TheJadedFilmMaker's video: BLACKEARTH LUT : Moody base preset for film making

Here are the links for the .cube LUT files and also the lightroom presets if you want to tweak it yourself. BLACKEARTH.cube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjdBH-BQ3ydYbGydm-j0-szcZcAKAAIO/view?usp=sharing BLACKEARTH_MOREBLUE.cube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WHlW7p6E5X-lkoUVCLqf-vdRYEU4ONkZ/view?usp=sharing BlackEarth.xmp https://drive.google.com/file/d/13C_FYpLjqzwt9s0UzWdsojiNyAeySLUQ/view?usp=sharing BlackEarthMoreBlue.xmp https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y12wpkOWVnarJLZkxYktya1Bv5Ff169W/view?usp=sharing link for the lut generator app is here : https://generator.iwltbap.com/ I hope you find this lut helpful. I spent a full week tweaking this! Didn't plan on that but as Mr Miyagi tought us... Karate no? Safe. Karate Yes? Safe. Karate ..... maybe? *squish* Just like grape. INSTRUCTIONS : -Making lut first Download that lut generator first. Generate the png HALD file. Bring your screen grabs in to lightroom and make your changes. Copy and Paste that on to the HALD file and save as a new png and go to the IWLTBAP lut program and generate your .cube file. -Bring in to Adobe Premiere (or any program) I like to bring LUT's in to the creative rollout of the Lumetri node as you can control how much percentage to apply the lut. Choose either the original BlackEarth lut or BlackEarth_MoreBlue lut The lut will do the heavy lifting colour changes and free you up to apply your own exposure settings yourself. The reason I did it this way was to make the lut more useable. It's tempting to have a crazy lut that smashes shadows etc and might look good on your test pic but would be useless on the rest of your project. Why not try and make all these changes within programs like Adobe? Well, I tried that first, its fiddly for starters and not very precise. Secondly it was VERY noisy! Which was surprising. As an added note, making luts in photoshop was more noisy too! I just discovered that, and thats how I made the instagram filters Clarendon and Gingham so i'll need to recreate those , and see if it truly does have less noise when making it via lightroom. Best practices The lut looks best if you have your shot exposed where the skin tones are above 45 or 50% , right up to 100%. That includes firstly converting your shots to a rec709 like shot first. If not, since the lut includes some crushing of shadows under 45% it'll affect the skin tones there. Known Issues: I did see some colour noise. I guess thats to be expected when pushing colours so much. But I was surprised! My camera was the a7siii with its 10 bit beefy codec, the 150mbs one. I guess I'll have to try raw next time. Otherwise, i suppose the safest luts are ones that just add colour here and there. Like a typical split tone style lut. You know, like a teal and orange lut, seems to be less destructive. If you see saturated reds in the shadows, try and tweak that in the curves rollout of lumetri (or whatever software you're in). Normally I'd try a luma vs saturation first, but i noticed that the sat vs sat curve is a bit more handy! It's like a visual representation of a node like 'video limiter' and you can be quite extreme with it! I managed to include that in the visuals above. Let me know if you have any questions below. Cheers! music by artlist.io (what a cool song!!!! i bet i see it in heaps of videos tho) Gear used: Sony a7siii Sony 24-105mm K&F ND2-ND400