Phil Holland's PhilmColor Creative 3D Luts for IPP2

[Jarred Land]

Most of you already have purchased and downloaded these but I still am getting emails from random people asking where to find creative luts for RCX and in Camera so I thought I would just post here to make sure everyone knows about PhilmColor.

I've been having a lot of fun with Phil's latest tool the last few weeks applying to old footage IPP2 and even non IPP2 and it's pretty rad.

http://phfx.com/tools/philmColor/

 

[Phil Holland]

Thank you Jarred!

I've spent a great, great deal of time on creating these over the last year alongside the development of IPP2. Big thanks to Graeme with the advice and QC along the way.

Long story short, these are "film inspired" Creative 3D LUTs purposed designed for RED's new Image Processing Pipeline 2 (IPP2). Which means for Helium owners you can use these in camera and of course if you REDCODE RAW material from any RED Camera you can use them in post.

Some are film emulations, some are inspired by the final look of certain films, some emulate certain processes, and some are based on grades I've done for features over the years. There's also a host of unique things in there too!

These LUTs come in the form of baseStocks (inspired by film), ghostStocks (more color science oriented), printModels (for having more of that "to print" appeal), and toneAdjusts (which are some useful tonal helpers).

There are 103 LUTs included here and broken down into those categories, which makes life easier when selecting your philmColor LUT.

Quick Tips!

There's a few ways to get philmColor LUTs into your workflow. As of June 2017, IPP2 is available in Beta Form.

For Helium owners. To use these in camera, download the latest Beta Build: Create a "luts" folder at the root directory of your RED Recording Media and copy over your desired philmColor LUTs. Go to Menu>Image>Image Pipeline>Options and select IPP2, then under Menu>Image>3D LUT you can load up your philmColor LUT off the RED Recording Media.

To get going with these in REDCINE-X PRO: Download the latest Beta Build. You can import these into the Creative 3D LUT Manager and quickly browse through these.


As of June 2017 3rd party companies haven't fully integrated IPP2 into their RED Importers. No worries. There are easy workflow solutions.

The general concept is your REDCODE RAW footage must be set to a Color Space of REDWideGamutRGB and Gamma of Log3G10. This is part of the backbone of IPP2 and what makes it so powerful in regards to better color, tonality, dimensional, better handling of out of gamut colors, and mastering out to SDR or HDR.

The general Image Chain should be:
REDCODE RAW set to RWG/Log3G10 > Grading (here is where you apply your philmColor LUT) > and selecting your Output Tone Map, Highlight Roll-Off, and Output Transform.

So for those of you using Resolve, Adobe After Effects, or Adobe Premiere Pro CC you can use Graeme's Transform LUTs (available at RED.com) on all RED footage. You just place those at the end of the chain.

In short the chain is: .R3D RWG/Log3G10 footage, philmColor, IPP2 LUT.

* one quick note, I do recommend using software packages that use Tetrahedral 3D LUT Interpolation. At the moment Adobe Premiere Pro and Lumetri does not support that, however, I've chatted with Adobe and they are indeed working on something. For After Effects users, using the Apply 3D LUT Effect is what you want.


I've been really moved by the overwhelming support behind this project. Right at release people we sending over finished work with these LUTs used. During it's development my test bed was nearly 3600 image sequences from shooters around the globe and much of my own work shot with every RED sensor to date. I have been tirelessly working on this project while travelling and shooting abroad because so many asked for LUTs from me in the past. With IPP2 I saw an opportunity to provide something a bit more unique and exclusive to RED that should inspire. This actually was inspired by a few conversations at the ASC Awards a couple years ago on how we treat each new sensor as it's own "digital stock". The inspiration was further fueled by some people requesting something similar to Light Iron Color since the DXL's announcement. Now you have a lot of options. Much of this is based on my previous experiences dealing with high resolution film scanning and recording. It's been nearly 18 years of creating all sorts of film emulations for various digital cinema cameras and even matching film stock to film other film stocks. I'm glad I can finally put that experience to good use here in the RED community.

I'll be writing up more shortly on everything. There is an included manual however with sample images to get you going.

In the spirit of RED's upgrade paths, everybody who purchases philmColor gets free updates/upgrades to the next release version.

And spoiler alert. I've been working on the new release for a couple of months already.

It's going to be a good update

Thanks again for the support!

 

[Phil Holland]

12.29.2017 - It is now the future!

Good after noon and happy upcoming new year!

As promised, philmColor Release 2 with 75 new Creative Cubes design for RED's IPP2 workflow.



Mostly new base and ghost stocks largely influenced by users. However there's also a new category, achromicStocks, which are designed for black and white cinematography from your in color RED footage. This is different than Monochrome as they use the color channel information to produce unique black and white looks.

If you purchased R1, you likely got an email by now for the R2 update. There will be an R3 next year at some point and same deal applies. Free updates for existing owners. It's been fun dealing with labs again to handle some of this chaos. I've got a few negs coming back to me in January, so expect a few more maybe around NAB 2018 time or so. Likely not as massive as this update.

I'm updating the manual and uploading more sample images as I type this, but everything you need to know is here:
http://www.phfx.com/tools/philmColor/

Thank you so much for supporting this project. It's incredible seeing everywhere these have been used from theaters to streaming to commercials and web series. That's certainly driven me to dedicate more time.

Have a wonderful new year!

 

[Chris McKechnie]

These are insane guys! Every RED owner needs them!! Keep killing it Phil!

 

[Jarred Land]

These are insane guys! Every RED owner needs them!! Keep killing it Phil!

Yes they do. And we should probably all buy 2 copies each just to support Phil who has been making all our lives easier for free for way too many years

 

[Rodrigo Violante]

I love the new luts!! Having fun with them, hot girls look even hotter now!

 

[Josiah Duncan]

I will definitely be picking this up soon, know a few projects that they would be perfect for.

 

[Chris McKechnie]

Yes they do. And we should probably all buy 2 copies each just to support Phil who has been making all our lives easier for free for way too many years

Haha I know right? His support to our community has been unparalleled. He's definitely helped with the progression of the RED community and has poured countless hours into helping people make better images with RED cams. I'm sure you guys have tried to snatch him up many years ago. hehe

 

[Luka Jovanovic]

Great job!

 

[Martin Stevens]

Phil,

This is monumental work!!!

You are beyond talented.

 

[Simran Dewan]

Have been using them on a big documentary project. Thank you so much Phil! Making pretty imagery is almost becoming too easy..

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Yes they do. And we should probably all buy 2 copies each just to support Phil who has been making all our lives easier for free for way too many years

Absolutely.

Phil's contributions to the community have been insane, even those that don't apply to me or that I do differently, his work put in and sharing attitude is truly admirable!!

 

[Adam Johnson]

I Purchased Philmcolor the second it was released...combined with IPP2 I am getting insanely amazing results. Game changer

 

[Stacey Spears]

Phil, great job! Honestly, I think you have underpriced them. I would make that price an intro price and raise it after some period of time.

The amount of work you put into this and the value they are are worth, the current price is a steal!

 

[rand thompson]

From viewing the sample baseStocks previews from your website, I 'm loving "Pelican", "Crane", "Egret", "Ibis", "Loon", "Robin", "Rosella", "Turaco" and "Sandpiper". I don't think there is a better Lut Pack available for Red Cinema cameras .

 

[Phil Holland]

Thank you guys. The love is truly felt. I've got some special things I've been up to as of late for REDuser as well.

Have been using them on a big documentary project. Thank you so much Phil! Making pretty imagery is almost becoming too easy..

It's an interesting topic for sure. I certainly don't feel these in any way replace a colorist for instance, but what this can do is truly help change the stock and feel of what you are shooting. You can of course use these to finish your pieces and I'm loving the examples of that I've seen so far.

Because all of this happens in the Grading area in the pipe, have fun tinkering around with CDL, Contrast, Curves, and Saturation. You can carve these things into pretty unique looks that suite your shots.

Phil, great job! Honestly, I think you have underpriced them. I would make that price an intro price and raise it after some period of time.

The amount of work you put into this and the value they are are worth, the current price is a steal!

I have had to battle with pricing a whole lot actually. Took a lot of outside advice. I have never sold my LUTs outside doing work at studios and honestly didn't know what to do. Some said $2K, some said $50. Based on some of the exclusive packages out there for other cameras, I was looking at $500-$750 before the release.

At the end of the day I had a hard think about it. RED makes so many different cameras that fit so many price points and I didn't want to exclude any RED shooter from something literally designed for them. $325 is a happy place for now, plus that little discount for the early birds because it's still early days of IPP2. There's a slim chance I'll up it to $400 by the time the update comes out as you'll see the additional lengths of what I'm going through to make that happen.

We'll have to nerd out next time we catch up Stacey. None of this was made in a grading package, had to take a long road to get there really.

From viewing the sample baseStocks previews from your website, I 'm loving "Pelican", "Crane", "Egret", "Ibis", "Loon", "Robin", "Rosella", "Turaco" and "Sandpiper". I don't think there is a better Lut Pack available for Red Cinema cameras .

Thank you Rand and I'm glad you picked out a few specific ones there. I'll be writing more detailed info up shortly, but for instance baseStock:rosella is loosely based on a 3-strip process and tuned a bit for RED. Egret is a really, really nice general shooting LUT. Like you can just leave that one on all the time really. Some really for Pelican. Everybody seems to love Crane and they shoot as it's rather inspired by common film grade. Turaco is one of my personal favorites and is indeed something I created for a feature some time ago.

 

[Daniel Stilling]

These are truly an absolute must have! It gives you so many options it will wow everyone sitting behind your monitors.

 

[Thai Christen]

Phil, thanks a lot for your tremendous work!
Going through some of your Luts, they look very nice.
One question though, I know the price is a steal. However, any chance you could possibly offer a very light package at a lower cost, maybe under US$ 100 with upgrade possibility to full package?
I fully understand if this is too much to ask for and I am aware that this could complicate your ordering process/logistics etc.

Thought I just ask. Costs nothing, right?
Keep up with your great work!

 

[Sean Solowiej]

Phil, I've been following these LUTs with great thirst. Any chance you can share more about the little discount for early birds? No doubt your work deserves double this rate. But for those of us who are driving 20-year old Honda Civics and eating beans and rice to make Red cameras part of our lives, it would be a great help. And thank you!

Sean

$325 is a happy place for now, plus that little discount for the early birds because it's still early days of IPP2. There's a slim chance I'll up it to $400 by the time the update comes out as you'll see the additional lengths of what I'm going through to make that happen.

 

[Phil Holland]

One question though, I know the price is a steal. However, any chance you could possibly offer a very light package at a lower cost, maybe under US$ 100 with upgrade possibility to full package?

Thought about doing a sample pack, but honestly I've put a couple thousand sample images online and I think you'll end up missing the full tool kit here. The difficulty is how to handle that when updates come and all that. There should be an impressive update in July/August and that is what you don't want to miss out on.

Phil, I've been following these LUTs with great thirst. Any chance you can share more about the little discount for early birds? No doubt your work deserves double this rate. But for those of us who are driving 20-year old Honda Civics and eating beans and rice to make Red cameras part of our lives, it would be a great help. And thank you!

Sean

Yep, use "phfxlovesyou" at checkout. $20 off. It's an early bird discount. When IPP2 becomes "release" I'll likely take that discount away. And will 100% take it away by the time of the next update for sure.