Install ImpulZ LUTs for Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere CC comes with the powerful Lumetri Color Panel. You will be using this panel to load and apply ImpulZ LUTs to your footage. Unless you put all of the LUTs into a specific folder they will not show up in the Lumetri drop down menus - and there's a good reason why we think this is a good thing:

VisionColor LUT collections are big, with many input/output variables to choose from.  We believe that loading LUTs using your system’s native file browser is much quicker and more convenient than scrolling through a list of thousands of presets. Another significant benefit of working this way is that the same LUT files can be loaded from the same folder location using other Creative Cloud applications like After Effects, Speedgrade or Photoshop.

Now simply go into Lumetri, twirl down the 'Creative' section and click 'Browse' to navigate to the ImpulZ LUTs folder.

If you want to add some of your favorite ImpulZ LUTs directly into Lumetri for quick access, Adobe recommends to copy the .cube files from your ImpulZ directory to one of the following locations.

Install ImpulZ LUTs for Adobe After Effects

Download the LUT Component Package and save the library folder to your local hard drive.

Alternatively, if you downloaded an installer:

1. Run the downloaded installer.
2. Select 'Generic Installation'.
3. Untick any camera profiles that you won't need. You can always add them later if you have to.
4. Finish the installation.

Now your ImpulZ LUTs are located in the ImpulZ directory at:

  MAC    Applications/VisionColor/ImpulZ

  WIN   Program Files/VisionColor/ImpulZ

Adobe After Effects CC has a native plugin to load and apply LUTs:

Effects -> Utility -> Apply Color LUT

Simply navigate to the ImpulZ directory and load your LUT of choice.

Install ImpulZ LUTs for Adobe Photoshop

Download the LUT Component Package and save the library folder to your local hard drive. 

Alternatively, if you downloaded an installer:

1. Run the downloaded installer.
2. Select 'Generic Installation'.
3. Untick any camera profiles that you won't need. You can always add them later if you have to.
4. Finish the installation.

Now your ImpulZ LUTs are located in the ImpulZ directory at:

  MAC    Applications/VisionColor/ImpulZ

  WIN   Program Files/VisionColor/ImpulZ

Adobe Photoshop CC has a native plugin to load and apply 3D LUTs:

Image -> Adjustments -> Color Lookup:

Simply navigate to the ImpulZ directory and load your LUT of choice.

Optional: If you want to add some of your favorite ImpulZ LUTs directly into the Color Lookup dropdown menu for quick access simply copy the .cube files from the ImpulZ directory to:

  MAC:  Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC*/Presets/3D LUTs

  WIN:  Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC*\Presets\3D LUTs

Install ImpulZ LUTs for Davinci Resolve

1. Download the LUT Component Package(s) from your account. 
2. Unzip the library from the downloaded .zip folder.
3. Move the library folder to the following location on your local hard drive. You may have to show hidden folders to find these:

MAC: /Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Davinci Resolve/LUT
WIN: HD/Program Data/Blackmagic Design/Davinci Resolve/Support/LUT

Tip: If you know you won't need certain camera profiles or LUTs you can delete them from this folder to prevent the LUT menu in Resolve from growing too large. You can always re-download the entire library from your account if you need the LUTs in the future.

Now your ImpulZ LUTs are directly available from within Resolve. Simply right-click on a corrector node, choose 3D LUT and select an ImpulZ LUT of choice.

Right click / Cmd + click on a corrector node to apply your LUT of choice.

Install ImpulZ LUTs for Affinity Photo

Download the LUT Component Package and save the library folder to your local hard drive. 

Alternatively, if you downloaded an installer:

1. Run the downloaded installer.
2. Select 'Generic Installation'.
3. Untick any camera profiles that you won't need. You can always add them later if you have to.
4. Finish the installation.

Now your ImpulZ LUTs are located in the ImpulZ directory at:

  MAC:    Applications/VisionColor/ImpulZ

  WIN:   Program Files/VisionColor/ImpulZ

Affinity Photo has a native plugin to load and apply 3D LUTs:

Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> 3D LUT Adjustment:

Next simply click "Load LUT" and navigate to the ImpulZ directory to load your 3D LUT into Affinity.

Install ImpulZ LUTs for Final Cut Pro X

Final Cut Pro X can not natively load 3D LUTs. So in order to work with LUTs you will have to install a third party plugin.

At the time of writing, these are some excellent LUT plugins for FCPX and - most of them are free!

1. LUT Loader - Pixel Film Studios (free)
2. mLUT - MotionVFX (free)
3. LUTx - CoreMelt (free)
4. Color Finale  (paid)

Make sure you have a capable LUT plugin insalled for Final Cut. Next, unpack your ImpulZ download and proceed:

1. Run the downloaded installer.
2. Select 'Generic Installation'.
3. Untick any camera profiles that you won't need. You can always add them later if you have to.
4. Finish the installation.

Now your ImpulZ LUTs are located in the ImpulZ directory at:

  MAC:    Applications/VisionColor/ImpulZ

  WIN:   Program Files/VisionColor/ImpulZ

All of the Final Cut Plugins listed above require LUTs to be installed to different folders so please refer to their documenation to learn where to put your VisionColor LUTs.

Install ImpulZ LUTs for other applications

One thing that makes ImpulZ great is that it's practically open-source with a format that can be loaded and applied in tons of applications and also directly on many professional cameras and on-set monitors. 

Because of the sheer number of supported applications and devices we can not explicitly list all installation instructions. If your particular application is not listed above but can load 3D LUTs there's a very good chance that it can load ImpulZ Film Emulations! 

Please refer to the documentation of your software to learn how to apply LUTs or contact our support to get help!

Either downloading the LUT Component Package or running the generic ImpulZ installation will give you access to all of the included LUT files:

1. Run the downloaded installer.
2. Select 'Generic Installation'.
3. Untick any camera profiles that you won't need. You can always add them later if you have to.
4. Finish the installation.

Now your ImpulZ LUTs are located in the ImpulZ directory at:

  MAC:    Applications/VisionColor/ImpulZ

  WIN:   Program Files/VisionColor/ImpulZ

Copy the LUTs or folder to any target directory or device you require. Note: We do not impose any restrictions on the number of devices if you personally own and operate them.