davinci resolve luts for underexposed shots

But this is not possible because FCPX first applies effects tab and only than Color tab and those two tabs or effects in the tabs are not able to concatenate. So you should lift the blacks and mids a bit and than apply the LUT effect. When you apply the LUT it crushes the blacks (cause the shot was underexposed). Footage was than imported to Final Cut Pro X. It was than converted to ProRes in Resolve with protect highlights option enabled. It was shot on Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera w/ SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33 X – 50 lens and SLR Magic CINE II 35mm T1.4 taking lens in raw mode. This shot was shot underexposed to protect the highlights of the molten metal.

But sometimes you don’t have the time or you just have to shoot as light as possible and you have to judge the exposure with the help of build in histograms or zebras. The best way would be if you could set exposure on a monitor with LUT applied (like Odyssey 7Q) or use a light meter like Lumu (I’m having one on test at the moment and will write a review soon). Log footage looks very flat and is as such difficult to determine correct exposure. But we all know that is easier said than done. That means that it can only be applied to the perfectly shot footage. When you apply LUT you are applying effect that most of the time crushes the blacks and/or highlights. The app first applies all the effects before it applies Color Grade under Color. You apply the plugin as any other plugin and it appears in the effects tab. The blog states using a plugin LUT Utility for applying LUTs to log footage. My NLE of choice is Final Cut Pro X and there is a problem with mentioned process in the blog post. Since I’m shooting S-LOG2 on Sony FS700 and in Film mode on Blackmagic Design Pocket Camera I deal with a lot of log footage.

There is a great blog post on Abelcine about applying LUTs to log footage in various applications.

Davinci resolve luts for underexposed shots