Guides
Practical workflows for the unglamorous half of filmmaking: culling big shoots, correcting log footage, and landing a clean baseline in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro.
Which guide do I need?
Find your camera, then pick your editor. Not sure what the camera shot? Check the log profile in its picture or gamma menu. Shooting a wedding with several cameras? Start with multi-cam color matching.
Canon C-Log2, C-Log3
Panasonic V-Log
Fujifilm F-Log2
DJI D-Log, D-Log M
iPhone Apple Log
GoPro Protune
All guides
How fast is Basecut? Measured speed in 4.1.1
Before and after timings for the color step, Color tab scopes, 4K editor export and HEVC stills on a Mac, with how they were measured and what did not get faster.
Rough view: shaky, soft and dark clips in seconds
Basecut measures shake, focus, exposure and repeated takes before the AI starts, so you see a rough view of the shoot while the AI works.
How to cull wedding footage with AI, step by step
Seven steps from card dump to a project in your editor, what AI can and cannot judge, and an honest comparison of the options.
Hand a culled wedding project to Premiere or Final Cut
Exactly what Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Resolve receive after a cull: bins, ratings, markers and color, and what you attach by hand.
Wedding multi-cam color matching: Sony, Canon, iPhone
A seven-step order for a Sony, a Canon and an iPhone in one wedding timeline, in any editor: tag, neutralize, convert, match, check skin.
Nikon N-Log to Rec.709: Resolve, Premiere, FCP
Nikon's official N-Log LUT in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, plus the Resolve Color Space Transform. Z6III, Z8, Z9.
Panasonic V-Log to Rec.709 in Premiere Pro, step by step
Check how Premiere read your V-Log clip, fix it if it is wrong, or use Panasonic's V709 LUT. Menu paths and the order that works.
Panasonic V-Log to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro, step by step
The built-in V-Log Camera LUT, the library setting that matters, and Panasonic's V709 LUT as a custom camera LUT.
DJI D-Log M to Rec.709 in Premiere Pro, step by step
Mini 4 Pro, Air 3, Osmo Pocket 3, Osmo Action: DJI's official D-Log M LUT in Premiere Pro without converting twice.
Fujifilm F-Log2 to Rec.709 in Premiere Pro, step by step
Fujifilm's official LUT as an Input LUT with the right Media Color Space, and how F-Log2 differs from F-Log and F-Log2 C.
Canon C-Log3 to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro, step by step
The built-in Canon Log 3 Camera LUT, Canon's CMT 709 LUT as a custom camera LUT, and the color space setting that has to match.
DJI D-Log M to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro, step by step
Final Cut Pro has no D-Log M Camera LUT. DJI's official LUT as a custom camera LUT, and the mix-ups that make drone footage look wrong.
Fujifilm F-Log2 to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro, step by step
The built-in Fujifilm F-Log2 Camera LUT, how F-Log2 differs from F-Log and F-Log2 C, and where Fujifilm's own LUT fits without converting twice.
Nikon N-Log to Rec.709 in Premiere Pro, step by step
Nikon's Technical LUT as an Input LUT in Premiere Pro, which of the five files in Nikon's download to use, and how to avoid converting twice.
Nikon N-Log to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro, step by step
The built-in Nikon N-Log Camera LUT, Nikon's Technical LUT as a custom camera LUT, and the library setting that changes the result.
Free Apple Log LUT (and 8 more log to Rec.709 LUTs)
Free download, no email needed: nine log to Rec.709 LUTs, and an honest answer on when your editor already converts Apple Log and when you want a LUT.
Best AI tools to cull wedding video footage
Basecut culls, ranks and color-preps wedding footage on your computer. Photo cullers skip video, and the search and cloud tools each do one narrower job.
Imagen Video alternative for wedding video
Imagen Video grades footage in the cloud. Basecut culls, ranks and color-preps wedding video on your computer, and your original files stay put.
AfterShoot for video? Basecut culls wedding footage
AfterShoot is a photo tool. How Basecut does that job for wedding video: ranked clips and matched color, on your own computer.
Basecut vs Jumper vs Wedit for wedding video
Basecut culls, ranks and color-preps on your computer. Jumper is a search tool. Wedit uploads your footage and charges per film.
Faster wedding film turnaround without outsourcing
Where the hours go, what editing-for-hire shops charge, what software can take off the prep half, and when outsourcing wins.
How to cull wedding footage without losing your Sunday
The three-pass system, the instant rejects, and where automation actually helps.
How to Cull Footage in DaVinci Resolve
Hotkeys, bins, and flags for manual culling, and the point where it stops scaling.
How to cull footage in Premiere Pro, by hand and with AI
Bins, Hover Scrub, labels, subclips and search bins for a fast manual cull on Windows or Mac, and where AI takes the first pass.
DaVinci Resolve on Windows: a cull and color workflow
Cull and color-prep a shoot on a Windows PC, then open it in Resolve Free or Studio, including the setting people miss and what changed in Free 21.1.
AI rough cut for vlogs: a first cut from your own footage
What an AI rough cut gets right, what it does not, and seven steps from a card dump to a vlog draft you change by chatting.
How to edit a travel vlog faster, from card to first cut
Offload by day, write the trip as an itinerary, pick a length, let AI cut the first draft, then fix the story.
Cull video footage offline, without uploading it to the cloud
AI culling that runs on your own computer: the hardware it needs, the one-time setup that needs internet, and what never leaves the machine.
How to find shaky, blurry and dark clips automatically
Flag the shaky, soft, dark and repeated clips in a card dump in seconds, then make the call yourself. What the measurements catch and what they miss.
Find the best clips for Final Cut Pro with AI
AI ranks every clip, then Final Cut Pro opens with Favorites, Rejects, keyword collections and markers on the best moments.
How to sort and rate video clips automatically before you edit
Every clip rated hero to junk with stars, tagged by kind of shot, and filed into bins in Resolve, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro before the first cut.
How to find the best moments in event footage
Rank every clip, search what speakers said, and jump to the moment, across hours of conference, corporate or party footage.
How to organize hours of video footage without watching it all
A folder plan, one automatic rating and tagging pass, and search by what happened, so hours of footage become a library you can find things in.
AI video editing for wedding videographers: what to hand over, what to keep
What AI does well in a wedding edit (culling, sorting, finding the vows and toasts, color prep) and what still needs you.
How to find the vows, speeches and toasts in hours of wedding footage
Search the whole wedding by what was said, jump straight to the vows or a toast, and send the moments to your editor as markers.
How to find duplicate takes in your footage and pick the best one
Repeat takes of the same shot grouped automatically, compared side by side with one key, best one kept, nothing deleted.
How to choose clips for a wedding highlight film
A shot list first, a selects pass that starts from the strongest moments, and a short pile in your editor before you pick the music.
How to find b-roll in your footage without scrubbing every clip
Every clip tagged by kind of shot and how it was filmed, searchable by what is in it, and binned in your editor.
Batch convert S-Log3 to Rec.709 for hundreds of clips
Convert a whole shoot of S-Log3 in one pass, with white balance and exposure fixed per clip and cameras matched, and why one LUT on every clip is not enough.
S-Log3 color correction: from flat log to Rec.709
Why S-Log3 looks flat, the correction order that works, and the mistakes that ruin grades.
Apple Log to Rec.709: iPhone color correction
The BT.2020 gamut step most tutorials skip, and how iPhone footage intercuts with real cameras.
Why your video looks washed out on iPhone
The QuickTime gamma tag mismatch that flattens your grade on Apple devices, and how to diagnose and fix it.
How to match colors across cameras in DaVinci Resolve
Color management first, hero shot, shot match, then scopes, and where matching multi-cam footage by hand stops scaling.
Panasonic V-Log color correction
V-Log and V-Log L to Rec.709, including the V-Gamut step most conversions skip.
DJI D-Log color correction
D-Log and D-Log M to Rec.709, including the files DJI mislabels as standard color.
Canon C-Log color correction
C-Log3 and Cinema Gamut to Rec.709 without crushed shadows or plastic skin.
GoPro Protune color correction
Protune Flat is not log: restore contrast and saturation without the LUT oversaturation trap.
Fujifilm F-Log2 color correction
F-Log2 and F-Gamut to Rec.709, including why F-Log LUTs are the wrong transform.
S-Log3 to Rec.709 in Premiere Pro, step by step
Auto Detect Log, the Input LUT dropdown, and the WB Selector order that keeps Sony skin tones clean.
S-Log3 to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro, step by step
Camera LUT, Wide Gamut HDR library settings, and Color Conform, done in the order that protects skin.
Apple Log LUT for Premiere Pro: do you need one?
Usually no LUT needed: Auto Detect Log handles Apple Log. The BT.2020 gamut check and the WB order that keeps iPhone skin honest.
Apple Log LUT for Final Cut Pro: do you need one?
No LUT needed: Final Cut has an Apple Log Camera LUT built in. The library setting and the order of the three checks.
Canon C-Log3 to Rec.709 in Premiere Pro
Auto Detect Log versus a manual Input LUT, and the WB order that keeps Canon skin from going waxy.
DJI D-Log to Rec.709 in Final Cut Pro
Camera LUT, the metadata trap DJI leaves in some files, and Color Conform, done in the right order.
Colourlab Ai alternative for wedding video
Basecut culls, ranks and color-preps a whole shoot on your computer. Colourlab Ai's pricing page lists no culling, and it costs more on annual and lifetime plans.