

These are source-side settings and any change made as a Master Clip effect will affect all instances of that clip throughout the timeline. Since CC 2014, Premiere Pro has enabled Master Clip effects. ( Click on any image for an expanded view.) If you don’t like the Lumetri Color effect or panel, you can still use the other color correction filters, like the Three-Way Color Corrector, Luma Curve, etc. Color corrections can be made either in the Lumetri panel or in the standard Effects Control panel. If you change any setting in the panel, it immediately applies a Lumetri Color effect to that clip. The new, CC 2015 way is to select the Color workspace, which automatically reveals the Lumetri Color panel and the new, real-time Lumetri scopes. The first, traditional way is to drag-and-drop the filter from the Effects palette (Color Correction folder) onto the clip or adjustment layer. You can apply a Lumetri Color effect in two ways.

In other words, Lumetri Color adjustments made in Premiere Pro are separate and apart from any color corrections done in SpeedGrade. It is a separate, self-contained, uneditable correction applied to the clip. When you go back to Premiere Pro, those corrections will show up as a SpeedGrade Custom group at the bottom of the Lumetri Color effect stack. Any grading added in SpeedGrade is in addition to the Lumetri Color effect. When a Lumetri Color effect is added in the Premiere Pro CC timeline, that is no longer editable when you send it to SpeedGrade CC via Direct Link. Now in Premiere Pro CC 2015, that previous method has been altered. If you bounced back into SpeedGrade, then you had further edit control to change the settings from the earlier SpeedGrade session.

You could add more effects to the clip, but not edit the Lumetri effect itself in Premiere Pro. When you sent a sequence to SpeedGrade CC via Direct Link, the correction done there would show up back in Premiere Pro CC as a self-contained Lumetri effect applied to the clip or an adjustment layer. Previously in Premiere Pro CC 2014, the Lumetri effect was the conduit between grades in SpeedGrade and Premiere Pro. I touched on some of its capabilities with SpeedGrade look files in a previous post, but now I’d like to dive into a deeper explanation of the features of Lumetri Color. The addition of the Lumetri Color effect puts a very powerful and intuitive color correction tool at the editor’s fingertips. With the introduction of Premiere Pro CC 2015, Adobe altered how color correction can be handled within its editing application.
