How to Get the David Fincher look for Free
The "David Fincher" LUT is designed to transform LOG or flat footage into a heavily desaturated palette dominated by moody blues, sickly greens, and dingy yellows.
Give your LOG footage life by treating it with the same type of paintbrush used on movies like Zodiac, The Social Network, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. What makes the "David Fincher" LUT different is that it doesn't just blanket coat your footage in teal. It's a subtle enhancement that gives your footage character, rather than creating a colored distraction. Need a Kodak 35mm LUT? Download our free Trub Film LUT
Compare a flat, LOG image with one using the "David Fincher" LUT
what's a LUT?
A lot of people don't realize that how footage looks when filmed RAW, digitally, is not the same as what you see on the big screen. The footage is color graded, but what can also be applied is a LUT, or Look Up Table. A LUT automatically replaces colors based on a pre-designed template and acts as a color grading filter for your flat footage.
how to use?/doesn't work?
For Adobe users click here. Different NLE softwares apply LUTs differently and plenty of information is available online. If Trub Film LUT makes your footage look terrible, it's because LUTs don't always apply well to all footage. Different lighting conditions, camera settings, etc. might affect how the LUT interacts with the footage. Having said that, try rolling back the LUTs intensity, as that might help solve the problem.