Note: Some third-party LUTs may offer additional settings that can be tweaked in the Inspector. So, if you like the look of the LUT but wish it was just a little less intense, slide that Mix down a bit. It is a simple slider setting that will apply your LUT on a scale from 0 to 1. However, the Mix setting (shown by the red arrow in the screenshot above) can be very helpful. They have a (highly technical) purpose, but for most of the LUTs that you will download and import, these settings will be irrelevant. While changing them will change the look of your image, it will seem a bit random and probably won’t be very helpful. The two options under “Convert” – the Input and Output settings – are best left unchanged. When you click on a clip that has a LUT, opening the contents of the Inspector should look similar to the screenshot below (obviously, the LUT chosen will be different than mine) The setting can be found in the Inspector. One last thing: There is only one setting for LUTs, and that is their Mix. You can apply them to any future clips or projects just by following steps 1-7 above, and instead of clicking on “Choose Custom LUT” ( Step 8), you can just click on the LUT, or the folder of LUTs you want. If you selected multiple files or a folder of LUTs, you will need to choose which LUT you want to apply by clicking on the LUT dropdown menu again ( Step 6).īut the LUTs you’ve added through the above steps are now installed. If you selected just one LUT, it will be applied to your clip automatically. And, you can just select a folder of LUT files and Final Cut Pro will import them all as a folder much like my “35 Free LUTs” example above. mga extension, and can select multiple files. Note that you can import LUT files that have a. Step 9: Click on the file(s) you want to import and click “open”.

A Finder window will open, allowing you to open the LUT file wherever you have stored it.

Step 8: Click “Choose Custom LUT” (near the green arrow in the screenshot above). However, you should have the option to choose a recently used LUT or import one (shown by the green arrow in the screenshot). Step 7: Your list of available LUTs will not look like the screenshot below because we will have different LUTs installed, but in my example, I have selected a folder of LUTs called “35 Free LUTs” (which was downloaded from the link at the start of this section). The next line allows you to choose your LUT by clicking on the dropdown menu (shown by the blue arrow in the screenshot above). Step 6: You should see the “Custom LUT” Effect you selected earlier (shown by the yellow arrow in the screenshot above). (If it is not open, press the Inspector toggle button shown by the red arrow in the screenshot below) Step 5: Make sure the clip(s) that you want to apply the LUT to is still selected in your timeline, and turn your attention up to the Inspector. Now, we will choose which LUT and, finally, make any tweaks to how the LUT looks. The preceding steps let Final Cut Pro know that you wanted to apply a LUT to the selected clips. Step 4: Click on the “Custom LUT” Effect (blue arrow in the screenshot above) and drag it onto the clip you want your LUT to apply to. Step 3: Select Color in the Effects category (in the red circle in the screenshot above) Step 2: Reveal Final Cut Pro’s Effects Browser, by clicking the icon at the top right of your Timeline (shown by the red arrow in the screenshot below). Step 1: Select the clip or clips in your Timeline that you want the LUT to affect. That done, the steps to install your new LUTs are quite simple: If you want some free ones just to get yourself started, try here, where you will find the LUTs I have used in the examples below.īut, when you download the files, remember where you put them! We will need to access them in the final steps of installation. There are hundreds of LUTs available across the internet, some free and many quite expensive. How to Install (and Use) a LUT in Final Cut Proįirst, on the assumption you – dear reader – do not have any LUTs installed on your computer, you will need to download some.

You can adjust the Mix between the original clip and the LUT in the Inspector.

Then, in the Inspector, select which LUT you want to apply.

You can add a LUT by applying the Custom LUT Effect to a clip.

How to Install (and Use) a LUT in Final Cut Pro.

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