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keep the lumetri color panel on v27

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September 9, 2026
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i need the old trusty lumetri color panel on the new v27 premiere pro. i used it for 10 years and i cant cope with the new awfull color mode! i need to work fast to keep with the deadlines and the color mode is a joke!

DAVIDE PEPE

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I’ve tested the new color mode and I’ve found it really useless, it’s unresponsive and counterintuitive. The new interface is jumpy I need sliders to work smooth. Please leave lumetri fx forever even the lumetri color panel I feel should stay there and not just for v27. You cannot make these decisions without first carrying out a survey. After you decided to close the real beta testing program things are working worst and worst. I also feel all the AI improvements you are doing are too much. I hope you will ever add a way to do things manually. A lot of clients are asking me to not use AI at all. So please take this seriously in account. Last but not least firefly sucks so much that I would keep it off the game completely. I’ve never been able to get anything that was useful to me.

R Neil Haugen

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If it’s not responding, please post on the Beta forum seciton on this your hardware and media so that data gets entered. It is still beta, and many changes are coming before it goes full release.

If the interface is “jumpy” as some in the private beta reported, you would need to set your mouse/cursor control unit to smaller or less fast movements, which took care of that for I think about everyone in the private beta.

As to “counter-intuitive” … yes, much is. As this is an entirely different method for approaching video post color than anything else out there.

Guaranteed: it you try to make this do like other color systems, you will be frustrated and slow.

Also gauranteed: if you learn to work as this works, you will find it far more powerful than you assumed going in and in most things, quite fast. And effective.

While I do know there are some b-cast shows where this will get used … this is not designed primarily for broadcast/streaming and theatrical workflows. Which at this time are what, maybe 15% of professionally produced video content?

For the 85% of non-b-cast/streaming, this will be a very useful tool to remove the need to spend that half day to conform outta Premiere and another half to conform into Resolve or Baselight.

Think back … at first, you had to learn how color was done in pro video post, as it wasn’t like stills or anything else. But you did. However, most color correction apps from Resolve to Baselight to SpeedGrade to whatever used basically the same tools and process.

This is different from everything else. Look how most of the ‘tools’ do at least two things simultaneously. Vertical cursor movement does one thing, horizontal movement another.

Think about that … it’s almost like working on a control surface, for which one huge advantage is doing multiple things at the same time to see how they interact.

And this is designed from the ground up to be a group process, applying corrections to multiple levels of groups. That’s why it’s not sequence based. Once you get how to work with groups, this is blazing fast.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

R Neil Haugen

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I understand all initial frustrations with this!

I’ve worked for/with/taught pro colorists for over a decade now. Run at my desk with a full Tangent Elements panel, both in Premiere and Resolve. I railed at Adobe’s management years ago when they killed SpeedGrade and really ticked of the then-head of Premiere. While I pushed Lumetri past what most felt it could do … made it somewhat of a pride point, actually … I never liked Lumetri. I could use it hard and fast but … it wasn’t near what I could do in SpeedGrade. (Still have SpeedGrade loaded on an older machine and do use it for specific things a couple times a year.)

I also work with the Tangent people on their panels at times. And as someone noted for color working, and for Premiere training and advice, I was one of the fist invited into the Color Mode private beta well over a year ago.

The creator of that completely new way of approaching color had a good laugh on seeing me walk up to the Adobe booth at NAB … “Do you remember your first reaction to Color Mode?”

Oh yeah … it was a zoom call, and my reaction was pretty much along the lines of what in Hades was this hot mess of … smelly doo supposed to do.

But over time they 1) added a ton of new tools processes and capabilities and 2) I finally understood how to approach it … and what do I think now?

The new color mode is freaking brilliant in concept and design and blasting fast at doing amazing stuff past what I can do in either Lumetri or Resolve.

And … that’s before they add in new and improved LUT usage stuff and control surface links so I can use my Elements panel.

BUT … you do have to learn a new way of doing color … the order you work in and how you approach it both are quite different.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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DavidVClarke

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I am not saying it is better or worse but just keep the old one “as is” for a few versions while people learn it. I am hoping it is better but in the limited time I have had to try it, I have been struggling. This is my issue - I need to put aside time to learn it - but time is the most limited resource most people have.
I was really attached to the old 3 way colour corrector and the Matrox tools I used to use with CS6. So I am not going to just give up on the new stuff. I just need time to learn it and in the meantime be able to get stuff done with what I know. 😁

Ann Bens

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Matrox tools

I remember those……….

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DavidVClarke

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I have not yet tried this in the beta. Does it give you all the functionality as before? Can you do things like colour matching? I am not against the new colour workflow - I have tried it and not got too far but obviously need time to get to know it. It might be better, might not - for example I could not see any automatic colour matching for example. But as it takes time to learn you need to keep the existing one going for quite a bit of time so people have time to learn it.

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DavidVClarke

Participating Frequently

I did check check and the compare mode has gone as has the colour matching. I also cannot see a way to colour match two shots automatically in the new colour page.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

It’s not done yet, it’s public beta, right? auto color and auto match are coming, in fact in the next build to be released on the public beta is what I think happens.

There are several major things yet to come … LUT application in mulitple locations, saving/sharing “Libraries” of grades and settings, and of course what I’m drooling for, full control surface mappings for Tangent kit. My Elements panel wants to play with the new tools.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Ann Bens

Community Expert

If you add the lumetri effect and open the Properties Panel > effects you get your panel back

reaperxtkAuthor

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why on earth i need to do that? and i need to do that for every single cut i had made on the timeline! it will slow down my editing speed by 5 times! just keep the old panel as well. it not so difficult!

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