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Applying a LUT Within a Node
DaVinci Resolve lets you apply LUTs within a grade by connecting a LUT to a particular node in
the Node Editor. This gives you the greatest amount of control over where the LUT is applied in
your image processing pipeline, and it also gives you the opportunity to apply image
adjustments prior to the LUT, and after the LUT, as you require.
To apply a LUT within a node, do one of the following:
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Right-click any node, and choose a LUT from the 1D Input LUT, 1D Output LUT, 3D
LUT, DCTL, or CLF (common LUT format) submenus of the LUT submenu. The LUT
submenus list whichever LUTs have been installed on your workstation. For more
information on installing LUTs, see Chapter 3, “System and User Preferences.”
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Right-click any node, and choose a LUT from the LUT > Favorites submenu.
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Use the LUT Browser to find a LUT you want to use, and then drag and drop that LUT
onto the node you want to apply it to
TIP: If you hold down the Option key while scrolling through the submenu of LUTs in a
Corrector node’s contextual menu, you’ll get a live update in the Viewer of how each
LUT affects the image.
To reveal a selected node’s LUT:
For any node in the Node Editor with a LUT applied to it, you can right-click that node and
choose Reveal Selected LUT to automatically open the LUT viewer and select that LUT.
LUTs Are the Last Operation Within a Node
Each node in the Node Editor is capable of performing multiple operations, and these
operations occur in a specific order. LUTs that you add to a node impose their transformation as
the last operation within that node, after all other Color page adjustments applied by that node.
Practically, this means that you can use a node’s Color and Contrast controls to trim the image
data that will be fed into a LUT applied to that same node. For example, if a LUT’s contrast
adjustment clips the highlights of the image too much, you can use that node’s Contrast
controls to lower the highlights of the image prior to the LUT, restoring detail to the image.
Favorite LUTs Submenu in Node Editor
When you “star” a LUT as a favorite in the LUT Browser, those favorite LUTs appear in a
submenu of the contextual menu that appears when you right-click on a node in the Node
Editor. This makes it easy to create a short list of your go-to LUTs for various situations, for rapid
application right in the Node Editor.
A Favorite LUTs submenu in the Node Editor contextual menu gives you a short list
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