PursuitLuts

Using these LUTs in Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro

There's no separate version to buy. A .cube file is a .cube file. What differs is one setting in each app.

Don't have LUTs for your camera yet? PursuitLuts makes them for RED, Canon, Sony and Nikon, and the same files work here.

The thing that goes wrong in both

Premiere and Final Cut both try to help. Each recognizes log footage and converts it before you touch it. That's fine on its own, but a LUT like ours expects the flat log picture. If the app already converted it, the LUT converts it again. The result looks wrong, usually too contrasty and too colorful.

So in both apps the job is the same. Stop the app converting, then let the LUT do it.

Premiere Pro

  1. Select the clip, right-click, and choose Modify, then Interpret Footage. Open the Color tab and turn on Preserve RGB. That stops Premiere converting the clip's colors itself.
  2. Open Lumetri Color, then Basic Correction, and set Input LUT to Browse. Point it at the file for your camera.
  3. If a shot needs fixing, add a second Lumetri Color effect above this one. That way the fix happens before the LUT, like fixing a shot in a node before the LUT in Resolve.

Premiere's color management lives in the Color Setup menu, in the Settings tab of the Lumetri Color panel. You can turn automatic color management off there. Adobe suggests that when you handle color with LUTs yourself.

Final Cut Pro

  1. Select the clip and open the Info inspector. Set Camera LUT to None, so Final Cut stops converting the footage itself.
  2. Open the Effects browser with Window, Show in Workspace, Effects. In the Color category, double-click Custom LUT to apply it.
  3. In the Video inspector, under Custom LUT, open the LUT menu and choose Choose Custom LUT. Then pick your file.
  4. Make sure Custom LUT is last in the effects list, and drag it to the bottom if it isn't. Any fix above it then works on the full log picture first.

After Effects

Same as Premiere: Lumetri Color, then Basic Correction, then Input LUT.

Which file to pick

Use the file in the Web folder for YouTube, social media, laptops and phones. Use TV for broadcast and professional monitors. Cinema is for projectors only. It isn't for Mac or iPhone screens, even though Apple calls those P3 displays. The camera in the filename has to match how the clip was shot, not what you're exporting to.

Every PursuitLuts pack names the camera and log format in each file, so the right one is easy to spot.

One honest caveat

We build and test in DaVinci Resolve. The files are standard .cube LUTs and work the same way wherever they load. Each app's own color handling differs, and the settings above keep it out of the way. If something looks off in Premiere or Final Cut, email hello@pursuitlabs.ai with a frame. We'll work it out.

Installing in Resolve instead? That guide is here.

Updated 2026-09-13. All guides