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I honestly think you're better off learning how to color within Resolve, using the vast number of controls available in the system. LUTs are not the answer. Learn basic color management, learn what the knobs do, and through experimentation over time, you'll find a way to tailor the grade especially for the individual shot, not an off-shelf LUT that might actually damage the material.

After a decade working with video post, admittedly as much or more with colorists as editors ... I agree with Marc.

Getting a basic understanding of the tonal and color tools doesn't just give you the ability to create your own looks.

Far more importantly, you will gain the knowledge and experience to quickly look at an image onscreen, glance at the scopes for confirmation, and *know* how much you can probably get from that clip.

Which is a huge boost to quickly selecting and culling usability in clips.

And as a side benefit, you'll be able to create and store a range of looks exactly tailored to your needs.

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From talking with quite a number of folks using LUT packs for looks, even expecting only "temp" usage, they don't really notice how much time they spend doing the selection process. They tend to overestimate the time to do manual, and way underestimate the selection time from their LUT packs.

So sorting through even "only" 20-30 LUTs, trying a few of them ... that's not 30 seconds.

You might be very unusual, and only look at 3 or 4 before applying one. And only spend a couple minutes.

Want a bit gritty? Pull shadows down and towards cyan, push mids yellow-green, bump contrast & sat a titch. Done. 30 seconds with a mouse. Ten with a Micro panel.

By the time you've saved a few stills of this stuff, you just drag them to a clip. Fast & furious.

So again, you might be someone who can use LUTs and actually save time. Maybe ...


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For a "temp look" you can use either aces or resolve color managed workflow.

If you want to manage it yourself, slap a color space transform from your camera log to arri log c and slap a arri lut and call it the day

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Check this out...

if you HAVE to use a LUT, and the LUTs packaged in Resolve for free are not enough for some reason, the LUTs from Iight illusion are about as non destructive as a LUT can get, but not free...

99.9% of the "look" luts out there are crap and double crap, and even then more crap.... seems the more you pay, the worse they get, guess one pays for hype / marketing not the actual product....

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Thanks for this Walter. Are you suggesting transforming to Arri Log C, and then applying Arri's Rec 709, or then applying an Arri LUT that does more than that? Your suggestion is just at the edge of my understanding because I'm not fully aware of what Arri LUTs are out there, or what 'slap an arri lut' means.

I realized before I even posted that I'm asking professional cyclists if they know of a good set of training wheels, and that what I'm asking for doesn't apply to post pros. But this isn't laziness on my part. This is my first creative project in Resolve, and I'm not a colorist or trying to be. If I had the budget, I'd hire. For this one, I'm going to do the Resolve Color courses when I get to that point in post. I'm really hoping that someone has a suggestion that doesn't involve doing the Color course now. If there was a dunce cap emoji, I'd give myself one here, but I'm at a specific point where not using LUTs is a bit out of reach for me still, at least for time-savings.

I'm talking about the one that come free with resolve, is a good ballpark in most cases.