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Tutorials Galore: Dailies in DaVinci Resolve, CinemaDNG to ACES Conversion, Plus What's a LUT?

01.29.13 @ 11:29AM Tags : abelcine, andyshipsides, blackmagic, bmcc, cinemacamera, cinemadng, colorscience, colorspace, davinci, davinciresolve, howto, lookuptable, lut, transcoding, tutorial, tutorials, watch

Ever asked yourself, “What in the f#$% is a LUT?!” Or what a LUT’s relationship is with color space? Or what a color space is? If “yes,” not to worry — these concepts can be fairly confusing. Fortunately, engineering can and will work for you as an artist, so long as your understanding of it covers the fundamentals. And even if you answered “no” to all the above, you should still check out some of outstanding basic-breakdowns of these concepts below — including how to convert CinemaDNG footage into the Academy Color Encoding Spec color space (ACES) in Davinci Resolve, plus how to use that very program to generate dailies (like a boss). More »

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What is a Look Up Table (LUT), Anyway?

05.7.11 @ 6:20PM Tags : colorcorrection, log, lookuptable, lut, postproduction, s-log

This is a guest post by producer/colorist Jay Friesen.

There are a lot of great tools out for grading and finishing. Cineform’s First Light has been out for a while now and Red Giant’s LUT Buddy was just released. Technicolor also released their CineStyle profile for Canon DSLRs and their documentation talks about using the included Look Up Table (LUT) in the post processing of your footage. The new Sony F3 will soon have a firmware upgrade that enables an uncompressed 4:4:4 S-LOG mode that utilizes LUTs. So, what exactly is a LUT? More »