Adobe adds colour grading mode to Premiere Pro

Adobe has added Color Mode, a colour grading platform, to its editing platform Premiere Pro.

Now in private beta, Color Mode is a complete rebuild of the previous colour rading options in Premiere Pro, and hopes to allow editors to grade their work without the need to pass it onto a full-time colourist. 

Tools in Color Mode include Clip Grid, which allows users to grade sections of a video or the entire sequence, bi-directional controls to adjust aspects such as contrast and pivot, temperature and tint, and more, styles that can be applied in a single click and then edited, and more. 

Color Mode was designed in collaboration with hundreds of editors, as well as Alexis Von Hurkman, who has worked on Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve’s colour grading tools in the past. 

A statement from Adobe on the release said, “Editing video used to be defined by the cut. These days, if you’re an editor, you’re probably doing everything yourself from end to end, including the hardest part of the workflow: color. For too long, proper color grading meant one of two things: hand it off to a professional colorist or fight your way through applications that pull you out of your edit entirely and force you to study out-of-reach pro-colorist tools that were never designed for you.

“To solve that pain, today we’re releasing Color Mode in Premiere (beta), a first-of-its-kind color-grading experience purpose-built for the way editors actually think and work. For the first time, professional color tools meet you where you are, making color grading feel like a natural, intuitive extension of the edit itself.”