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Using custom look layers - SpeedGrade Tutorial
From the course: Learning SpeedGrade
Using custom look layers
In this movie, I want to talk about a very unique feature inside of Adobe SpeedGrade called custom look layers. And in this chapter, we're talking about primary corrections, and in the next chapter, we'll talk about secondary corrections. But I like to think of custom look layers as a hybrid correction motivated towards a primary correction, and that it allows you to quickly create a look without having to do a lot of manual labor. Now at first glance, a custom look layer might appear as just a way to add an effect to a shot, and that's true, but custom look layers also serve more utilitarian purposes such as the ability to apply a LUT to a shot, which we'll talk about later in this chapter, as well as do things like legalize footage. For now, let's start off talking about how to actually apply a custom look layer. And on this shot in the Timeline called 03_04_ looklayers, I've already gone ahead and applied a basic primary correction to the shot. Essentially, what I did was just…
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