All language subtitles for Procolor_C10_L5b_How_To_Luts

Now that we've learned a little bit
about what a lot is, we're going

to explore how to use them in resolve.

So let's
go ahead and go to a different shot here.

Let's go to Shot 73,

because we don't have any color management
or anything on that.

We just have our log image.

The very easiest way to add a light
is just to use a built in let in resolve.

So I'll make a new node.

I'll label this light and we can right
click on the node and go down to that.

And there are all kinds of different
lights that we can throw on here.

Some of these are custom
lots that I have loaded,

but we can go to Blackmagic design
and for what we're doing

we can say Blackmagic
Gen five film to extended video

and now we have a
pretty decent color transform

taking us

from that log footage
into rec seven or nine.

And that's pretty much as simple
as it gets.

We can use this
pretty much like a color space transform.

The only difference is the way that this
handles things is going to be different

depending on our different camera's,
different outputs,

and we don't really have any options
we can change.

We're just kind of stuck
with either fully on or fully off.

And it's not a bad way to work.

It's just a little bit less robust
then a color space transform

and just like a color space transform.

If I wanted to add some style,

if I wanted to make any adjustments,
I would do that before the LUT.

So if I want to add a little bit
more contrast in everything,

I do that to the left of this node.

There are other ways
to add lots to things, but this is by far

the easiest and cleanest way.

So let's take that.

And this is pretty much
how you would add any light and resolve,

regardless of what the light does.

You would just be careful to make sure,

like if this is adding style
that you're aware of that.

So how do we add a light
that maybe we downloaded

from the Internet,
maybe about from ground control, huh?

What you think about that?

Product placement within a product.
We did it.

We did it.

Kids, we can grab some of our free.

Let's hear from our color
page here on ground control that film

and we have these kind of transform LUTS
as log to direct seven or nine

a style direct seven
or 9:00, 3 to 7 or nine and so on.

And these are great and a lot of people
prefer our LUTS to some of the others

that they find on the Internet.

But a really good idea is to see
if you can find

the manufacturer
from whoever makes your camera.

So if you shoot on a drone in
something like log, you can download this

LUT and bring it into resolve
to adjust your footage.

Once you have a lot downloaded up here
where it says DaVinci Resolve

and go to preferences.

And here under

general there's a place here
called locations.

You can add a location and we can navigate
to where our ground control

lets our select folder and it save.

And now if we open up our lots
folder here,

right click and say refresh,

that's going to load all of our ground
control lets

and depending on the camera that you have,
you can load this light onto

your footage and it will do the conversion
as well as the style.

Now, these lots aren't designed
for Gen five,

so it's going to look a little bit weird,
but if you are shooting in

like as log two or as log three,
these will give you really good results.

But that's kind of the transform
as well as the style built in.

You can also do something
like LOE to transform. Let

an add a stylistic lot before it,

and that could give you some good results

depending on how harsh the lut is
with the colors.

A really good solution for this kind of
workflow is from our friend Colin Kelly.

This dude is making some really nice LUTS
that are designed to be used

in a color managed workflow.

If you go to his store up here at the top,
there's a link to get a free

Kodak 2383 style
LUT and this is really cool.

I'm going to set up
my color management here

and once I have

that set up, I can actually make a note
before this and we'll call this

LUT and I can load Colin's 23 A3 lot

by double clicking and this will add
this kind of subtle filmic style

with that contrast
and that kind of cooler shadows

and the color palette thing

to make the shot look kind of cinematic

and you don't have to build any of that
yourself.

This is a really, really versatile
lot that I've used a lot.

There's a link to it
in the notes that come with this training

and with just our color space transform
and our stylistic let,

we have a really nice looking image
that we didn't even have to do anything,

like we didn't
even have to really do a whole lot.

And it looks good and it gives us
a really nice starting point.

So if you haven't, check that out,
make sure to go to Colin Kelly

color scheme and get this free lot
because that is the one

I'm using for a lot of stuff.

He also has sort of a similar thing
which is called his elements Creative LUTS

and this again is kind of

to give you those qualities of something
that's printed on film.

But the difference is
if we add a couple notes here,

we can mix and match our different tones
and our color palettes.

So I can kind of mouse over this here
and take a look

at the different kind of tones
we can give it.

See, I like this winter tone.

I can double click to load it on this node
or call this one tone.

And then on this first light,
I can go to the palette

and I can load various kind of color
palettes to go along with it.

So maybe like sun
and now we can really quickly

get these tones
that we might like for our movie.

And it's really easy to switch these out
if I want to try something else.

Double click to load that new light.

And now we have this style.

Very, very cool.

Again, all of this stuff,
I would probably put on the timeline

or the group post clip nodes because
when you're creating a look, remember

that part of the idea is to kind of give
a common theme to the entire movie.

So we'll jump more into this specifically
when we actually get into color

grading our projects.

But for now, if you have a basic concept
of how to build a look and

and of how it works with LUTS,
you're going to be doing just fine.