Adobe need to think seriously about Grading in AE CS6

[Paul Steinberg]

The trouble with a lot of these suggestions is that the others apps (like Scratch) are not cross-platform. I don't think Adobe wants to go down the route of a Windows-only or Mac-only solution.

What seems far more doable would be to integrate an optimized version of Colorista II into Premiere Pro and build a color correction mode or workflow around that. The plug-in's toolset is close enough for a lot of complex grading tasks. Coupled with access to the RED SDK, it's a pretty powerful answer to 90% of the grading work that people do. Right now Colorista II is a slug inside Premiere Pro, because of the terribly plug-in API. Premiere Pro also has no scene-by-scene process.

Fix these two things and you'd go a very long way towards turning Premiere Pro into a viable grading solution, that's at least on par or better than Avid Symphony.

- Oliver

Amen brother, Amen!

It seems like the Holy Grail is so close. If ColoristaII would behave in Premiere like it does in AE what a wonderful world it would be. If ColoristaII would be MPE enabled (hey Adobe have similar MPE colour grading tools, they're just impossible to use) the future would be all rainbows and unicorns.

 

[Rob Ruffo]

Amen brother, Amen!

It seems like the Holy Grail is so close. If ColoristaII would behave in Premiere like it does in AE what a wonderful world it would be. If ColoristaII would be MPE enabled (hey Adobe have similar MPE colour grading tools, they're just impossible to use) the future would be all rainbows and unicorns.

100% agree - If Colorista II were Cuda and had some grade snapshot utility in PPro that would be truly amazing.