In this video we're going to talk about color grading for video footage and I am going to be using a software application called

Devinchy Resolve which you can get absolutely free. It's from a company called Black Magic and I will put a link to that in the show description.

And I've also done several tutorials on DaVinche Resolve, so if you kind of want a more general overview

and learning how to use the software, I will link those in the show description as well.

But in this video, I want to talk about using Lutz and what is

a Lutt. Well a Lutt it's basically an acronym that stands for Look Up Table and

so sometimes you hear these referred to as Lutz or computer sorry color

lookup tables and essentially this is a data file. referred to as Lutz or computer, sorry, color lookup tables.

And essentially this is a data file

that you bring into the software application

that you're using, you can apply it to your footage.

And it will, typically and traditionally,

these emulate the looks of different film stocks. it comes from the days where we shot on film and actually output it back out to film but we're able to edit digitally and have the color consistency accurate during that process and also different

film stocks have different looks to them and so that's why Lutz were

essentially developed. Today they have a much more creative and broad application

than they used to, but it is important

to understand that applying a LUT isn't exactly the same as doing a color grade.

Color grading is a much more involved process where you're actually going to manipulate your

footage even further.

But Lutz are a wonderful place to start if you want a certain look to what you're doing.

And so this is what we're going to talk about the application for these.

And so that is important to understand.

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