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Applying LUTs from Color Director in Power Director
paulsw2 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2015 09:25 Messages: 10 Offline
[Post New] Feb 13, 2023 01:07
Hi everyone - have just installed ColorDirector 11 (365) and I'm using it with my existing install of PowerDirector 17. There are some cool new LUTs in CD that are not available in my install of PD which I'd like to use. I'm currently toggling the video clip from PD into CD for the color corrections and back into PD for the editing and production. However I've noticed that when I take the clip back into PD the LUT adjustments are lost. Other adjustments - such as white balance, tone etc. - are applied.

Just wondering if it's because I'm using PD17 and these effects only work with latest PD 365? I'm very happy with PD17 so don't particularly want to upgrade, but maybe I need to think about it?

Paul
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Senior Contributor Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan Joined: Oct 18, 2016 00:25 Messages: 2104 Offline
[Post New] Feb 13, 2023 14:59
Quote Hi everyone - have just installed ColorDirector 11 (365) and I'm using it with my existing install of PowerDirector 17. There are some cool new LUTs in CD that are not available in my install of PD which I'd like to use. I'm currently toggling the video clip from PD into CD for the color corrections and back into PD for the editing and production. However I've noticed that when I take the clip back into PD the LUT adjustments are lost. Other adjustments - such as white balance, tone etc. - are applied.

Just wondering if it's because I'm using PD17 and these effects only work with latest PD 365? I'm very happy with PD17 so don't particularly want to upgrade, but maybe I need to think about it?

Paul


Hi,

The default location for CDR LUTs is C:\Program Files\CyberLink\ColorDirector11\ColorDirector presets\LUT

Have you tried opening PDR17 and then importing LUTs from that location?
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/17/enu/index.html?08_11_00_fix_and_enhance.htm

Cheers
PowerDirector Moderator

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paulsw2 [Avatar]
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[Post New] Feb 13, 2023 18:24
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Hi,

The default location for CDR LUTs is C:\Program Files\CyberLink\ColorDirector11\ColorDirector presets\LUT

Have you tried opening PDR17 and then importing LUTs from that location?
https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/17/enu/index.html?08_11_00_fix_and_enhance.htm

Cheers
PowerDirector Moderator


Thanks for the suggestion. The LUTs are now appearing in PD17. However, when I apply them in ColorDirector, together with other adjustments, they all get knocked out when I toggle back to PD17. If I don't apply a LUT, the other adjustments do transfer over into PD. Very strange! However, at least I can apply the LUT in PD itself (though without the ability to graduate the effect, as in CD).

Paul
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[Post New] Feb 14, 2023 04:04
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Thanks for the suggestion. The LUTs are now appearing in PD17. However, when I apply them in ColorDirector, together with other adjustments, they all get knocked out when I toggle back to PD17. If I don't apply a LUT, the other adjustments do transfer over into PD. Very strange! However, at least I can apply the LUT in PD itself (though without the ability to graduate the effect, as in CD).

Paul


Hi,
Yes, the facility to use a strength slider on CLUTs wasn't available until PDR20.

I believe that if you create a CLUT in CDR with the required strength, export it and then import to PDR it will retain the strength settings - so I have a couple of CLUTs with 25%, 50% and 75% strengths created in CDR but imported into PDR.

Might be worth a try?

Cheers
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paulsw2 [Avatar]
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[Post New] Feb 17, 2023 12:11
Hmm, loolks like this problem has been going on for some time:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/0/49056.page#257455

Bit of a drastic step to have to render out of CDR and then re-import the clip back into PDR in order to retain the LUT. Surprised that CyberLink haven't sorted this out as the use of LUTs is one of the great attractions in using CDR in the first place.

Paul
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[Post New] Feb 17, 2023 15:44
Quote Hmm, loolks like this problem has been going on for some time:
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/0/49056.page#257455

Bit of a drastic step to have to render out of CDR and then re-import the clip back into PDR in order to retain the LUT. Surprised that CyberLink haven't sorted this out as the use of LUTs is one of the great attractions in using CDR in the first place.

Paul


Hi,

I think PDR17 is deemed at the end of it's lifespan for patches and updates - latest update was 02.2021. CL tend to move on quite quickly in this regard.

As I mentioned, the ability to use strength adjustments from within PDR came in for PDR20, so I suspect upgrading is your only path to avoid the issue.

Cheers
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