Alexis Van Hurkman on being the Senior Product Manager if Color and working on and releasing New Color Management system

From Alexis Van Hurkman’s blog and his first blog post in years (I had no idea he had joined Adobe). A very interesting read.

With the new baby, I have so little time right now to play with Premiere, but this is something that has been needed for so long, now if only they would come up with a REC.709 Color space that doesn’t have the Quicktime Color Shift (like BlackMagic has done).

Oliver Peter’s digital film on Premiere Pro 2025’s new color management

Premiere Pro 2025 Color Management

This is so important because color management is so important so people need to understand the new system before starting a new project.

And I know DaVinci is a competitor now since Resolve edits, but wouldn’t settings directly setup to move to resolve for real color correction be great, unless Adobe plans on bringing back Adobe Color!

What’s New in Premiere Pro (Beta)

And a little more depth on the updated context sensitive Properties Panel that lets you make some changes to multiple clips at once (which is so very exciting).

The color management system is very exciting, and I glad Premiere will take an active role in your color management much like DaVinci Resolve’s Color Managed or ACES workflows, though I do hope it works better than the ARRI AMIRA plug in that was forced on us so long ago.

You can actually read about the Color Management System in the user manual from the previous August 16th, 2024 update, though the manual does not seem to have been updated to the latest and new Properties panel.

And any ProRES acceleration is always welcome, always! I just want some Black Magic acceleration as well!