{"id":7808,"date":"2015-08-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suggestionofmotion.com\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2015-08-17T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:11:26","slug":"sony-vegas-pro-lut-workflow-magic-bullet-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suggestionofmotion.com\/blog\/sony-vegas-pro-lut-workflow-magic-bullet-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Unique Ways to Use Magic Bullet Looks to Load LUTs in Sony Vegas Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"
LUTs can serve as a useful starting point in your color grading process or they can be used to apply a final look to your finished video.<\/p>\n
In very basic terms, a LUT (“Look Up Table”) is a preset “look”<\/strong> that you apply to your footage. These presets can be used to give your footage a unique style, but it can also be used to make baseline adjustments as a starting point before you dive into color grading.<\/p>\n It’s clear that LUTs can drastically streamline your post-production workflow, but how do you use LUTs in Sony Vegas Pro<\/strong>?<\/p>\n Vegas Pro does not currently offer any built-in way to apply LUTs to your footage, but that doesn’t mean you have to be left out in the cold. Red Giant sent over Magic Bullet Looks<\/strong> and I found that working with LUTs was easy with this software.<\/p>\n Here’s a step-by-step guide on the various ways you can use Magic Bullet Looks to apply LUTs to your footage in Sony Vegas Pro.<\/p>\n Download:<\/strong> Magic Bullet Looks<\/a> — If you don’t already have Magic Bullet Looks, you can download a free trial to follow along with this tutorial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here are some LUTs you can use with your footage.<\/p>\n Free<\/strong><\/p>\n Paid<\/strong><\/p>\n There are several different points in Vegas where you can add effects to your footage, each of which is suited for a particular need. Here’s a quick reference Vegas’ video FX pipeline:<\/p>\n Some footage may need to have a baseline LUT applied to make working with your footage easier during editing (e.g. raw or log footage). This is simple to do using Vegas Pro’s Media FX:<\/p>\n The LUT has now been applied to your footage at the project-level. This can be a big time-saver over having to apply an initial LUT separately to each clip on the timeline.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> The LUT added to the media will not be visible when viewing the clip in Vegas’ Trimmer<\/strong> panel, but it will be visible when previewing clips on the timeline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you only want to adjust a single clip on the timeline, you can apply a LUT to that clip directly:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/li>\n You can also apply a LUT to a track on the timeline, which is useful when there are similar clips are on a single track. Applying the LUT to a track allows you to affect all clips on the track at once.<\/p>\n Finally, you can apply a LUT to the entire timeline at once. This is great when you’ve finished editing and want to add a LUT to give the entire project a consistent look.<\/p>\n As you can see, there are several ways to apply LUTs to your footage in Vegas Pro using Magic Bullet Looks. Each approach has a different purpose, from applying a baseline LUT to the raw media, to applying a final look across your entire project.<\/p>\n Of course, Magic Bullet Looks is a full-fledged color-grading tool, so you can use it for a whole lot more that just applying LUTs to your footage. We’ll be digging deeper into how Magic Bullet Looks can simplify your color grading process in future guides. Sign up for updates below to be the first to find out when those tutorials are available.<\/p>\n Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on several different ways you can use Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks to apply LUTs to your footage in Sony Vegas Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[605,603,601,604,331,602,540,259,577,653,346],"medium":[],"theme":[],"tool":[],"series":[573],"yoast_head":"\nLUT Downloads<\/h2>\n
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The Baseline: Apply a LUT to Project Media<\/h2>\n
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