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What is a lookup table (LUT)?

What is a lookup table (LUT)? - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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What is a lookup table (LUT)?

- A LUT is an acronym that stands for Look Up Table. In essence, a LUT is a series of values in a table format that will let you change one set of color values to the desired color values. So a LUT is something that you just plug in to get the desired result. Because a LUT is a set series of numbers, you must use the appropriate LUT with the appropriate footage to get the desired result. For example, you could be shooting with a specific camera model and shooting in the early evening. There is a LUT that lets you adjust those values to what you need. Please open sequence 5-1 and look at the one and only clip that we have in there. This is a clip that was shot with a Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Cam. Of course, it was rendered and compressed so that you could download it easily, but no color grading was performed on this clip. As you can clearly see, there are some issues with the color in here, but nothing we cannot adjust with the appropriate LUT. In the Lumetri Color Panel, under…

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