Color Mode feedback survey - We want to hear from you

This is so true. As a professional editor I’d love to see Lumetri improved (being able to change grades on multiple clips simultaneously, AI to match and create looks, intelligent tracking, improved secondary colour correction to easily identifiable areas, grouping clips to make changes in one go (‘let’s make all the car shots a bit more contrasts and less blue.. etc.).. this feels like dilution not evolution. We need a timeline as often have multiple clips (my current edit has 14 video layers full of different levels of Vfx all with grades on, we don’t just grade a finished film we do it as we go along, and several clips combined in one shot will all have different grades.

At the very least leave (and ideally improve) Lumetri panels that we use with our dedicated hardware. Come on Adobe, you can drop the ‘pro’ from the name but we are still professionals and need a robust system inspired by our needs.

Unfortunately, rather than accelerating everyday edits or introducing the intelligent tools editors actually want, the update trades intuitive efficiency for an over-complicated layout and frustrating physical ergonomics. The UI relies heavily on cramped, small circular controls. Trying to make fine adjustments with a standard mouse requires sweeping gestures that stretch your wrist across the entire mouse pad, only to hit the edge, reset, and start over. It forces repetitive, unnatural hand movements that strain your wrist for very little payoff. The vertical and horizontal mouse-tracking logic feels completely unintuitive. Instead of speeding up grading, it introduces an unnecessary learning curve that fights against how editors naturally map mouse movement to visual adjustments. 

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this update is the stark gap between expectation and reality. Editors are looking to software companies to solve tedious, repetitive bottlenecks through smart automation. Expectations were high for robust, native AI-driven color matching, shadow matching, and highlight matching that could harmonize mismatched camera angles or shots with a single click. Instead, this beta delivers a dense, clunky manual interface that fails to leverage modern AI capabilities, leaving editors to do all the heavy lifting manually through a worse UI. Willingness to adapt to a new workflow only makes sense if the new tool actually saves time. In its current beta state, this color overhaul adds friction rather than removing it. Last but not least, I teach video production at the University of Florida and I for the life of me cannot imagine having to teach this.  Tim Sorel- tsorel@ufl.edu