This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: [FR] Enable Display LUT

Friday, June 5, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: [FR] Enable Display LUT

Yes, as mentioned, some time in v8 land they added LUT Effect, which can be applied to clips or filler. It's great.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:15 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I just bought an Xrite Eye One Pro2 probe but I'm not sure if that has the abiity to build a lut. It does create a profile for each of my two display monitors and automatically applied them. Now those profiles appear as choices in the display preferences. I'm an infant with this stuff and now I will look if it creates a universal style LUT. It creates monitor profiles in some universal standard. Is a LUT vastly different in structure?

In a previous post Oliver mentioned with mc 8 you can apply a lut on filler track. That sounds like what you are asking for.

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <blafarm@...> wrote :

Resolve has the very nice feature of being able to incorporate a Display LUT in order to bring a wide variety of external monitors, at varying price points, into a calibrated state. Of course, you need calibration software like SpectraCal CalMAN or Light Illusion to create the Display LUT in the first place (I own the former).

Obviously, there are a number of hardware LUT boxes that sit between your I/O and your monitor that perform the exact same function, such as AJA LUT-box, Fujifilm IS-mini and eeColor LUT box. Each of them have different feature sets and support different LUT point specifications. You'll spend anywhere between $625 and $2,000 on a hardware solution and in our fast-paced world, it will be obsolete sooner than you'd want.

However, it would be nice if the ability to incorporate a Display LUT was built into Media Composer. I'm not suggesting you're going to grade a feature on MC with a consumer monitor -- you'd have to be brain damaged to do that in Media Composer anyway. However, it would be nice to be able to really dial in the accuracy of whatever program monitor you're sitting in front of -- whether it's your studio, a rental, a client's facility or a hotel room.

Failing that, at the very least, it would be nice to be able to apply a LUT to a top video layer in the timeline that only contains filler, like we have done in the past with effects and color corrections. That would seem to be a dead simple way of providing that kind of functionality. Unfortunately, I don't think that's currently possible.