There's a post over on one of the Panny GH4 threads here from a guy demo'ing how to grade vid footage in Photoshop CC. I knew of people that are Ps experts that use Ps as their entire video "suite" ... create timelines, "tracks", layers & all completely done in Ps, hadn't thought of using it as simply a grading tool.

Why would you? To get the full controls of Adobe's "ACR" set ... curves, hue sat & luminance, luminance/color noise controls, everything ... and use it on video footage. I've complained to Adobe that I do wish that Speedgrade had an equivalent of the hue/sat/luminance section of ACR, and know it's on the list of things to add ... well down the list, though.

What does the hue/sat/luminance section do that's so quick & handy? They have eight "colors" ... red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, & magenta ... with three different controls for each: the hue, the saturation, and the luminance. It's pretty dang slick. Say your footage (or maybe the camera itself) is a bit too blue-ish in the magentas? No problem ... slide the magenta hue control towards red (away from blue-reddish/purple).

Your greens dead & lifeless? Well ... do they need a luminance lift, or do they need to be darker? Use the luminance control for the greens. Should they be yellower or bluer? Grab the hue slider & give it a try. You can use this just for the particular piece you're working on, or if' you've created a "standard" one you'd like to use for a camera/lens combo, you can save that as a preset.

I've used this in stills a LOT ... especially in Lightroom. Rather awesome tools, frustrating not to have in video.

Well ... notes the guy that did the vid tutorial, you CAN do this in Photoshop CC ... open a clip in Ps, turn it into a 'smart' object, take that into ACR (all from standard menu choices or keyboard shorts) ... then use any of the several tabs worth of controls including some pretty decent noise, grain, and sharpening tools ... then save-as to render the footage out completely when done.

So ... it would take some time to do the final output renders, which is what you would then bring into your NLE. And though you can only grade one clip at a time and the ENTIRE clip will have the one "look", you can save that look as a preset to apply to other similar clips. So ... for those of us doing things with a not-too-huge number of clips that will have realistically only one set of adjustments per clip, the ACR controls in Photoshop might be worth looking at.

I've used them on stills from my GH3, and they clean up the magenta plasticine skin quite easily, which is why it was frustrating that I had to learn to work a secondary and tweak what's "chosen" for it & how it's modified in Speedgrade, to do the same thing I can do in Lr/ACR in a couple seconds.

For some of my jobs this should work brilliantly. Can't wait to get home, get my new hot-rod computer (that's sitting by my desk right now!) all set-up with my programs loaded into it, my set of working discs installed (yea, got six discs my workflow is spread over, some internal some external, ALL going internal on the new box) ... and give this a whirl on some GH3 footage. I think it would also make a quick job of matching D600/GH3 footage for 'basic' grading.