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January 24, 2023
Under Review

X-Rite ColorChecker Plug-in for Premiere Pro CC?

  • January 24, 2023
  • 190 replies
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When will support for quick color matching using color charts like the X-Rite ColorChecker be added to Premiere Pro CC?

190 replies

Participant
January 24, 2023
You'll end up like Avid on some old grandparents in Hollywood. Avid mastered the RED format after 4 years as others have long ago. System programmers and system administrators are the laziest professional groups. They always have one answer - "Why?"Color matching doesn't work well either. Premiere does not use Color Checker.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Why am not surprised that, nearly 2 years later, this tool/feature is still "Under Review"? Shame on you Adobe. And that sound you hear, is the pressure from tens and thousands of your dissatisfied users, crushing your financial baseline. Know what comes after that? Fossilization: go the way of the dinosaurs.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Not that I am happy to see so many users frustrated with adobe’s performance/direction/focus, for the money my company pays per year in licenses for a “pro” set, we really could buy a pro tool set.
Taking two years to implement a change that a coder could literally do in a weeks worth of work shows you how broken poorly implemented agile methodologies are.
Lumberjack0325
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
I would agree with Sergiu mainly because this is me now actually. I've been editing everything in Davinci and actually no longer even work in Premeire. My company still has it because of other projects that randomly come in that need reworking, but most everything is in Resolve now. It took a little relearning but I've come to learn it and embrace it. There is no real reason to go round-trip anymore because I'm always in Davinci now. Premiere is more focused on being relevant to social media influencers and their latest updates show that rather than adding real professional tools, ie color chart support.
commsteam100
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
I've sussed it out. There is literally no incentive at this time for Adobe to implement this.
Showing my work:

DaVinci Resolve is FREE
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User can export Premiere timeline as XML
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Import XML timeline into FREE DaVinci Resolve
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Color correct and grade to your heart's content with the FREE, world class tools in DaVinci Resolve
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Export timeline from Resolve as XML
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Import color graded XML timeline back into your Premiere project and continue editing to completion.
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Absolutely no incentive for Adobe to put any time or resources into developing a feature in Premiere so long as Black Magic naively offers its product FREELY for users to round-trip projects between Premiere and Resolve for color grading. QED
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
I'm truly at a loss on how this didn't make it into the 2021 version. This is a basic workflow that's needed support for years now and Adobe still can't seem to get around to it. If I have to do my color corrections in Resolve, why bother editing in Premiere then. Especially when Resolve's weaknesses as an editor are far less annoying than Premiere's weakness at color corrections at this point?
RikkC
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
The complete lack of support for requests like this for features that are REALLY needed has finally made me go to resolve, bought the studio version which I'm learning and am doing my last project in adobe products at the moment.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Premiere lacking core features like this one has pushed me to do more and more work in Resolve.
craigh54479309
Participant
January 24, 2023
Please add this feature! I love how I can make entire objects disappear using AI but this important tool is still unavailable.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Unbelievable that this still isn't implemented yet. Oops, gotta go. Premiere just crashed again.