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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.

rachelcenter

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please don’t phase out lumetri

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BADKY1994

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I also support bringing back the classic Lumetri Color panel as an optional panel under the Window menu.

I’m a professional videographer editing weddings, events, and commercial videos. My projects often contain hundreds of clips, and having the Lumetri controls alongside the timeline is essential for making quick adjustments while editing.

I appreciate the professional capabilities of the new Color Mode. However, I would like the option to keep using the familiar Lumetri panel for everyday corrections. Accessing the Lumetri effect through the Properties panel does not provide the same convenience for my workflow.

Please allow both interfaces to coexist so editors can choose what works best for each project. Restoring the classic panel would make a real difference for those of us working under tight deadlines.

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grantwNZ

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100% agree. Been in the industry for over 20 years. Speed is crucial for me. Please bring back Lumetri!

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emanuelebuzin

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The new Color Mode in Premiere Pro 27.0 is an absolute disaster and a terrifying step backward for professional workflows.

Forcing users to abandon the classic Lumetri Color panel for this half-baked, counterintuitive interface makes it practically impossible to work under real-world deadlines. Here is why this update is completely unusable for serious editing and grading:

Microscopic, unworkable UI: The color wheels and controls are ridiculously tiny. Trying to make precise, subtle adjustments with a mouse is a nightmare.
Terrible slider response and aggressive clipping: The parameter response curve is completely broken. Pushing basic controls immediately crushes shadows and clips highlights with zero smooth roll-off, ruining the image instead of grading it.
Massive waste of time: What used to take 10 seconds in Lumetri now takes minutes of fighting against a clunky, sluggish interface.

Professionals pay a premium subscription for a reliable industry-standard tool, not to be beta testers for a broken UI that actively slows down our work.

Bring back the classic Lumetri Color panel immediately—at least as a legacy workspace option—before you force your entire user base to migrate permanently to DaVinci Resolve.

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R Neil Haugen

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That sounds like you didn’t make any attempt to set the sensitivity of the controls in the Color Mode. Having used this over a year now, and with the sensitivity settings to my taste I have no difficulty whatever with subtle, controlled changes. It’s possible.

That said, it’s a freakishly different paradigm for correcting color than any other out there, and by design. As once you understand how this is designed to work, it is fast, powerful, and with vastly improved color science.

But if you try to work this like all other color correction systems, you will hate it.

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Elizaveta26507684mk5l

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100% agree! It is very inconvenient. Please please bring back the old one.

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uri_3493

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After 3 days of fruitless tutorial-watching and testing, I’m going back to the v26. The new Colour Mode is simply unbearable and utterly unprecise. Hope they don’t force us to update it since I will have to look for other editing and colouring software, probably DaVinci. It's funny that they wanted to “imitate” it, and they ended up giving them more users.

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R Neil Haugen

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That’s expected reaction for those new to it. It is so different than anything else out there.

However, after you learn how it works and stop trying to make it something else!!! … and set your tool reactions correction … it’s actually fast and pretty precise.

The whole grouping thing is vastly misunderstood … you can filter and sort clips while grouping them to get bulk work done fast. Working from larger groups to smaller groups to a couple clips and finally to individual clips.

It’s built to avoid most of the timeline shotmatching. And therefore be faster.

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Arvin24579938pgur

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Adobe should have keep the Lumetri Control and Color control at the same time for us to migrate slowly. It’s hard to work on a new workflow without having the chance to practice it first. I’m not the only one who might have tight deadlines. It’s frustrating. :(

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R Neil Haugen

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That I totally agree with! I”d have kept the full Lumetri panel in for the whole 27.x series.

Much as the new color mode is vastly superior in science and after you learn is fast and poweful … it’s not like any color modding system ever rolled out.

It takes a bit of learning at first … and if you try and make it do what you’ve done before, it’s not gonna work well at all. So time to migrate would be all for the better.

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themadears

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This update is NONSENSE!!!!
Ive been working all the time with lumetri colors and now its gone… wtd adobe?
Are you kidding me? Those are the sliders and levels that i touches everytime and now its gone…

BRING BACK LUMETRI COLORS

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Roland5C26

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Biggest trash fire update in 20 years. I think it’s time I move 100% to DaVinci.

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nicolas_6125

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Agreed. Yes, it’s pretty neat, but I’m now forced to change my workflow based on this being a “new thing”. All it does is slow down my processes. For a company so set on providing tools for creatives, they sure do like to detour the creative process.

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