How to use LUTs in your editor
A LUT (look-up table) remaps the colours of your footage to a finished look. Here is how to load the Drone LUTs .cube files and Lightroom presets in the most popular apps. It takes about five minutes.
Adobe Premiere Pro
- Open the Color workspace and select your clip.
- In the Lumetri Color panel, open Creative and choose Look → Browse….
- Pick a
.cubefile from the download. Use the Intensity slider to dial it in. - Tip: copy the files into Premiere's LUTs folder so they appear in the Look menu every time.
DaVinci Resolve
- Go to Project Settings → Color Management → Lookup Tables and click Open LUT Folder.
- Copy the
.cubefiles into that folder, then click Update Lists. - On the Color page, right-click a node and choose LUTs, then pick a look.
- For log footage, convert to Rec.709 on the first node and add the look on a node after it.
Final Cut Pro
- Open the Effects browser and drag Custom LUT onto your clip.
- In the Video inspector, open the LUT menu and choose Choose Custom LUT….
- Select a
.cubefile, or a folder to load the whole look at once.
After Effects
- Select your layer and apply Effect → Utility → Apply Color LUT.
- Choose a
.cubefile. Or use Lumetri Color → Creative → Look, as in Premiere.
Lightroom Classic & Lightroom
- In Lightroom Classic, open Develop, click + on the Presets panel and choose Import Presets.
- Select the
.xmpfiles (or.lrtemplatefor older versions). - In Lightroom (desktop), go to File → Import Profiles & Presets. Presets sync to Lightroom mobile when you are signed in to the same Adobe account.
- On a phone without Lightroom desktop: open a
.dngfile in Lightroom mobile, tap ⋯ → Create Preset, and repeat for each look you want.
Tips for the best result
- Correct exposure and white balance first, then apply the look.
- For log footage (e.g. DJI D-Log), convert to Rec.709 before the creative LUT.
- Lower the intensity or opacity if a look is too strong for a shot.
- Use the same look across a sequence so the shots match.