depending on the log profile you worked with.
And also change your input gamma to s log 2
or s log 3 curve. After that it'll be transformed
and your footage will look quite good already.
That's a good base to work with. Let's have a before/ after comparison.
This is the footage without the colour space transform.
The footage definitely changed a lot.
It almost looks done.
This middle note, in between the colour space transform and film LUT,
is for any other adjustments.
Like contrast and white balance.
I actually wouldn't change much more.
I'll work on the saturation and contrast,
but now I already really like it.
To make these adjustments we will use the primary wheels.
I'll choose "lift" and darken the shadows a bit,
which will increase the contrast.
I'll slightly decrease the highlights
and increase the gamma, the middle tones,
but only slightly.
Increase the saturation a tiny bit.
Not too much...
Sort of like this.
I didn't change much. Just
increased the contrast a bit.
If you think the LUT is too strong, you can also adjust the opacity.
That's a bit hard to find.
You'll click this "Key" button right here.
And decrease the key output.
I'll turn it down all the way, so you can
see the effect it has on the footage.
If it's on 0 the LUT is not activated at all-
and you can edit the intensity of the LUT right here.
Alright- that's it on working with these film looks.
I really like the pre set Fuji and Kodak LUTs
and it's super easy to work with them.
Now I'll show you how you can import your own LUTs.
As you can see there's no import button
at the LUT window. It's a bit hidden as well.
You have to click down here at the "settings" window.
Click on project settings, colour management,
Right here you'll find "Lookup Tables"
Click on "open LUT folder"
Right here you'll see the Resolve LUT folder.
Now just choose the folder, that contains your LUTs
I'm just gonna import my Hamburg LUTs
You can either import one LUT or a whole folder.
You can just drag and drop it into the DaVinci LUT folder.
Close the window,
and click "update list"
That can take a while.
And then you'll find your own LUTs right here.
In my case the Frankfurt and Hamburg LUTs
It's a bit hard to find, but once you know
how to add LUTs, it's just fine.
Alright! That was all I wanted to show you about working with LUTs!
I hope you learned something. Remember it's important to work with the correct colour space,
and gamma curve. And also, always
add these film LUTs or also the LUTs from my pack
right at the end of your note chain.
That has to do with the information
on black and white balanced or
colours in general, that is stored in these LUTs.
And you would destroy them
if you made further adjustments.
Thanks for watching!
If you have any more questions, let me know in the comments!
And now there's nothing more to say than: see you next time! Bye!
