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Per-channel colour and tone changes with FFmpeg lut, lutrgb and lutyuv
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What this guide covers
For editors and technical artists who want a simple negate, gray, gamma or channel-removal change on a clip, applied one pixel component at a time. You end up with filter strings and know which filter suits RGB or YUV footage. Based on the FFmpeg manual; no command was run.
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Guide title
Per-channel colour and tone changes with FFmpeg lut, lutrgb and lutyuv
Coverage
For editors and technical artists who want a simple negate, gray, gamma or channel-removal change on a clip, applied one pixel component at a time. You end up with filter strings and know which filter suits RGB or YUV footage. Based on the FFmpeg manual; no command was run.
Example
A hypothetical example on a dark interview clip comparing a luma gamma change and a gray version against the original. Nothing was run, and the gamma direction is calculated from the manual's formula, not observed.
Useful starting points
- Quote the whole filter string in your shell; unquoted parentheses make bash or zsh fail before FFmpeg starts.
- The neutral chroma value depends on bit depth, so a gray result that looks tinted on high bit-depth footage may just need a different value.
- Check your pixel format first: lutrgb is for RGB input, lutyuv is for YUV input, and lut accepts either.
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