LUTs into Scratch

[martindisenio]

Hello,
I need your help with LUTs issues , please.

In Scratch we have two ways to apply LUTs: one is in the editor; for view lut. And the other is via Scaffolds.

My question is:
The grade process should be done with an scaffold LUTs applied or not?

[Wahookah]

Hi,

this thread is pretty old, but nonetheless maybe it could help somebody, so i might as well answer it now:

It depends what you want to do, if you add the Lut via scaffold it acts like a grade, meaning your lut will be "burnt" into your footage. If you´re going for a film out, the typical thing might be to add your Lut as a "preview-Lut" which means your original footage is untouched, but it gives you a preview of how your footage will look like printed on film (if your color management pipeline is correctly set up and you have the proper Lut for your Lab/Film material/Monitor).