Tweaking the color grades in your video footage to achieve a specific look or style can be a long, and somewhat experimental, process. LUTs, or look up tables, aim to simplify and standardize the color grading process. Without digging too much into the math behind LUTs<\/a>, they can be understood as a formula for achieving a certain look. The LUT is a data table used to calculate the “difference needed to make up between your source [footage] and your desired outcome.” NoFilmSchool breaks it down quite well in their post What is a Look Up Table, Anyway<\/em><\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n Our friends over at MotionVFX have recently released a LUTs pack<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0specifically designed for recreating popular looks from Hollywood productions. mLut includes 30 different looks<\/a> that can instantly be applied to your footage in any video application that supports look up tables: After Effects, FCPX 10.1.3+, Premiere Pro CC, DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer and others.<\/p>\n What I particularly like about this LUT pack, from a video editor’s perspective, is that it makes it easier than ever to comply with client requests.\u00a0Producers or clients often use popular films as a reference point for how they want their projects to look, “Can you color it like in a dark, gritty Tarantino style?” or “Bold with a blue tint like a JJ Abrams flick?” In fact, the promo for mLut capitalizes on this by showing just how close the pack can come to popular Hollywood films:<\/p>\n