New: My free LUTs for Color Science Gen 5 : LBK-Neutral-Hi-D
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:21 amSome of you might know and use the LUT I created for the PCC4k color science Gen 4:
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In the beginning of 2021 I started creating a new LUT for the latest color science. The new much flatter base provided some challenges to overcome and it took me quite a while and a lot of iterations and testing to get the look where I wanted it to be. These are not just some simple RGB channel curves tinkered looks like a lot of Youtubers are trying to sell with glossy marketing words.
My LUTs are using the full capability of what you can do in 3D LUT Creator with LUTs.
The goal was to get a natural looking image with most of the dynamic range intact, beautiful skin tones and a nice highlight roll-off.
The LUT is also nice for the camera LCD, to feed an external monitor like the Atomos Shinobi and for a client monitor - so it has to look pretty.
Currently there exist three versions of the LUT:
LBK_Gen5_Natural_High-desat v4
This LUT is almost neutral to the colors in any way, it handles mixed light situations quite well, the highlights roll-off increasingly de-saturated like analog film. It has a nice glossy look, but therefore does not show the last bit of details in highlights (they are there but very low contrast for a smooth roll-off).
It is quite similar to my Gen 4 LUT LBK-Neutral-Hi-DeSat v10, but offers a bit more contrast. You should be able to mix footage from Gen 4 with Gen 5 by using my LUTs for each Gen.
LBK_Gen5_Natural_High-desat v2
This LUT has been built before v4 but offers some interesting modifications.
1. Less magenta and less yellow in green tones which changes grass and leaves back to a more natural, less brownish and fresher look
2. Less contrast and flatter highlights compared to v4
3. Be careful with yellows: because of the way this LUT bends the greens it will also bend yellows towards green. Signal yellow will become signal green for example. But it works well with landscapes.
LBK_Gen5_NaturalWarmth_High-desat v7
This LUT is based on the RGB curves of the official Blackmagic Design Gen 5 Extended Video. And then heavily modified in every other aspect. It gets more contrast through an additional master curve adjustment, a luminance curve adjustment, tweaked sat/sat, lum/sat, sat/lum and other adjustments.
1. It will give your landscapes a nice boost, make clouds pop
2. skin tones get the slightly more saturated "film look" in the darker parts
It's best to set ISO a bit higher than you would for the other LUTs because this one will lower the brightness the way it works.
In extreme cases with blue LED washes I found you will get banding in the highlight gradients when Resolve project settings are set to Trilinear interpolation.
To counteract I've provided a 64 point LUT too and you can switch to Tetrahedral interpolation - that completely eliminates the banding.
NEW: LBK-BMD_Gen5_neutral_High-desat_v10
It is now identical to my Gen 4 LUT LBK-Neutral-Hi-DeSat v10 and makes it possible to mix footage from Gen 4 with Gen 5 by using my respective LUTs for each Gen. Should work with all Gen 5 Pocket cameras and the UM12k.
This LUT is almost neutral to the colors in any way, it handles mixed light situations quite well, the highlights roll-off increasingly de-saturated like analog film. It has a nice glossy look, but therefore does not show the last bit of details in highlights (they are there but very low contrast for a smooth roll-off).
Go to the download here.
Please post your feedback below.
Download links and before/after footage will follow soon in the next posts.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=97623
In the beginning of 2021 I started creating a new LUT for the latest color science. The new much flatter base provided some challenges to overcome and it took me quite a while and a lot of iterations and testing to get the look where I wanted it to be. These are not just some simple RGB channel curves tinkered looks like a lot of Youtubers are trying to sell with glossy marketing words.
My LUTs are using the full capability of what you can do in 3D LUT Creator with LUTs.
The goal was to get a natural looking image with most of the dynamic range intact, beautiful skin tones and a nice highlight roll-off.
The LUT is also nice for the camera LCD, to feed an external monitor like the Atomos Shinobi and for a client monitor - so it has to look pretty.
Currently there exist three versions of the LUT:
LBK_Gen5_Natural_High-desat v4
This LUT is almost neutral to the colors in any way, it handles mixed light situations quite well, the highlights roll-off increasingly de-saturated like analog film. It has a nice glossy look, but therefore does not show the last bit of details in highlights (they are there but very low contrast for a smooth roll-off).
It is quite similar to my Gen 4 LUT LBK-Neutral-Hi-DeSat v10, but offers a bit more contrast. You should be able to mix footage from Gen 4 with Gen 5 by using my LUTs for each Gen.
LBK_Gen5_Natural_High-desat v2
This LUT has been built before v4 but offers some interesting modifications.
1. Less magenta and less yellow in green tones which changes grass and leaves back to a more natural, less brownish and fresher look
2. Less contrast and flatter highlights compared to v4
3. Be careful with yellows: because of the way this LUT bends the greens it will also bend yellows towards green. Signal yellow will become signal green for example. But it works well with landscapes.
LBK_Gen5_NaturalWarmth_High-desat v7
This LUT is based on the RGB curves of the official Blackmagic Design Gen 5 Extended Video. And then heavily modified in every other aspect. It gets more contrast through an additional master curve adjustment, a luminance curve adjustment, tweaked sat/sat, lum/sat, sat/lum and other adjustments.
1. It will give your landscapes a nice boost, make clouds pop
2. skin tones get the slightly more saturated "film look" in the darker parts
It's best to set ISO a bit higher than you would for the other LUTs because this one will lower the brightness the way it works.
In extreme cases with blue LED washes I found you will get banding in the highlight gradients when Resolve project settings are set to Trilinear interpolation.
To counteract I've provided a 64 point LUT too and you can switch to Tetrahedral interpolation - that completely eliminates the banding.
NEW: LBK-BMD_Gen5_neutral_High-desat_v10
It is now identical to my Gen 4 LUT LBK-Neutral-Hi-DeSat v10 and makes it possible to mix footage from Gen 4 with Gen 5 by using my respective LUTs for each Gen. Should work with all Gen 5 Pocket cameras and the UM12k.
This LUT is almost neutral to the colors in any way, it handles mixed light situations quite well, the highlights roll-off increasingly de-saturated like analog film. It has a nice glossy look, but therefore does not show the last bit of details in highlights (they are there but very low contrast for a smooth roll-off).
Go to the download here.
Please post your feedback below.
Download links and before/after footage will follow soon in the next posts.
