Preview files are often considered something one should simply purge from the system every so often. They can take up MASSIVE amounts of space, are rarely used in export computations, and can be regenerated if needed. No particular reason I know of to save them with project archive work.

Neil

Color Correction & Grading with the Lumetri

The current operation of Direct Link is not what my "ideal" would be. Say, you do something in the PrPro Color Workspace, which uses the Lumetri stuff (which is actually SpeedGrade's color "engine") and then go to Sg ... that Lumetri work you did in PrPro is LOCKED in Sg ... you can't touch it. Very ... non-intuitive, to be mild.

Using Sg's own color software, in PrPro, creates a "layer" that I can't touch in Sg? Bizarre. This is ... well, rather known to the interior staff. I hope it's clear enough that with a few changes that are promised soon this will be fixed also. There are a couple things that get totally locked up from the Mac side ... such as say clicking the eyeball to turn off a layer from the PrPro workspace while in Sg ... can at times result in that layer just going buh-bye. Permanently. So there are a few tech fixes that must be rolled out soonest.

That's why currently I do most of my grade/look work in Sg and skip the new workspace that on first trial, I was thrilled with. As far as basic grading goes, the color workspace in PrPro can't touch the speed and controls within even a Di-Link workflow from PrPro to Sg to PrPro.

I like the layout of the tools of Sg vastly better than say Color Finesse over in Ae. Sg's a bit of an odd duck, but quite a capable one once you get the feel for it. Just hoping we can get some of the tech problems totally handled for once. Ah well ... tomorrow is another day! ;-)

Neil

Handy to know that there is a custom keyboard shortcut available to bypass the effects.

Dunno if it's been cover but to add LUTs to Color workspace, you can "Show Package Contents" over PR (mac), then go through Contents > Lumetri > LUTs > Technical and drop there a copy of your LUTs. They will show at input LUT's drop-down list =)   I wish though there was a next/previous button option, as 3D Lut Creator has, to go through a set of "looks" much faster... and also being able to apply them as the output...

@mo7ies I'd either believe them or try it yourself. As I said, it's not really my use case.

That animation feature is kind of cool.

@mo7ies That's not something I do a lot, but if video effects transfer cleanly, then I suspect that it would (it's implemented as a video effect).

I just noodled around a bit with Premiere Pro CC2015 and some old GH2 leftover footage. So far it works fine (MB Looks, Lumetri Color, Warp Stabilizer...) Just 1 crash with Twixtor Pro when I deleted a keyframe - maybe my fault. Only one thing is getting on my nerves => the playhead runs pretty stuttery...

@matt_gh2 Ah, so it's $599/yr no matter what at this stage, new or CS3 above owner. If you are a BUSINESS (not shooting cat videos and paying $600 to upload to youtube), you get the "BUSINESS" from ADOOBIE and have to pay more...

For that money every year since they started the cloud subscription as service scam, I think there's not much I couldn't accomplish for regular editing with the older versions via 3rd party plug-ins and an updated GPU anyhow at this stage since CC still has no REC 2020 with HDR features for 4K/8K H.265 Blu Ray mastering, 3D, VR, etc, things that would make me want to upgrade from the "OLD" 4K H.264 2D timeline in CS 5.5...

@eatstoomuchjam When you import PPro project into After Effects, will color settings transfer from PPro to AE or not?

Jimminy Christmas. The Lumetri stuff is niiiccee!

Morph cut is a cool new tool ... and there's some long-needed improvements to aligning/setting-up audio tracks. But ... yea, 16Gb RAM isn't really fun to work with. 32Gb minimum, AND an SSD disc for cache purposes also. And it will use everything you give it in RAM up to at least 64Gb.

Neil