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acertik
Inspiring
March 8, 2018
Question

Premiere Pro CC 2018 effects/Lumetri bug

  • March 8, 2018
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Since updating to Premiere Pro 2018, I've been experiencing a bug with Lumetri Color.

In certain random projects, I cannot seem to be able to see any changes I am making in the Lumetri Color Panel to my clip, unless I render my clip in the timeline. In other words, I am blindly applying color correction to a clip without being able to see what I'm actually changing, or the effect it's having on my clip, until I render the clip, then it shows me the results of my color correction.

Once my clip is rendered, if I want to make further changes, my color correction will reset back to its default view (as if it had no color correction at all), until I render the clip again in the timeline. Obviously, as someone who uses Lumetri Color a lot, I can't work like this.

I've tried clearing render/cache files, but that seems to have no effect. Once this problem occurs in a certain project, that project file seems to carry this bug with it, even if I reset all my effects and start from scratch, or if I open the same project on a different computer.

I've already submitted a bug report about this. Was just curious if anyone else if having this problem?

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4 replies

Participant
December 19, 2018

You can just use the new feature of Premiere that allows you to layer color grades on top of each other for now, that's what I'm doing for a similar bug, but I still hope they can fix it!

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Legend
April 3, 2018

ACertik,

I would try the proxy workflow: Basic Premiere Pro editing workflow

Report back after trying it out.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
francis-crossman10980533
Inspiring
March 12, 2018

Things to try . . .

  • Trash your preferences (hold down option when you launch Premiere Pro)
  • Reinstall Premiere Pro
  • Delete render cache (can't hurt to do it again)
  • Try different rendering modes: GPU vs software (File>Project Settings>Renderer)
  • Enable high-quality playback (wrench menu in the program monitor)
  • Set you sequence to maximum bit depth and maximum render quality in the sequence settings
premieregal
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 8, 2018

Not sure if this will work. But try exporting your project as a .XML file and opening the .xml back in Premiere Pro in an new project and see if that fixes the bug?

acertik
acertikAuthor
Inspiring
March 8, 2018

Thanks for that suggestion.

Well, this is very interesting. If I export the sequence as an XML, and try to import that into a blank project, nothing happens! The XML won't import. The "Importing Files..." dialogue box shows up for about a second, but after that, nothing. No import - it's a totally blank project.

However, if I import the same XML into Premiere Pro CC 2017, it works perfectly, so I know the XML is ok.

Legend
March 8, 2018

2018 has a bug with XML import.

Use the guide below to post the details of the situation.

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