

How to Load New LUTs Into Premiere Pro 1. If you’d like to learn more about what exactly LUTs are and how they work, check out our tutorial, A Quick Introduction to LUTs: Colour Look Up Tables for Video. LUTs are a fun way to explore colour grading.

The idea of this is that you can get better results in post-production when you colour grade with this raw-like image. Most people who use LUTs choose to record in Log colour mode, which gives an un-interpolated, very flat image. However, be aware that when you export a LUT it’ll only export the colour values-it won’t take anything like blur, masks, or grain. You could, for example, make corrections in DaVinci Resolve and export those to use in Premiere Pro. LUTs are universal in that they should work across different non-linear editing software programmes-like Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom, and Photoshop-and even onto video cameras like the BMPCC and others, if they support them. Look up tables can be used to adjust your footage for specific outcomes, like if you’re showing your video on a particular type of display (you can load them into external monitors, for example), or they can be creative, designed to colour grade your footage and help add a look. Most stylized LUTs are named after the look they’re supposed to emulate, and you’ll likely make your choices of which styles to use based on that. LUTs are useful sets of values and equations that describe the colours in an image, and we can use them to quickly adjust saturation, contrast, and the colours themselves. Let's take a look at what they are and how best to use them in Premiere Pro. Look Up Tables, or 'LUTs', are a quick and easy way to apply pre-made picture styles to your video footage.
