01 — The import
Eight minutes to drag one clip into Resolve.
Every LUT test starts with a 4K transcode you didn't budget for. Optimized media. Cache. A spinning fan. By the time the first LUT loads, your coffee's cold.
LutStyles is a browser tab for your .cube LUT collection. Drop in a clip, drop in a folder of LUTs, and arrow-key through your whole library on top of real footage — no editor to open, no proxies, no render queue.
You bought the pack. You downloaded the freebies. You saved the YouTuber's recipe. And then you never tried any of them — because trying meant importing.
Every LUT test starts with a 4K transcode you didn't budget for. Optimized media. Cache. A spinning fan. By the time the first LUT loads, your coffee's cold.
To show a client a single LUT, you wait through an H.264 export — then a WeTransfer upload, then a Slack reply. Multiply by four versions of the look.
Not because it's the best one — because it's the one you didn't have to test. The "/LUTs/to-try" folder grows. The same three presets keep going out the door.
Your clip never leaves your laptop. Every frame is rendered on your local GPU — the same math your editor runs, just without the import-and-pray step.
Any MP4, MOV, or WebM straight from the SD card. No transcode, no proxy, no upload — the file just stays on your disk and streams straight into the tab.
Drag your whole /LUTs folder in and the entire pack loads. Arrow-key through forty of them on top of your footage. Star the keepers. Bin the rest.
The graded frame lands the instant you let go of the file. Star the keeper and copy its name straight into your editor. Split-screen A/B and intensity arrive in Phase 2.
Just the tools you reach for when you're auditioning a look — none of the timeline, node-graph, project-file ceremony.
Pack creators love to over-bake. Pull a hot Kodak emulation back to 60%; push a subtle teal pack to 130% to actually see it. One slider, live preview.
Drag the divider anywhere on the frame and watch shadows roll into teal in real time. Hold shift to wipe horizontally.
Scrub to a frame, hit F, and grade it as a still — no playback overhead. Perfect for skin-tone checks at 4K.
Toggle a vectorscope to keep skin tones on the line; the waveform flags blown highlights before you do. The colorist's graphs — no degree required.
17, 33, 65 — whatever size your pack ships in. Drop a folder and LutStyles reads the color data right in the tab. No upload, no conversion, no "preparing assets…".
Pick the three looks worth showing. LutStyles compresses a 720p proxy in the browser and mints a private review URL. Your client clicks, picks, leaves a note — and you ship the right one the first time. No accounts, no logins, no 4 GB transfers.
Local-only by default — the clip stays on your disk, the LUT is read in your browser, the render runs on your GPU. LutStyles literally cannot see your work.
If your edit room is a 14" laptop on a coffee-shop table and your LUT folder has more files than your camera roll, LutStyles was built for you.
Drop in the clips you shot this weekend and finally try the LUT pack you bought six months ago. See what every look does to your own footage, by eye, in seconds — no course, no node trees, no subscription.
Show the client three LUT directions before you build a single node tree. Get a yes on Tuesday and bill the rest of the week for actually cutting.
Audition every emulation across an entire ceremony in the time it used to take to make proxies. Find the LUT that flatters the dress and stop second-guessing.
Anything we missed? Reply to your waitlist confirmation — a real human reads it.
If your laptop can play it in QuickTime, it can play it here. We hand the decode to your browser's native video element and only touch the texture on the GPU side, so playback cost is essentially the same as watching the file in Finder or Explorer.
Nope. Pros use LutStyles to move faster, but it's just as much a playground for learning. If you can drag a file onto a tab, you can audition cinematic looks on your own footage in seconds — and pick up an eye for color while you're at it.
Yes — anything that conforms to the Adobe/IRIDAS .cube spec, 1D or 3D, sizes from 17 to 65. If you have a weird one LutStyles chokes on, send it over during beta and we'll add a parser test.
Not on day one. Phase 1 is .cube only — it's the format 90% of pack creators ship in. .drx and .dctl involve node graphs and Metal-only shaders we'd have to re-implement. On the roadmap, not the MVP.
No. During Phase 1, nothing leaves your machine — the video stays on your disk, the LUT is read in your browser, the render runs on your GPU. When the Phase 3 review-link feature ships, you'll opt in per project and only a 720p proxy is uploaded.
Free during beta. After that, the local LutStyles app stays free forever — drop, preview, audition, export, all gratis. We'll charge a small monthly fee (think one coffee) for the Phase 3 client-review links, when they ship.
Any laptop made after 2019 with a half-decent GPU. We've tested on M-series MacBook Airs, mid-range Windows laptops with integrated graphics, and a 2020 Razer. If your machine renders YouTube at 4K, you're fine.
Get in early. LutStyles opens to its first testers ahead of the Q3 2026 launch — add your email and you're in the first batch through the door.