Color Grading in Premiere Pro, would you use it?

It seems like color grading is getting easier, just like Lightroom!

http://nofilmschool.com/2015/04/premiere-pro-massive-color-upgrades-recent-adobe-announcement

Not sure how much it would degrade the video, but not everybody is shooting RAW video and they get by and okay with grading color. So, would the underwater video community just skip it, or give it a try?

Wow! I'm using premiere pro and love it!!

Pardon my ignorance but does color grading is only for RAW?

I use Premiere Pro color correction effects quite intensively but have yet to shoot in RAW

Also, when is this new update will be available? I checked my copy and it has not being updated yet.

Bona

Those are "colour correction" tools as much as they are "colour grading tools". And the new tools look really great. They've got me seriously pondering switching from Vegas to Premiere. Not keen on the subscription model though.

Colour correction/grading is not just for RAW. I use it on every single clip I publish, be it DV, HDV or MP4 4K in origin. RAW can take more tinkering without degrading, but I have no problem with my formats. I usually just use a single Sony Color Curves FX in Vegas, but it's really fiddly.

The built in color correction tool in Premiere use to be slow and sucks. So I tried the Davinci Resolve route, which require you to use Premiere to put together your sequence, then run through Davinci to do the color, then run back to Premiere for the final transition editing and publish. Davinci is fast and powerful, and FREE. It's the industry standard for color grading. But the round trip between Davinci and Premiere makes the workflow kind of messy.

With the new update in Premiere, it looks like the built in color correction plug in is faster, so should be good for 4K editing. Not sure when the new Premiere update will be available. It's just announced, so perhaps it's rolling out in the US then to Asia later?

The built in color correction tool in Premiere use to be slow and sucks. So I tried the Davinci Resolve route, which require you to use Premiere to put together your sequence, then run through Davinci to do the color, then run back to Premiere for the final transition editing and publish. Davinci is fast and powerful, and FREE. It's the industry standard for color grading. But the round trip between Davinci and Premiere makes the workflow kind of messy.

 

With the new update in Premiere, it looks like the built in color correction plug in is faster, so should be good for 4K editing. Not sure when the new Premiere update will be available. It's just announced, so perhaps it's rolling out in the US then to Asia later?

Thanks Thani, I didn't know Resolve 12 will be release soon. I actually play with some of the editing feature in Resolve, after image stabilization, the preview speed in Resolve make it not usable for me to edit clip because I only have 1 GPU, and if I were to use Resolve as my primary editor, I will need to spend another $300 for a 2nd nVidia gpu, preferably the Titan or Quadro line.