Can we do anything to clean these LUTs up? I’m not sure what the answer is yet. Since I’m having trouble creating my own ‘broken LUTs’ I’ve started looking at 3rd party solutions for evaluating and manipulating LUTs – to help us better understand what’s going on. Jump to 14:35 if you just want to see these new shortcuts in Resolve 15. While spending many hours creating LUTs and re-importing them into DaVinci Resolve 15 Public Beta, I discovered some key new shortcuts that makes this process super-fast and way less annoying. If you add LUTs to DaVinci Resolve then don’t miss the end of this Insight! Personally, I think FilmConvert did a great job, even when I yanked every slider around – and it gives you options to export LUTs in several different cube sizes. What do I have to do to break a LUT? Here’s a hint: I had to get super-aggressive with the film emulation plug-in Film Convert to get any image that you could possibly say *might* induce unwanted artifacts. In this Insight, you’ll see my many attempts to break a LUT export out of DaVinci Resolve.

What I’m asking is: If I get aggressive, can I break a the LUT Stress Test in the manner that some commercial film-emulation LUTs do? But I can’t reproduce that behavior any more – now that Resolve is much smarter about it). (I’m not sure if this is a new behavior in Resolve 15, or not? I know when LUT exports was first introduced in Resolve, if you applied a Vignette you’d get some mighty nasty LUTs. It also ignores HSL selections when exporting a LUT. In fact – DaVinci Resolve 15 ignores Nodes that have Power Windows.

Just apply a vignette and the exported LUT becomes worthless. I know how to break a LUT in about 3 seconds. Using normal color correction tools, how hard is it to ‘break’ a LUT? But after reading and watching his Insight, I decided to start off with answering a simple question. Jason’s reference test images added a whole lot more depth to my toolset.Īnd in the process – Jason has me asking more questions, and after a few days work I’m still not finding the answers I’m looking for.

Combine them with scopes and you have everything you need to know about a LUT. Test images with computer-generated ramps have always been a favorite tool of mine for helping us visualize the work of Look Up Tables. Jason Bowdach’s recent Insight on the LUT Stress Test fascinated me. Tutorials / LUT Essentials / LUT Stress Testing / How Hard Is It To Create A Broken LUT? Series

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