2k with or without LUT

[Eduardo San Jose]

I am working at a 2k film titles, and I am using a monitor LUT, trying to respect the original material, but the director wants me to give this material to the laboratory with the LUT apply it.

Is it usual?

What happens with the black and the white if I apply my LUT?

Would be better to keep using a monitor LUT and give this LUT to the laboratory?

I hope you to understand my question, my english is not so good.

Thanks in advanced!!!

[Anonymous]

I am working at a 2k film titles, and I am using a monitor LUT, trying to respect the original material, but the director wants me to give this material to the laboratory with the LUT apply it.

Is it usual?

What happens with the black and the white if I apply my LUT?

Would be better to keep using a monitor LUT and give this LUT to the laboratory?

I hope you to understand my question, my english is not so good.

Thanks in advanced!!!

[Wirless007]

Hmm… this is definitely not correct from a technical point of view. A LUT is supposed to mimic the result when being projected in a theatre. Apparently the director makes a confusion between lookup tables for calibration and “look” files.

Anyway, you can send the material to the lab with the LUT burnt it, but the lab will have to recalibrate the film recording to match the print and the file colors…

Does the director understand that this involves more work in the lab? is he ready to pay this extra amount of work?

[Cemal]

Hey,

Well you can also look at a LUT as a colour correct. Which in the bare essence is what your doing to the LOG plate to make it Linear, your sorta applying a colour correct. Essentially the director likes the LUT or the colour correct you’ve done to the plate.
It is technically wrong. but a director wants what a director wants. I would apply the lut to the plate which would make it linear. Then apply the standard log conversion to take it back to log and out for film. Hopefully your monitor is calibrated and it should look like what you saw. don’t forget to work in float as to not clip any details.

swerve.

[pixelmonk]

I am assuming you are using a log to lin LUT to bring your material in, then using a viewing LUT to view the material, if so you should show the director your result withe viewing LUT turned off and then tell him that the correct way to do this is for your output to fit in with the original camera neg, if he does want you to grade it then do it with the monitor LUT on, but do check it with the viewing LUT turned off.

Paul

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