Color settings

Easily modify your media, sequences, or display-related color settings under a single workspace in Adobe Premiere Pro.

The Color workspace offers all color-related settings bundled into a single place for easy discoverability and simple use.

The Settings tab under Lumetri Color consolidates Preferences, Project color settings, Source Clip color settings, Sequence color settings, and Sequence Clip color settings.

Preferences

• Display Color Management: Displays accurate color values on any monitor.
• Extended Dynamic Range Monitoring: Displays out-of-range color values without clamping when available.

You can also have a transmit device sub-section listing all the transmit devices connected and an option to enable or disable video streams for each device and access their settings.

Project color settings

Under the Project section, modify the target luminance for 100% white color when working with HDR workflows under the HDR Graphics White (Nits), set the method by which LUTs will interpret color information through 3D LUT Interpolation, or select Viewer Gamma from the dropdown menu, which was only available under Project Settings.

Enable Color Manage Auto Detected Log and Raw Media to apply automatic log color management to the project, or Enable Color Space Aware Effects to enable the color space-aware version of effects that require special handling when used in a Working Color Space other than Rec. 709. Individual sequences can override this.

Source Clip color settings

The color settings under Source Clip allow you to manually override the default color space and specify the media color space.

Apply Input LUT or Override Media Color Space from the drop-down. These settings can be applied to the source clip from the selected sequence in the timeline or the selected source clip in the project bin.

You can select Preserve RGB to disable the automatic input to working color space conversion for this source media. You may still assign an Input LUT to perform this conversion. Does not affect the working of the output color space conversion in a sequence.

Sequence color settings

The section allows you to modify the sequence settings for the clip selected in the timeline or the sequence selected in the project bin.

Under the Sequence section, you can modify the Color Setup, Output Color Space, or the Output Peak Luminance. Under the Advanced section, you can select:

• Working Color Space: To decide in which color space the video will be edited.
• Input Tone Mapping: To tone map wide-gamut media to fit into the Working Color Space prior to color adjustments, using an automatically chosen method found in the Sequence Clip controls.
• Input Gamut Compression: To selectively compress the out-of-range colors of media in a larger color space to fit within the currently selected Working Color Space.
• Output Tone Mapping: Applies tone mapping after all effects have been applied, to fit the resulting Working Color Space image data into the Output Color Space. You can choose from multiple tone mapping methods.
• Highlight Saturation: Controls how much saturation is allowed in the highlights of tone-mapped images.
• Knee: Controls the threshold of tonality below which the image is untouched, but above which the highlights are compressed by tone mapping.
• Output Gamut Compression: Selectively compresses the out-of-range colors of images in a larger color space to fit within the currently selected Output Color Space. This happens after all effects have been applied.
• Graphics White Override: Sets the desired maximum luminance level (white) used by generated titles, graphics, and SDR media when Output Color Space is set to HLG or PQ. This prevents SDR media from being too dim compared to the rest of an HDR program, and prevents titles from being too bright.
• Color Space Aware Effects: Enable the Color Space Aware version of effects.

Sequence Clip color settings

These settings apply to the clip selected in the timeline.

• Color Space Input Conversion: The conversion from Media Color Space to Working Color Space.
• Color Space Output Conversion: The conversion from Working Color Space to Output Color Space.
• Input Gamut Compression: Selectively compresses the out-of-range colors of media in a larger color space to fit within the currently selected Working Color Space. This happens before any effects are applied.
• Input Tone Mapping: Turn on to tone map wide-gamut media to fit into the Working Color Space prior to color adjustments, using an automatically chosen method found in the Sequence Clip controls. This is typically used when the working color space is not wide-gamut.
• Exposure: This option lets you adjust the exposure prior to Input Tone Mapping, enabling you to retrieve additional highlight details that are overly compressed.
• High Saturation: Controls how much saturation is allowed in the highlights of tone-mapped images.
• Knee: Controls the threshold of tonality below which the image is untouched, but above which the highlights are compressed by tone mapping.