Neil, Respectfully, I still find it to be lazy and unprofessional. I promise you fixing this issue would take minimal effort. If they want to offer color grading capabilities, including LUTs, then they should either do it right or not at all. I agree that Lumetri is not as professional as something like Resolve but that is hardly an excuse. They brag and brag about how amazing their color capabilities are so they need to back that up with better performing software, especially something this basic. If roundtripping to Resolve was easier/faster I would do it but for a studio like ours which is cranking out 10 minute films, 7 days a week, Lumetri *should* be a good enough option. There is value in grading directly in Premiere. The reality is that we might be getting rid of Adobe and switching to Resolve now that they are greatly improving their editing capabilities. Since we switched to Premiere about 4 years ago we have had the same basic problems over and over. The software is like 90% there but it's that 10% that is killing us, and by "us" I mean most of their professional customers. Users repeatedly report the same exact bugs and issues but it is rare they are fixed or even addressed by Adobe. I really don't think Adobe cares enough about their paying customers. Maybe their company is just too big now. On these very forums we were told by an Adobe rep that we, the customers, "are all beta testers". This statement was made after one of their many crippling software "upgrades". We are not beta testers. We can not afford to lose "testing" buggy software. Their answer is always "Don't upgrade in the middle of projects". My entire life is in the middle of a project, there is no down time. If Adobe could make Lumetri more powerful and less buggy it would be a HUGE game changer. I hope they do it. I 100% believe the way they are handling LUTs is lazy. Once again the customers are left holding the bag, trying to find a workaround.
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