Best LUTs for Atomos Ninja V

Looking for some free color grading LUTs to load into your monitor for an on-set preview? I have you covered with this free pack of 8 professional monitoring LUTs.

Recently I picked up an Atomos Shinobi 5.2″ monitor, which I’ve been super impressed with so far. My favorite function of the monitor is its ability to load custom LUTs to preview different looks on set.

You can of course use custom monitoring LUTs for a wide variety of purposes, but I like using them to quickly audition looks on the day.

By testing a select few creative looks against any given camera/lighting setup, I get a much clearer picture of what might be possible (or not) later on in the grade. It might also inform additional creative decisions pertaining to lighting ratios, color temperatures, and more.

For anyone doing commercial work, monitoring LUTs are also a great tool to use with clients. Rather than having to vaguely describe what your final image will look like after being color corrected, you can show them right there in real time.

I designed these LUTs to be as versatile as possible, which is why the set includes a mixed bag of commonly used looks.

In total there are 8 LUTs in this free pack:

• LUT 1: High Contrast
• LUT 2: Low Contrast
• LUT 3: Desaturated
• LUT 4: Natural Warmth
• LUT 5: Natural Cool
• LUT 6: Bleach Bypass
• LUT 7: High Contrast Monochrome
• LUT 8: Low Contrast Monochrome

Using The LUTs

The LUTs in this pack all come as industry standard .cube files, making them compatible with virtually any professional grade monitor.

Simply load the LUTs onto your monitor and toggle them on and off to preview each look.

If you have a camera that supports custom LUTs (in .cube format), you can also load the LUTs directly onto the camera to achieve the same results.

Log Recording

If you are shooting in a log color space on your camera, be sure to set your output signal (going to the monitor) to Rec 709.

These LUTs are not designed to convert your footage out of log, so you will need to set the camera to do this for you. With that done, you can then activate one of the monitoring LUTs to add a stylized look on top of the Rec 709 image.

If your camera doesn’t allow you to output a Rec 709 image when shooting in log color space, you can create your own custom LUT to work around this issue.

I recommend doing this in DaVinci Resolve.

Simply apply a conversion LUT to a shot in Resolve (let’s say V-Log to Rec 709), and then apply one of these monitoring LUTs on a separate node. With both LUTs stacked on the same shot, you can now output a new LUT from DaVinci Resolve that combines them both. You can then repeat this process with each of the remaining LUTs included in the pack.

Download The Free Monitoring LUTs

These monitoring LUTs are completely free to download and use. All I ask is that you share this page with friends and colleagues so that others can enjoy them too.

Click Here To Download The Free Monitoring LUT Pack

Hope you all enjoy them, and they help improve your workflow on set!

And if you enjoy those LUTs, you’ll love my full line of professional color grading LUTs available through CINECOLOR.

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Atomos and FilmConvert have collaborated to release two custom LUTs. Filmmaker Philip Bloom and our very own Nino Leitner have created the two new profiles that will be free to download for existing Atomos users.

FilmConvert has been a favorite go-to tool for film stock emulation for some time, offering stand-alone and plug-in support for NLE systems in the form of a very quick and easy to use colour correcting interface.

Nino Leitner and Philip Bloom have got on board with the FilmConvert/Atomos collab to provide a pair of free downloadable LUTs they have created. Nino used it on his recent large documentary project in South Africa about the preservation of the rhino, which you can watch here for free.

Using Stock & Custom LUTs

The campaign is designed to highlight a feature that is often one overlooked of the FilmConvert software; the fact that you can export any of your customized or stock library LUTs into .cube format and load into on-camera devices like an Atomos recorder.

The use of LUTs (Look Up Tables) on set can be a powerful tool. Viewing an image in log can be useful for an operator monitoring a captured image, but to the less trained eye (Directors, Producers, end client, etc.a) all that they see is a flat and ugly looking image.

Displaying an LUT that is close to the original image can help other (sometimes, more important) eyes see what the final product may look like.

Not only used for a view of a final output, custom LUTs can also be used in a more practical form. Converting a flat log image to a Rec 709 profile adds contrast that helps exposure tools such as peaking function better, therefore helping you (the operator).

Monitors such as the Atoms Shogun and Ninja Assassin offer simple log to Rec 709 conversion and the new Atomos FLAME line also adds the ability to view the HDR capability of your log input, with a version of AtomHDR coming to the Shogun and Assassin in the near future.  A custom LOOK lut can come into play when exposing the like of Slog for SDR delivery allowing you to ride the high exposure to create a log master that’s ready for HDR but then utilize a LUT that can applys 2 stop reduction to a rec 709 profile that would otherwise look blown out when exposing correctly for S log.

It’s very easy to load in custom LUTs into your Atomos recorder, simply drop the .cube file onto your SSD and hit load via the LUT menu. Similar processes can be found on other devices such as SmallHD monitors via SD card.

FilmConvert offers export support for any of their stock library LUTs, or ones that you have created.

Register and you shall receive

To obtain your free LUT pair (along with another complimentary FilmConvert profile of your choice) register your Atomos device here.

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