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Inspiring
October 18, 2023
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Color Checker chart for Premiere Pro. Auto recognizes colors on board and tracks for white balance

  • October 18, 2023
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Color Checker chart in Lumitri. Auto tracks the colors on the board in the shot so I can make sure I have perfect white balance in one button click. 

 

Davinci has this. I don't think it has auto-tracking for the color boxes, but that would be SUPER helpful. 

 

Having to download a third-party plugin is annoying. Especially when Davinci has this feature "Minus the tracking" built in. 

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
October 18, 2023

Yup to all ... 😉

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Inspiring
October 18, 2023

I Agree! Appreciate the comment. I just found this community today after using Adobe products for like 15 years lol! So I'm posting all the ideas that I've been thinking Adobe will be adding to the programs but never seem to do. 

 

It would be nice to have a more robust Coloring feature set in Premiere. I'm always switching between 5 or 6 programs and it would be so nice to not have to switch to Resolve for the coloring process. 

 

If anyone has the resources and community to get a perfect feature made; it's Adobe! love the company and the products, but there have been some things that should have been in the programs right from the start. The chip chart feature should have been in the program from day one since it's a standard video production process. 

 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
October 18, 2023

I work for/with/teach pro colorists. Paid to do so. And they're mostly based in Resolve, so I work in Resolve daily myself. I do have experience there.

 

Including working with color charts, or "chip charts" as they're often called.

 

Resolve's process sorta kinda works ... mostly. This is a rather noted issue amongst Resolve users, that it works except for when it doesn't.

 

I would love for an auto-recognition process in Premiere for the several main chip charts. I've got the Xrite Passport one, and a couple of the spendier ones by DSC Labs. And use them a LOT.

 

As ... Premiere's color capabilites or so general, it's difficult to shotmatch. I've found that by taking chip charts, and doing both hue v hue and hue v sat "corrections, applying that to all the shots from specific cameras as a Source effect ... that 80%+ of the shotmatching is already done.

 

But ... you need to do it at about half way to the full-sat box on the Vectorscope, no farther.

 

So ... yea, I'd love this in Premiere, but I want to set the sat levels.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...