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Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
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April 6, 2025
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New Color Tools in 25.2

  • April 6, 2025
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There are new tools in 25.2 for 'log' footage which is a new concept for me.  I have cameas that can shoot S-Log or D-Log and a drone that can shoot D-CineLike footage.  I'm trying to find tutorials and explainations on how the new log tools work.   Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.   

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Fergus H
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Fergus HCommunity Manager
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April 6, 2025

Hi Bill!

 

I would definitely recommend starting by reviewing the documentation. It was written by Alexis Van Hurkman, who is the product manager for color at Adobe, a professional colorist and author of color management books. I'd suggest starting here: 

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/about-color-management.html

 

Regards,

Fergus

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    Hi Bill!

     

    I would definitely recommend starting by reviewing the documentation. It was written by Alexis Van Hurkman, who is the product manager for color at Adobe, a professional colorist and author of color management books. I'd suggest starting here: 

     

    https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/about-color-management.html

     

    Regards,

    Fergus


    By @Fergus H

     

    Thanks.  My video editing history has been with Premiere Elements for years!   Log and Luts are new territory!  

     

    Bill S

    R Neil Haugen
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    April 6, 2025

    "Cinelike" isn't actually a log encoded file, it's just a low contrast and saturation setting that looks like a log encoded file. So that doesn't really take a LUT nor can it be changed with tonemapping.

     

    So you can make a Lumetri instance that expands contrast and saturation to look nice, then save it as a preset to drag/drop onto clips in the bin to make them close to do final corrections on.

     

    The others can be handled by simply setting up the color management correctly.

     

    Lumetri panel, Settings tab , the tab named Settings.

     

    Set Display Color Management on, Extended Dynamic Range on a Mac, auto detect log, auto tonemapping, sequence color space to Rec.709, and you should be fine.

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