From the course: DaVinci Resolve: How to Fix Common Image Problems

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Make sure Resolve doesn't delete your LUTs when reinstalling

Make sure Resolve doesn't delete your LUTs when reinstalling - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve: How to Fix Common Image Problems

Make sure Resolve doesn't delete your LUTs when reinstalling

- Lookup tables. It's a very, very common topic for anyone who color corrects in DaVinci Resolve, and a common problem is you reinstall the software and all of a sudden you lose all of your lookup tables because DaVinci Resolve saves its lookup tables kind of within the folder structure that gets replaced when you reinstall the software from scratch. Is there a way around that? And the answer is in the most recent versions of Resolve, yes, they've allowed us to create kind of custom LUT folder locations, but finding where you set that in the software is a little bit tricky. Let's start by taking a look at where Resolve sets its default LUT location. So if I Shift + 9 and go into color management. Right here, open LUT folder. This is where DaVinci Resolve, by default, stores all the LUTs that ship with the software. And in fact, if we go into the color page and go into the LUTs folder here, all of these LUTs, except…

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