Speedgrade and Lumetri.

[limakid2015]

Hi. I become interested to explore Speedgrade. What's new in CC 2019. Is it still supported? Is the LUMETRI tool (in Premiere) enough and more powerful than Speedgrade? Could you clarify me this please? Thanks a lot.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

SpeedGrade was discontinued four years ago.

I loved the Direct Link workflow but ah well.

The Lumetri panel has much of the functionality of SpeedGrade and is the current reality.  I can work with it with my Tangent Elements control surface quite well.

On my blog I do have some articles on what the tools do and some basic working practices.

rneilphotog.com

Neil

[Media Editor]

I viewed your LUMETRI'S CREATIVE TAB... MORE THAT IT SEEMS! Blog.  I tired your recommended workflow.  I had never thought of this workflow.  It works great.  Thank you.

[R Neil Haugen]

I've done a ton more with Lumetri including grading an 11 hour "slow video" program with 50+ clips from a GoPro naturally full auto so exposure and color needed constant keyframing.

I've got more things to say and show that will be appearing on my blog or over at pay-site Mixinglight.com.

My first couple tutorials there are outside the paywall, free, and my next couple on color management detailed from SDR through HDR and a quick look at the issues with the Mac P3-Display screens will be also.

Much of those are not covered by any documents and worth attention when they get posted. They answer a lit of questions and dispel the myths that gave arisen because of a lack of complete explanation from Adobe previously.

Neil

[rodneyb56060189]

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I've done a ton more with Lumetri including grading an 11 hour "slow video" program with 50+ clips from a GoPro naturally full auto so exposure and color needed constant keyframing.

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Oddly enough I've been doing some tutorial on color lately and the words 'color key' came into play...

Up until recently I thought of a key as something like chroma key or using some sampling of an area ( like qualifier ) to change color etc.

And the words Keyframes always meant ( to me ) making keyframes to tell when changes happen in sound level or motion/ position and so on.  This was initially very confusing because I thought of KEY as keyframing.  Rather than that it can be the very simple method used to adjust luminance and balance of shots to get ready for the first step in color grading. If the color temp is different in shots due to white balance differences, you are balancing stuff, I think, rather than doing any real color grading ( or color correction ).

keying shots, in my opinion, can be thought of as a kind of matching or basic Y and color balance activity to individual clips.

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[limakid2015]

Thank U. I took a quick view to your blog and looks relevant.

[R Neil Haugen]

Over time, they've added a lot of functionality to Lumetri, and even though I still miss SpeedGrade, with the use of a full Tangent Elements control surface I can get by with Lumetri fairly decently for most things.

I still wish they'd rebuilt SpeedGrade.

Neil