LuttieDevelop your film's look
before you're in the grading suite.
Your film's palette is a creative decision, not a technical afterthought — and you shouldn't need a Resolve session to explore it. Pull frames from your footage, convert the log, experiment with looks, add grain and halation, and leave with .cube show LUTs ready for the conform.
The colour problems you hit
And how Luttie handles each one, repeatably.
Log footage, flat dailies
S-Log3, C-Log3, D-Log — convert to Rec709 with the right starting LUT and judge your footage properly from day one.
The look isn't decided until it's expensive
Test palettes on real frames from the shoot — teal-orange, bleach bypass, warm filmic — before the clock is running.
Scenes that don't cut together
Different setups and days drift apart. Check your look against frames from multiple scenes so the film holds together.
Look development is cheap in a browser, expensive in a suite
Deciding your film's visual language during the paid grading session is the expensive way to do it. Exploring looks on real frames from your footage beforehand — testing how the palette holds across scenes and lighting setups — means the actual grade becomes execution instead of discovery, on your budget and your schedule.
The workflow
- 1Extract frames from two or three scenes across the film
- 2Convert log to Rec709 as your neutral starting point
- 3Develop the look — palette, contrast, film grain, halation
- 4Export .cube show LUTs for the edit and the final grade
Get colour right first
Walk into the grade with your look decided.
Develop and test your film's palette in the browser. Export show LUTs when it's right.
Free to grade and export watermarked previews. Pro — from $9/mo or a one-time $99.88 lifetime licence — unlocks clean LUT export, and Luttie is fine to use for commercial and client work.