CINE SCENES URBAN.01 — LUTs for Video

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Remastered for 2022 and beyond (free update for existing purchasers)

Newly improved for greater flexibility when used with a wider variety of camera profiles, with softer highlight roll-off and lowered peak contrast for more aesthetically pleasing results.

9x LUTs for colour grading video footage
Inspired by everyday urban destinations around the world, these creative look-up-tables (LUTs) offer a consistent style to colour grade your video footage. Great attention has been directed towards various urban textures and scenes, to produce exceptional results across most cameras.

These LUTs follow on from the hugely popular URBAN CHROME and URBAN STONE Lightroom Preset series and are stylistically designed to creatively enhance the cinematic feel of urban scenes, found around the world.

Compatibility
With heavy attention to the tones and textures of various urban scenes, these LUTs will work exceptionally well across all camera manufacturers, including iPhones and other smartphones, Panasonic, Sony, Fujifilm, Canon, Nikon and more.

Unfortunately, not all cameras are created equally, with some manufacturers applying more colour processing than others. For best results, apply these creative LUTs to footage with natural/flat colour profiles and tweak exposure and LUT strength (opacity) settings as necessary.

Log footage will likely require intial conversion adjustments to rec709 levels and colour space via official technical LUTs available from your camera manufacturer. Once converted, these creative LUTs will offer a great start for consistent colour tonality and hues.

Due to the more restrictive nature of video formats, over RAW photography, the highest attention should be made to capturing accurate exposure and white balance settings, in-camera at the time of filming, specific to your camera's best shooting practice.

Every scene is different, so further tweaking and experimentation may be needed when applying these LUTs. Consistency as a base is the greatest value of applying LUTs to footage.

How to use
Premiere Pro Users — With a clip selected in the timeline, open
Window > Lumetri Color then navigate to the Creative tab and choose a LUT via the Look drop-down. Either browse for the file individually or place them in the designated system folder location for permanent access:

Mac — Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative
PC — C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\LUTs\Creative
Learn more about LUTs in Premiere Pro

Final Cut Pro X Users — With a clip selected, open the Inspector via Window Show in Workspace Inspector select the info button. Change the metadata view to either General, Extended or Settings. Select the Camera LUT pop-up menu and choose
Add Custom Camera LUT, select the designated LUT file (.cube only).
Learn more about LUTs in Final Cut Pro X

What's included
There are 9 "looks" in this package (in both .cube and .3dl file format). Every piece of footage is different, so further tweaking and experimentation may be needed. Continue reading for more information and visuals about each style.

A full .pdf document with installation instructions and sample images is also included within the download.

LUT formats
These LUTs are, suitable for the latest versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Final Cut Pro X and DaVinci Resolve, along with any other video software that support LUTs via the .cube and .3dl file formats. 

These look-up-tables (LUTs) are best used on footage captured in a flat picture profile (lower contrast, sharpening and saturation). Most DSLR, mirrorless and many compact cameras allow customisation of picture profiles/styles. For flexibility when editing, shoot in a profile such as Cinelike-D (Panasonic), Cine4 (Sony), Eterna (Fujifilm) or customise an existing profile for a flatter image.

Using apps such as FiLMiC Pro or Moment Camera offer the best options for footage captured on a smartphone.

9x LUTs for video colour grading

JA – Bright Soft

JA – Cine Dark


JA – Cool Punch


JA – Intense Hit


JA – Moody Mute


JA – Personal Cooling


JA – Personal Warming


JA – Urban Pop


JA – Urban Standard

I hope you enjoy these LUTs and I look forward to seeing your posts via social media with the hashtags #JACineScenes and #JALUTs

Joe

@joeallam

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