[Alex Lau]

I am a serious video maker, definitely not prof. Just want to create video for memory on my travel and my family.

I have the free version of Davinci Resolve on my computer. I have dabbled into it a few times. I understand the concept of grading in Resolve by am a lot more comfortable with Lumetri Color in Premiere Pro CC, which is my preferred NLE.

Someone had suggested that grading is more than just adjusting the brightness and contrast. Is it where LUT comes to the picture?

Exactly how LUT differs from adjusting the Lumetri Color in the adjustment layer? Is it something I create and save as LUT? Is there something that’s built-in in Premiere Pro CC? Is there any free download in the web, and how good are they?

Thanks.

[Alex Lau]

My original footage was H.264 mp4.

1. How do I edit in ProRes ?

2. Is there any need to render to ProRes?

[Alex Lau]

The beautiful thing about Premiere Pro is that each panel can be dragged to anywhere. If you use a second monitor, you can drag the timeline to the 2nd monitor and resize it to fit the entire monitor. If timeline is your issue, you may want the second monitor to be 32″ or 40″ so you can greatly enlarge the timeline.

For the playback display, Ctrl+~ would fully display the source, or the program panel.