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LUTs for Adobe Premiere Pro

Premiere gives you two places to load a LUT and they behave differently. Picking the wrong one is the single most common reason a LUT looks wrong in Premiere but fine everywhere else.

Lumetri’s Basic Correction › Input LUT slot runs before Premiere’s own corrections, which is what a LUT expecting log footage wants. Creative › Look runs after them and adds an Intensity slider. Our camera packs contain the conversion and the look in one file, so either slot works — the trade-off is below.

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How to add a LUT in Adobe Premiere Pro

  1. 01

    Select the clip and open Lumetri Color

    Select your clip in the timeline, then open the Lumetri Color panel (Window ▸ Lumetri Color).

  2. 02

    Choose your slot

    For a camera pack LUT that carries the log conversion, open Basic Correction and use the Input LUT dropdown ▸ Browse — it runs first, on the untouched log signal. For a creative look on already-corrected footage, use Creative ▸ Look ▸ Browse instead.

  3. 03

    Load the .cube file

    Pick Browse in either dropdown and select the .cube you downloaded. Premiere loads it immediately; there is no install folder to manage.

  4. 04

    Reuse it across the timeline

    To grade a whole sequence at once, apply the LUT to an adjustment layer above your clips rather than to each clip in turn.

Dialling the look back in Premiere Pro

Creative ▸ Look has an Intensity slider; Basic Correction ▸ Input LUT does not. Worth knowing what that slider actually does on log footage: it blends back toward the flat, grey log image, so pulling it down washes the picture out rather than gently easing the look. Our downloads bake the strength you choose into the file instead, fading only the creative layer while keeping the full conversion underneath.

Set 50, 70 or 100% in the LUT Library preview and the .cube is regenerated at that strength — the file itself is the lighter grade, so it lands identically wherever you load it.

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Common questions

What LUT format does Adobe Premiere Pro use?+

Standard 3D .cube files. Every one of the 175 grades in the iReelz library exports as .cube, so they load in Adobe Premiere Pro without conversion.

Do I need a separate conversion LUT for log footage in Adobe Premiere Pro?+

Not with the camera packs. Each of those bakes the full log-to-Rec.709 conversion into the same .cube as the look, so it is one effect in Adobe Premiere Pro rather than a technical LUT with a creative LUT stacked on top.

Can I change the LUT strength in Adobe Premiere Pro?+

Creative ▸ Look has an Intensity slider; Basic Correction ▸ Input LUT does not. Worth knowing what that slider actually does on log footage: it blends back toward the flat, grey log image, so pulling it down washes the picture out rather than gently easing the look. Our downloads bake the strength you choose into the file instead, fading only the creative layer while keeping the full conversion underneath.

Are there free LUTs I can try in Adobe Premiere Pro first?+

Yes — 7 of them, one conversion grade for every camera we support, at https://ireelz.com/luts/free. Full-strength .cube files, no watermark.

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