User Manual

Adding Lookup Tables to Your DaVinci Resolve Installation
The drop-down menus in the Color Management panel include a series of factory
preset LUTs that were installed with DaVinci Resolve, along with any LUTs that have
been generated by DaVinci Resolve, or that you’ve imported into the proper directory
for your operating system.
On macOS: Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/LUT/
On Windows: C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\LUT
On Linux: /opt/resolve/LUT
If you downloaded the non-studio version of DaVinci Resolve from the Apple App
Store, LUTs are saved in a different location in order for DaVinci Resolve to remain
totally self-contained. In this case, you can click the “Open LUT Folder” button in the
Lookup Tables panel of the Project Settings, to open up a Finder window at the
location these LUTs are stored. You can use this window to copy LUTs that you want
Resolve to have access to, or delete LUTs that you no longer need.
If you add a LUT to one of these directories after DaVinci Resolve has been opened,
you can click the Update Lists button to refresh the contents of the drop-down menus.
DaVinci Resolve uses both 1D and 3D LUTs. 3D LUTs that are created by
DaVinci Resolve are in the .cube format, configured as 33x33x33 cubes with 32-bit
floating point processing. DaVinci Resolve can also read and use LUTs in the
Shaperlut format.
Broadcast Safe
Broadcast Safe settings can be enabled while you grade to limit both the luma and chroma of
the video signal to one of three levels of acceptable overshoots and undershoots.
 Broadcast safe IRE (mV) levels: A drop-down menu for choosing one of three levels
of aggressiveness when limiting the signal. Choose the range that corresponds to your
QC requirements.
 Make Broadcast Safe: A checkbox that turns broadcast safe limiting on and off.
NOTE: The clipping imposed by Broadcast Safe itself does not have an inherently soft
roll-off. For best results, Broadcast Safe should be used in conjunction with the Soft
Clip controls in the Color page, or a Soft Clip LUT (described in the following section).
Generate Soft Clip LUT
Similar to the Soft Clip mode of the Curves, a Soft Clip LUT lets you create an image processing
LUT that applies a timeline-wide “knee” to any clipping that occurs at the upper or lower
extremes of the image. Soft clipping in this context is used to quickly ease off any unpleasantly
harsh loss of detail occurring as a result of blowing out the highlights or crushing the shadows
too aggressively.
To be effective, a Soft Clip LUT should be ideally applied using the 3D Output Lookup
Table drop-down menu in the Lookup Tables panel, so it’s the very last operation in the image
processing pipeline.
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