Feature Request: Rotate Lumetri Histogram

Welcome to the land of video!

Coming out of a long career in pro stills, from having a full wetlab for the studio to being early adopters of digital imaging ... I first used Lightroom in the original public beta, pre-Lr 1.0. I think our first Lr work was in beta 0.8.

Well ... that was long after our first use of Photoshop was Cs ... 4.5, I think? LONG time ago! Several years before Lightroom was even talked about.

Some advice I had to learn in getting into video production, a bit over a decade ago: video post processing is not stills work. Not even close.

There is a separate and equal set of patterns and processes, with reasons they are different from the shoot through the final deliverables. While there are similarities, they are never the same.

Such as ... if you don't have a well-tested plan for high-quality audio, don't even bother getting the camera outta the case. No good audio, you don't got Jack. Yea, that was a painful lesson ...

Video cameras mostly show histograms as vertical displays. Most field recorders show histograms as vertical. Most scopes apps typically show histograms as verticals. And yes, there are apps like Omniscope that only show a ton of different scopes from a video signal. Notice a pattern in video gear?

And having become somewhat of a 'noted expert' in Premiere's color capabilities, I now work for/with/teach pro colorists ... paid work, yea.

There's a reason that video color controls do not look like Lightroom or photoshop. And even when it looks like they're a similar image tool, the actual action is massively different, and has to be.

Photoshop is one image at a time. Lightroom can do batch processing. Video ... has to grab bits from an array of clips around the entire computer, do effects processing, audio work, AND ... do this at 23.976 or more frames per second ... for up to an hour or more in one processing "batch".

So the coding, and processing, for stills tonal and color corrections simply aren't up to handling that load in real time. But the changes are fascinating.