Specialized Mavic LUTs SpectrumGrades

[Shawn3D]

Hi everyone,

Who has tried the Spectrum Grades Mavic LUTs and your thoughts on them [emoji108]

 

[Aerial Imagery]

I just purchased them today and will work it into a project I'm doing this afternoon. I will have more to comment on then...stay tuned!

 

[flyNfrank]

I just purchased them today and will work it into a project I'm doing this afternoon. I will have more to comment on then...stay tuned!

.....and after 6 months he finally post something. strange.

 

[Shawn3D]

I just purchased them today and will work it into a project I'm doing this afternoon. I will have more to comment on then...stay tuned!

Will be great to know [emoji41][emoji106]

 

[Shawn3D]

.....and after 6 months he finally post something. strange.

He must be Batman... obviously [emoji41]

 

[Shawn3D]

He must be Batman... obviously [emoji41]

Excellent. Keen to know [emoji108][emoji41]

 

[quick_dry]

Excellent. Keen to know [emoji108][emoji41]

Will you post here to let us all know about this potential caped crusader or just tell yourself offline?

 

[Shawn3D]

Will you post here to let us all know about this potential caped crusader or just tell yourself offline?

Ha I realized I replied to my own quote. Was meant to reply to the other guy [emoji85]

 

[rsands]

Haven't had much luck with these LUTS. They are very washed out on a range of footage and many of the luts apply the same tone types.

 

[Skold]

Any way to get these LUTS "shared" to me to try out? Thanks!

 

[Grey Wolf]

I shoot professionally for a living with ground based cameras and I shoot S-log as well with LUTS. I primarily use a LUT so the client can see a nice picture on the monitor. It can also help with focusing issues too!
However, from 100 feet in the air I do not see the need for a LUT while shooting with a drone. It's all pre focused on infinity anyway. I do the white balance, check the video levels and select D log, cinema like, art or what have you and go fly. The monitor is really for composition. So what if it's flat, in this instance?
The slog video is still being recorded anyway.
I think using a LUT on a drone is a marketing ploy to get users to buy them.
As I said, I use them for ground shooting but in the air, not needed.
This is my personal opinion and I welcome any thoughts as to why I might need them in the air.

 

[4wd]

I shoot professionally for a living with ground based cameras and I shoot S-log as well with LUTS. I primarily use a LUT so the client can see a nice picture on the monitor. It can also help with focusing issues too!
However, from 100 feet in the air I do not see the need for a LUT while shooting with a drone. It's all pre focused on infinity anyway. I do the white balance, check the video levels and select D log, cinema like, art or what have you and go fly. The monitor is really for composition. So what if it's flat, in this instance?
The slog video is still being recorded anyway.
I think using a LUT on a drone is a marketing ploy to get users to buy them.
As I said, I use them for ground shooting but in the air, not needed.
This is my personal opinion and I welcome any thoughts as to why I might need them in the air.

They aren't for changing how it looks on the monitor while you are flying, but processing after.
There's not even any way to implement that.
I've yet to see any of these commercial LUTs do a better job than a custom one I make myself for a specific sequence using a screengrab and photoshop.

 

[ecoleman]

They aren't for changing how it looks on the monitor while you are flying, but processing after.
There's not even any way to implement that.
I've yet to see any of these commercial LUTs do a better job than a custom one I make myself for a specific sequence using a screengrab and photoshop.

Interesting, how do you colour grade using a screen grab and photoshop. Okay I get the screen grab a Photoshop bit, bit what then, does it have to be saved a special way? How do you bring that into the video editing suite as a lut?

 

[Shawn3D]

Interesting, how do you colour grade using a screen grab and photoshop. Okay I get the screen grab a Photoshop bit, bit what then, does it have to be saved a special way? How do you bring that into the video editing suite as a lut?

I think it sounds more complicated than it really is. It's actually very simple... You copy the LUTs into a certain premiere folder and then when you start premiere it then is available as a preset when you use the lumetri effect. Keep in mind to use good quality LUTs. Does this help?

 

[4wd]

You don't even need do that, search youtube for "Create lut with photoshop".
You do need CC2015 or later though there are ways around it in earlier versions I expect.

Export as a Look Up Table to any convenient folder then in Premiere you can navigate to that folder and import that LUT direct.
I'd assume some other programs will work in a similar way.

 

[Robbyg]

Meh!
Color grading manually in premiere has always worked much better for me than any LUT. After all I know what the scene really looked like or in other cases how I want it to look like.

Rob

 

[Shawn3D]

Meh!
Color grading manually in premiere has always worked much better for me than any LUT. After all I know what the scene really looked like or in other cases how I want it to look like.

Rob

Sounds like you have a fair amount of knowledge with grading. I do think that for the most part there are different levels of quality when it comes to LUTs. The free and generic LUTs naturally won't really satisfy people. However, in saying that I believe that some reputable LUT brands specific to certain cameras are highly detailed and offer valuable production quality which for the most part only a specialized colorist will be able to achieve. For the most part people even specialists use these high quality LUTs productively in commercial productions

 

[4wd]

If you make your own LUT you are doing it manually, it's a useful way to be able to quickly replicate adjustments which worked well.
But often as not you might as well quickly tweak things fresh each time.

 

[Shawn3D]

If you make your own LUT you are doing it manually, it's a useful way to be able to quickly replicate adjustments which worked well.
But often as not you might as well quickly tweak things fresh each time.

For basic adjustments yes. For complex color transforms which hold well and don't cause or minimize artifacts then it's better to go with LUTs. Let's just say one wants to have a more isolated green sky transformed from a magenta cast which the Mavic has as one of its faults, then it makes sense. For the most part 95% of Mavic owners only know the basics and have no idea to do a specialist colorists job. For yourself you may be one of the very few who has a good grasp of it however for everyone else they aren't experts and can achieve very good looks with the help of LUTs. Even professionals use them to speed up workflow

 

[ecoleman]

Thanks everyone. I did google it after posting here and found a video explaining it. I use resolve and it was actually very simple.

Being a photographer I feel much more at home in photoshop and I was able to quickly get the footage looking the way I like using curves and the channel mixer.