Your first match

The 90-second version: select clips, pick a reference, Match.

The shortest possible MOVON session, on a real two- or three-camera project. The goal is one thing: a matched timeline you can scrub. Tuning and troubleshooting live in other docs.

Before you click anything

The project should already have:

• Footage imported, ideally organized by camera in the bin.
• A rough cut on the timeline. It does not have to be final.

Bring your footage in the way you normally do. Log footage is fine as it is. There is nothing to convert first.

Step 1. Open the panel

After install (see Install), MOVON shows up as a docked panel in Premiere. Window → Extensions → MOVON Match if it is not visible. Check that the panel is signed in and shows the green connected dot.

Step 2. Select the clips

Select the clips you want matched. On a first run, the simplest move is to select everything from the cameras that disagree.

Step 3. Pick the reference

Pick one reference: a clip on the timeline, a saved Look, a film stock, or a still. Every selected clip moves toward that one reference.

A good reference has clean whites and the skin you want to keep. Leave out clips with a heavy in-camera look; they make noisy references.

Nothing is applied yet. This is your checkpoint.

Step 4. Match

Click Match. The panel reads color numbers from your clips and the reference and sends only those numbers to MOVON's servers. Your footage never leaves the Mac.

When the match comes back, it is already on your clips. Play the timeline and look.

Step 5. Scrub

The cameras should now agree on whites, mids, and skin. Your creative grade comes after. The match is the step that makes one grade land the same way on every clip.

When it does not look right

Match looks wrong walks the fixes in order. The longer version of this page is Premiere workflow.