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The grades from my own videos, packaged as .cube files anyone can use. Built from scratch in code and tuned frame by frame on real footage, never a repackaged free-LUT zip, which is why the license can just say: use them in anything, monetized included.

Ungraded log footage of a Sapporo intersection: flat, washed out, gray sky
The same frame through the Sora LUT: turquoise sky, warm signage, deep contrast
Drag the handle. Left of it: the camera's log file. Right: Sora, nothing else applied.

The library

  • Ungraded log footage of a 7-Eleven street corner in Sapporo
    The same street corner through the Sora LUT: airy turquoise sky, warm brick and skin tones

    Sora

    The house signature: turquoise-leaning skies that keep their gradient, warm red mids under cold whites, skin that stays skin.

    travelurbanairy

    See Sora →
  • Ungraded log footage: two men with drinks against a graffiti wall, flat gray sky
    The same frame through the Retro Surf LUT: turquoise wall, blue sky with pink clouds, warm skin

    Retro Surf

    70s-postcard: a cool turquoise world with warmth laid only on people and whites, pink clouds over a cyan sky.

    travelwarmfilm

    See Retro Surf →
  • Ungraded S-Log2 footage of a man walking down a dark concrete corridor under one fluorescent tube
    The same corridor through the Horror Green LUT: teal-green shadows, neutral white shirt, warm skin, the lamp still white

    Horror Green

    A corridor drowned in sick emerald, with the practical lights still glowing white. Your exposure untouched.

    nightcold

    See Horror Green →
  • Ungraded S-Log2 footage of a man walking down a dark concrete corridor under one fluorescent tube
    The same corridor through the Horror Blue LUT: steel-blue shadows, neutral white shirt, warm skin, the lamp still white

    Horror Blue

    The same dread in steel: a corridor flooded with deep blue, the lamp still burning white.

    nightcold

    See Horror Blue →
  • Ungraded S-Log2 footage of two people walking down a gravel path through a green forest
    The same forest path through the Vinland LUT: golden light in the canopy, a deep brown trail, luminous greens and lifted warm shadows

    Vinland

    The elf-world grade: gold in the highlights, a warm floor so nothing is ever black, dirt trails a proper brown, greens vivid and luminous, skies a light pastel blue.

    travelwarmdreamy

    See Vinland →
  • Ungraded S-Log2 footage of a riverside path with concrete apartment blocks on the skyline
    The same riverside blocks through the Panelka LUT: bleached concrete, a deep cold sky, muted grass and colour held back

    Panelka

    The cold one: blacks that actually reach black, a grey-blue floor, deep skies, and colour held on a leash so a shop sign cannot shout over the concrete.

    urbancoldmoody

    See Panelka →
  • Ungraded S-Log2 footage of a hand holding a kitchen knife against a wall: flat, grey, low contrast
    The same frame through the Ronin LUT: deep black background, bright sculpted skin, a bright specular along the blade

    Ronin

    Black and white the way film did it: a red-weighted channel mix, so skies go dark, foliage drops away and skin stays bright and smooth. Not a saturation slider at zero.

    monomoodyfilm

    See Ronin →
  • Ungraded S-Log2 footage of a forest trail: flat, grey-green, low contrast
    The same forest trail through the Calm Blue LUT: luminous greens, blue-tinted shade, clean bright path

    Calm Blue

    Luminous blue-green daylight: the colour lives in the shade and the whites stay pure, which is what makes it read bright rather than filtered.

    travelairydaylight

    See Calm Blue →

  • Golden Hour In tuning

    The whole frame dipped in late sun: golden highlights, greens gone amber, a soft magenta floor.

    travelwarm

  • Bold Cinema In tuning

    Hard teal-orange, deep blacks, the blockbuster-poster register.

    urbanpunchy

Download the pack

Pick the version that matches how you shoot and get every look in one zip, each file already correct for your footage, plus the license and a one-page install guide for Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut and CapCut.

Not sure what you shoot? Find your camera →

The download starts either way. The email is only so you hear when the next look ships: no course emails, no product news.

Why free? Because of what I actually sell.

No mystery and no growth hack: I make videos, and I build Vanpelt Studio, an app for the part of video-making that happens before the edit. These LUTs are the real grades from my own projects. Giving them away costs me a download link, and if one of them is the nudge that gets you to press record and publish something, that's the outcome I'm after. More people making videos is good for me in the most boring, direct way.

The other honest half: color is the easy part of the craft, which is exactly why it can be free. The expensive part is the evening you stare at a card full of clips wondering if there's a video in there. That's the problem the paid app works on. Grab the LUTs either way: they work fine without ever touching the product.

One thing worth saying because most "free LUT" pages can't: these are generated from scratch by our own code, so every curve and hue decision is original math rather than someone else's pack re-zipped. That's why the license below has no asterisk on commercial use.

What a LUT can't do (and the ten seconds that finishes it)

A LUT maps one colour to another colour. It sees a single pixel and knows nothing about the pixels around it, so three things can never live in a .cube: grain, bloom, and sharpness. All three are spatial, meaning they depend on neighbouring pixels.

Add them after the LUT and they take seconds. In Resolve that's Film Grain OFX on a subtle 35mm preset, Glow OFX at a high threshold, and Midtone Detail around 15 to 25. What reads as "clean and detailed" in a photograph is mostly tonal separation, which these looks do supply, plus edge detail, which they can't. That last node is the difference.

Which pack, and what if it looks wrong?

Pick by what your camera records, not by what camera it is. If your footage comes out washed out and gray, that's log: take the pack named for your profile, or the generic log pack if it isn't listed. If your footage already looks normal, or you shoot a flat / Cine profile (GoPro Flat, Sony Cine2-4, Canon Neutral), take the Flat pack.

It matters because the wrong pack fails quietly. Log footage stores its blacks lifted, and the log LUTs put them back down. Flat and standard footage already sits at true black, so a log LUT subtracts a black point that was never there and crushes the bottom of the image. If everything but the brightest areas turns to mud, you're one pack away from the fix.

And on lowering the opacity: that's a taste control, not a compatibility one. Use it if a look is stronger than your video wants. It won't rescue the wrong pack, because blending a crushed image back only gives you a half-crushed image with half a look. The shadows are already gone by then.

The license, in plain words

Use these LUTs in any video, including commercial and monetized work. Modify them for your own projects. Don't re-host, resell, or bundle the files anywhere else. Link people here instead. No credit required; a mention is appreciated. The full text ships in every zip.