BMPCC 4K LUTs — Blackmagic Pocket 4K & 6K Film Gen 5 to Rec.709

LUTs for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K and 6K Pro, built for Blackmagic Film Gen 5. Each one converts the flat Film image to Rec.709 and applies a look in the same file, so one LUT takes a clip from grey to finished.

Every file is 65-point: 274,625 colour samples instead of the 35,937 in a standard 33-point LUT. A log conversion is the steepest curve a LUT ever carries, which is where a sparse grid shows up as banding in skies and skin. 65 points is the largest size DaVinci Resolve exports, and it loads anywhere a 33-point file does.

What's inside

• Rec.709 Conversion: the conversion and nothing else. Film Gen 5's curve and Blackmagic Wide Gamut turned into a normal picture, with a soft shoulder so highlights don't clip. It's also free on its own.
• Neutral Rec.709: the conversion with a touch of contrast and colour, the minimum to look right straight away.
• Warm Cinematic: warm mids, teal in the shadows, skin held steady through the warmth.
• Cool Moody: cooler and deeper, with faces protected so they don't go blue.
• High Contrast: the punchiest here, for clips going straight to social.
• Faded Film: matte blacks and softer colour, the gentlest look.

Film stock looks

Five more files, built with Luttie's film engine. Like the rest of the pack they go straight onto Film Gen 5 footage: each one decodes the curve and Blackmagic Wide Gamut, then develops the image through a film stock.

• Portrait 400 · Scan: inspired by Kodak Portra 400, scanned: soft contrast, warm skin, pastel highlights.
• Tungsten 500 · Cinema Print: inspired by Kodak Vision3 500T, through a print inspired by Kodak 2383: night and interiors, clean cool shadows, dense blacks.
• Daylight 250 · Cinema Print: inspired by Kodak Vision3 250D, through the same cinema print: neutral daylight colour with a projected-film finish.
• Soft 500 · Soft Print: inspired by Fuji Eterna 500, through a gentler print inspired by Fuji 3513DI: muted colour, soft contrast.
• Vivid 100 · Scan: inspired by Kodak Ektar 100, scanned: saturated, punchy colour.

Luttie's film stocks are its own, shaped after published data about the films named. They aren't measured copies, and Luttie isn't affiliated with Kodak or Fujifilm.

Brighter than Blackmagic's own

The colour follows Blackmagic's published Film Gen 5 curve and Wide Gamut, and was checked against Blackmagic's Gen 5 Film to Video LUT that ships with Resolve: hues land within a few degrees of it. The difference is brightness. Blackmagic's conversion sits darker through the midtones; these leave them more open, so faces and interiors come out looking exposed rather than moody before you've touched anything. If you prefer Blackmagic's density, pull the gain down a little after the LUT.

Which footage is this for?

• ProRes recorded in Film on a Pocket 4K, 6K or 6K Pro running camera firmware 7.3 or later (April 2021 onwards), which records Gen 5.
• BRAW from those cameras, decoded in Resolve as Gen 5 Film. BRAW leaves the colour science to the decode, so set it there and put the LUT after.
• Other Gen 5 cameras, such as the URSA Mini Pro G2 and 12K, shooting Film.

Not covered: Pocket 4K footage from before firmware 7.3, which is Gen 4 (Blackmagic's Pocket 4K Film to Video LUT in Resolve is the one for that), and clips decoded as Gen 6 or into DaVinci Wide Gamut. Shooting the Blackmagic Camera app on a phone? That's a different set of LUTs.

How to use them

1. Download the pack: every look is its own .cube file, about 7 MB each.
2. Load one in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro.
3. Don't stack Blackmagic's conversion LUT underneath. These already contain the conversion, and converting twice is the most common way a log grade goes wrong.
4. Set white balance and exposure per shot before the LUT, or in BRAW's decode settings.

Try before you buy

Open a frame in the Luttie editor, set the film engine's Source to Blackmagic Film Gen 5, and see the looks on your own footage before you download anything.

Each file is yours to keep, for personal and client work. The pack is also included with Luttie Lifetime.