Adobe just launched Color Mode, adding a full color-grading tool to Premiere that it hopes will appeal to both amateur and professional colorists. Adobe ’s professional video editing software, Premiere Pro, has been the dominant choice for independent filmmakers in both their professional freelance and creative work (85 percent of 2026 Sundance filmmakers used Adobe’s Creative Cloud), but that dominance has started to slip in recent years, as increasingly more editors are trying out and