LuttieThe Kodak 2383 print film look
Kodak 2383 is the print film most cinema releases were projected from, and its look — dense blacks, cool shadows, warm highlights and a firm contrast curve — is a large part of what people mean by "the film look". Luttie's Cinema Print is shaped after its published sensitometry, so you can put a negative through it and see the result on your own image.
Where it comes from
In a photochemical workflow nobody watched the camera negative. It was printed onto a positive print stock — for decades, usually Kodak's Vision colour print film 2383 — and that print was what the audience saw. The print supplied most of the image's contrast, and the way its three dye layers cross over gave shadows a cool bias and highlights a warm one. A lab timed each print with printer lights: red, green and blue adjustments counted in points, not sliders. Digital colourists still imitate this stage and call it print film emulation. DaVinci Resolve even ships Kodak 2383 LUTs in its Film Looks folder, built for Cineon film-log footage.
How to grade it
In order. Every control below exists in the Luttie editor, free to use in your browser.
Film panel → negative
Pick a negative. Tungsten 500 for night and interiors, Daylight 250 for daylight exteriors.
Print → Cinema Print
This is the 2383-style stage: the contrast, the dense blacks and the cool-shadow, warm-highlight crossover.
Source
Leave it on sRGB for photos and phone video. For log footage, pick your camera's profile — S-Log3, C-Log3, N-Log, Apple Log or DJI D-Log.
Exposure
Set in stops. A print look on a normally exposed photo usually wants +0.3 to +0.7 EV so skin doesn't sink into the print's density.
Printer lights
Balance like a lab: more red light gives a cooler print, more blue a warmer one. Density moves all three together.
Export
Export a .cube (Luttie Pro) and apply it in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or CapCut desktop.
When it works
Narrative and music-video footage that should read as cinema rather than video
Night exteriors with warm practical lights — the print keeps highlights warm and shadows clean
Flat, lifeless grades that need density without clipping
Portraits where you want rich, deep blacks
When to avoid it
Bright, airy, high-key work that should stay light — the print's density and contrast pull it down. Use Soft Print or the Scan option instead, or raise exposure. And don't stack it on footage that already has a print LUT applied; two prints means double the contrast.
Frequently asked
DaVinci Resolve includes Kodak 2383 LUTs in its Film Looks folder at no cost, but they expect Cineon film-log input, so they look wrong on ordinary video or photos. Luttie's Cinema Print works on normal photos and phone footage as well as camera log, and grading with it in the browser is free. Exporting the result as a .cube LUT is part of Luttie Pro.
No. Cinema Print is shaped after Kodak's published 2383 sensitometry — its contrast, density range and colour crossover — but it hasn't been measured against real film, and Luttie isn't affiliated with Kodak. It is a film model inspired by the stock, not a scan of it.
Imitating the last step of a film workflow: printing a negative onto print stock for projection. It is where most of film's contrast, its dense blacks and its shadow/highlight colour crossover come from, which is why colourists add a print stage even when footage was shot digitally.
The exported .cube loads in any app that takes 3D LUTs: DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and CapCut on desktop. CapCut on phones can't import .cube files, so for mobile edits export the graded image or video from Luttie instead.
2393, Kodak Vision Premier, is the punchier sibling: more contrast and saturation than 2383. Luttie doesn't have a 2393-style print yet; Cinema Print follows 2383, and Soft Print goes the other way, gentler than both.
Build it on your own footage
Drop in a photo or pull a frame from a video, grade it in the browser, and export a .cube LUT for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or CapCut.
Related looks
Kodak and Vision are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. Luttie isn't affiliated with Kodak; its film stocks are inspired by published data about real films, not copies of them.