Premiere color grade plugin

Many grading tools are actually most uitlized as against another tool, so both worked at the same time. Such as the typical Lift/Gamma/Gain set. Bringing up Shadows or changing the color cast there typically is trained as requiring at least a slight opposite action in the Mids control.

And with a control surface, one does the two actions simultaneously. Which means you see things you actually don't when working the controls in sequence. And is part of why mouse use of the color wheels is so unsatisfactory.

In Lumetri, with a panel, even the Basic tab controls can be used like that, and are very fast and effective.

My main mapping is for the Color wheels "tab" set across my wheels, but adds the 12 knobs I've got set to most of the Basic tab and Creative tab controls. So I'm typically working 2-5 tools simultaneously. While watching the scopes, of course. I check the image, but mostly work by the scopes.

For another example, my mapping of the Basic tab also uses the color wheels of the panel ... but utilizing the left-right and up/down axis of the wheels ... so saturation is left/right and contrast up/down on the same (left) wheel. One touch and I'm working both saturation and contrast. Shadows/Highlights are on the right wheel, shadows left/right and highlights up/down. The mid wheel is Exposure left/right and Blacks up/down.

So for me, Lumetri isn't a problem really ... I can blast through things pretty fast. Again, because of the panel.

But understand, I've been pushing here, and in person at NAB and MAX to the devs, for over a decade ... since they discontinued SpeedGrade ... that Lumetri was never a substitute for that app. To the point I really ticked off the then-Premiere  program head ... back about 2016 NAB ... and I still have SpeedGrade installed on my 'backup' older PC and usable. I don't use it more than 3-4 times a year but ... dang.

I loved the way the color wheels weren't just "3-way" ... you could split them each into three, so you had a three-way wheels for shadows, one for mids, one for highlights. You could do nearly anything you could do say with Curves, but with a panel, multiple bits at the same time, it was blazingly fast. Copy grades forward/back to other clips with a single keyboard hit. Sigh.

If you have a control surface, like my Tangent Elements panel, working in Lumetri isn't all that bad. With a mouse it's painful at times.

Once you understand what the controls do as opposed to what one often thinks they do, it's got decent capabilities. Especially layering 2-4 Lumetri on a clip. Sort of like using Nodes in Resolve. 

And the Elements panel is useful all over Premiere. Audio mixing, sizing positions and rotation of any screen elements, it's totally mappable. In Resolve it's very limited.