Drone Film Grades

Professionally designed LUTs are a fantastic addition to the post-production workflow:

• Saving you time in the editing suite,
• Giving your footage a cinematic or stylised 'look' at the click of a button,
• Unifying the feel of your project by pulling all your footage under the umbrella of your chosen grade, and
• Tapping into the colour-grading expertise of others.

HOWEVER, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to colour-grading. There are two distinct steps to colouring your footage in post:

• First, colour correction (contrast, saturation, white balance),
• Second, colour grading (your 'look').

Many LUTs attempt to combine both the correction and the grading in the one package, dazzling you with spectacular transformations that you can expect at the click of a button. Over the years, we've been down this route many times as customers and the result is rarely satisfactory. WHY? Because these one-size-fits-all LUTs are created for use on clips with one level of contrast, saturation and white balance only. In reality however, the LUTs will be applied to clips with all manner of contrast and saturation, many of which simply won't suit the LUT.

For example, let's say you apply a LUT that in addition to giving you a teal and orange grade, 'corrects' your footage by brightening your highlights and darkening your shadows for a more contrasty, cinematic look. Sounds good? But what if the clip you apply it to is ALREADY nice and contrasty? Well then the LUT ruins the clip by blowing out the highlights and crushing the blacks. A LUT that combines both corrective and grading elements is useless unless the contrast and saturation of your clips is exactly what the creator had in mind when designing the LUT.

The only way we can guarantee you will love our LUTs is if you get great results every time and here's the honest truth - we need you to have a bare minimum understanding of colour correction to make this possible. We can't sell you one-size-fits-all LUTs in the hope they work 25% of the time. That's not how we operate. So, invest a few minutes of your time with us in some colour correction basics and by watching our 50 minute colour grading course, you will be able to, in a matter of seconds, colour correct any clip from any camera to ensure our Drone Film Grades work perfectly.

Oh yes, you heard us right, our Drone Film Grades are applicable not only to any drone, but any camera also! Whilst these grades have been optimised for the colours typically found in aerial cinematography, they have been rigorously tested to ensure that they work well with ANY footage from ANY camera. So for example, if your film contains ground camera work with people, our Drone Film Grades are carefully calibrated to ensure skin tones are not unduly impacted by our grade. We don't want any purple faces appearing in the shot! Again, by colour correcting your footage according to the basic principles in our FREE 50 minute colour grading course, you will be able to prepare any clip from any camera to ensure perfect results with our Drone Film Grades.

FAQs

What software do I need to use these LUTs?

Any editing software that supports the import of LUTs, e.g. Adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Da Vinci Resolve. If you are using different editing software, please check it supports the use of .cube LUT files.

What is your refund policy?

If you're in the market for high quality, reliable LUTs then we don't think you'll be looking for this, but we do have a 30 day money back guarantee if you are unhappy with your purchase.

What exactly do I get with this purchase?

After payment you will be able to download your 8 .cube LUT files in addition to being able to watch and download for safe keeping our 50 minute colour correction tuition which explains in detail how to get the most out of your LUTs.