Adobe: SpeedGrade is stopped

[12:32 Tue,29.August 2017 by Rudi Schmidts]

Already a year ago, there were the first signs that Adobe&s love for SpeedGrade as a separate application in the creative cloud will not last forever. So the DirectLink connection to Premiere was cut and the compatibility to Premiere&s project format was no longer updated.

Now Patrick Palmer has confirmed in a blog post that SpeedGrade will officially die product death (EOL) starting next week. This is primarily due to the fact that SpeedGrade in the Lumetri panels within Premiere lives on and that a tightly interlocked integration within Premiere makes more sense for most users. However, we can only partially follow this argumentation: If you are serious about colorgrading, you simply need an optimized interface that is not currently available in Premiere.

It can now be said that DaVinci Resolve is going the other way round and a cutting system is integrated into its Grading Suite, but in our opinion the approach of the separate surfaces for the respective applications is more stringent.

The current Lumetri integration reminds us much more of Colorista or Magic Bullet Looks, which is definitely justified for fast results. However, if you are a professional or passionate person, you will not be satisfied with the current integration in Premiere and will certainly rather rely on Resolve, Scratch, Lustre, Baselight or similar standard applications.

And it is precisely this competition that Adobe no longer opposes its own application, which somehow does not quite match the philosophy of the All-In-One CC-Suite. But perhaps the market for professional grading is simply too small. Apple had not served the market for colorists with "Color" at that time because of the lack of mass. But that was before DaVinci Resolve opened up to the masses...

more infos at bei blogs.adobe.com

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