Easy methods to use LUTs (and 5 free horror film LUTs to obtain)
For this week’s episode of Brief Cuts, it’s a Halloween particular! Spookyyyyyyy.
On this very spooktacular episode, we’re having a look at how you can use LUTs. LUT stands for color lookup desk. To get you began with LUTs, we’ve created some for you based mostly on traditional and fashionable horror movies, you can obtain at no cost by clicking the hyperlinks under – don’t be concerned, no varieties to fill in, they’re utterly free, courtesy of our particular visitor Dreaditor, Spooky Murderson!
LUTs apply a pre-defined look to your footage you can then modify.
When you’ve downloaded the LUTs under, head into your Lightworks challenge, and open up the challenge card on the highest left, and there you’ll discover ‘viewing LUT’ as an possibility on the backside of the ‘Output’ tab. If the inexperienced circle subsequent to it’s crammed in, which means the LUT is on, and will probably be utilized to your complete challenge. To decide on a LUT, click on on the ‘select..’ dropdown, after which navigate your solution to the place you’ve saved your LUTs. Double click on on the one you wish to import it.
That look will now be utilized to each clip in your timeline, and you may toggle it on and off by clicking the inexperienced mild subsequent to the place it says ‘Viewing LUT’.
Easy methods to use LUTs for particular person clips
That is the easiest way to use a LUT to your complete challenge, however there’s a solution to apply it to particular person clips as effectively. That is my most popular technique, because it provides you extra management.
To do that, click on on the clip you wish to apply the impact to, then head to the VFX tab, click on the + button so as to add a brand new impact, go to the color tab, after which both double click on 3D LUT or drag it down onto your clip.
It will apply your LUT to only that single clip, leaving the others unaffected.
Doing this may have robotically opened up your impact settings. Below 3D LUT, you will notice a bar named ‘Quantity’, set to 100%. This lets you management the depth of the LUT. many LUTs are sometimes deliberately too excessive by default, however start to look fairly good when you decrease the quantity.
There you go – that’s how you can use LUTs in a nutshell (LUTshell?)
Obtain the free horror movie impressed LUTs under, have a mess around, and tell us the way you get on:
- Obtain Noticed LUT right here
- Obtain The Shining LUT right here
- Obtain The Ring LUT right here
- Obtain Evil Useless LUT right here
- Obtain Let The Proper One In LUT right here
For extra LUTs, there’s additionally a complete bunch of defaults inside Lightworks and plenty of accessible at no cost or a small payment, be at liberty to Google round or head over to our pals at lutify.me, they have some nice ones!
