Cali Sunset / Video LUTs
Cali Sunset / Video LUTs
Introducing the Cali Sunset Video LUT Collection.
Inspired by the iconic sunsets, coastal landscapes, and vibrant creative culture of Southern California, Cali Sunset was designed to bring warmth, energy, and cinematic glow to your footage.
Built around rich golden light, vibrant yellows, warm skin tones, and colorful sunset hues, these LUTs help transform ordinary footage into bright, polished visual stories. Whether you're filming travel content, beach adventures, lifestyle videos, creator content, fashion campaigns, or cinematic social media projects, Cali Sunset delivers a bold and unmistakably California-inspired look.
From palm-lined streets and coastal highways to golden-hour portraits and city lights at dusk, this collection captures the energy and optimism of life under the California sun.
The result is footage that feels warm, vibrant, youthful, and full of life.
These trendy video LUTs edit your photos with bright, colorful yellows and other sun-soaked hues for an epic sunset look.
What It Does Best
We don't just create LUTs.
We create visual identity systems.
Every collection is carefully crafted to help creators establish a recognizable visual style that remains consistent across projects, platforms, and audiences.
Cali Sunset was designed around golden-hour storytelling. It enhances warm sunlight, enriches yellows and oranges, brightens highlights, and creates the kind of cinematic atmosphere often found in travel films, creator content, lifestyle campaigns, and modern social media productions.
Years of testing across travel projects, outdoor adventures, lifestyle films, commercial productions, and content creator workflows have helped refine this collection into a versatile grading system that performs beautifully across a wide range of lighting environments.
The result is footage that feels bright, energetic, polished, and instantly recognizable.
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How It Works
Getting started with Cali Sunset is simple.
After downloading the collection, import your LUTs into your preferred editing software. These LUTs are compatible with most major video editing platforms including Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Lumafusion, CapCut, and many other professional editing applications.
Once installed, simply apply your chosen LUT to a clip or adjustment layer and fine-tune exposure, white balance, and intensity to match your footage.
If you're new to color grading, we've included installation guides and workflow documentation to help you get started quickly.
Within minutes, you'll be able to create a cohesive cinematic look across your entire project while dramatically reducing the time spent manually grading individual clips.
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What's Included
Warm. Vibrant. Golden.
Cali Sunset was created for filmmakers and creators who love colorful sunsets, beach culture, road trips, travel adventures, and cinematic lifestyle storytelling.
Whether you're filming coastal adventures, creator content, travel documentaries, fashion campaigns, or everyday moments during golden hour, this collection provides a polished and professional foundation for your footage.
This set includes:
• Premium Video LUTs compatible with most major editing applications (.cube files)
• Multiple cinematic variations optimized for different cameras, lighting conditions, and creative styles
• Bonus Black & White Cinematic LUTs designed to complement the collection's warm and vibrant aesthetic
• Professional workflow tools and installation guides to streamline your editing process
Each LUT has been carefully tested across a wide variety of cameras, locations, and shooting environments to ensure maximum flexibility and consistent results.
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Who Is It For?
Are you a filmmaker, content creator, travel videographer, YouTuber, brand storyteller, or creative professional looking to create brighter, more engaging footage?
Do you create travel films, lifestyle content, beach adventures, road trip videos, creator content, fashion campaigns, or cinematic social media projects?
If so, Cali Sunset was designed for you.
These LUTs provide a professional cinematic foundation while helping you create vibrant, memorable footage that stands out in a crowded digital world.
Whether you're creating content for clients, documenting your travels, building a personal brand, or producing content for social platforms, Cali Sunset helps you establish a warm and recognizable visual style with less time spent in post-production.
Still unsure if this collection is the right fit for your work? We're always happy to answer questions and help guide you toward the best grading system for your creative vision.
In Conclusion
There is something timeless about a California sunset.
The golden light.
The warm ocean air.
The endless summer feeling that seems to stretch long after the sun disappears below the horizon.
Cali Sunset was created to capture that feeling.
Built around vibrant yellows, rich sunset tones, warm skin colors, and cinematic contrast, this collection transforms everyday footage into bright and visually engaging stories filled with warmth and energy.
From travel adventures and lifestyle films to creator content and social media storytelling, these LUTs help create footage that feels modern, optimistic, and unmistakably cinematic.
Whether you're filming in Los Angeles, along the coast, or simply chasing golden hour wherever you live, Cali Sunset provides the perfect foundation for creating beautiful, sun-soaked visuals.
Ready to bring the warmth and energy of California's golden hour into your next project? Get them today!
Editing Tools FAQ
Not sure which preset or LUT pack is right for your work? These FAQs cover compatibility, installation, Lightroom presets, video LUTs, editing styles, bundles, and how to choose the tools that best support your visual workflow.
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Our signature presets are only compatible with Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). There is a desktop version of Lightroom starting at $9.99/mo for the “Creative Cloud Photography” plan that will allow you to use these presets. The mobile presets are compatible with the free Adobe Lightroom mobile app. The desktop and mobile versions are a slightly different file type, based on compatibility. Purchasing a bundle allows you to easily install them on both devices.
Our Video LUTs are compatible with Adobe Premier and DaVinci Resolve and come with their own helpful installation guides.
Excellent question! The files in this package include ".xmp" files, which are compatible with all versions of Lightroom and Photoshop.Files from Lightroom version 7.3 and earlier must be used, while newer versions can import both .lrtemplate and .xmp files. The mobile presets are compatible with any version of the Lightroom app.
PLEASE NOTE: Refunds will not be given if you do not have the Lightroom or Photoshop programs to use these presets.
Each package includes an Installation Guide, which will walk you through the installation process on your device(s) and how to start using them.
Our color profiles often enable you to edit with just one click. Depending on the colors, location, lighting scenario, quality of the image, and other factors you may have to slightly tweak the exposure, white balance, or contrast to get it just right but they will always get you in the right direction. If you have problems, be sure to reach out. We love to help and if we have time we might be able to help applying our presets or LUTs.
Unfortunately that’s not possible at this time but we are working on ways to include our color profiles on Instagram and TiKTok in the near future. We also regularly send demo through our email list. Sign up to start getting samples sent to you inbox!
Not at all! Our packages are a great way to simply improve the look of your photos and video - whether they’ve been shot on an entry-level DSLR, or a serious pro-level camera. Although our packages can do some magic, it’s important that you still take fundamentals like lighting and composition into account. As long as you’re working with a decent quality image, you should be good to go.
Presets and cinema LUTs are digital in nature, so all sales are final and purchases are non-refundable. That being said, we always want to hear your comments and see what we can do to improve them.
Nope! As long as you’re using your own &/or attribution-free images, you don’t have to provide credit. These are yours to edit your images as you see fit! We really do love seeing what you create though, so feel free to send them to us via email, DM us on Instagram, or use the hashtag #madeinthefield so we can see them in action.
Field Guides FAQ
Have questions about what’s included, how the guides are delivered, who they’re for, or where to start? These FAQs cover the basics so you can choose the right guide and understand how each resource fits into your creative business workflow.
This ebook is for creators, photographers, freelancers, small business owners, and creative entrepreneurs who want more clarity, structure, and momentum in their work. It’s especially helpful if you’ve been trying to grow your creative business but feel like you’re guessing your way through the next step.
Yes. The ebook is written to be approachable, practical, and easy to follow. You don’t need a business degree, a massive audience, or years of experience to use it. If you’re willing to think honestly about your work and apply what you learn, you’ll be able to get value from it.
No. While some examples may connect naturally to photography, visual work, content creation, and creative services, the principles apply to a much wider range of creators. If you make, sell, teach, write, design, build, photograph, film, consult, or create online in any capacity, this ebook was built with you in mind.
Free advice is everywhere, but it’s usually scattered, reactive, and hard to apply in order. This ebook gives you a focused path through one specific topic so you can stop collecting random tips and start building with more intention. It’s designed to help you slow down, think clearly, and actually use what you learn.
Length may vary by title, but each Field Academy ebook is designed to be substantial enough to give you real clarity without becoming something you never finish. The goal is depth without bloat: practical teaching, useful reflection, and clear next steps.
Yes, where helpful. The ebook is built to move beyond ideas and into application. Depending on the title, you may find reflection questions, practical prompts, strategic exercises, or action steps designed to help you apply the material to your own creative work or business.
No. This is not a hype-driven shortcut or a magic formula. It’s a grounded resource for creators who want to take their work seriously and build something sustainable. The goal is not to make you feel briefly motivated. The goal is to help you see your next step more clearly.
You’ll receive a digital ebook that you can read on your preferred device. Depending on the product setup, the ebook may be delivered as a PDF or another standard digital reading format, As a bomus resource we include the bonus audio book companion.
Yes. In many ways, that’s exactly who this is for. If you feel like you have too many ideas, too many directions, or too much pressure to figure everything out at once, this ebook can help you slow down, organize your thinking, and find a more focused next step.
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