Show LUT / show look

A show LUT (or show look) is the production’s agreed baseline look, locked early with the DP and director and applied everywhere: the DIT loads it for on-set monitoring, the dailies lab bakes it so editorial cuts with it, VFX previews under it, and the final colorist starts from it. Its whole job is that everyone, at every stage, sees the same intended image — no surprises when “flat” dailies suddenly get a look in finishing. A show LUT is not a creative LUT you downloaded; it’s built for this show from a reference the DP signed off on, version-controlled like code, and ideally placed as a scene-referred LMT (before the DRT) so one look feeds both SDR and HDR outputs.

First used in: 3.3 · Show pipeline & show LUT design