MEOW 2.0

Hi! I’m a professional colorist and I’ve been creating on-set and post-production look Show LUTs for Netflix TV series Get Even, a Sky original The Midwich Cuckoos, BritBox series The Tower and feature films The Tutor and The Lost Girls. I put everything I know about color into these LUTs, and after months of development and testing, I’m very proud of the result! These LUTs should be more than enough for the most tasks you encounter as a colorist.

Updated to v 2.0 (check your email)

What’s new:

• Looks are rebuilt from scratch. The looks are smoother now and have less contrast to better match expectations of those who are used to ARRI K1S1 tone curve.
• Scene-to-display (often incorrectly called log-to-rec709) transforms have gamut compression now, that dramatically softens transitions from one color to another on hue gradients of LUT stress test images.
• LUTs now have a film-like behavior with highly saturated colors, when they softly turning towards white instead of clipping and turning into solid colors.
• Gamma 2.6 P3 D65 display device output added.
• Lifted LUTs were removed. I’ve never used them and never heard of anyone using them either.
• Blackmagic Design Gen4 color profiles were removed. Set Gen5 for BRAW files in Camera Raw settings instead.
  All RED profiles except RED Log3G10 WideGamutRGB were removed. Set IPP2 Log3G10 WideGamutRGB for R3D files in Camera Raw settings instead.
• Panasonic GH5 V-Log L LUTs were removed. GH5 V-Log L is supposed to have the V-Gamut color space primaries, according to its specs, but based on my measurements, this camera does something wrong and it’s impossible to find acceptable 3×3 matrix for the primaries. So, for versions 1.x of MEOW I had made the transform based on a color checker, and the result of it was a complex LUT for converting broken color space of GH5  into something meaningful. But for the massive update to version 2.0 it had to be done again, but it’s not worth the effort, so I’ve just excluded this profile from the pack. Shoot in HLG instead.

New color profiles added:

• Alexa 35 LogC4
• FujiFilm F-Log 2
• Leica L-log
• Leica SL (Typ 601)
• HLG BT.2100 Rec.2020
• HLG BT.2408 Rec.2020
• GoPro Protune Native
• GoPro Protune Rec.709
• Z Cam Z-Log 2
• DaVinci Intermediate Wide Gamut*
• ACEScct AP1*

***These LUTs (as well as all the rest) have display-referred output, NOT SCENE-REFERRED.

What’s inside

• All LUTs come as .CUBE files in 65^3, 33^3 and 17^3 lattice sizes*
• Alexa LogC3 AWG3 LUTs with output for Gamma 2.4 Rec709 displays also come in .AML format for in-camera usage
• Total number of LUTs (excluding .AML) – 882
• Number of looks – 2
• Number of input color profiles – 49
• Number of output devices – 3

*Don’t use 17^3 and 33^3 size LUTs for anything but field monitoring. If you can, AVOID usage of 17^3 size LUTs at all. 17^3 size is extremely small for most of modern ‘flat’ log wide gamut sources. Even 33^3 is not always enough. ALWAYS USE 65^3 SIZE LUTS FOR POST PRODUCTION!!!

 LUTs output

• BT1886 – Gamma 2.4 (with 0.0 nits assumed black level) display device with Rec.709 color gamut and D65 white point used in dim surround with 5-10 nit backlight.
• P3DCI – Gamma 2.6 display device with P3 color gamut and DCI white point used in dark surround.
• P3D65 – Gamma 2.6 display device with P3 color gamut and D65 white point used in dark surround.

In LUTs with BT1886 output, 18% gray color (0.18 code value in Linear) roughly mapped to 10 nit for Amaryllis and 10,5 nit for Middlemist.

In LUTs with P3 output, additional “dark” surround compensation was added for better visual match between Gamma 2.4 display devices (for example, regular SDR video monitor) watched in dim surround and Gamma 2.6 display devices watched in dark surround (for example, theater projection).

 LUTs Input

• ALEXA LogC3 Wide Gamut V3
• ALEXA LogC4 Wide Gamut V4
• RED Log3G10 WideGamutRGB
• Panasonic V-Log V-Gamut
• DaVinci Intermediate Wide Gamut*
• Sony S-Log 1 S-Gamut
• Sony S-Log 2 S-Gamut
• Sony S-Log 3 S-Gamut3.Cine
• Sony S-Log 3 S-Gamut3
• BMD Film Gen5 Wide Gamut Gen5
• BMD Film Gen1 BMD Film Gen1
• BMD 4K Film Gen3 (4K Prod. Camera / URSA 4K)
• BMD 4.6K Film Gen3 (URSA 4.6K)
• Hybrid Log Gamma HLG BT.2100 (21 IRE middle gray) Rec.2020
• Hybrid Log Gamma HLG BT.2408 (38 IRE middle gray) Rec.2020
• DJI D-Log D-Gamut
• GoPro Protune Native
• GoPro Protune Rec.709
• FujiFilm F-Log Rec.2020
• FujiFilm F-Log 2 Rec.2020
• Nikon N-Log Rec.2020
• Leica L-Log Rec.2020
• Leica SL (Typ 601) L-Log Rec.709
• Z CAM Z-Log 2
• Cineon
• AMPAS ADX10
• Rec.709 regular video for Gamma 2.4 displays
• P3 D65 video for Gamma 2.6 displays and dark surround
• ACEScct AP1*
• Canon Log Cinema Gamut (Daylight in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log Cinema Gamut (Tungsten in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log Rec.2020 (Daylight in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log Rec.2020 (Tungsten in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 2 Cinema Gamut (Daylight in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 2 Cinema Gamut (Tungsten in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 2 Rec.2020 (Daylight in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 2 Rec.2020 (Tungsten in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 3 Cinema Gamut (Daylight in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 3 Cinema Gamut (Tungsten in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 3 Rec.2020 (Daylight in-camera white balance)
• Canon Log 3 Rec.2020 (Tungsten in-camera white balance)
• Canon C500 various legacy profiles

IMPORTANT

Please keep in mind that there is no refund available. The LUTs are basically just simple text files, that can’t be protected like software licensing tools do. If you unsure, feel free to send me the stills from you footage, so I could apply the LUTs and show you the result.