Title Voyager Documentation_Tasting Notes.pdf ✅

WelcometotheVoyagerLUTPack! Congratulations on your purchase of the Voyager LUTs! These LUTs may look like a long list of numbers, but to me they’re something else entirely. Each of these LUTs is a living, breathing entity I’ve spent countless hours nurturing and shaping, with one goal in mind: to produce the best colorist look library on the planet. As an artist, I love making things, but there’s something I love even more: making things that make things. That’s what the Voyager LUTs really are: a set of tools I’m placing in your hands to facilitate your color grades. I can’t wait to see what you do with them! Cullen
ImportingyourLUTs To import your LUTs, go Project Settings -> Color Management -> Lookup Tables, and select Open LUT Folder. Drag your downloaded assets into this folder, then relaunch Resolve. Your LUTs will now appear in your LUT panel in the Color page.
Keep your Cullen Kelly Color LUTs & DCTLs in one place! If this is your first CKC LUT/DCTL ever, simply drag the CKC folder into your Resolve LUT folder. If this isn’t your first CKC LUT/DCTL, drag the Voyager folder into your CKC folder. The file path would be [Resolve LUT folder] > CKC > Voyager. UsingyourLUTs These LUTs are designed to be used with Resolve Color Management and a Timeline color space of Davinci Wide Gamut Intermediate. To see a demonstration of how to set this up, check out this video. Importantnotes ● To avoid banding and artifacts, make sure you enable Tetrahedral LUT interpolation in your project. To do this, go to Project Settings -> Color Management -> Lookup Tables, and set 3D Lookup Table Interpolation to Tetrahedral. [screenshot] ● As with any LUTs, it's important you use these as intended -- meaning applying them to an image in the Davinci Wide Gamut Intermediate color space within a properly set up color management pipeline. Here are some common incorrect usages to avoid: ○ Applying the LUTs to footage that isn't in the Davinci Wide Gamut Intermediate color space -- this will yield unpredictable results and possible artifacts. ○ Using the LUTs without color management -- this will result in a low-contrast, low-saturation image that you'll have to "brute force" into place with your primaries. ○ Using the LUTs on set for viewing -- this will not give a proper rendering of your scene. Propack The Pro pack is a modular set of LUTs designed to be stacked, mixed and matched. Each LUT expects the Davinci Wide Gamut Intermediate color space, and returns the same. You can stack and combine one or more LUTs from any category, and you can also omit LUTs from any category. You can also change the order of your LUTs to get different results. Tone LUTs impart tonal (contrast) changes to the image. You can think of these as a rough equivalent to Resolve's Custom curves. The Tone foundation LUTs are intended to provide a foundation of creative contrast. Each LUT imparts a different level of contrast as well as highlight/shadow roll-off. In addition, each LUT handles color
preservation (how colors shift as contrast changes) in its own way. Each foundation LUT preserves the middle gray value of the DaVinci Wide Gamut working space. You can freely stack and combine multiple foundation LUTs to taste, which can be especially effective when combined with Resolve's Key Output Gain to scale back the intensity of a given LUT. The Tone modifier LUTs are designed to bias shadows and/or highlights toward a particular color (sometimes called split-toning). These LUTs make an excellent complement to the foundation LUTs, but they can also be used without a foundation. Like the foundation LUTs, you can freely stack and combine these LUTs, though this isn't typically necessary and may produce undesirable results. For subtle variations, try placing your modifier LUTs before versus after your foundation LUT. Palette LUTs impart targeted changes to the hue, saturation, or density of various colors in your image, forming a palette or creative gamut. You can think of these as a rough equivalent to what you might get with Resolve's HSL curves or the Color Warper. Palette LUTs do not directly alter tonality/contrast. The Palette foundation LUTs form the base of your palette by imparting targeted hue and density changes. These will produce distinct results depending on where they're placed in sequence with your other Voyager LUTs. Like the Tone foundation LUTs, Palette foundation LUTs can be stacked and combined to taste. The Palette modifier LUTs impart saturation and density refinements. They can be paired with a Palette foundation, or used on their own. Tasting Notes Tone LUTs - Foundations Carina Carina is the strongest of the Tone foundation LUTs. With a big swooping contrast curve and a significant change in net saturation, this LUT is great for cranking your grade to an 11. Try pairing it with Luna (Palette modifier) for a faux-bleach-bypass look. Corvus Corvus is the most conservative of the Tone foundation LUTs, imparting a small contrast increase paired with a gentle roll-off in the shadows and highlights. Great for clients or projects looking for a "clean" or "airy" look.