Your first match, start to finish

Select your clips, pick one reference, hit Match. Five minutes, inside Premiere.

You shot on more than one camera. The cut works. The color does not. MOVON fixes that without leaving Premiere.

The whole loop takes about five minutes.

Before you start

• MOVON installed and signed in (see Install). Sign-in is your email plus a link we send. No password.
• A rough cut on the timeline. MOVON works on the cut you already have.

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

Your credits

Every account gets 1000 matched clips a month, free during the beta. One clip matched is one credit. The count resets each month. A busy multicam scene runs 20 to 60 clips, so most weeks you will not get close.

Step 1. Select the clips

Open the MOVON panel and select the clips you want matched. The panel counts them as you go.

Select clips that should end up looking the same. A night interior and a daylight exterior in one selection asks for one look that fits neither. Match them in two passes instead.

Step 2. Pick one reference

This is the look everything moves toward. Four choices:

• A clip from your own timeline. Usually your best A-cam shot.
• A film stock from the built-in library.
• A still you pick from your computer.
• A Look you saved earlier, so a series keeps one look across episodes.

This is the one step where your eye matters. Everything after it is automatic.

Step 3. Hit Match

Click Match. MOVON reads the color from your clips and your reference, sends only those numbers to our servers, and computes one grade per clip. Your footage never leaves the Mac.

The grades come back already applied to your timeline. No files to handle, no extra apply step. Everything lands as one undo step: press Cmd+Z once and the timeline is exactly as it was.

Speed check: the beta has matched 19,156 clips since July at a median of 1.2 seconds per clip.

Step 4. Look, then adjust

The match should get you most of the way. Two knobs:

• Too strong? Pull the intensity back on the MOVON effect on the clip.
• One clip off? Fix the selection or pick a cleaner reference and match again. A new match replaces the old one; they do not stack.

When it looks wrong

Check these, in order:

1. A green or magenta cast everywhere? Your reference had a cast nobody noticed. Pick one with cleaner whites and match again.
2. A clip in the selection that should not be there? Take it out and match again.
3. A clip that will not match at all? Check Problem Clips in the panel. It names the reason, most often offline media.

More at Match looks wrong.

That is the whole loop

Select clips, pick a reference, Match. It stays three steps no matter how many cameras you add.