DigModiFicaTion said:
I don't see a perfect replacement or drop in as a reality unless their shot was filmed without any human contact on the camera. The shots will probably have slightly different angles and or zooms.
In this particular case, the deleted scenes each have a few seconds of the exact footage that's in the theatrical cut, but uncropped and ungraded.
The color match is super straightforward. You apply the filter and then match the two frames and it creates a color palette to match.
I tried the Vegas color match plugin tonight, and it seems quite promising. It doesn't require the two shots being compared to have the exact same framing like Dr Dre's Color Matching Tool does, so in some ways it is easier to use. That said, it also doesn't seem quite as accurate, although it would probably be good enough to regrade the deleted scenes in such a manner that they would convincingly fit in with the theatrical footage.
Because every movie is different, you'll probably not be able to apply a common LUT to every project with the same results, though I'd love to be wrong.
I was talking about using LUTs specifically made by me for each project. I meant that if I create the LUTs for a project using my usual method, I can easily add them in where I need them in that project witohut having to stop and use the color matching plugin again each time.
I've never had luck with LUTs. They always create chaotic colors and levels that I end up color correcting and wasting tons of processing power when I could just create a specific color correction in the scene itself or for the movie I'm editing. But that's just been my experience. I'd love to see a video example of how you use LUTs as I'm probably going about it wrong.
You're probably doing it right, but using the wrong LUTs. LUTs tend to be optimized for footage that looks a certain way to begin with, so putting it on footage with a different beginning grade will often yield disappointing results. But a LUT that's made specifically for the footage that you're grading (or similar footage) can work wonders. Most of the LUTs that I use are ones that I created myself with
Dr Dre's Color Matching Tool from the Original Trilogy forum, so they tend to work very well.