Revert back to premiere 26

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 an adjustment.

Over the last six months of public beta, and private beta prior to that, we’ve indeed had a lot of input from users that we’ve acted upon, and that continues to steer our continued development as there’s more to come.

We understand that the removal of color match is not welcome news, but changes to the image processing pipeline and performance updates necessitated its removal. Know that we’re working on its replacement, and in the meantime you should try using our new Assistant panel to do clip matching as doing image analysis to automate use of the new tools in Color Mode is one of its many abilities. A prompt such as “Match the color and exposure of clip x to clip y” will get you started.

In every other respect, we’ve worked hard to deliver a new color process that enables complete workflows, albeit in a different form. Auto color (bottom left in Color & Contrast), primary adjustments with zoned control over highlights and shadows (up to 3 highlight zones and 3 shadows zones for specific adjustments), Color Shift controls for doing fast targeted HSL curve style adjustments, new texture controls, totally customizable stylistic tools such as film color, midtones adjustments, and vignettes (that you can use to build your own styles if you don’t want to use presets), and secondary adjustments in which you can use masks and HSL qualifiers to isolate features in a shot for specific adjustment are all there, along with updated Video Scopes, new grouping workflows and sequence-wide grading for working faster, updated clip comparison in the monitor, and filter and sort tools to dynamically reorganize the timeline to make it easier to group clips, copy and paste all or part of grades, and otherwise navigate your project quickly.

Changing tools is rarely welcome, but we’ve done our best to create an easy to learn color experience that offers genuinely faster workflows with some experimentation. There’s a lot available to reward your exploration, and to help we’ve created a variety of educational materials including complete HelpX documentation.

If you have five minutes I’d suggest watching Five Things to Know Before You Start for the fastest onboarding. While the new tools are unorthodox, this quickly shows you how fast they can be to get the hang of. This is part of the Color Mode FAQ Playlist that offers an expanding library of 24 short quick tip videos to help get folks started quickly. When you have more time, a Learn Color Mode video series is also available.

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

I reverted back. Unless they reinstate the Lumetri Color tab, I will stick to 26. 

It’s shocking! I do underwater video and need precision, not whatever the new the new colour management is meant to do. No use to me at all. I’m going back at this moment.