Clean, natural conversion LUTs for select Sony cameras.

Using these LUTs, you can convert S-Log3 to a pleasing Rec.709 image and make quick adjustments to exposure and skin tones.

This LUT pack includes a false color LUT for use in camera or with a monitor, over 25 grading LUTs and a Color Boost LUT for fast grade finishing.

SUPPORTED CAMERAS

If your camera shoots S-Log3 in 10-bit, this LUT pack is compatible! Only have an 8-bit Sony camera? Check out the 8-bit LUT Pack coming soon.

FALSE COLOR LUT

The false color LUT only displays three colors:

• Red = Highlight Clip
• Dark Green = Correct Skin Exposure
• Light Green = 1 Stop Over Skin Exposure

This means at a glance you can check for highlight clipping and ensure correct skin exposure.

The colors displayed in this LUT have been specifically tuned to the S-Log3 and can even be used in Sony cameras that support .cube LUTs.

False Color LUT Applied to S-Log3 Footage

GRADING LUTS

The grading LUTs can be used to achieve very pleasing color and will correct several issues with the stock Sony technical conversion LUTs.

These LUTs are NOT creative LUTs. Color and contrast are natural and clean. These LUTs are designed to quickly get your image 90% complete while also improving color.

Sony’s stock S-Log3 LUT have a few issues I’ve always found myself fixing:

1. Yellow and warm tones are too close to green.
2. Blues lean toward magenta
3. Skin looks sickly (especially on the A7s III/FX3)

Rather than spend time correcting every shot, I created these LUTs to speed up my post workflow and have added three additional features which are detailed below.

All the LUTs in this pack have the same base corrections. These include rotating each color slightly to correct unpleasing colors. Mainly yellows and reds.

The biggest difference can be seen in skin tones and other natural elements in your shots like grass, trees and warm tones.

Sony Rec.709 LUT (Left) vs Pike Rec.709 LUT (Right)

Sony Rec.709 LUT and Pike Rec.709 LUT overlay with color notes

Sony Rec.709 LUT (Left) vs Pike Rec.709 LUT (Right)

EXPOSURE SHIFT

Each grading LUT has two numbers signifying exposure shift. This allows you to overexposure your footage (to improve noise performance) and grade those shots easily. There are 5 exposure LUT levels to choose from:

• 0-0 - No exposure shift
• 0-5 - For shots overexposed by 0.5 stop (or half a stop)
• 1-0 - For shots overexposed by 1 stop
• 1-5 - For shots overexposed by 1.5 stops
• 2-0 - For shots overexposed by 2 stops

These exposure shifts allow you to easily compensate for overexposures without having to spend as much time correcting shots manually. Simply find the LUT that works best with the exposure of your clip and the LUT will apply the shift and convert to Rec.709 in one click.

Shot overexposed by 1.5 stops (Left) Pike 1.5 Stop Shift LUT (Right)

SKIN TONE SHIFTS

Each LUT has a skin shift option available in five strengths:

• Base - No skin color shift
• Skin1 - Very minimal skin shift
• Skin2 - Minimal skin shift
• Skin3 - Medium skin shift
• Skin4 - Strong skin shift

These skin color shifts take the red in skin tones and shifts it toward orange. This can been seen on a vectorscope as reds rotating toward the skin tone line on a vector scope.

Skin tone shift LUTs from base (no shift) to Skin4 (strong)

COLOR BOOST LUT

New in V3 of the LUT pack is the the Color Boost LUT. This LUT  is designed to be used after the main grading LUTs to add boost color without affecting neutral colors like grey, black and white. This method of introducing more color is much more pleasing than simply raising a saturation bar.

Simply apply this LUT after the main grading LUTs, set opacity to zero and raise the opacity until color is full and pleasing.

No Color Boost (Left) vs Color Boost LUT (Right)

To learn more about this LUT pack and how to use it, check out the free video below.