Thanks for the explanation… I do see that you blend in lots of the modules old and new. But as you say its the final product that matters… I think Luts can be powerful in terms of applying a look but many of them are expecting colorspaces that the LUTs are not made for so the final look doesn’t match the intention of the lut …of course if they provide the look you want that really doesn’t matter too much I guess…there was a thread some time ago about how to modify things to use log luts with these constraints… I am not sure how hard it would be to incorporate support for cinematic luts in the module. I suspect if it was easy someone might have done it or there may be other technical reasons…
Lots of discussion here some of which might interest you as you pursue your use of luts…