New colour mode in beta is catastrophy. Bring sliders back and don't hide sequence in colour mode.

I’m not talking about the system logic — that part is understandable. I’m talking about the technical implementation. When working with a mouse, there’s no sense of smoothness at all. What kind of precision can we even talk about here? The beta color behaves the same way on all of our studio computers. There are some sliders under the Properties panel, but I really hope sliders and numeric values will also be added to the main view, because right now there’s absolutely no clarity about what’s going on. And honestly, this kind of mouse dragging really wrecks your hands. You can adjust mouse sensitivity in the panel, but it doesn’t make it any more comfortable. Or is there some kind of bug in my download? How does it feel to you?example

​@Urmaseero Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback, the team is taking it all in. A couple thoughts:

• You can single-click the controls and then move your mouse to adjust them, without needing to hold down the button. For me that helps be more precise. Also, check out the wrench on the right side of the panel for “Color Control Options”. There you can really dial in sensitivity of the controls. They all have tool tips if you hover on them.
• It’s very intentional that the Timeline disappears in Color Mode – the idea is that you are focused on grading, not on editing. You want to be sure you don’t accidentally trim or move anything in the timeline. If what you want is a quick color adjustment while still editing, you can find them in the Color section of the Properties panel. These are slider versions of the basic color controls for when you don’t need to go into Color Mode, and want to keep working in the timeline.

The new color mode is a completely different method of working. This is the brain-child of Alexis V H, noted colorist/author/film-maker, and long head of the full manual writing for each new version of Resolve. It isn’t an “Adobe committee” ... this is Alexis on steroids.

It’s way, way different ... but designed from the brain of a genius in color correction thought patterns. It takes getting used to, and ... I think it’s maybe over half way ‘there’ but a lot more is gonna come into it over the next several months.

For context, I’ve been doing color over a decade, from SpeedGrade and Resolve to Lumetri. On a full Tangent Elements panel. I work for/with and teach pro colorists. I was a beta tester for Tangent’s Warp process among many other things I can’t talk about. And was naturally in the private beta for the new Color mode.

When Color Mode first came up to us testers, it was ... not impressive. But then, we only had the first set of tools, contrast/exposure/balance/white/saturation. And it was freaking ... odd. The staffers and I had some good laughs at NAB as my initial comments were politely ... highly ... critical.

But over time we got more tools and capabilities. By the time they announced this prior to NAB, it’s changed dramatically. It’s got amazing capabilities, some that actually astound me. Such as the ability to pack more saturation into the upper mids of a Rec.709 workflow ... without exceeding any specs limit! ... than I can do with Lumetri or Resolve.

If you are having trouble with being ‘too senstive’, change your mouse settings. Period.

This is so far designed only to work with a mouse, and with the right settings, it works very well. Yet ... I am frustrated with that limitation. As I can’t use my big panel Elements panel, and the Adobe staffers certainly know  I can’t use it.

But the full controls have been released for any panel makers, and Tangent is now trying to sort out how to link and map their panels. I’ll be beta testing that for them for sure.

Rather than thinking sequential down a sequence, learn to use the Grid mode. It’s a faster method for grading a long complex project.

Really, grading a long involved sequence is not best done clip by clip. It’s so much faster to do all possible bulk changes to groups of clips, and only do clip changes where necessary after any group changes have been done. In Resolve of course you make “stills” and then apply Stills to selected groups of clips. Stills being actually copies of the nodes involved.

In Color Mode you work a ‘representative’ clip, then use the Grid to make a group to apply the grade to. Then simply drag/drop the “operation” of the corrections onto either one of the selected clips in the Grid or to the group’s section of the adjustment tools area. This automatically applies that operation to all the clips, and if the clip you worked on is part of that group, it recognizes that and does not add that new operation over top.

Unlike Lumetri ... where when you grade then copy, you need to delete the original working grade from that clip or you have two instances of the same grade on the clip.

With the changes made in the last month, vastly expanding groups, Styles, and such, it’s become a pretty potent tool if you know how to use THIS tool. And don’t try to work in your previous manner.

With the Contrast control having both contrast and pivot in one tool, contrast being vertical, pivot point being set by horizontal movement, that’s ... fast. Two tools worked by one control, brilliant.

The Exposure tool is actually the tool for setting both black and white points. Black is set by horizontal movement, white by vertical. Again, setting both simutaneously with one tool, freaking brilliant.

The way you can work with customized zones for both tonal and hue/saturation things is another stunner. And ... this does have Curves, as when you work some of the hue/sat tools you see a dialog scope that is a curves panel ... and that  is amazing ... as you click and then the point is active, up/down changes that part of the curve, left/right changes the slopes of the curve on either side of your point. Like getting the bezier “handles” in Ae or Resolve, but there, you click to set a point, click-drag to create the handle, then click again on the point on the end to change the slope.

Here, one click is all. Up/down moves the point, left-right changes the approaching slope. Slick and fast.

The sliders are in the properties panel in the color mode. You have to enable it under “Window” same with your waveform and scopes.