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Video Colour Correction in Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta

Julieanne Kost walks us through the video capabilities of the latest release

I’ve been a Lightroom user since its first beta, and there have been many times in the years since when I thought: I wish I could use Lightroom to colour correct my video footage. Well, it turns out the crew at Adobe Labs was thinking the same thing because they’ve introduced the ability to view, add metadata, do simple edits and even colour correct video footage in Lightroom 4 beta.

Yes, you can do all these things already in other video editing programs, but the point here is that you can log all your clips, do colour correction and output them: QUICKLY, all while doing the same with your photos.

Now you can sort through your photos and scrub through you video clips all in the same software. Lightroom 4 allows you to set simple in and out points for your clips, colour correct or grade an entire batch of shots using the same settings (by editing a single video frame), and output your clips for editing in another program or email your footage directly from within Lightroom.

I’ve always been a BIG fan of Adobe Lightroom because it’s intuitive, powerful and dead simple compared to Photoshop–which is still one of the main tools I use. Now that Lightroom handles video, it really matches the workflow of a DSLR shooter who shoots both video and photos. This is just the beginning but I think we can all imagine where things are headed.

Get it, try it for FREE and tell me what you think:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/