I installed Premiere 2021 (15.2) and blacks are still broken in Lumetri compared to 2017 and earlier. It continues to be totally unusable so far as I can tell.

Following these posts by Neil you can kind of work around it, but it’s still not consistent and requires doing it all from scratch for every single…

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I played around with Resolve again after originally posting this thread, but we just have so many processes that involve not just Premiere, but other Adobe products, not to mention Premiere-specific assets that don’t need to be recreated all the time, that the time investment required to jump to another product is daunting to say the least.

I might…

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Yeah, but it’s not even like it’s just slightly bad, it’s actively destroying the image, and I don’t understand why it hasn’t been fixed in literally years and why nobody talks about.

Look at the image I posted before, which I’m reattaching here. The darker shadow areas of her coat are being totally destroyed by Lumetri in CC 2020, it’s turning…

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Here’s 2020 vs. Resolve’s RGB Parade with no color correction. Looks pretty much the same to me to be honest, though I have no idea how to replicate the same Lumetri style settings in Resolve to see if it gets split up.

I’ll have to reinstall Resolve and then maybe I can do some comparisons in how they interpret color data.

In the meantime, I think this Waveform Luma I’m attaching really shows what I’m talking about with how it’s shredding the data into chunks causing a blocky detail-destroying mess when you move the blacks to the left even in a naturally very…

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Maybe I will call them, though I also don’t think it will help since it’s been like this now for multiple versions of Premiere over 3+ years now.

What I don’t understand is how anybody is using it in its current state as it appears to be totally useless. Adjusting black levels is very basic color correction, and the whole point of using the…

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Okay, so I think I figured out what’s happening, but I have no idea why. I’m attaching a video below in which you can see two things:

1) When lifting the Blacks Premiere CC 2020 is completely lifting the floor off of the bottom instead of keeping it attached and stretching it out smoothly like CC 2071, which is what causes it to completely wash…

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Hey all,

I’ve been stuck on Premiere Pro CC 2017 because every time a new version of Premiere comes out I try and upgrade and Lumetri is totally broken when it comes to adjusting the Blacks. If you move the slider to the right even the slightest bit it washes out completely, and if you move it to the left it crushes the blacks and starts crawling…

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