Removal of RGB Curves was a mistake — please restore this effect

Yea, Premiere is sp much more flexible than Resolve. Even in use of exterior hardware like control panels.

And I do get the ease of dropping the old curves on a clip. Totally understand that. 

You can actually get some of the old effects to exist in the newer versions, I think all couple others here remember the process. Hopefully they'll pop in.

@Ann Bens @Stan Jones  anyone?

You misunderstood me a bit. What keeps me with Premiere is the freedom of choice this program gives me — I can use whatever filters I want, as much as I want. The old filters, because I like them and I know them; the new ones, because they give me more possibilities… When I wanted to use Lumetri, I used it, and when I wanted to quickly make a correction without a thousand extra options, windows, sliders, and settings, I used RGB Curves.

But now Adobe is taking away my ability to choose, and I could even understand it if they had created a new Adobe Premiere engine on which the old filters wouldn’t work — but they simply disabled my ability to use this filter!!!

And how do I know that? Because all you need to do is load an older project, and suddenly the filter magically appears again 😕😕

It’s like someone telling you: “We know better what filters you should use.” 😞

First ...  I always support more user options, so I upvoted this happily. 

But ... I do actually disagree with many of your points, so ... I will explain where we differ.

The RGB curves tool was not GPU accelerated ... and would have required a complete rebuild of code to be so. Their data indicated that not that many used it ... and as someone who has color as a total specialty, for over a decade, I think that is solid data.

So they did not feel the cost and time-suck to rebuild a tool they already had quite usable in another form was justified. 

Note ... I've asked for very specific full-colorist grading tools for Premiere for years. At NAB and other places where the team is present in person, on this and other forums, and via other means. I get very sympathetic comments, as some of the staffers are actually quite skilled and experienced colorists who worked in shops using Resolve for grading, for years prior to going to work for Adobe.

But ... they note, that sadly as a proportion of the user base, very few would use those tools. And from over a decade helping people here, online, advising clients et al ... sadly, they are correct.

What I want is way past what most editing shops have any interest in whatsoever. Which I find a bummer, but ... again, Life.

I also work for/with/teach pro colorists. And work in Resolve near daily, participate on the Resolve forums. I'm quite familiar with both apps.

Leaving Premiere to use the color page in Resolve, need to create a node, set up things, then navigate to the Curves there ... really? That's a lot more fussiness than simply switching to the Lumetri panel, Curves section, and starting work.

I've done both thousands of times. So you won't save time to use Curves by going to Resolve. And Lumetri is also the home of the new and extensive color management controls, so you will need to use it anyway just to set CM up correctly.

Adding the Curves in Lumetri does not add an appreciable load to most machines. Not even my six year old laptop.