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[Danny Thompson]

Glad to help out. No money gigs for your friends are a great way to get started learning color correction and grading. If you want to use LUTs though you have to do a basic “primary” color adjustment that makes it neutral and have even contrast.

DaVinci has many many tools for color correction that can do this, and most are explained very well in the Color Controls section of the manual. Its curves are OK in big mode, the color wheels are still king. Auto Color works pretty well to make a primary sometimes too.