[Tig] Alexa. Lut or no Lut

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"I believe that Arri says that you pretty much have to use the (by them 
provided) Lut to get the image right. 
(could be wrong, I just remember a YouTube-clip from IBC2011 from 
Arri-booth talking of how important it is to load the Lut)" 

I must have missed that one. I guess I've just been blindly getting their images right all this time. 
That's absurd of them. But I'm sure they do believe that. Obviously they haven't been asking for our input. 


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From: "Carl Skaff" <carl at stopp.se> 
To: "Janet Falcon" <janet at shootersinc.com> 
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:54:23 PM 
Subject: Re: [Tig] Alexa. Lut or no Lut 

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I was thinking more to put the Lut IN the grading. On a node. 
That way you can decide to grade before, after or even take down the 
opacity of that node. 

I believe that Arri says that you pretty much have to use the (by them 
provided) Lut to get the image right. 
(could be wrong, I just remember a YouTube-clip from IBC2011 from 
Arri-booth talking of how important it is to load the Lut) 

I usually don't load it. 
Sometime I load it just for fun. Then match it manually (-ish). But the Lut 
does something nice I have to say. Although not all the time. Sometimes it 
just looks horrible. 
Sometimes I looks nice with how it adds contrast without punching the 
blacks but instead the lower midds. 


On one job I was grading 22 spots. 
For one of them I loaded the Lut to have a look. And then the director 
said: 'oh that's excellent, what did you do' 
So for that I used the Lut all thorough it. 
And also for a couple of similar spots. 
It was on a beach in south Africa. And the Lut made the sky and water pop 
out quite nicely. 




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17 feb 2012 kl. 22:33 skrev Janet Falcon <janet at shootersinc.com>: 

So when everyone is talking about using LUTs in grading for tv and limiting 
the range, I assume the LUT is being put on in the input? Does anyone use 
LUTs in the output? That way the range is not limited as you are 
correcting "under" the LUT. Any reason not to work this way? 
-Janet 


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Plus what's the point to load a LUT when grading for TV when all it does is 
minimize your range? 

Yes I load, check, play, experiment, but never use it when grading for TV. 


On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Carl Skaff wrote: 


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When you guys grade Alexa LogC (from Prores)... Do you prefer to load a Lut 

or not? 


This is for grading for TV. 




And for you filmguys... 

Anyone using a LogC>Linear Lut and the applying your own in-house-created 

Luts? 


I suppose that for an IIF ACES-workflow we would need to load a LogC>Lin 

Lut and then the IDT. Or? 


Or is the LogC>Lin mainly for VFX 




/Carl 





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