[Roger Bansemer]

I’m finally getting to understand this.
My question is now, are there any LUTS out there I can download for free to see what results they give me. All I’ve found are LUTS which are quite expensive.
I have downloaded a few but the results give me crazy colors, etc.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Vegas Pro has a Color Match plugin that works very well. You might try that. I think there’s some tutorials on it on Youtube.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I’ve been color grading our PBS series for years now just using the Vegas plugins which are in this order:
Levels, color corrector, color corrector(secondary) and Color curves.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Hi Shinra,
Thanks for all your help with this. I’m still having difficulty figuring this out. I downloaded the LUT tables you suggested (vlog to 709 for DVX200) and here are my results after applying all of them.
As you can see, the detail in the trees on the original clip have all been lost after applying the lut.
And that third .vlt lut really makes the colors all crazy.
I must be getting something terribly wrong here but I don’t know what it is.
Thanks so much.
Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I’ve watched that video a number of times in the past and just watched it again. It’s really great. Love it.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

If I’m understanding you correctly, you can vary the frame rate by right click on an event and go to properties and then you’ll find a “playback rate” which you can change.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Hi Shinra,
I downloaded the panasonic 709 LUT. I’m getting the gist of this a bit more but there are several files included in the lut.
They include a txt, cube, and vlt file.
The vlt file when applied gives horrible crazy color results. The cube and the txt file work to punch up the color but when applied but the subtle dark areas where I could see detail before the lut was applied have disappeared and I thought that was the point of the lut, to be able to maintain those subtle nuances.

Question:
1 Which of those files should I apply, the txt, cube, or vlt?
2 After it has been applied, would it be common to go in with other plugins and adjust more from there?
3 It seems I can get as much from simply applying my curves, color correction, etc without using the LUT. Am I right or wrong in thinking that?

Thanks for your help. Still trying to get a handle on this.
PS. I’m using the new Panasonic DVX200 camera

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Hi Steve,
As I understand it, this link you gave me is for the lut plugin but there are no luts to use with it. Am I right?
https://www.vision-color.com/lutplugin/
Can you suggest any lut tables to use with it?
Thanks
Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Thanks. That helps explain a lot.
So, right now I’ve got the V-log plugin for Vegas but no lut tables. I saw there were a few free luts but were designed mainly to look like film. Not sure I want that but I’ll look around for others.
Thanks again.
Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I’ve had this problem in the past with little luck of a solution except one. I’ve had to render small portions of the project (using the MXF format to keep it all in high res)and then have put those small sections back on the timeline and then render them as a whole.
Sometimes you can get to that section where it hangs and can zero in on the offending part of the video as well.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com