The LUT Workflow Explained (Part 1) | DaVinci Resolve

Today I explain the ideal technical LUT workflow! Enjoy!
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[@konradnoises]

Dude your tutorials in colorgrading are by far the best! Very well explained, for super beginners or fairly advanced people. Keep up the good work!

[@MichaelGaskin]

I was just about to write the exact same thing... Make a full tutorial and put on Udemy or something similar! Would sell a ton...

[@obarovft314]

awesome. first time here. watching from Africa, i am glued

[@dharvell]

This is the only video I have found where there is an explanation not only as to WHAT is being done, but also WHY. Very useful. Thank you.

[@sisenorpedro]

Spent the whole day trying to get the information that you had in this video. Great job! (Subscribed).

[@curtisjudd]

Very useful, thanks Avery!

[@averypeck]

Thanks Curtis!!

[@AdamFunk]

Hey! The two most helpful people on the entire goddamn internet in one place. You guys have both helped me so much, in innumerable ways.

[@funnymono]

@@AdamFunk Amen

[@HitechProductions]

You are the only person I have ever watched that thoroughly explains the how and why of coloring in terms and in a manner that those who don't already know the material can understand. I learned more about coloring from the first video I watched of yours than all the others I watched!

[@vpr3i]

Your videos are one of the best sets of tutorial videos I've seen. Knowledge, voice tone, and pace are just perfect. More videos please!

[@Rickeeper]

Normally I don’t comment but man...you have really good videos. Well done!

[@sanenkichu7988]

all these years I have been missing on learning from you, hands down the best tutorial.

[@tomm.2783]

Honestly, one of the most knowledgeable artists out there. Glad to see you back! Looking forward to more! Thank you for this.

[@musicelect]

I think you should go a bit more click-baity with the title and say, "The most important video about LUTs you'll ever see". Seriously. This video made me realize I've been doing it wrong for almost a year now.

[@HitechProductions]

I don't like click-baity titles, but this certainly is the most important video about LUTs you will ever see. :)

[@joellouisfire]

Same here! Though it wouldn't be click bait in this example :D

[@katlis]

"Filmmaker reveals CINEMATIC LUTs?! (MIND = BLOWN)" Guaranteed 2x views.

[@JOHAN_PERJUS]

Agree, VERY informative and very generous, liked and subscribing for sure!

[@AlfredsUlmanis]

Same! So glad I watched this!

[@MrCozien]

Thank you so much for sharing byfar the best tutorial I’ve seen online over LUTS……

[@johanflod]

I like that you keep the introduction short. I really appreciate your videos. Thanks for sharing this knowledge!

[@Roz-Inspire-Video]

Starting watching a few short tutorials to get a handle on this and yours has made the most sense - Thanks!

[@richardstirling5799]

thanks for explaining the process step by step - loved it

[@StevenattheMoment]

Dude, your color grading tutorials are amazing! I've learned so much, thank you so much!

[@giovannirios1994]

Thank you for going over this! You’re the real MVP!!

[@eduard.amihai7545]

I know it's an old video but man you saved my life..instant subscribe..hope your content is educational like this one

[@musicelect]

Anyone using LUTs should watch this. Very valuable information!

[@Apex2_05_0]

I have been checking your channel everyday for a new upload, Thank god you finally did.

[@muriloyamanaka]

the highlight 1st tip already got me

[@ozzmanzz]

This is the easily the best video I have seen regarding luts. Thanks for posting, its all starting to make sense to me now.

[@Boleskinebeatz]

Gold dust! Didn’t realise the huge benefits of using the LUT before the qualifier. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@DevAcharya]

Even in 2022, It's so useful for beginners like me to learn new things everyday.Thanks man

[@arjunkavil6267]

The way you explain is just amazing. But there are only very few videos in your channel. Waiting for amazing content from you. You got indepth knowledge, the way you explain it directly feeds into our brain ... Thank you so much. Waiting for more videos from you.

[@averypeck]

Thank you, Arjun! I've made it my goal this year moving forward to produce significantly more content :)

[@arjunkavil6267]

@@averypeck looking forward to it.

[@Andy-ho7wx]

Avery for president - thank you so much for sharing your knowledge in such a convenient way!

[@RupestreFilms]

Dude! every video of yours that I watched is gold! Hope you keep it going. Thanks!

[@escapekayak]

Thank you. This answers so many of my questions. Ace.

[@MathieuTechMoto]

Thank you, very clear instruction, just learned a lot

[@oracleofvalerius]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks

[@tacitus101010]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks so much for making this. No music in the background is a great improvement over your skin tone video.

[@MichaelTiemann]

Sorry to be late to the party here. As for "Standard Practice" described at 1:40 please note that (1) Nodes can encapsulate many functions, and (2) the Resolve "Order of Operations" applies LGG settings (and many others) before it applies the 3D LUT. Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable to use a single node for the 3D LUT and to use LGG as well as Curves, Contrast/Pivot, and event Saturation within that node as they all apply before the 3D LUT is applied.

[@cevxj]

what he said

[@andreyshred]

Short, clear and useful. Love it!

[@andreyshred]

Is there any situation when you would set 3D Input Lookup Table under Color Management settings? Correct me if I'm wrong but in this situation you won't be able to use Pre-LUT node, right?

[@kevinplatt]

This deserves a big thumbs up. Maybe put this on Blackmagic's website, it's better than their explanations.

[@shane_taylor]

I'm glad I found your channel! Your tuts are outstanding. Well designed, to the point, nothing extraneous, and very educational. Well done (again).

[@LukeHolliday]

Keep uploading! Your videos are SO valuable and I think every cinematographer / colorist needs to see them! Looking forward to part 2 :)

[@averypeck]

Thanks Luke! I appreciate that.

[@freddymakesamovie6015]

Really great tutorial! Incredibly useful for people getting started with LUTs and refreshing for those already familiar with the process. Well done!

[@LiamGummer]

Looking forward to the follow up video using creative LUTs! Amazing tutorial.

[@ThePhantomofFilm]

I have been struggling with my bmpcc footage looking like garbage for the past year because I had know idea how the lut workflow worked. I'm excited to get back to grading!

[@TheCinewanderFilms]

yes,,, yes,,, finally you upload video after 4 months,,, please keep it up bro.. i m really your big fan..sorry i cant explain more,.. bcoz i dont know english

[@funnymono]

Amazing video. Matter of factly and well done.

[@olegtcherkas]

The best color correction videos on youtube! More, please!

[@justinburgan]

So good! This makes Resolve look a little less intimidating

[@blackandredfilms8332]

Good explanations, good voice, good pacing. Love your videos Avery, get a Patreon going so we can pay you for your time.

[@atreyucinema93]

Thank you!!! This cleared up SO much for me! Everything you said was very well explained! Definitely going to watch more! Thanks!

[@Presentatieable]

Seriously! Thank you very much! This video changes my way of editing and made my video's way better!! I subscribe!!!

[@PVCLime]

Nicely explained! The one thing I´m looking for is where the LUT is when applying it to the clip, not as a node. I´m having a discussion with an pro cinematographer and he is putting his LUT on the clip and he doesnt know where in the chain its applied. I will link your video if someone asks me about my workflow again. (thumbs up)

[@averypeck]

Thanks! Do you mean applied in the raw tab like for Blackmagic footage? If so, it's applied at the beginning of the order of ops before all other nodes.

[@robben860921]

Hi Avery I want to know a bit more about that broadcast safe node. What do we see if it's not there? The shadow details gone? Would it be the same as you clip it manually?

[@RhythmicEye]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

[@crashbandits5487]

LUTS and workflow made simple and clear... Thank you!!

[@stevejones01]

I wish all of KZbin tutorials were this good. Curtis Judd if you see this yours are this good too :-)

[@SebHazel]

Such a good tutorial! Please keep them coming, can’t wait for part 2!!!

[@joellouisfire]

Thank you! This answered all my questions. I'm so glad I now know I was using LUTs in a way that limited my footage's potential. Can't wait to grade my next project now!

[@KartykA_MagnificentStudios]

Thanks for this workflow video.. I was color grading my footage wrong for a year now..and from now I'll do it right.. thanks a lot💜

[@sk8mcbang]

This was SOOOOOO helpful holy Jesus

[@MelvinJoseFilms]

I have been struggeling with this exact subject. This is very helpful!

[@sundown6436]

Very informative video! You got a new follower...

[@filipficnakov3201]

Great video dude, I really like how you're explaining in details. Maybe you should make videos more often, this is so helpful. Keep up the good work!

[@BorjaLlorensMerelo]

Finally new tutorial! 🙌 wohoo

[@averypeck]

Thanks for being patient my friend :) More to come!

[@stephandmytriv8415]

HEY Avery!!! First of all: THANK you so much for the videos you do. So good, so professional and straight to the point. SUPER useful! And here it comes: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, is there any chance you could share with us the video-tutorial of your work flow (grading) with RED (raw) footage. Of course there are already so much videos about this topic out here on youtube, BUT i really would love to see how you doing it. And i'm sure not only me! Thank you in advance

[@adamsabaz2415]

Thank you so much!!! Finally a starting point and some direction to go by.

[@NoorKarzon]

it's been 5 months since your last video! Be More consistent please "if you can". your videos are so great and well done!!

[@SophieGotraceMusic]

I never thought I was doing it wrong. Great insight. now I know why my qualifier keep on struggling to correctly grab the skin tones.

[@rutaemilija8653]

This just saved me so much idiotic colour grading!! Thank you!!!

[@ArtoflightProductions]

Your videos is the absolutely best.

[@kumi8037]

i have really enjoyed with your tutorials keep looking forward for future tutorials

[@rockascreen1109]

Very nice tips!!! Thanks!

[@JWS1968]

Excellent this was exactly the issue I was having with qualifiers. Thanks.

[@MoAmeer]

Amazing tutorial as always; keep it up!

[@FlyfisherFilm]

Thank you. I have been so confuse about what you are talking about. But now it feels like I know. Especially if I want to use a lut in the beginning. I have been thinking a bit that it had been a bit forbidden to use a lut in the beginning. But it seems like it is okay to use it in the beginning if I do it the right way. I did not know I could use two luts in a video, but it seems fear enough to use a lut in the beginning and in the end. I will try it out. Thanks.

[@t-producciones5138]

Avery!!! When are you coming back? Common dude! GYST!!

[@ina00203]

Very useful, thank you so much for this tutorial bro. Love your channel AV

[@eobiri]

Amazing as always, I am really hoping we will get part 2 of this too .....because... we did not get Part 2 of the awesome...Professional Color Grading !

[@averypeck]

Thank you; it will definitely happen! And that series became Shoot and Grade a little while back!

[@eobiri]

Can you also help do a video on how to remove noise for those using the free version of Da Vinci Resolve pending when I can upgrade to the paid version? Because I have used different methods and I am still not satisfied with the result even after separating the Chroma from Luma.

[@JonPais]

Great tutorial, Avery.

[@markromero7874]

Nice to see you here, Jon.

[@bosez]

You are the best. I'll look forward to the next video. Thank you

[@guangbinjiang1673]

Awesome，Thanks Avery!

[@reginaldworthington7558]

Great info - thank you.

[@CedricHauteville]

Very well explained, thank you!

[@reidcipriani5673]

Simple but valuable

[@bannerc105]

super cool tutorial !!!

[@DiscoverRajivVlogs]

Hell smart very useful, and I most liked adjustment before applying log to rec709 lut to preserve details.👍

[@Weliketojumpandstuff]

You're the best, Avery

[@DoctorNobody]

Can’t wait to see the rest! 🙂

[@mambapito2137]

Love it! Please upload more hurry please :p we are all anctiously waiting for the next one lol

[@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? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@rogmag74]

When using a LUT for broadcast safe values in Resolve as in 6:37, keep in mind that Resolve uses full RGB levels internally and will normally scale to video levels when rendering unless you tell it otherwise. Therefore clipping the black level above zero doesn't make much sense and is kind of misleading.

[@UsamaMahmoudSultan]

I always Love your tutorials 😍

[@westinkriser6943]

Best Resolve Tutorials our there. Upload More, please!!!

[@trevorpinnocky]

I've been doing this intuitively. Turns out there's a reason it works. Lol. Nice....

[@JCurtisMedia]

This was GREAT! A ton of value packed into this quick 8 minutes. Definitely a good way to piece together some understanding of a workflow to adopt and make your own. Preciate the work put in this one #newsub

[@Samuelkonetsky]

This is insane. Definitely going to try this now. Thanks 🙏

[@he.smile_]

Excellent tutorial 🙏 I understand luts now

[@ahahlex]

One question, why don't use at the begining of the worklow a REC709 conversion node only used to select an alpha skintones. Once skintones are selected just switch off the REC709 conversion node and keep alpha (parallel node) ? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience here, it's super instructive and useful !

[@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? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@freshTEAfilms]

Well done

[@SelfBio]

Great! Thank You!

[@VishnuAttiappan]

This is so valuable!

[@TriniWeekes]

Great Information

[@kinfutsang3627]

haven't seen it yet, but i would like the video first! coollll

[@eddu4361]

Dr15 has a fx effect allowing you to translate a clip from one color space to another like log to rec709.