At the very top of the panel, in the Basic Correction section, you’ll find the Input LUT dropdown menu. In Premiere, you can apply a LUT using the same Lumetri Color interface that we’ve been exploring over the last few weeks. The BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera and Sony FS5, on the other hand, have flat profiles built in and produce high quality (and larger) video files that can withstand aggressive grading. Older cameras, such as our AF100 and GH3 models, capture footage with more compressed codecs and lower bitrates, so using a flat profile won’t work as well. Footage captured at a high bitrate will do better, as will higher quality codecs, such as Apple ProRes and raw formats. Because you are going to be grading log footage pretty aggressively, you want to be using footage that can stand up to a lot of manipulation.
#IMPORT LUT INTO PREMIERE SKIN#
Colors – especially skin tones – are muted and grey. A LUT can certainly be applied to non-log footage, but the result will probably be footage that has been graded too severely.Īlso because of this, log footage is pretty bland and unattractive when you first import it. Hence the importance of log color profiles. Because the LUT applies presets across a variety of parameters – contrast, saturation, color balance, and more – it’s important that the footage you start with be fairly neutral.
There are several kinds of LUT files, but the one you will probably encounter the most often is the. LUT stands for Look Up Table – it’s a small file that applies preset color grading values to a piece of footage.
#IMPORT LUT INTO PREMIERE HOW TO#
While I still hold that getting your footage right “in camera” is the best approach, knowing how to use log footage is an important skill. It also makes it easier to correct issues like improper white balance, since the color saturation isn’t as intense. Shooting log does have advantages, though – it can give you a degree of freedom in the color grading process that you simply don’t have if you are recording normally. I mentioned then that shooting in log was not always the best idea – it can introduce noise into low-light footage and make things like green screen compositing more difficult. We talked in an earlier lesson about the pros and cons of filming with a “log” recording mode – a picture profile that decreases saturation and contrast to provide flexibility in post-production.
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