First Look! New Color Mode in Premiere

0:00 Hey, editing friend.

0:01 Did you know that it's been a decade of Lumetri color in Premiere?

0:05 [music] Yeah, it's been that long.

0:07 And while Lumetri color has simplified some things, it also has its limitations.

0:12 And that's why for the past 2 years,

0:14 the Adobe Premiere product team has been rebuilding color from the ground up.

0:19 And they just recently announced color mode inside of beta,

0:24 which completely reimagines the way that you

0:27 correct and grade color inside of Premiere.

0:30 So, in this video, I'm going to be giving you a general overview,

0:34 so that way you can start testing it out and give feedback.

0:36 That's why it's in beta.

0:38 All right, if you're ready, let's jump on in.

0:43 You can find the beta app by going to your Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app,

0:47 going to apps, beta, and then you'll find Premiere there.

0:50 Okay, so here we are inside of the beta.

0:53 And the first thing that you might notice is now we have an edit mode,

0:58 and all of the workspaces are now here.

1:01 Previously, the workspaces used to be over here on the right.

1:04 So, you can see right now I'm inside of the edit workspace,

1:08 which is primarily for doing all of your editing,

1:10 like cuts and effects and all of that.

1:12 And you'll see that we are inside of the color mode,

1:15 which actually, when you click on a clip,

1:17 you'll see that underneath the properties panel,

1:19 there's a new color tab with these sliders, which I'll get to in a moment.

1:23 But this is just something extra that'll

1:25 allow you to do some quick clip adjustments.

1:28 This is not Lumetri, it's something else,

1:31 which is directly connected to the new color mode.

1:34 So, if we click on color, this will take us to a brand new working space,

1:39 essentially an app inside of Premiere designed specifically for color.

1:44 And you'll also see that there are different workspaces for colors.

1:47 So, there's essentials,

1:48 there's a vertical workspace when you're working with vertical video,

1:51 and there's analysis.

1:52 And analysis pulls up the video scopes here,

1:55 which used to be Lumetri scopes, but these are new and improved.

1:58 You can see better data and visualization in here.

2:01 It will also bring up the effect controls as well.

2:03 But in this case, I want to go back to the essentials here.

2:07 And you'll see on the right, this is called the clip grid.

2:11 And this shows all of the shots inside of your timeline

2:15 edit without all the effects or anything like that.

2:17 So, you can click through them to quickly see these different shots up close.

2:22 Now, going back to the edit workspace, inside of the timeline,

2:25 you can see I have a bunch of stock video clips.

2:27 And notice how they have different color, right?

2:29 Not all of them match.

2:31 And that's why I want to use color mode to match all these shots,

2:35 so that way they look like they were shot

2:37 at the same time of day on the same camera, which they clearly were not.

2:41 They were even shot in different locations.

2:43 And by the way, all of these shots are from Envato,

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2:49 If you want to access these clips,

2:51 I've put all of these shots that I'm using inside of a workspace,

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2:55 Okay, so let's fix the color issue here.

2:57 Let's try to make a cohesive color grade.

3:00 And to do that, we're going to go to color mode.

3:03 One thing about the clip grid on the right is that you

3:05 can resize it just like you can in the project panel,

3:08 so that way you can quickly browse all

3:10 the shots that are inside of the timeline here.

3:13 And you can also click on show metadata,

3:15 which will show you the clip title underneath each clip, if that's useful.

3:19 So, inside of color mode, you can apply what is called operations.

3:24 And you can apply operations at the clip level,

3:27 at the sequence level, which will affect all the clips in the sequence,

3:30 or at a group level,

3:32 which will only affect certain clips that you add as a group.

3:36 So, you can see down here it says,

3:37 "Add an operation to get started." You can add a clip style,

3:41 you can add a clip adjustment, or add a clip LUT.

3:44 In this case, I want to start with adding a sequence operation,

3:48 and then we'll get to the clip operations.

3:50 I also recommend using a mouse to make color adjustments in this new color mode.

3:54 You will see in a moment, but basically,

3:56 you move up and down or left to right to make these adjustments,

3:59 which is a bit different than what you're used to with the former Lumetri color.

4:03 And it's much better to use a mouse than a trackpad

4:06 because you can get a little bit more precision with your adjustments.

4:10 So, the first thing I want to do is I want to apply

4:12 a cohesive kind of green teal kind of vibe across all of the clips.

4:18 And to do that, I'm going to go to sequence here and select plus operation.

4:22 And here from the drop-down, you can add a sequence adjustment,

4:25 add a sequence style, or add a sequence LUT.

4:28 And a LUT is a lookup table,

4:30 and you can already apply those inside of Lumetri color.

4:32 In this case, I want to start with a sequence style.

4:35 So, this will bring up a new window with all

4:37 of these different styles that you can choose from.

4:41 So, when you click on any one of these, you

4:42 can immediately see how it affects the entire sequence.

4:45 You can even see all the clips get the same look over on the right.

4:49 So, all of these have different modules that make up these styles,

4:53 which you can tweak and perfect to your liking.

4:57 So, in this case, I'm going to go with office medium contrast.

5:00 I like this, and I'm going to hit done.

5:02 And now you can see that there is a style applied here,

5:05 and there are two different modules being used make up this style.

5:12 And by the way, you can build your own styles in the future,

5:14 as well, by using these modules.

5:16 So, for example, you can see here,

5:18 there's a contrast kit applied that you can make

5:20 adjustments to, which I will cover in a moment,

5:22 cuz I'm going to make my own custom contrast kit.

5:25 And inside this style, there's also a saturation and a temperature adjustment.

5:29 So, you can see here when we click

5:30 on temperature that some adjustments were made to the left.

5:34 So, basically, by moving my mouse to the left,

5:37 it added a slight greenish tint here.

5:40 So, you can see I can make more of a tint or less of a tint.

5:44 You can also move up.

5:46 See how when I move up, it makes the temperature warmer?

5:48 Just by moving my mouse up or down.

5:51 So, you see how you have the ability to move left or right to control the tint,

5:56 and up or down to control the temperature.

5:58 So, I'm going to go ahead and click off here and press Command Z

6:01 to undo that, cuz I like the way that it came with the temperature.

6:04 And then saturation as well.

6:05 If you move up, you can make it more saturated.

6:08 If you go down, it'll make it less saturated.

6:11 So, that's how you can control the styles that you apply to the clip.

6:15 And it's non-destructive, right?

6:17 Because you can go in and make specific adjustments to that style,

6:20 and then you can save it as your own preset style.

6:24 Okay, we have our sequence style applied.

6:26 Now, I want to go over here to the plus icon and add another sequence style.

6:31 But in this case, I'm going to just use

6:33 one of the style modules to build an S curve.

6:36 So, we're going to use the contrast kit.

6:38 Now, an S curve is essentially just a way to add some

6:42 more contrast to your scene that looks a little bit more cinematic.

6:45 And we can go ahead and right-click on this and rename this to S curve.

6:50 And then using contrast kit compression,

6:53 notice when I click on this that the luma waveform is right above this control.

6:58 I think it's a little bit too small.

7:00 So, what I want to do is I want to make this bigger.

7:03 So, to do that, you can go to settings and color heads-up display options.

7:08 And you can choose to anchor it to any place that you want,

7:12 and you can control the size of it to make it bigger.

7:15 So, if you want it to be free-form, so you can move it around anywhere.

7:18 So, let's try this.

7:19 Let's make this bigger, so we can see and press okay.

7:21 So, I want to go to contrast kit, click on this, and now I can push down

7:26 to actually make less contrast there on the top,

7:29 but I can also push up to make a classic S curve.

7:33 And so, here you can see that this white line is in the shape of a subtle S.

7:39 So, you can do more, which will make even more contrast,

7:42 which in my opinion just doesn't look good.

7:44 So, I'm just going to do a subtle amount here, just a subtle amount of contrast.

7:49 You can always update this in the future,

7:51 and you can always save this as an S curve preset.

7:54 Hit save, and then you will see when you go to add another sequence style,

7:59 so now underneath style presets,

8:02 you can see that there is my presets, the S curve preset that we just made.

8:07 So, let's go ahead and let's just delete this one here.

8:10 So, what have we done so far?

8:11 We added a sequence style.

8:14 We also added our own style using an S curve contrast kit adjustment.

8:19 Another thing we can do at the sequence level is add a sequence adjustment.

8:23 So, let's click on plus to add a new operation,

8:25 and let's go to add sequence adjustment.

8:28 So, these are all of the basic controls you get with color inside of color mode.

8:32 And the same apply at the clip level, as well, if you add a clip adjustment.

8:37 In this case, I just want to add a little bit more

8:40 of a yellow tint to the highlights of all the clips in the sequence.

8:46 What we can do is down here,

8:47 you can see that there's global controls, there's shadows and highlights.

8:52 So, the shadows, you can see all the shadows in the image are selected.

8:56 And then here, all the highlights are selected.

8:58 So, in this case, rather than do a global adjustment to the temperature,

9:02 I just want to select the highlights.

9:04 And now I can select the temperature, and I can say, "You know what?

9:07 I want to make these a little bit more yellow." So,

9:10 now all of the highlights across all

9:13 of these have more of an orange yellow tint.

9:16 So, if I bring this down,

9:18 you can see that global change changing over in the clip grid, as well.

9:22 So, let's go ahead and let's push this up just

9:24 to make a little bit more yellow of a temperature.

9:27 So, here we can see before,

9:29 if we click on the global effects adjustment, and the after.

9:32 Before and after.

9:33 If you don't see that here, you can go to the button editor,

9:36 and you can drag the effects icon down here to see the before and after.

9:40 What you can also do to see before and after is you can press Command 3,

9:45 and this will allow you to move this slider here.

9:49 So, you can see that this is the after on the left,

9:52 and this is the before on the right.

9:54 So, that's how you you kind of quickly

9:56 check to see what adjustments you have made.

9:58 So, you can see as we pull this across that it looks a lot better, right?

10:02 It's starting to feel more cohesive.

10:04 Let's go ahead and turn that off by pressing

10:06 control three or command three on a Mac,

10:08 and now we have the comparison view turned off.

10:11 So, you can see that it's looking more cohesive,

10:13 but as I scroll through you can see some of the colors look different.

10:15 Like this shot is darker, deeper blue.

10:18 This is a bit lighter of a blue,

10:21 and this shot compared to this shot doesn't have as much green in it.

10:26 So, this is where we have to go to the clip level to make clip adjustments.

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13:11 and now let's get into the rest of color mode.

13:13 So, now let's go to the clip adjustments.

13:16 And by the way, one thing I want to point

13:17 out is that you can choose to have sequence playback, which is this icon here.

13:22 It's already set to sequence, or you can go to just clip playback.

13:26 So, this will just playback this individual clip as opposed to sequence,

13:30 which is the whole sequence from our edit mode.

13:33 So, let's just go to clip playback,

13:35 and let's start with this clip because this clip is the most different.

13:40 It's a little bit more aqua blue color, right?

13:42 I want this to be darker, and I want it to be a little bit more greenish blue.

13:46 So, how do we update this?

13:48 Well, we go down here to the clip and add a clip operation.

13:52 In this case, we're going to add a clip adjustment,

13:55 but you can also add a clip style or a LUT as well.

13:58 So, let's go ahead and apply a clip adjustment,

14:01 and just like before with sequence adjustments,

14:04 we can go in and make individual adjustments here.

14:07 So, let's go to color shift here so we can manipulate particular colors.

14:10 Now, what's really cool is Premiere will

14:12 auto select the dominant colors from the scene.

14:16 So, when I hover over the orange color right now,

14:18 the only thing being selected is the skin tone of the surfer,

14:22 which we don't want to adjust.

14:23 The yellow, which there's very minimal yellow here,

14:26 and then some blue and the other blue.

14:29 So, let's adjust both of these blues here.

14:32 So, if I select this hue, I can go ahead and be like, "Okay,

14:36 I want to shift this color to be a little bit more green." So,

14:41 to do that, you can basically push up,

14:44 and now it moves our hue more over to the green.

14:47 We don't want it to be too green, right?

14:49 Just a subtle amount.

14:50 Also, if you go left, it makes the selection smaller,

14:54 and if you go right, it widens that color selection.

14:58 So, I think here's fine.

14:59 So, let's go ahead and push up just

15:01 slightly to make that a little bit more green.

15:03 Great.

15:04 And now let's go to the other blue, and let's go ahead and do the same thing,

15:07 and let's shift this over to the right.

15:09 And now we see more of a change because this is a more broader selection, right?

15:14 So, I think that looks better, but we also want to make it darker.

15:18 So, how do we do that?

15:20 We can also go to luma shift, and this adjust the brightness.

15:24 So, if we bring this down,

15:26 this will actually make our shot, this particular color, darker.

15:30 So, I think this looks pretty good.

15:32 Let's do the same with this color shift here.

15:35 Let's bring this down just a little bit.

15:38 Okay, good.

15:39 Let's also go in and let's make some general contrast adjustments here.

15:46 And let's actually reduce our highlights.

15:48 So, we can select the highlights,

15:49 go to exposure, and we can reduce the highlights.

15:52 And this is only affecting the highlights,

15:54 so we can just go ahead and reduce that.

15:56 So far, this is the before and the after.

15:59 Before and after.

16:01 So, let's go back to global adjustments here,

16:04 and let's actually add a bit more contrast back in.

16:07 There we go.

16:08 I think the highlights could have a little bit more yellow tint as well.

16:13 Maybe not that much, but let's increase that up slightly.

16:18 And let's go to exposure, and let's just reduce the exposure just slightly here.

16:23 In terms of temperature,

16:24 maybe we can add just a little bit more of a of a bluish tint here.

16:30 All right, so this is starting to look a little bit better, right?

16:34 Than before.

16:35 So, we have this is the before and the after.

16:37 So, it's starting to match the other shots,

16:39 but we need to make more adjustments to the other shots

16:41 so that way they also have more of a greenish tint.

16:44 So, for example, we can go in on this clip level here,

16:48 and there's a transition there.

16:50 So, here we can do the same thing.

16:51 We can add a clip adjustment.

16:54 Let's go ahead and let's click on hue shift,

16:56 and let's move this up to make this more of a greenish color, like that.

17:02 Let's also adjust this one.

17:05 Make this one more greenish blue.

17:08 Same with this one.

17:10 That more greenish blue, too.

17:12 And again, before, after.

17:15 It's looking a lot better.

17:16 So, basically, I'm just going to go through all of these shots

17:20 here and make some clip adjustments to the color shifting,

17:23 which is basically like the hue and saturation curves of Lumetri Color.

17:27 Just selecting the blues and then adjusting it by pushing up

17:30 to push it to the left to make a little bit more green,

17:33 not too much cuz again, we're just selecting part of the colors here.

17:37 This one will be more, so let's go ahead and shift this one over,

17:40 and let's widen our hue a little bit here.

17:44 Okay.

17:45 Before, after.

17:46 It's looking a lot better, right?

17:48 Another thing you can do is you can select multiple clips together.

17:52 So, for example, if you wanted to select

17:54 these two together and only make adjustments to these two,

17:57 you can press command or control on a PC and select both of these together.

18:02 And so, when both of these are selected, you'll get a new selection come up,

18:06 and you can click plus,

18:08 and you can add an adjustment to these selected clips together.

18:12 So, this would be particularly useful if you

18:14 have night scene and day scenes in a film,

18:17 and you have different adjustments that you need

18:19 to be made to all of the night clips, which you can add to a group operation,

18:24 and you can add adjustments to that group.

18:26 Okay, so I'm going to go through

18:27 and make all these individual adjustments to these clips,

18:31 and I'll see you back with the finished grade.

18:33 As you can see, I'm done here grading all these shots here,

18:37 and each individual clip here,

18:39 if we go back to clip playback, has its own clip adjustments.

18:43 You can see I've made an adjustment here.

18:45 I made an adjustment here.

18:47 Adjustments here on all of them.

18:50 And all of them also have all

18:51 of these sequence operations applied to them as well.

18:55 A style, an S curve, and the highlight temp adjustment we made to make

19:00 everything a little bit more yellow in the highlights,

19:03 and you can see it just looks far more cohesive.

19:06 And remember, you can always go over here to a command

19:09 three or control three to see the before and after.

19:13 If you click on the center here,

19:15 it will switch between the original and the current on the left and the right.

19:19 So, we can click on that if we want the before to be on the left,

19:22 and then we can just drag this to the left to see the before and the after,

19:26 and it's looking great.

19:27 And by the way, if there are any adjustments,

19:30 you'll see this tiny little dot underneath all these different colors,

19:33 and that means that adjustments have been made.

19:36 Same over here, if we click on the highlight temp adjustment,

19:39 you can see that there's a dot under temperature,

19:41 and a dot underneath the hue shift as well because we did end

19:45 up shifting the hue over to the green inside this highlight adjustment as well.

19:50 So, that's how you do before and after.

19:52 We can always press command three control three to get rid of that.

19:56 And we can always go back to edit mode.

19:58 And once again here, you can also see the global before and after.

20:03 It's called the global effects mute.

20:05 If you want to see before and after.

20:06 Also, while we're here, let's say we want to go back to this clip,

20:09 you can also make some basic adjustments to the color

20:13 of this individual clip here using these sliders.

20:16 There is no adjustment to the hue here.

20:18 You actually have to open up color mode by clicking

20:21 on color controls to get more refined color adjustments.

20:24 But this is just basic stuff like adding more contrast or adding more exposure.

20:29 One thing to note is that this is just at the clip level, right?

20:33 So, I did make a suggestion to Adobe to allow us

20:36 to have an option here to click on sequence or clip.

20:41 So, that way if we just want to make some subtle

20:42 adjustments at the sequence level to be applied to all the clips,

20:46 we could do that here, too.

20:47 As just a more simple way to do quick adjustments as opposed

20:51 to switching back and forth between color

20:52 and edit mode throughout the editing process.

20:55 So, that's just one piece of feedback that I had to the Adobe team.

20:59 But of course, dive in.

21:01 Go inside of color mode and you can test it out and be like, you know what?

21:04 I wish that this feature was here or I

21:07 noticed that there's a bug here and that's where

21:09 you can go up here on these three dots

21:11 and you can report a bug or request a feature.

21:13 This is why they put features in beta first.

21:17 So, that way you can go in and you can be like,

21:19 this actually doesn't work that well.

21:20 How can we fix it before it goes in the main build?

21:23 One thing I forgot to mention is inside of edit,

21:25 you can also open up the scopes.

21:27 So, you can go down here to video scopes and you

21:30 can see the scopes here as you make subtle adjustments.

21:34 So, these still exist, but again you get individualized scopes for each

21:39 control inside of color mode giving you more control.

21:42 One more thing to note, the future of Lumetri.

21:44 Where does it stand?

21:45 Well, inside the beta, you'll notice that underneath window,

21:48 there is no Lumetri color panel.

21:51 But there is a Lumetri color effect.

21:53 If you search Lumetri color here, you will see that the effect will still exist.

21:58 And they need to keep that here because all the projects

22:01 that we've had for the past decade use that effect.

22:04 So, for compatibility, it needs to stay there.

22:07 But I spoke with the Adobe team and they said

22:08 do not use Lumetri color effect with color mode because

22:12 it will create really bad artifacting in your clips because

22:15 they're essentially two different sciences that will conflict with each other.

22:19 Different coding, right?

22:20 So, you don't want to combine them together.

22:22 So, going forward, once it's in the main app,

22:25 you will just be using color mode essentially.

22:28 That's going to be the new way to use color.

22:30 So, rest in peace Lumetri color panel.

22:36 [laughter] So, if you want to learn more about editing inside of Premiere Pro,

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22:42 We already had the spring cohort that just happened and it was fantastic.

22:47 It was an intimate setting where we had some

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22:59 to set up your project all the way to exporting and everything in between.

23:03 So, if you have any questions about color mode or you want me to make

23:05 some more tutorials here on the YouTube

23:07 channel on how to use masking with color,

23:10 for example, using the new masking tools,

23:12 just drop a color palette emoji down below and we'll get to it.

23:15 [music] Thanks so much for watching and as always,

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23:21 See you next time.

23:22 Bye.

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