From the course: Creating Presets, LUTs, and Profiles for Video Pros

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What are the limitations of a LUT?

What are the limitations of a LUT?

From the course: Creating Presets, LUTs, and Profiles for Video Pros

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What are the limitations of a LUT?

- LUTs are great, a huge time saver. But there are a few limitations to be aware of. A lookup table can only capture information that is globally applied to all aspects of the shot. What I mean by this is that it can only take primary color corrections. So things like secondary color corrections that involves selections or mattes aren't going to come across. And if you apply things like a vignette, it won't make it either. So in this case here, we've got a shot and I've already started to apply some of the effects. If we take a look over here, you'll see a wide range of things that've been done. There was a basic correction that took it to Rec 709. There were some creative adjustments here, giving it a stylized look using this big preset with low dynamic range in Premiere Pro. Available here under the looks category. A little bit of tweaks here to some of the other sections. And if we take a look at curves…

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