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LRTEMPLATE → CUBE
A preset Lightroom will no longer open, baked straight into a 3D LUT that Resolve, Premiere and Final Cut will. One step, not two.
Drop an .lrtemplate preset here
- .lrtemplate
Read and baked on your own device — nothing is uploaded. A whole pack at once? Use the batch converter.
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Why this file stopped working
Lightroom Classic 7.3, in April 2018, replaced .lrtemplate with .xmp and removed the ability to import the old format. Presets already installed were migrated; anything bought, downloaded or backed up afterwards simply cannot be brought in. Adobe published no converter, and the files are not broken — current Lightroom just refuses to read them.
The content is a Lua table in plain text, using the same Camera Raw setting names that an .xmp sidecar uses. Exposure2012 means the same thing in both. That is why the reading half of this conversion loses nothing.
What survives the bake, and what cannot
| Bakes exactly | Cannot be carried |
|---|---|
| Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks · tone curves, including per-channel · the eight-band HSL mixer · split toning and colour grading · vibrance, saturation, white balance | Masks and local adjustments · clarity, texture and dehaze as Lightroom computes them · sharpening and noise reduction · vignettes and grain |
The right-hand column is not a shortcoming of this converter — it is what a 3D LUT is. A LUT answers one question: given this colour, what colour comes out. Anything that depends on where a pixel sits in the frame, or on the pixels around it, has no way to be expressed in that answer.
The other routes out of an .lrtemplate
- Convert it to .xmp instead — if what you want is the preset back inside Lightroom rather than a LUT. That conversion is exact, with nothing estimated and nothing dropped.
- Do the whole pack at once — drop the .zip the presets arrived in and get an archive of LUTs back.
- Start from a current Lightroom preset — the same bake, for .xmp sidecars that Lightroom still writes today.
- Check the LUT you just made — plot its tone response and hue shifts before shipping it to anyone.
Frequently asked questions
Why would I convert an .lrtemplate straight to a LUT?
Because the alternative was two passes. An .lrtemplate had to become an .xmp on one page, then a .cube on another, with a download and a re-upload in between — for a conversion that is a single step internally. Both formats describe the same develop settings, so the preset is read once and baked once.
What is an .lrtemplate file, and why will Lightroom not open mine?
It is the preset format Lightroom used before 2018. Lightroom Classic stopped importing them in the 7.3 release and offers no way back, so a pack bought before then is unusable in Adobe's current software. The file itself is plain text — a Lua table — and still holds every setting it always did.
Is anything lost turning a preset into a LUT?
Masks and local adjustments are, necessarily. A 3D LUT is a mapping from colour to colour with no spatial component, so it cannot express 'brighten this corner'. The global grade — exposure, contrast, curves, HSL, split toning, colour grading — bakes exactly. If the preset contains masks the tool says so before you download.
Which grid size should I pick?
33³ unless you have a reason. It is what every editor expects and what most export dialogs offer first. Choose 17³ for hardware that caps there — LUT boxes, on-camera monitors — and 65³ only for looks with hard hue keys or very steep contrast, where the space between 33 points is enough to lose the shape.
Can I do a whole pack at once?
Yes — the batch converter takes .lrtemplate files by the folder, or the .zip the pack arrived in, and returns a single archive of LUTs.
Is my preset uploaded?
No. The file is read with the browser's File API and baked with WebGL on your own device. Nothing is transmitted, and there is no account.
Is this converter free?
Yes — no account, no watermark, no export cap. It runs in your browser, so there is no server behind it to pay for.
A LUT tells you nothing about how it was built.
That is the trade you accept when you bake one: thirty-five thousand answers and no record of the question. The Studio works the other way round — give it a photograph and its recipe and it shows the edit as a sequence of decisions, each one rendered on its own.