Beyond excessive decision, video tendencies are shifting towards temper and emotional storytelling. Samsung Electronics debuted the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec on Galaxy S26 Ultra, laying the groundwork for cellular video manufacturing whereas sustaining picture high quality and minimizing loss throughout enhancing.
In response, Samsung requested a easy query — can anybody create Hollywood-style movies on a Galaxy cell phone? The reply is the Cinematic Look-Up Table (Cine LUT) function on the Galaxy S26 collection. While the APV codec offers the muse for cinema-quality video, Cine LUT brings a definite shade type to the footage.
Cine LUT makes professional-level shade grading — as soon as reserved for specialists — accessible to anybody. Samsung collaborated with inner groups and exterior specialists to deliver the function to life. The Mobile eXperience (MX) Business led ultimate digicam implementation, Samsung Research developed core video processing applied sciences and U5K Imageworks — a colorist studio behind globally acknowledged productions — helped form its visible aesthetic.
Following the introduction of the APV codec, which delivers a visually lossless degree of picture high quality, Samsung Newsroom spoke with three key builders behind Cine LUT — Sugon Baek of the Camera Image Quality R&D Group on the MX Business, Bomi Kim of the Reality Media Lab at Samsung Research and Taesik Eom, CEO of U5K Imageworks — to listen to the story of its creation.
Q. What is a LUT? What units Cine LUT on the Galaxy S26 collection aside?
Baek: A LUT is actually a “map” that transforms one set of colours right into a desired look. Unlike typical filters that merely overlay shade, Cine LUT reinterprets Samsung Log1 footage to ship the depth and look {of professional} filmmaking.
Kim: It’s optimized for Log video. By leveraging its huge gradation,2 the function exactly reconstructs shade and brightness to protect refined tonal particulars typically misplaced with typical filters for richer, extra pure depth.
Q. What led to the event of Cine LUT?
Kim: While Galaxy units supported Log video for high-quality seize, shade grading remained difficult for customers. We aimed to make professional-looking outcomes accessible with out superior enhancing abilities.
Baek: We needed to create an expertise that lets customers preview cinematic footage for the time being of seize, then apply a LUT and share the video with a single faucet within the Gallery.
Q. How did the collaboration with U5K Imageworks start? How was Cine LUT developed?
Eom: Our collaboration started two years in the past with Rec. 709 LUT advisory work for Samsung Log video, the place we refined robust colours into extra pure tones — an expertise that led to Cine LUT. For this challenge, we developed a number of variations throughout three depth ranges — impartial, delicate and powerful — and examined them in various scenes, in the end deciding on 4 core kinds.
Kim: Building on U5K’s shade path, we validated the ideas in opposition to quantitative standards to make sure constant efficiency in several environments, refining them by means of testing till artistic intent and technical high quality aligned.
Q. What challenges did you face throughout growth?
Kim: We wanted a big dataset to validate efficiency throughout various situations. Testing in real-world environments — from pure and indoor lighting to day and night time — and shut collaboration have been key to capturing the nuances of shade.
Baek: Maintaining constant, undistorted shade in several…
