A Simple Hack for Group Color Grading in Premiere Pro

March 21, 2025

Learn a 'quick hack' to speed up your color grading workflow in Premiere (or Final Cut) by emulating DaVinci Resolve's 'groups' feature.


Why clip label colors are such a powerful post-production tool

OK, so I have a confession to make.

Group grading, as you know and love in DaVinci Resolve, isn’t actually possible in the same way in any other video editing application.

True group grading, as it is in DaVinci Resolve, lets you group shots and then apply the same grade to all of them. When you tweak one shot, it ripples out to the rest of the group.

Yet, the humble tool ‘Select Label Group’ can help you get most of the way there, and some version of it is available in all of the ‘big four’ video editing applications.

It’s also useful for a wide range of other tasks, as well.

How to speed up your color grading workflow in Premiere Pro

Select Label Group in Adobe Premiere Pro
Select Label Group

I stumbled into this workflow after receiving an edited timeline from another editor of a multi-camera interview that I needed to polish. This included color correction.


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