Does Premiere Have Groups for Coloring Like Resolve?

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Hi all,

This subject is basically the question: Does Premiere Have Groups for Coloring Like DaVinci Resolve?

I'll ask my question and then explain more about Groups in case someone's not familiar with them.

I'm looking to do more coloring in Premiere to save time rather than doing it in DaVinci Resolve, but I love the Groups feature because it's a huge time saver. If anyone has any other workflow suggestions for grading clips taken with multiple camera brands, I'd love to hear them.

For those who don't know what Groups are, in Resolve's color page, clips can be put into Groups that have "nodes" or settings that affect every clip. Once a group is created, there's a "Pre-Clip" tab and a "Post-Clip" tab and any changes to one of the nodes in either of those tabs affects every clip in that group..

The most common use is to convert clips to a project's working color space. A typical project might somethign like an ARRI group and a Sony group. The ARRI group converts clips from from ARRIRAW to DaVinci Wide Gamut., and the Sony group converts those clips from Sony RAW to DWG.

They can be use for a lot more, but it's basically a great way to get all your clips into the same working color space beacause it saves time having to convert each clip manually.

Thanks so much!

R Neil Haugen · Answer

The main way of applying corrections to mulitple clips in Premiere has been the "Source effect" use of any correction effect, like Lumetri.

"Source effect" means selecting the clips in the bin, and then applying an effect to them. So you can select a bunch of clips, and drag/drop a Lumetri effect preset onto them, they all get that.

But it doesn't allow for modifying that effect later to automatically affect all the affected clips. Which is a total pain.

One can also use "label" colors on groups of clips, and select all clips of one label, to do something similar. But again, you can't change that afterwards once it's applied, and have it simply change the effect on the other clips.

So batch grading of clips is both possible and to me, absolutely necessary to get speed into the process. That said it is not as slick as Resolve's tools for that work. But with former Resolve staffer Alexix Van Hurkman now running much of the color stuff in Premiere, maybe we'll get that at some point. Nothing in sight yet, however.

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