At Adobe MAX, former Warner Bros. Discovery senior colorist and Adobe senior product marketing manager Jason Druss demonstrated how to make videos look gorgeous in Premiere, removing the guesswork and unlocking your creative ability to color like a pro.Druss started off by noting that there’s been a common issue that anyone trying to color manage their media has faced. We've all been there—you carefully shoot in Log to capture maximum color information, download an expensive LUT pack online, apply it to your footage, and... it looks terrible on 25% of your clips. As Druss puts it candidly: "Does it always look good? No. It doesn't, right?"The issue runs deeper than bad LUTs. Premiere’s legacy color pipeline was fundamentally limiting. Even when shooting Log format and capturing large amounts of color data, everything was being tone-mapped to Rec. 709 the moment you imported it—like trying to stuff an 18-inch pizza into a personal pizza box.The Solution: Wide Gamut Color Pipeline in PremiereReleased in Premiere 25.2, Adobe completely rebuilt the entire color processing pipeline. This isn't a patch or workaround—it's a ground-up redesign that solves what Druss estimates are "95% to 98% of the problems that a lot of us have had with color grading in Premiere." The best part? Implementation is simple. Just navigate to your sequence settings, select Color Management, and switch from "Direct Rec. 709" to "Wide Gamut." That's it. Editors can now focus on the image, getting right to editing with great-looking footage.Druss explained and provided examples of...
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