X-Rite ColorChecker Plug-in for Premiere Pro CC?
When will support for quick color matching using color charts like the X-Rite ColorChecker be added to Premiere Pro CC?
Larry Zapotocky
shared this idea
This is a great request that is certainly something we want to implement. Rest assured our engineers DO understand the importance of this feature and how to get the job done. We also know that the performance and stability of the app should be our #1 priority and that is where our focus is right now.
173 comments
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John Rand
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Not that I am happy to see so many users frustrated with adobe’s performance/direction/focus, for the money my company pays per year in licenses for a “pro” set, we really could buy a pro tool set.
Taking two years to implement a change that a coder could literally do in a weeks worth of work shows you how broken poorly implemented agile methodologies are. -
Sergiu Mihalache
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@James McAnear It's not about being free anymore (although the price does matter for most people, obviously, and Resolve is a clear winner even if you buy the Pro), it's about just offering the tools people need. DaVinci does it in Resolve, Adobe refuses to implement so many requested features into Premiere, most of them really basic for any pro user these days. And people that need the software for work will just go with the one that makes their work better (meaning best result in shortest time or with least effort).
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James McAnear
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Hard to argue with FREE.
FREE. FREE. FREE -
BUMC Communications Dept
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@adam @sergiu you guys are starting to convince me to give Davinvi a chance
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Adam Rickman
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I would agree with Sergiu mainly because this is me now actually. I've been editing everything in Davinci and actually no longer even work in Premeire. My company still has it because of other projects that randomly come in that need reworking, but most everything is in Resolve now. It took a little relearning but I've come to learn it and embrace it. There is no real reason to go round-trip anymore because I'm always in Davinci now. Premiere is more focused on being relevant to social media influencers and their latest updates show that rather than adding real professional tools, ie color chart support.
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Sergiu Mihalache
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@James McAnear The only problem is that at some point one might wonder "why should I go back to Premiere and not finish the job in Resolve?..". Especially since Resolve is free, or one time payment, if you want the Pro version, and Premiere is a monthly fee, which will quickly add up to much more than the one time payment for Resolve. The only thing still keeping many users away from Resolve is the very different approach to some things, including the interface, but once this obstacle is overcome, there's next to nothing to attract one back to Premiere. Certainly not with this attitude from Adobe, when requests are ignored for years and support is almost non-existent (this one is from personal experience).
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James McAnear
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I've sussed it out. There is literally no incentive at this time for Adobe to implement this.
Showing my work:DaVinci Resolve is FREE
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User can export Premiere timeline as XML
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Import XML timeline into FREE DaVinci Resolve
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Color correct and grade to your heart's content with the FREE, world class tools in DaVinci Resolve
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Export timeline from Resolve as XML
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Import color graded XML timeline back into your Premiere project and continue editing to completion.
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Absolutely no incentive for Adobe to put any time or resources into developing a feature in Premiere so long as Black Magic naively offers its product FREELY for users to round-trip projects between Premiere and Resolve for color grading. QED -
Sergiu Mihalache
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At least you can open and save video files with Premiere Pro (not all formats though, not even some as common as mkv), that's probably enough from Adobe's point of view. Color correction is probably too advanced a feature for them.
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James Lucas
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I'm truly at a loss on how this didn't make it into the 2021 version. This is a basic workflow that's needed support for years now and Adobe still can't seem to get around to it. If I have to do my color corrections in Resolve, why bother editing in Premiere then. Especially when Resolve's weaknesses as an editor are far less annoying than Premiere's weakness at color corrections at this point?
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Ricky Cahill
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The complete lack of support for requests like this for features that are REALLY needed has finally made me go to resolve, bought the studio version which I'm learning and am doing my last project in adobe products at the moment.
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Aaron Lewis
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Premiere lacking core features like this one has pushed me to do more and more work in Resolve.
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Craig Hickerson
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Please add this feature! I love how I can make entire objects disappear using AI but this important tool is still unavailable.
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Cameron McFadyen
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Unbelievable that this still isn't implemented yet. Oops, gotta go. Premiere just crashed again.
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M. Milic
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We need this please!
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BUMC Communications Dept
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I'm with Dale, lets get this done!
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dale dimassi
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Still waiting... Lumetri Color is not cutting it. No color matching function, and HLS can't distinguish backgrounds from skin tones like Resolve can.
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Sergiu Mihalache
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At Adobe, just as in North Korea, everything is fine; they are not aware of their users having any issues with their software, and if anyone insists there exist problems - they are not replicable by Adobe staff, so they don't exist.
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dale dimassi
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With nearly 600 upvotes, this is one of the most-requested features that professionals have been asking for, and yet Adobe is asleep at the wheel. The entire 2020 release cycle has been plagued with so many bugs it's unreal. I built a new machine and only have access to 2020 versions of Premiere now, all of which contain the same bugs that cause renders and exports to crash. Had my ticket escalated to senior engineer and still couldn't resolve, yet I have to create work-arounds to get simple features like text (native) and photoshop layers (static, not even animated) to not crash my exports. The issues are consistent and can be duplicated on every machine I try it on. How do I go through this process with senior engineers yet it's not even on the list of know issues??
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James Markham Hall, Jr.
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Fully switched to Resolve and seeing my GPU actually get utilized is PURE JOY! Studio 17 coloring is ABSOLUTE MAGIC! Stop the Suffering!
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dale dimassi
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Stability has been a HUGE issue for all 2020 versions, seems like this will NEVER happen. Ready to switch our company over to Resolve and be done with the crashes and lack of integrated color chart recognition.