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Please bring back the classic Lumetri Color panel

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Please bring back the classic Lumetri Color panel, or at least give users the option to choose between the old and new interfaces.

The new Color Mode might offer some interesting features, but for those of us who have been working with Lumetri Color for years, it makes the color grading process unnecessarily complicated and time-consuming.

The old panel was simple, intuitive, and efficient. Everything was easily accessible, and making quick adjustments was straightforward. With the new interface, even basic color corrections feel less convenient.

I understand that Adobe wants to introduce new tools and improve the software, but why remove something that already worked so well?

Please give us the option to keep using the classic Lumetri Color panel alongside the new Color Mode. Let users decide which workflow works best for them.

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cemataman

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I downgraded to the previous version because of the Lumetri Color feature change. We've been using Premiere this way for years and are used to it. You can introduce the new feature, but leave the old one exactly as it was.

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Byronw

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If you add the Lumetri Effect, then go tot the new Properties Panel, select Effects (fx) you can see the Lumetri Panel as it was and it works exactly the same.

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Joshua230340207vtj

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Yeah it doesn’t work exactly the same though. It’s a way bigger pain in the ass cuz I have to ADD AN EFFECT. Beyond this the controls are slightly different and the biggest issue is that the scopes are gone, as well as match color and comparison view.

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Byronw

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Can you explain more what you mean by “doesn’t work exactly the same” ?
Lumetri was always an effect you added, and you can still add more than one and add it to the clip or the source.
You are right the controls look slightly different but that is because the UI has been modernised, but they function exactly the same way.
The legacy scopes are still accessible, and the new ones are very nice too.
You can still have them open with the Lumetri Effect open in the new Properties panel and grade like you did before. (see screen shots below)
You are correct the auto match and comparison view have been removed, is this something you used a lot in your grading?

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Alek Pieczyński

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Please guys! It’s cool to have an option opf having a ‘pro color mode’ but also give us the option of having ‘lumetri tab open’ - Lumetri Color in the effects panel is not as clear as it was in it’s own tab…

The color mode for me is completely useless and not needed, but I understand that a lot of people will love it. However color in the properties I feel like I am using a cheap phone app for coloring - all of us were used to the Lumetri Tab - just please leave the option to us - the editors - we know what tools we want to use :))

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Alexis Van Hurkman

Community Manager

We appreciate this is a huge change to color we’re making, and our advice remains to complete any work in progress in version 26 using the tools you’re familiar with before getting started with version 27, which we understand will be take a bit of getting used to. (If you have five minutes I’d suggest watching Five Things to Know Before You Start for the fastest onboarding.)

We’ve done our best to create an easy to learn color experience that offers genuinely faster workflows once you get the hang of it, which in all the classes I’ve given is pretty quick for most people; hearing from people in the public beta most folks get the hang of most features in a day or two, and the best advice I can give is to experiment with it when you have a chance.

Another good video to get started is The Fastest Way to Grade With Color Mode. Both of these are part of the Color Mode FAQ Playlist that offers an expanding library of 24 short quick tip videos to help get folks started quickly (I’m adding more as I can to cover all the frequently asked questions we get). When you have more time, a Learn Color Mode video series is also available, as is complete HelpX documentation.

In the meantime, the Lumetri effect remains available in the Effects panel, both to guarantee image fidelity with older projects, and to enable projects in flight to continue to be graded using Lumetri for consistency using the new Properties panel. We don’t encourage using both Lumetri and Color Mode together because limitations in Lumetri impact Color Mode as well.

We also have ongoing plans for the updated color mode controls that appear in the Properties panel for Edit mode over the coming releases. However, we encourage folks to think of the Color mode as another panel and extension of Edit mode’s capabilities that provides a cleaner experience and better monitoring of the image while you work.

I hope we can encourage you to watch a video or two and give it a try.

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Joshua230340207vtj

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So you’re not gonna listen to us?

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Lavish_musician86e0

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Yes, they aren’t going to listen to us. I hate Adobe.

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nickr42802396

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It’s impossinble to click on adjustment layers and clips to individual tweek the colour when you can’t even see the timeline in Colour mode. PLEASE BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL COLOUR PANEL. I legit can’t use the new version if this going to stay. You’re asking editors to completely change how they have colour graded for so many years.

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Alexis Van Hurkman

Community Manager

The Timeline in color mode is represented by the clip grid, which is designed for fast navigation, filter and sort capabilities to be able to isolate clips you want to work on, and multi-clip selection. This video gives a quick overview.

Color mode introduces clip grouping to enable multiple specific clips to be affected by the same collection of grading operations, and sequence grading to enable you to grade the entire sequence at once while being able to omit tracks from these operations with clips you want excluded. The Fastest Way to Grade With Color Mode shows both of these in action.

Adjustment layers are not currently supported for color operations, but this is on our roadmap for the future. In the meantime, groups offer the same capabilities with the added benefit of not adding anything to the timeline, and allowing you to apply color adjustments to non-contiguous clips appearing anywhere throughout your sequence, not just clips that are right next to one another. I’d encourage you to watch the video above and give sequence grading and grouping a shot, would love to hear what you think.

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Eccentric_Enigmaeffb

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I hate this new one

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Motive Cinemas

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Glad I’m not the only one with this opinion.

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defaultummfamzsdeeh

Participant

Couldn’t agree more. They’ve lost a life-long user with this one.

I couldn’t be more dissatisfied. Why remove such a vital part of the software that worked perfectly well for the majority of users.

Terrible roll out for a feature that many people’s jobs and deadlines rely on. Loaded into premiere one day and my entire workflow has changed for the worse. Zero onboarding for a mode that is not intuitive at all.

Keep the color mode but for the love of god, swallow your pride and put the damn lumetri panel back in.

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R Neil Haugen

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The Color Mode has been in the public beta for what, over six months? With a ton of posts on the public beta forum and here about it coming for that entire time, and how to work with it.

It’s not slipped in as a surprise … it’s been announced for quite awhile. Back at NAB I watched as a number of major named colorists took it through it’s paces, and they were actually quite impressed. But then, they are always looking for a better tool to work with.

Now … it’s bizarre at first to work with if you don’t learn how it works. It’s a completely re-imagined color modding system by one of the most intriguing brains in the biz … and yes, it’s not at all like any other system.

But … used as designed it is far more powerful than Lumetri, vastly improved color science, and very fast to work with. Perfect? No.

But then I don’t see Resolve or Baselight as perfect either. Every thing has flaws. And this has some like not working with Wacom pens though it normally works with Wacom mouse units. Weird.

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Lavish_musician86e0

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Shocking that a bunch of major named colorists feel differently then the people who actually use this software on a regular basis.

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DavieMelder25

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I agree. Sure, we can keep the new mode but what’s the point of removing the lumetri panel?!? Why can’t we have both so people who don’t want to use the incredibly difficult user interface of the new color mode can still use the lumetri panel.

I get you can still use lumetri effect but it’s just much easier to use the panel.

adobe keeps shooting itself in the foot...

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Lavish_musician86e0

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This new mode is utterly useless. The design of it is so bad and even if I wanted to try learning it, it is so LAGGY that you can’t make any reliable adjustments. Remove this terrible idea from your program.

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BikerChad

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Agreed 100%. I tried with it. I really tried. I have been using it in beta and I watched a ton of tutorials on it and well, I decided to uninstall the 2027 nightmare and go back to 2026. I also purchased Davinci Resolve just to keep my options open.

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