Lumetri Color Panel Future

Hey! I wanted to say that removing the Lumetri Color panel in future versions is a bad decision. It has been a tried-and-true part of the workflow, making production fast and convenient.

Moving away from Adobe SpeedGrade app and toward Lightroom-style Lumetri Panel controls that everyone knows and loves was once a great decision.

If you want to introduce a new way of controlling color, that is fine, but please do not remove the existing one. The new, stripped-down version of Lumetri does not even have separate shadow and highlight controls. It has perhaps 15% of the features it once had.

Why not simply leave the Lumetri Color panel intact, add the new Color mode for the "fancy” DaVinci kids, and let everyone be happy? Why remove tools that already work so well? You keep outdated, rarely used legacy effects for “compatibility,” yet you are planning to remove a genuinely useful  workflow that allows people to get what they want quickly?

Glad to hear you’re trying out the new Color Mode! Lumetri will continue to be available but only through the Effect Controls panel, rather than the Lumetri panel. 3rd-party plugins will also continue to work as they have in their respective panels and/or the ECP. Color Wheels and Curves tools will look and behave similarly to the way they have in the Lumetri panel, though the basic correction sliders don’t have the same appearance. If you’re missing those sliders, the good news is that the higher quality versions (based on the Color Mode tool updates) have been added to the Properties panel, for some light color work while in Edit Mode. As such, you should be able to use the Lumetri Effect as much as you like in this way, but you’ll get wonky results if you combine that effect with the new Color Effect.

By the way, the main reason for this change is that we want to encourage the use of the better color pipeline, which will result in higher quality outputs and is also more flexible. Since combining them will never get a great or predictable result, Lumetri is supported but not encouraged.

Hey there ! 
We understand you need more time to learn and adapt to the new Color Mode. Lumteri that you see in beta today will be available, we have no plans to remove it anytime soon. We recommend you use Color or Lumetri and not mix the two. However, I imagine there will be a day many moons where we have enough reasons to get away from Lumetri.