Premiere JUST Destroyed Color Wheels

By Olufemii
Published: Nov 08, 2026

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Premiere’s new Color Mode shipped with no lift, gamma and gain wheels and no curve control. Colorists noticed right away. I wanted to know why Adobe left them out on purpose, and whether the people complaining or the people cheering have it right.

With Alexis Van Hurkman, who designed Color Mode and wrote the Color Correction Handbook, and Jason Druss, who runs marketing for Color Mode at Adobe and spent years as a colorist before that.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Where are the curves?
1:09 Where the wheels came from
3:09 The pitch to Adobe
5:30 The backlash, and who came around
6:34 Why no curves
7:07 What is a zone?
9:26 The curves are still in there
12:03 The reset for editors
14:13 Having an opinion

SOURCES
No Film School podcast with Jason Druss
Colorist Society podcast with Alexis Van Hurkman
Adobe Color Mode support videos with Alexis Van Hurkman
Adobe, Color Mode First Look
The Post Flow (Alex Bartz)
ProVideo Coalition (Scott Simmons)
Mixing Light
Adobe Community forum

Color Mode is in the Premiere beta right now. Learn it, but don’t bill a client on beta features yet.

#PremierePro #ColorGrading #VideoEditing

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