Moody LUT Pack — 8 Dark Cinematic LUTs

"Moody" is the grade people reach for when footage looks too clean and too bright: darker, cooler, less saturated, with the shadows doing the talking. Done well, the mood comes from what you take away. Done badly, skin goes grey along with everything else.

Eight looks for dark, dramatic and quiet footage. Every one holds skin warmer and more saturated than the rest of the frame, so faces don't die when the colour does.

What's inside

• Night Drive: deep blue-teal shadows with warm practical lights. City nights and car interiors.
• Overcast: cool and muted, for grey weather that should feel deliberate rather than flat.
• Noir Color: high contrast with nearly all colour gone except skin.
• Forest Mood: greens pulled towards olive and desaturated, for woods, parks and anything leafy.
• Cold Steel: blue-grey and hard, for urban, industrial and tech.
• Rain: soft, low contrast and teal-grey, with lifted blacks.
• Low Key: darker overall with crushed shadows, for faces lit from one side.
• Thriller Green: the sickly, yellow-green cast of a crime thriller.

Which one should you use?

Night footage: Night Drive. Daylight that should feel heavy: Overcast or Rain. Interviews and portraits you want dramatic: Low Key or Noir Color. Moody looks depend on the footage having somewhere to go: if a shot is already dark, lower the LUT's intensity rather than crushing it further.

Shot in log?

Convert to Rec.709 first, then apply one of these on top. The camera LUT packs do the conversion for Sony, Canon, Nikon, DJI and Apple.

How to use them

1. Download the pack: every look is a separate .cube file.
2. Load one in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or CapCut desktop, or try it on a still in the Luttie editor.
3. Check faces on a vectorscope if they look grey: skin should stay close to the skin tone line.

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