The LUT Workflow Explained (Part 3) | Adobe Premiere

Today, I explain my recommended workflow for both technical and creative LUTs in Adobe Premiere! Enjoy!
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[@michaelpujda8407]

Omg, finally! Someone who actually explains the why's in the coloring process, and why a certain order matters. Every other YT channel is "these are curves, they do this". I've been searching for years for a video such as this one. Thank you so much for this much deeper understanding.

[@aleksreba]

TL;DR 1. Apply your conversion LUT (LOG to Rec709) directly onto the clip in the Creative tab in Lumetri. This allows you to retrieve blown highlights and other lost information in the Basic tab, as information is filtered downwards in this panel. Use this to do color correction. 2. Add an Adjustment layer on top of your clips and apply a creative LUT. Adjust the intensity to your liking. 3. If however you want to use a film print emulation LUT, you need to apply a second lumetri effect to the adjustment layer and put this at the bottom of the effects, so this will be the last stop you footage gets filtered through. Apply your FPE LUT here, and do your grading on the first lumetri panel above it. That gives us this order if you are reading your timeline from top to bottom: 1. Adjustment layer: 1. Lumetri Color Grade, 2. Lumetri LUT 2. Actual footage layer: do color correction in Basic tab, apply conversion LUT in the Creative tab

[@ElishaZakai]

U r pretty much the only professional level colorist I know of on KZbin

[@eliasrayz1412]

aram k is good

[@apexhunter333]

Denver Riddle of Color Grading Central

[@anttiheik]

Juan Melara is great as well

[@storyfrontier]

@@apexhunter333 true but not as good

[@OhMrComfort]

Welcome back:) Would love to see you showcase a good workflow from Premiere to Resolve and back again!

[@torreymerritt]

Same, that would be awesome!

[@KaiForusinskiFilmmaker]

yeah. would be very nice!!

[@olegtcherkas]

I've been waiting for that type of video for 2 and a half years))

[@orfanidis071]

Yeah, this would be very helpful indeed!

[@jacobnathanielzpayag3885]

I used to recommend edit in Premiere then color in resolve but ever since Resolve 15, I've started to do everything in Resolve.

[@thomasmeldgaard3016]

Yeah Resolve is much more optimized than Premiere, and it is so nice to be able to skip the whole XML workflow.

[@SONYAdicto]

Jacob Payag same

[@joshforth]

Bro! Your stuff is so helpful! You're probably my absolute favorite creator on KZbin right now!

[@averypeck]

Thanks dude!

[@PostColorGear]

I don't do much color grading in Premiere (I barely use it anymore, really) but another technique I use for situations like this is to nest the clips, and apply a lumetri effect to that. Saves me from creating a dragging a layer over all the clips. (Of course this can cause other issues if you have to go back and edit your timeline, so it's best saved for the last step) - Good to see you back Avery. I like the production value on your tutorials.

[@reidcipriani5673]

Trying to switch over to Resolve. Thanks for putting out some Premiere Pro content as well.

[@UsamaMahmoudSultan]

Best channel on KZbin

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks so much Avery! Love your style. Would love to see a workflow of taking your project from premiere to Resolve for grading then bringing it back to premiere once you're finished. Thanks again!

[@averypeck]

Thanks Danny! That tutorial is on the list!

[@t-producciones5138]

Hello Avery, thank you very much for this tutorial. Learned a lot. Color correcting and Grading is becoming addictive. Could you please please teach us what workflow you would use to correct and grade DJI mavic Cinelike-D and D-log, and when we should use each one using Davinci resolve 16?🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@legend8930]

this channel deserve to be promoted

[@rananapier8424]

Wow, eye-opening! I had no idea about the order of these things actually mattering or the fact that LUTs could destroy your highlights or shadows! Thanks so much! I usually don't comment, but this one needs to get pushed out into the algorithm to help all lost color correcting souls!

[@OskarHelgason]

I'm glad I dove headfirst into Resolve even though I had no prior experience in grading. Your videos have definitely had the biggest impact on my workflow!

[@CesarAugustoTejada]

This is the tutorial that I waiting for!! Thank you 🙌

[@LeeForsythe]

Great explanation Avery! This helped me a lot! Keep up the great work.

[@averypeck]

Thanks Lee!

[@victorfilm_]

Looking forward to future DaVinci Resolve tutorials

[@liamacton7012]

Whites and Blacks corrections are actually applied before the input lut, slightly out of order but allowing you to simply keep your luminance under control before the input lut. Much simpler i think.

[@tobeythegiant]

Not in my version of Premiere Pro...they ARE applied before any other controls, such as exposure and highlights, but NOT before Input Lut. This is so you can affect the out-of-range levels without compression.

[@JonathanNinnin]

Thanks Avery for this, a good Idea on a next tutorial would how do you edit in premiere and then grade in davinci, the best workflow possible. I'm currently stuck with premiere because I don't know how to colorgrade my edit and not lose information or having extra exports. Cheers from france :-)

[@MIMCKMedia]

Same question here

[@DrewRomano]

ur kind of a genius

[@MichealG]

We were waiting, and voila. Thank you

[@turgutunal3663]

Thx alot very clear knowgladge

[@ElishaZakai]

I'm so glad your back to making videos man!

[@barnabasszakal7258]

Hey Avery, Love your stuff, you have some elements in your style of Video Copilot (elements 3D). I greatest wish for myself is that one day the color adjustment of videos would be the biggest concern in my life, but still until that it is a tremendous pleasure to see the work of people like you!

[@aaronmcneill713]

YES!!!! ANOTHER ONE!!! Welcome BACK BRO!!!

[@KornelFlint]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@user-kv7eg4ji1d]

cool video. waiting next eposide

[@BackpackingVideos]

Is it necessary to apply Lumetri as an effect? Can't you just use the adjustment layer and start applying a LUT there for your grade and using the creative tab to make further adjustments? Could you also use another layer on top for your basic correction above the creative layer? This would allow you to make the basic corrections first right?

[@cmorellato]

Welcome back! Stay with us! :)

[@howiewang897]

Why not apply the conversion lut on an adjustment layer, do the primary correction on each individual clip. Then stack another adjustment layer on top of the conversion layer for creative grading, then another layer if output out is needed? I find that to be more similar to the node workflow in davinci. Not disputing what you’re showing in the video, but would appreciate your stance on this. Does it mess with the order of operations? Is the way you’re showing to save some processing power since you have one less lumetri effect applied?

[@LukeHolliday]

I found a workflow in premiere that works really well for me: I use two adjustment layers: one for conversion, then another on top for creative adjustments. Then I do all my basic corrections on the clips themselves. Is that basically the same thing as what you're showing here?

[@averypeck]

Hey Luke! Yes, that's pretty similar to what I'm doing here. The only difference is that here the secondary corrections are placed after the conversion LUT, so pulling a clean key is a little easier if you need to fix skin, etc. But it's otherwise the same!

[@LukeHolliday]

Avery Peck okay cool! Yeah I have noticed it's pretty rough trying to key my raw clips, since they're in s-log 2. I'll definitely use this technique next time I'm doing qualifications 👌🏻 Thanks for these videos dude and welcome back!!

[@tobeythegiant]

Are Lumetri’s controls not design for rec709 and not Log, just like DaVinci’s? Like you mentioned in Part 1, isn’t it going to be difficult to correct temperature and such correctly in Basic Correction when these controls are not expecting Log? I would go for the Curves before Lumetri method you mention, even though it is a harder workload for Premiere. That is closer to having a standard “pre-lut” node to preserve information that has been clipped by the Lut. Wouldn’t you agree?

[@ikbalaydin80]

hi .. i have a question.. how to make color grading a landscape into grayish color ? Can you make a video please how to make

[@olegtcherkas]

What is the difference between rec 709 and sRGB? sRGB looks a little better when I apply it in Resolve to my DNG footage.

[@DiscoverRajivVlogs]

One of most informative video, but Resolve is quite hard to understand trying to learn 😅

[@nonsolovita]

welcome back

[@MIMCKMedia]

Do you recommend to grade the clips in resolve und create a lut from the grade which can applied in premiere pro, or is it better to render the clips out of resolve in prores and then put the already graded clips in premiere?

[@averypeck]

The latter option is definitely better! With a round trip workflow, now you can do both the color correction and grading in Resolve, as opposed to trying to balance the shots in Premiere and grade in Resolve. I'll be making a tutorial on round trip workflows at some point!

[@noncopyright742]

Nice vid!

[@HaiHai-de5xm]

Please your Excellency, Make some resolve tutorial. Thank you very much!

missed you :)

[@deepmusic2456]

In part 2 in davinci resolve pre luts and lut method i getting issue in exposure when I am using 1 node as pre luts and 2 node lut then i try setting my exposure in 3 note then I am not getting correct exposure ..when I try set my in pre luts then I am getting correct highlight . Why iam not getting correct highlight in 3 node..Avery peck

[@omeechannel4890]

IF THE FILM SHOT IN LOG HOW CAN I GET TO KNOW THE REAL COLOR (LIGHTS) OF THE FOOTAGE?

[@ANK7PRODUCTIONSS]

1st comment Avery is backkk

[@averypeck]

Woot woot!

[@rakanchannel1305]

Finally😍😍

[@CristianCalhoun]

Awesome again! :) (Y)

[@thefilthyswede]

Where are you based?

[@averypeck]

I'm based in NorCal!

[@Pallas_Capital]

first! :)