Adobe has released a beta update to its Premiere Pro video editing software that adds a new colour management system that can be applied to raw and log format clips without requiring LUTs.
The new colour management system in Premiere Pro (beta). (Source: Adobe.)
Directly influenced by community requests, the latest version of Premiere Pro helps to make professional colour workflows more powerful and accessible for video editors and enables users to work faster and more efficiently as they handle increasing demands for short and long form content. A new context-sensitive properties panel puts the tools editors need right at their fingertips and enables them to modify multiple clips at the same time. Additional hardware acceleration provides three times faster playback of codecs like AVC and HEVC and ProRes exports. This is the fastest version of Premiere Pro yet. It also introduces a new wide gamut working colour 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 colour space leverages Hollywood’s industry standard ACEScct with high-fidelity tone mapping that provides the kind of colour and fidelity results that were previously impossible with Premiere Pro.
Also new is a revised Properties panel that makes Premiere Pro easier to learn for beginners and makes video editing even faster for experienced professionals. It takes the most popular effects, adjustments, and tools in an all-in-one, easily surfaced, and context-sensitive panel that shows editors everything they want to adjust and hides anything else based on the media type selected in the timeline — whether it’s video, audio, graphics, or captions. All these features are available now in beta and are planned to be generally available before Christmas. Click here for more information and to access the beta trial version of the software.
