New features summary

This document describes the new and changed features in the Premiere Pro CC June 2013 release:

Video: New features overview

SpeedGrade has several user interface enhancements to help you color grade your footage quickly and more intuitively than before.

The first thing you’ll see when you launch SpeedGrade is the redesigned user interface. The user interface provides a more familiar screen layout for Adobe Premiere Pro users. The important tools and controls that you need are available for immediate access, helping you quickly accomplish your grading tasks.

The use interface contains a main toolbar and tabs on the upper right of the screen. The tabs are in the sequence of the SpeedGrade workflow: locating your media, grading, rendering, and reviewing the final output.

For more information, see SpeedGrade workspace.

Look Management Browser

The Look tab now has a Look Management Browser to effectively organize, view, or minimize the Look presets (.look files) that you save.

The Look Management Browser provides the following three different views to display Look presets.

Displays the Look presets as thumbnails in multiple rows. You can view several .look files at once. You also have a tree-view navigation structure to set the default Looks folder.

Displays Look presets as thumbnails in a single row

Displays the Look Management Browser in a tabbed-browser view without displaying any thumbnails. This view gives the Monitor panel more screen space for your grading work.

Video tutorial: Apply looks with Look Manager

Snapshot View and Snapshot Browser

SpeedGrade provides you a Snapshot view that lets you quickly capture and save a snapshot of your footage. You can capture still images of your grades to use as a scene reference, or to guide grading on other shots. You can view the images using the Snapshot browser.

For more information, see Snapshot View and Snapshot Browser.

You can also import images from other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, and view the image inside SpeedGrade using the Snapshot view. You can then use the image as a reference to grade your footage. 

For more information, see Matching a Photoshop grade.

Continuity Checker and Automatic Shot Matcher

SpeedGrade now lets you quickly compare multiple shots on the timeline using the Continuity Checker, and match the color grading as required.

The new Shot Matcher feature in SpeedGrade automates the process of matching color between different clips.

The Continuity Checker is often used in combination with the Shot Matcher feature.

For more information on using these features, see Continuity Checker and Shot Matcher.

Video: Overview of Shot Matcher

New Luma Waveform and Analysis Tools panel

SpeedGrade provides various tools, like the following, to analyze your image:

• Histogram
• Vectorscope
• RGB Parade
• Luma Waveform

The new Luma Waveform scope displays a representation of the luminance of your images, helping you achieve precise black-and-white balancing.

All the image analysis tools are now grouped together and available from a separate Analysis Tools panel.

To display the Analysis Tools panel, use the keyboard shortcut W, or click the arrow on the upper-left Monitor panel. You can adjust the size of the Analysis Tools panel using the drag handles.

For more information, see Image analysis tools.

Flexible layout display and color precision options

Support for Tangent Element

Apart from supporting hardware devices like the Tangent CP 200 panels and Tangent Wave, SpeedGrade now also supports Tangent Element.

Other changes

Mercury Transmit support for third-party video hardware

Mercury Transmit integration in SpeedGrade lets you use a second display for reference monitoring by using supported video I/O cards from AJA and Matrox. 

To use the devices with SpeedGrade, In the Preferences dialog box, select Display to view and enable the compatible devices.

Support for nVidia SDI

SpeedGrade continues to support nVidia's Quadro SDI Output cards, enabling efficient SDI monitoring of the graphics-to-video output workflow.

New and changed default keyboard shortcuts

For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard shortcuts in SpeedGrade CC.

Keyframe shortcuts

Look Browser and Snapshots Browser shortcuts

Other new or changed shortcuts

Removed shortcuts