How To Color Correct In Premiere CC

hello ladies and gentlemen the gentlemen of course an audience and your host for today's lesson and this of course is Renata stuff I am so excited for today's lesson super excited you have no idea how excited you've started a lesson not every video I put out on this channel is going to be easy like today's lesson color grading in premier get it together there he is oh you heard me right today we are color grading in premier now color correcting or color grading in a nutshell is basically a way to make your footage look more pleasing if you shoot at the wrong color temperature or if your white balance is off you're going to want to correct that so that your footage looks accurate I'm not claiming I have all the answers but today I'm going to give you my best practices for color grading now there's no right or wrong way to do this in fact color grading is very subjective to you and what you think looks good but today I'm basically going to run you through all the tools that you'll need to be successful and then of course you're going to take what you learned in today's lesson and apply it to your own footage color grade your own footage don't copy me or do the clip that we're going to be using is in the video description below so you can follow along Oh anyway open up premiere can brain started right now alright guys on my timeline I've got this picture of this painting in my living room this is the same clip you can download from the video description so if you want to follow along make sure you download this clip and throw it onto your timeline but we're not going to be working in the editing view we are going to just come over here to the color view and this will open up our color grading section of premiere now over here on the right we have a couple different options that we can choose from we have basic correction creative curve color wheels HSL secondary and vignette we will be going over all of these today now this clip right here doesn't look all that impressive and that's because I've shot it in a very flat color profile and the reason I did this is because I want to be able to color great it to look great instead of shooting something that's already really saturated and really contrasting and then trying to dial that back so if you shoot in a flat color profile it will give you more dynamic range and the ability to color great to click better once you bring it into premiere so first things first let's start off with the basic correction and under here you'll see the first thing that you come is import look now what is a lot what actually stands for lookup table and it's basically a mathematical and scientific way for let's have many uses but the most common ones are calibrating displays creating and saving color grades for later use making flat or log footage look nicer or adding style to a shot or engraving we're not going to talk about less today we're not going to deal with less we're just going to move up the next section we come to you is the white balance section so say if your video is shot at you know like 6500 or 7000 Kelvin and your color temperature you're going to bring it in and it's going to look really warm so what you would do is you would actually pull this down towards the cooler side to cool it off and you're going to want to try to get your white in the shot to be as white as possible now any of these values if you double click it will reset to zero quick little tip so you guys know there little eyedropper up here that actually if you click on it and you click on anything that's white in your frame and what that's going to do is it's going to tell premiere to ship this color temperature in tint in a way that actually makes this white now you see one point eight and negative one point two it didn't do a whole lot because I actually shot at the right white balance but you guys may have something that looks too cold or looks too warm and this is a great way for you to come in here and actually just click on something that's white and it will even it out for you or you can do it manually just by pulling these and getting it to be as close to white as possible so moving on down here we have our exposure and we have our contrast so obviously this will overexposed it this will under expose it depending on what you shot your footage in if your footage is looking a bit overexposed you may want to just pull this down to get it back to normal we have the contrast slider which will give the image more or less contrast the less contrast you have it and we're flat and boring it looks the more contrast that you give it the more defined and separated everything is in frame and you can do too much you can color grade too much so just be careful with this don't overdo it next time here we have our highlights or shadows and our wife and our blacks now the key difference between highlights and whites is that highlights are used for recovering details so if your shot is a little bit overexposed and you bring down your highlights it will give you a little bit more deep well back in those highlights where as white is actually just a way for you to tell your computer what is true white same with black what is true black like I said there is no right or wrong way to do this it's all subjective so whatever you guys think looks good go for that but if you do want to get scientific I recommend using scopes so if we go up to window and we go to Lumi tree scopes something like this will pop up on your computer now what exactly is this this is a way for us to see what our highs mids and lows are doing in our image so if I wanted to color correct this image over here just using scopes what I would do is I would increase the exposure a little bit to try to get this farther up towards our hive so you basically want the tops of these to be touching up here the bottoms of these to be touching down here and you want to try to spread it all out evenly across the middle so what I'll do is I'll put the exposure a little bit I'll boost the contrast and you'll see it spreads way out we're actually going to increase our wipes to try to boost this up so now I'm right at the top of my image here so I don't want to go any hotter than this trope it's going to start to look overexposed so what we'll do is we'll pull the shadows down as well to get that to kind of go more towards the bottom and we will pull down the blacks because you want the bottom of this to be touching so you see that we're kind of touching here the tops of this to be touching up here and this is all spread out in the middle and as soon as you give it the saturation you'll see that it really starts to spread out and our image over here is looking a lot different than it used to so that's just using scopes if I wanted to get really scientific with it so let's actually get out of this and let's open this again now after all the stuff that we've done here my image is looking a little bit warm we have like a lot of weird yellows happening here so I'll actually pull this a little bit colder into the color temperature so it gets a little bit cooler to even that out just a little bit more and that's actually looking pretty good some of you will not need to go this high on the saturation or the contrast but because I shot in a super flat color profile I can actually do that without my image looking too crazy so if you're not shooting in a flat color profile you may do this and you'll be like whoa I just really screwed up my image but don't be afraid of it so that is a basic run-through of the basic correction and you can actually do a lot with just this one little panel if you use your scopes you don't have to use scopes again do whatever you think looks good the scopes is just a little bit more of a scientific and like pinpoint accurate way to see what's actually going on in your image now if you don't feel comfortable using the basic correction which I would use this over what I'm about to show you so this actually is more or less the same thing as curves now some of you are used to seeing this in Photoshop or After Effects where you can actually make curved adjustments here so you can lighten it up if you just go like this you can darken it up if you pull this down here and you can start doing some really funky things to your image using curves and you can also adjust the red the green and the blue levels individually in your image I personally don't like using this at all at least for doing RGB values or even the white values I don't like this I like using basic correction but what I do like using the curves panel for is selective color saturation so I think that there's a lot of like little red squares in this painting here so what I would do is I would just come in here make a couple points in red and I would just boost this up now see what it's doing to my image see how the Reds immediately like get more saturated in the image if I pull this up we can log that off there same thing here if we want to pull it over into the orange you'll see the orange really starts to get more saturated and this is a way for you to just kind of selectively increase certain colors saturation and I think this is a really cool tool you'll see there's two little dashed lines that go all the way around the circle this is kind of like your 0.4 saturation and if you pull this outside everything will get saturated you can pull it in one direction you can desaturate everything except for just reds and oranges so you can do a lot of really cool and interesting stuff with this little hue saturation curve thing but for this I will set it back to zero and we'll leave it and we'll maybe decrease the intensity of these a little bit just so it's a little bit more saturated in the rest of the oranges which i think looks pretty cool it's whatever you guys are comfortable with if you like using curves use the curve by all means but I like to use basic correction I feel like you can get a lot closer to a perfect result using basic correction other than curve because curves you kind of just like surround with it for a really long time it can get really frustrating where basic correction gives you a much more like finite way of doing it coming up next color wheels I like to use this a lot when things are looking a little bit too warm or cold remember you can adjust shadows mid-tones and highlights color temperature individually so if I look in here and I see that my highlights are looking to blue for example I can just come in and I can warm them up a little bit by dragging this up towards yellow orange to warm up my highlights a little bit conversely I can do that same thing with my mid-tones I can make my mid-tones a little bit cooler I can bring them up and make them a little bit warmer this is a great way to do skin tones now we don't have skin tones in this example that we're showing you I'm giving you a very basic outline but I definitely play with the color wheels when you're doing this stuff and you'll notice a huge difference HSL secondary this is one of my favorite color correction tools inside a premiere because it is super super powerful for example if I wanted to just selectively pick one color out of my frame and then manipulate it that's what this is for again really great for doing skin tones but today I'm going to do it on this like keeled back accent wall so I'm going to take my eyedropper and I'm just going to click on the teal color and you'll see that it gives values for everything so the hue saturation and luminance it will automatically assign a color value too and this little checkbox down here if you click that it will start to isolate the color that you're wanting to pick now each one of these little arrows on here will do different things the bottom arrow will spread this out and make it like a softening ramp for your colors and the top arrow will actually spread out the slider so you can get more colors in so we're going to leave that where it was and we're just gonna mess with saturation and luminance so what I'm basically going to do is spread these out and just mess with it until I start getting a lot of the wall in - into the frame here so we've got the bottom half with saturation so luminance is really where this is going to make up a huge difference so there you go just like that now I've got this teal accent wall that I basically you know singled out from this this clip now you can come down here you can denoise it a little bit which will actually get rid of some of the artifacts I don't really mess with blur too much but you can blur the area that you're doing this to but I don't even really touch that healthy noise it every once in a while but now what can we do with this super interesting so if I wanted this teal wall to be a different color I can come here to the correction and I can just pull this and make it read you know and then if I turn this off you can see that it's actually taking that teal color from before I can turn this off and it's making it red or if I wanted to make it more teal I can just drag it down here into the teal blue section I can just saturate the living shot of it or I can come down here I can make it green which is kind of cool so if you're ever painting a wall in your living room and you want to see what it would look like do this hey summer leaves it's right in the middle and what I'm going to do is I'm going to come down here to my color wheels and color temperature and I'm just going to make it more blue and I'm going to you know play with the tint a little bit maybe just brighten it up give it a little bit more contrast we can mess with the temperature here and make it really blue so now it's not teal it's like this nice royal blue color which i think is pretty cool so if I turn this on and off you'll see how cool this is that you can just do selective color manipulation using HSL secondary now this does take a little while to master you will have to play with this a lot but I promise super powerful tool and really really necessary to that last but not least we have vignette and this is exactly what you think it is you can do a white or black again yet on your image this is really great for drawing the users eye into something that you want them to be looking at so if I want you to look at this painting I don't really care about anything else on the outside so I would maybe do a vignette and I would come down here and like really make it obvious that I want you to look at it that looks like garbage never do that but you can feather it and make it look nice so it kind of just draws your attention into one central area of the video so I'm going to turn that off and let's let's take a look at the before and after so this is what we started with right Oh gross flats disgusting no detail no color no nothing and then this is what we ended up with so it's pretty amazing what you can do with the premiere color grading tool now I personally still like to use DaVinci I know that that's a little like cliche to say during this video I enjoy using DaVinci it's a much more powerful color correction software but the convenience of doing it inside a premiere where I'm editing everything already you can't really beat that so last but not least is the creative tab and I always come to this one last because it gives you the opportunity to do like a faded film kind thing going on on your image but what I like to do personally is I'll come down here and I'll make an adjustment layer and I will lay the adjustment layer over my entire timeline and then I will click on this and I will just do faded film here so I'll give it a faded film look I'll maybe sharpen it a little bit you can give it some vibrance and saturation on an adjustment layer I don't do it on the individual clip because that gets clunky and then this is basically a way for you to glue everything together using an adjustment layer and give your whole project that faded film look or give it a little bit more or less saturation so you can do a lot with that but I recommend doing it on an adjustment layer so before and after it is a night and day difference and it is looking pretty awesome we did some really cool stuff with single color manipulation and single color saturation with this stuff here on the painting and I really hope that this lesson was valuable to you guys now the reason I was dreading doing this lesson is because there's so much that goes into color grading that it's kind of overwhelming what I think is right somebody else may think is wrong and vice versa and there's no right or wrong way of doing it it is so subjective stylistically if you decide to warm up everything in your shots and you just want to make everything like really warm and glowing orange and yellow like you can do that but somebody else might call you crazy because your shots are too yellow or whatever it doesn't matter what other people think right I want you guys to experiment with the knowledge and the tools that you learn in today's lesson and try to collaborate something try to collaborate the clip that I caught rated today follow along just get yourself immersed in color grading and don't be afraid of anything the more you do it the more you'll feel comfortable and the faster you'll get and they'll start really feeling confident in what you're doing with color correction now I probably forgot a lot of stuff in today's lesson and I apologize in advance for anybody who can be like hey you forgot to show that I'm sorry I just wanted to give you guys a basic rundown of the color tab so that you can really start getting more comfortable with it well I hope you enjoyed today's lesson and thank you so much for tuning in guys also thank you for subscribing to this channel it is growing so rapidly and so fast and I am so excited we are coming up on that 10,000 subscriber mark so I will be giving away want to be 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Length: 15min 44sec (944 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 22 2017