**Mastering Kodak Film Emulations with LUTs**

When it comes to film emulations, one of the most popular and versatile tools is the Lightroom LUT (Look Up Table). A LUT is a color grading tool that allows you to apply a specific look or style to your footage. In this article, we'll explore how to use Kodak film emulations with LUTs, including different versions and flavors of the same emulation.

**Understanding Kodak Film Emulations**

Kodak offers a range of film emulations, each with its own unique characteristics and applications. For example, Kodak Ektra is available in four different flavors: Cin, FC (Film Contrast), FP (Film Port), and VS (Vision Space). These flavors cater to different workflows and applications, such as cinema, film photography, printing stock, and more. By selecting the right flavor for your project, you can achieve a consistent look across all your footage.

**Applying a LUT to Your Footage**

When applying a LUT to your footage, start by selecting the LUT that best matches your workflow and style. For example, if you're working with a camera that supports Kodak Ektra Cin, select that flavor. Next, click on the L menu in Lightroom and choose the desired film emulation. In this case, we'll use FC (Film Contrast) as it's the most versatile option for everyday video editing.

**Adjusting the Film Emulation**

Once you've applied the LUT, you can make adjustments to enhance or change its look. For instance, if your footage has an overexposed sky, you may want to blow out the shadows and warm up the image. To do this, go into the Gamma tab and adjust the offset and color temperature accordingly. You can also use the Tone Curve tool to fine-tune the contrast and brightness of specific areas.

**Power Grades and Advanced Color Grading**

While LUTs are incredibly useful for film emulations, they don't always have enough room for advanced color grading. This is where Power Grades come in – a more advanced version of LUTs that can handle complex color grading tasks. Power Grades allow you to apply multiple adjustments simultaneously, including exposure, contrast, and color correction.

**Creative Uses for LUTs**

LUTs are not just limited to film emulations. Creative professionals use them to emulate specific effects, such as lomography or other unusual film stocks. With the right LUT, you can create unique and interesting looks that set your footage apart from others.

**Saving Your LUTs**

One of the best things about LUTs is their flexibility. You can save your custom LUTs and apply them to different projects or even use them in other software. To do this, click on the Gallery tab at the top and select "Save As" – choose the desired format (e.g., 3D L Cube or Panasonic VL) and name your LUT.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, mastering Kodak film emulations with LUTs requires a solid understanding of color grading and the various flavors available. By selecting the right flavor for your project and making adjustments to enhance its look, you can achieve professional-grade results that rival traditional film stocks. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, LUTs offer an exciting new way to explore creative possibilities in video editing.

**Recommended Resources**

For more information on Lightroom LUTs and color grading, check out our recommended resources:

* Adobe Lightroom tutorials

* Film stock emulations from Kodak and other manufacturers

* Online forums and communities for discussion and sharing of custom LUTs

By mastering the art of film emulation with LUTs, you'll unlock a world of creative possibilities in video editing. Stay tuned for more articles on this topic and subscribe to The Art of Photography for the latest updates and tutorials.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video we're going to talk about color grading for video footage and I am going to be using a software application called Da Vinci resolve which you can get absolutely free it's from a company called Blackmagic and I will put a link to that in the show description and I've also done several tutorials on D venci 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 Luts and what is a lot well a lot it's basically an acronym that stands for lookup table and so sometimes you hear these referred to as Luts 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 and 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 Luts 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 lot 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 Luts 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 it's also important to understand that using a l is basically you have your Source footage and you have a result and the L helps you get there and so so sometimes on Modern cameras uh we shoot in what we call log profiles which allow us to capture a broader dynamic range but when you look at the raw footage it typically tends to be washed out looking and desaturated and so Luts can help delog your footage and bring that into something that's usable for a color grade and so that's really important to understand with all that um anyway so I think the best thing to do now is go over to D venci resolve and have a look okay there's obviously a lot of different kinds of L packages that you can find there's stuff you can download for free I've noticed that that's very limiting um the the ones that I like to use the most come from a company called color grading Central and these are Luts designed by a gentleman named Denver riddle and impulse is the 35mm negative stock library of Luts that they sell and there's different flavors of this there's a basic version and then there's a professional and ultimate depending on what your needs are and these are outstanding and I want to show you kind of how they work and so if I come back over to uh D Vinci resolve here this is some footage of these birds that live in my backyard these Hawks that hang out and so let's go ahead and reset this real quick and I want to show you kind of how I apply the L and again remember Luts are not exactly grading because they're going to be dependent on your exposure white balance how you have your image set up and this image actually has some issues with it in the footage and so I'll show you what those are but anyway to apply the L all I do is I rightclick on the Node and I'm going to go down to 3D L and then I here's all my L packages that I've got in here I'm going to go down to this Sony S log 2 and these are the um impulse Luts and you can see that there's a variety of film stocks in here everything from Fuji to Kodak different versions different speeds that have been emulated now each version has four different flavors that you can choose from in here so for instance if I go up under Kodak ekar and they're all the same in the file naming convention this is cin FC FP and vs you see at the end of these names these are for different uh applications that you might be working within so for instance cin is for the cineon workflow FC it stands for film contrast this is the one we're probably going to use the most if you're just making videos to share online or whatever FP is if you're going to go back out to print stock uh codec and then vs is Vision space so what I was do on any of these is just select your L and I would use the FC version if you've got the impulse l so I'm going to go ahead and select that and you can see that it corrected the contrast a little bit corrected the saturation there are some problems with this image mainly my white balances off so what I'm going to do is go into my gamma and I'm going to bring that offset out and warm that up a little bit that's a little too much and my exposure is okay this is a challenging image because it's somewhat back lit and that Hawk and the branch are kind of in the shadows there so what I'll do is I'll go ahead and blow my sky out because it's just kind of inevitable with this and bring that up a little bit and then we can start to warm up um bring in maybe some midtone detail and darken my Shadows to give a little bit of contrast there and we basically have it and that's what a lot does so I did two things here I applied the L and then I made some adjustments and I I use this particular example with this footage because I want to show you that just throwing a l on is not exactly working like an Instagram filter now at this point um I can go in I can change the L if I want to try something else so let's go back to my slog 2 folder because that's how I shot this and let's swap that out from maybe codec Vision 3 and you're going to see that it brought in a little more purple tones in there and has a slightly different look to it but again a very nice film emulation so once you have this set up um you can you can make Corrections very easily with it now at this point I would begin to grade my footage and it's really important to understand that there is a difference between applying a l and doing a grade now with Luts pretty much what you're going to be dealing with is color gamma and contrast information and if I want to save this out let's say I just built this from scratch I would go in here and I would actually right click on the thumbnail and you can go in and you can say generate 3D L Cube or Panasonic VL which ever you're working with and it will save that L out and then I could use that in other software I could use it in camera if supports it um there's a variety of applications now where it starts to get weird is if you start implying applying vignettes or lighting effects or things like that those don't save well to a lot that's really not designed to do that so if you want to do that we call this power grades and if I go click on the gallery tab at the top you can see I have some power grid set up for some of the artist series stuff that I was working on and those are much different that's like a Lut and then an actual grade applied to the Lut and so I'll cover that in a different video but I just wanted to talk a little bit about Luts today now Luts can do things other than emulate film stock and that's certainly okay too and you see a lot of creative uses for these now in fact I have a lot of Luts that I've built up in my library that do things like emulate lomography effects and things like that if you want but a lot of this because this becomes color grading at this point or what's a color grade and that's going to depend on what the footage is around it what kind of a feel you want to it and that's where you're really going to get into doing serious color work but I wanted to at least cover Luts and what you can do with some basic film stock emulation and other things as well so if you have any questions leave them in the comments below and as always if you enjoyed this video please remember to like it share it with your friends and as always subscribe to the Art of Photography I have the hawk fly off here so you'll be always up to date on all the latest and greatest videos we do here until the next video I'll see you guys then laterin this video we're going to talk about color grading for video footage and I am going to be using a software application called Da Vinci resolve which you can get absolutely free it's from a company called Blackmagic and I will put a link to that in the show description and I've also done several tutorials on D venci 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 Luts and what is a lot well a lot it's basically an acronym that stands for lookup table and so sometimes you hear these referred to as Luts 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 and 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 Luts 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 lot 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 Luts 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 it's also important to understand that using a l is basically you have your Source footage and you have a result and the L helps you get there and so so sometimes on Modern cameras uh we shoot in what we call log profiles which allow us to capture a broader dynamic range but when you look at the raw footage it typically tends to be washed out looking and desaturated and so Luts can help delog your footage and bring that into something that's usable for a color grade and so that's really important to understand with all that um anyway so I think the best thing to do now is go over to D venci resolve and have a look okay there's obviously a lot of different kinds of L packages that you can find there's stuff you can download for free I've noticed that that's very limiting um the the ones that I like to use the most come from a company called color grading Central and these are Luts designed by a gentleman named Denver riddle and impulse is the 35mm negative stock library of Luts that they sell and there's different flavors of this there's a basic version and then there's a professional and ultimate depending on what your needs are and these are outstanding and I want to show you kind of how they work and so if I come back over to uh D Vinci resolve here this is some footage of these birds that live in my backyard these Hawks that hang out and so let's go ahead and reset this real quick and I want to show you kind of how I apply the L and again remember Luts are not exactly grading because they're going to be dependent on your exposure white balance how you have your image set up and this image actually has some issues with it in the footage and so I'll show you what those are but anyway to apply the L all I do is I rightclick on the Node and I'm going to go down to 3D L and then I here's all my L packages that I've got in here I'm going to go down to this Sony S log 2 and these are the um impulse Luts and you can see that there's a variety of film stocks in here everything from Fuji to Kodak different versions different speeds that have been emulated now each version has four different flavors that you can choose from in here so for instance if I go up under Kodak ekar and they're all the same in the file naming convention this is cin FC FP and vs you see at the end of these names these are for different uh applications that you might be working within so for instance cin is for the cineon workflow FC it stands for film contrast this is the one we're probably going to use the most if you're just making videos to share online or whatever FP is if you're going to go back out to print stock uh codec and then vs is Vision space so what I was do on any of these is just select your L and I would use the FC version if you've got the impulse l so I'm going to go ahead and select that and you can see that it corrected the contrast a little bit corrected the saturation there are some problems with this image mainly my white balances off so what I'm going to do is go into my gamma and I'm going to bring that offset out and warm that up a little bit that's a little too much and my exposure is okay this is a challenging image because it's somewhat back lit and that Hawk and the branch are kind of in the shadows there so what I'll do is I'll go ahead and blow my sky out because it's just kind of inevitable with this and bring that up a little bit and then we can start to warm up um bring in maybe some midtone detail and darken my Shadows to give a little bit of contrast there and we basically have it and that's what a lot does so I did two things here I applied the L and then I made some adjustments and I I use this particular example with this footage because I want to show you that just throwing a l on is not exactly working like an Instagram filter now at this point um I can go in I can change the L if I want to try something else so let's go back to my slog 2 folder because that's how I shot this and let's swap that out from maybe codec Vision 3 and you're going to see that it brought in a little more purple tones in there and has a slightly different look to it but again a very nice film emulation so once you have this set up um you can you can make Corrections very easily with it now at this point I would begin to grade my footage and it's really important to understand that there is a difference between applying a l and doing a grade now with Luts pretty much what you're going to be dealing with is color gamma and contrast information and if I want to save this out let's say I just built this from scratch I would go in here and I would actually right click on the thumbnail and you can go in and you can say generate 3D L Cube or Panasonic VL which ever you're working with and it will save that L out and then I could use that in other software I could use it in camera if supports it um there's a variety of applications now where it starts to get weird is if you start implying applying vignettes or lighting effects or things like that those don't save well to a lot that's really not designed to do that so if you want to do that we call this power grades and if I go click on the gallery tab at the top you can see I have some power grid set up for some of the artist series stuff that I was working on and those are much different that's like a Lut and then an actual grade applied to the Lut and so I'll cover that in a different video but I just wanted to talk a little bit about Luts today now Luts can do things other than emulate film stock and that's certainly okay too and you see a lot of creative uses for these now in fact I have a lot of Luts that I've built up in my library that do things like emulate lomography effects and things like that if you want but a lot of this because this becomes color grading at this point or what's a color grade and that's going to depend on what the footage is around it what kind of a feel you want to it and that's where you're really going to get into doing serious color work but I wanted to at least cover Luts and what you can do with some basic film stock emulation and other things as well so if you have any questions leave them in the comments below and as always if you enjoyed this video please remember to like it share it with your friends and as always subscribe to the Art of Photography I have the hawk fly off here so you'll be always up to date on all the latest and greatest videos we do here until the next video I'll see you guys then later\n"