UIOLI: G was just trying to help but it is quite easy to feel frustration when you continue to read those same help questions that you've seen over and over again. The problem is, few people who get M2's, take the time to read previous posts and to some extent, that's understandable since there are SO many. Perhaps I can help with your issue.
- On your timeline, select the first clip to which you would like to apply the REC709 LUT.
- Find the "Lumetri Color" panel (typically upper right on default Premiere installs) and click on it to open.
- In the "Basic Correction" (first panel) click on the "Input LUT" field, then click on "Browse" and navigate to the folder where you've saved the REC709 LUT. Find it and select it.
- You will immediately see an improvement in the image on the Program Monitor. Make any small changes you desire via the sliders in the other panels, (Creative, Curves, Color Wheels, etc.) and you're almost finished.
- Now, if you have more clips from the
M2P on the timeline, you can quickly "paste" the Lumetri correction to all of them at once. To do that:
- With the same clip still highlighted, right click on it and choose "Copy."
- Now, using the mouse, drag over the remaining
M2P clips to highlight them and finally,
- Right click on one of them and choose "Paste Attributes."
- In the resulting dialog box, just hit <Enter> and don't be confused by all the other checked items listed like Motion, Position, etc. If the clips were all shot with the M2 and at the same frame rate (and you haven't changed the playback speed of any of them or parts of them and you haven't resized or moved the output window in the Program Monitor window,) those other items are the same for all clips and thus, won't hurt anything with "Paste."
- That will copy the REC709 LUT values and any adjustments you made manually, to the remaining clips.
If you are using proxies, the feed in the Program Monitor will only have the resolution you chose to create the proxies so make sure the PM is at 100 percent resolution, (the viewing size is up to you.) However, when you export to an H.264 file, Premiere will apply all those corrections to the native
M2P Dlog files and you should have no issues playing the clip(s) back with an older computer or phone/tablet/TV. at full resolution using the H.264 container.
Since you said your clips look horrible when you applied the LUT, you definitely did something the wrong way OR, you applied a LUT more than once. That will most assuredly make the clip look bizarre.
Hope that is helpful...