Adobe introduces major color management updates in Adobe Premiere Pro (beta)

Adobe announced significant updates to Adobe Premiere Pro (beta), featuring a new color management system and performance improvements, directly addressing top community requests to streamline video editing workflows. These enhancements help editors work faster and more efficiently to meet the increasing demand for both short and long-form content.

Key Updates in Premiere Pro (Beta):

Color Management

The all-new Premiere color management combines all of this technology in a way that makes it easier to work with raw and log formats natively in Premiere Pro, so you always get a great starting point — you’ll see great-looking footage as soon as clips are dropped into the timeline — without having to spend time adding LUTs. This automatic system normalizes raw and log media while taking advantage of all that data in the color pipeline for better control and beautiful images.

• An entirely new color management system that automatically transforms RAW and log footage from nearly every camera into great-looking SDR and HDR, so users can spend less time managing LUTs and start editing right away.
• A new wide gamut working color space that’s vastly larger than Premiere’s HD Rec.709 working space in which all image processing operations are performed. This new wide gamut color space leverages Hollywood’s industry standard ACEScct with high-fidelity tone mapping that provides the kind of color and fidelity results that were previously impossible with Premiere Pro.
• Six simple “set-it-and-forget-it” presets in Sequence Settings and Lumetri color settings let users work in traditional Rec.709 for legacy projects or the new wide gamut color ACEScct with ease.
• Most-used effects, like Lumetri, are now color space aware with smoother and more flexible control for refining skin tones, balance, and creative looks when working in a wide-gamut preset.
• Consistent color and brightness when using Dynamic Link to send clips to and from Adobe After Effectsfor motion design and compositing

New Properties panel

Adobe is also introducing a new Properties panel that makes Premiere Pro easier to learn for beginners and makes video editing even faster for experienced professionals.

With the Properties panel, editors can do things they’ve never been able to do before in Premiere Pro, like crop video directly from the Program monitor, or highlight and adjust the properties of multiple clips or graphics at the same time. Consolidating the most frequently used tools in a single panel, along with the ability to directly manipulate (crop and reposition) images using on-screen controls, and the ability to batch process multiple clips at a time make this a game changer for anyone editing in Premiere Pro. It makes it easier for new users to learn the app, and more efficient for existing power users to work quickly.

Faster performance and a fresh, modern design

Adobe has been working hard at making Premiere Pro faster and more reliable for every job. With even more hardware acceleration, you’ll have faster playback for codecs like AVC and HEVC. ProRes exports are now up to 3x faster so editors can deliver cuts to clients faster and get home earlier. Adobe also added format support for even more Canon, Sony, and RED cameras so users can import native files and start editing immediately.

With two dark modes, a light mode, and high-contrast accessibility mode, editors can customize the look and feel of Premiere Pro. Users also get cleaner fonts and typography for better legibility and consistency with other Adobe Creative Cloud apps. That means less time spent re-learning how to use tools in different apps and more time creating.

Availability

All these features are available now in beta and are planned to be generally available this fall. Premiere color management is just the beginning of Adobe’s commitment to improving professional color for video editors.