There are tons of videos explaining how to grade iPhone HDR footage to SDR/Rec.709, and they’re all 100% wrong – because none of them address the real problem: IT’S APPLE HDR! The TL;DR is this: iPhone HDR videos are recorded in full-range (0-255), but DaVinci Resolve assumes it’s in video/legal range (16-235) by default.

Here’s exactly how to use it in DaVinci Resolve:

1. Drop the LUT into your LUT folder.
2. Set Project Settings → Color Management → Color Science to DaVinci YRGB and Timeline Color Space to Rec.709-A.
3. Import your iPhone HDR clip and put it on the timeline.
4. Apply the LUT (either via right-click → LUT, or drop it on a node in the Color page).

That’s it. Suddenly you have all the latitude of the original HDR file with zero hassle.

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