{"id":8220,"date":"2015-09-15T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suggestionofmotion.com\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:13:38","slug":"sony-vegas-pro-lut-workflow-visioncolor-lut-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suggestionofmotion.com\/blog\/sony-vegas-pro-lut-workflow-visioncolor-lut-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, A Free Way to Use LUTs in Sony Vegas Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"
LUTs are an increasingly popular way of establishing a consistent look across your footage, but there’s unfortunately no free way to use them in Sony Vegas Pro– until now<\/strong>.<\/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 to your footage as a starting point before you dive into color grading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n LUTs can dramatically streamline your post-production workflow and help you finish your projects faster. Thanks to VisionColor’s free LUT plugin<\/strong>, Sony Vegas Pro users can now join in on the fun.<\/p>\n Vegas Pro’s multifaceted FX pipeline allows you to apply LUTs to your footage at various points in the editing process. This step-by-step guide shows you when and where to use VisionColor’s LUT plugin in Vegas Pro for the greatest impact.<\/p>\n Here is the software you’ll need to install to follow along with this tutorial:<\/p>\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 Pro where you can add effects to your footage, each of which is best-suited for a particular need. Here is a quick reference to 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-encoded footage). This is simple to do using Vegas Pro’s Media FX<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The selected LUT is now applied to your footage at the project-level. This is a big time-saver compared to adding the same LUT to each clip on the timeline.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> LUTs and other effects added to the source media are not visible when viewing the footage in Vegas’ trimmer, but they are visible for clips on the timeline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you need to apply a LUT to a single clip (which Vegas refers to as an “event”) on the timeline, you can add it to the clip’s Event FX<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Applying a LUT to a track on the timeline is a big time-saver when there are a bunch of similar clips are on the track because the LUT will affect all<\/em> of the clips on the track in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n Finally, you can apply a LUT to the entire timeline at once. This is great when you want to give your final edit a consistent look from start to finish.<\/p>\n Applying LUTs in Vegas is as easy as 1-2-3 with VisionColor’s free LUT plugin– literally…it really only takes 3 steps. From baseline adjustments to the final edit, you can now fully take advantage of LUTs in Vegas Pro to finish your editing faster than ever before.<\/p>\n Use this step-by-step guide to quickly apply LUTs to your footage in Sony Vegas Pro for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8229,"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":[605,415,603,607,604,331,540,259,577,653,620,346],"medium":[],"theme":[],"tool":[],"series":[573],"yoast_head":"\nWhat the LUT?<\/h2>\n
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Quick Reference: Vegas Pro Video FX Pipeline<\/h2>\n
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Post-Production Resources<\/h2>\n
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