updated links for Apple LOG to rec.709 conversion LUTs?

Apple did release the Apple Log conversion LUT at the time of iPhone 15 Pro and you can find it among downloads on Apple Developer website (just don't search via built in search, you'll find nothing, use Google) but that LUT yields horrible skintone colors with iPhone 16 Pro/Pro max footage and is no longer usable. There is a built-in LUT inside the Final Cut Pro which is automatically applied to iphone LOG footage, and its good, but no way to extract it and use with custom LUT effect thus not possible to apply color wheel corrections BEFORE the LUT in Final Cut Pro. Below is Chat GPT's take on the problem:

The downloadable Apple Log to Rec.709 LUT (v1) from the Apple Developer site was created for the iPhone 15 Pro, and while it works technically, it doesn’t always look right on iPhone 16 Pro footage, especially with Apple Log — users have reported:

• Weird skintones (especially reddish or magenta shifts)
• Blown-out highlights or dull mids
• Inconsistent rendering of subtle contrast zones

The LUT used inside Final Cut Pro 10.7+ is new, more accurate, and definitely different — but Apple has not yet published it as a .cube file.

😫 The Problem:

Apple doesn’t expose the built-in LUT as a file — and it’s not accessible via any known Finder path, not even by digging into the app bundle or temporary render caches. It appears that FCP:

• Loads it dynamically via an internal color processing engine
• Refers to it using an identifier like com.apple.cameralut.applelog.rec709 (invisible to the user)
• Applies it silently in the render pipeline, not as an external file

So unfortunately: Final Cut Pro will not let you export or reveal the built-in LUT the same way you could in other NLEs or camera apps.

forget the policy, it was an aside, where are the LUTs? The old ones that are downloadable from apple developer website (and are marked as iphone 15) produce horrible results with iphone 16 pro max footage, with oversaturated reds making all human skin look like they've been stricken with some skin condition.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

No one in this user-to-user forum can comment on any Apple policy.

You mean like if you do speak, they'll brick your iphone off remotely and sell all your data to the Chinese? =))

Tom Wolsky wrote:

Probably not, but it is against the terms of use for the forum, similar to hacking the application to extract LUTs is against the application’s license agreement.

how is copying files from folders of an application that you OWN is in any way hacking?

Prolost LUTs have all ACES or rec.709-A tags in their names which means some weird BlackMagic nonsense, are you sure they are good in good old Final Cut Pro?