How to Colour Balance with X-rite in Premiere Pro

in today's video color balancing to get the ideal color and using the x right color checker to do so you're going to want to stick around what's up everybody it's shane here at waiting to be seen and i want to welcome you back to my channel for what feels like ages and it's because at the very end of july i became a dad for the very first time i have a little baby girl my wife and i are thrilled to bits but of course being a new dad means that i have very much taken up all of my brain space and all of my time dealing with my daughter so this is the first video back and i'm excited because i'm not entirely talking about color grading because color grading is is a bit more of a specialized field of dealing with color and adjusting your footage so that you can get a specific type of colored look today i'm talking about just getting white balance and and your color your natural color correct and so the way that i am doing that is using an x right color checker this is the x right color checker video it's an expensive piece of kit it might not look like much but i think i paid like 200 or 240 dollars for this a couple of years ago and the reason why it's so expensive is because all of these bits here they're actually spectrally neutral oh that's a fancy word right basically it means that whatever light source is hitting this is being reflected and this isn't absorbing any particular spectrum of color you know because our cameras see in red blue and green and some of these might actually reflect a little bit more red or it might reflect a little bit more green or blue right this actually just reflects without any spectral anomalies at all and then the same for this side so this is good for getting a white balance even though it's 18 gray but it's also good just for exposure levels because it's 18 gray there is a cheaper version of this which is called the color checker passport it does exactly the same thing but it's just about this size it's a lot smaller and can fit in your top pocket which makes a big difference so this is what we're going to be doing i'm going to show you some footage and we'll jump right in on the outset the footage doesn't look terrible it looks okay but you'll see the before and after it actually makes a really decent difference this is the basic editing workspace that you'd see and then when you click on color color automatically opens a number of different lumetri options and scopes obviously i've been playing around with this a little bit so it's going to look a little bit different what i would encourage you to do is to move the panels around so that it works best for you so let's have a look here i've got some footage you can see i'm holding up the color checker and i've got both sides showing at different points first thing i'm going to do is actually just open up the scopes a little bit more i can push the effects control over there so i don't see that so much and i'm going to open up the parade the rgb parade here so now we've got two options first things first what are we going to do we're going to drag this over a little bit and under opacity i'm just going to free draw a little bit of a a little bit of a line around let's open things up a bit let's move this around there we go that looks a little bit better doesn't it click click click click and click okay so that's now masked everything out you guys i'm pretty sure know about masks and how they work so i won't go into those details actually let me just turn off the the vector scope for a moment red blue and green they're looking pretty okay right but you can see at the moment that the red and the blue they're kind of close but the green's actually a little bit under isn't it and and to be honest the the red is probably pushed up the most if i open up basic correction the cheats way of getting things done is actually click on white balance selector and then just click on that now you'll see under lumetri scopes it has actually done a really really good job of aligning those a little bit more closely so i think that in this instance i'm probably not going to have to do a whole bunch more for now so let's have a look before and after so you can see the whole thing's moving the reds down a little bit and it's pushing the greens up a little bit yeah very cool now let's forward a little bit so that we can see the other side i'll turn on the mask again let's zoom back into 150 now what we want to do here is actually adjust the mask so i'll click on the mask and we'll just drag it so that it's uh sitting around just the inside here from the white and the two sets of gray down to the black now an important element that's kind of needs saying is that the black is actually a little bit reflective and so there it is if you see that that is actually going to skew the color because it's reflecting the light directly it needs to be seen but not reflect the light when you're using this piece of kit what we need is to see white at 100 the first gray at 60 the second gray at around 30 and then black needs to be down at zero so let's adjust that and we'll do so under the color wheels by adjusting shadows mid-tones and highlights so let's grab the shadows and we'll just pull the shadows down and you'll see that's starting to pull everything down so we'll just bring it down to the bottom if you go too far you start to crush the blacks on that floor and you don't want to do that you want it to kind of just just touch on there maybe go a little bit further but not too much now the highlights we want that to to get the highlights the white to get up towards 100 there or 255 okay and now our mid tones are going to sit in there in the middle there so let's push them in turns up so we get to 60 and 30. now you can see in getting 60 and 30 the blacks have lifted a little bit so we'll pull down the shadows again and it really is a little bit of a dance between these two at the moment so mid turns up a bit but those shadows need to come down a little bit more and now maybe that highlight can push up just a touch okay now we'll bring the midtones down a little bit it's not 100 perfect but for the sake of the video you can see what i'm doing we're getting that dialed in lumetri color before and after so the contrast is actually set correctly making a big difference we're almost there the first thing was using the 18 card the second thing is then using this the next part is then to adjust the actual colors themselves with the color swatch that we have here again we'll enable the mask let's grab the mask here and we're just going to shift the mask over a little bit we're showing just those swatches using the uh parade isn't exactly what we need right now let's jump into the vectorscope and we're going to use the vectorscope with the y u and v values i'm going to turn off the parade for now because this is what we really want to see at the moment let's close the color wheel and match what we're going to be using is the curves so let's open that up and we're actually going to use the hue and saturation curves rather than the rgb curves now the first thing that i want to do is actually just under hue versus saturation is let me just move these over a little bit so you can see this a bit clearer okay at these points here you can see there's these intersections of lines those intersections if i click on that that is actually this point here this yellow point here so let's pop one on the green pop one on the cyan pop one on the the blue pop one on the magenta and you can see that it's it's really difficult to kind of get the red just underneath just drag that along a little bit and you'll then be able to do so a lot easier okay there we go what we're going to be doing is we're going to take all of the hue versus the saturation and we're going to say okay for this particular hue we want to push that out or pull that in so that it sits at 50 well in those squares it is 100 saturation and at the middle it's completely desaturated so what we want to do is to move each of these points that we've just created under hue versus saturation so that it sits at around 50 halfway between that center dot and the square let's start with the yellow i think the yellow is currently a little bit too far so let's pull that in a little bit we'll try and be gentle with it now the green the greens probably looking okay that cyan is definitely a little bit too soft so we'll boost that cyan yep the blue the blue might be a little bit too much maybe we'll drop the blue a little bit we'll see we'll come back to that the magenta is probably also a little bit too much i think i don't want to move it around too much and the red that red is probably also a little bit too much so really i think that we've boosted the greens and the cyan and everything else seemed kinda close that wasn't too bad looking at this can you tell what's wrong with it is there any chance you can tell what's wrong with it i'm looking at and going well the green and the cyan they don't actually seem to be aligned with the green box and the cyan box perfect that's because the white balance isn't quite accurate and so that's where adjusting the color is going to make it accurate so let's do that the way that we do that is to go to the next tab the next box which is hue versus hue so let's just uh add some of those markers green seems to be a little bit off so you're not going to have to move this around all that much if i adjust this up a little bit you'll see it's starting to push towards yellow so we're going to actually want to drag that down a little bit so that it is aligned with that green a little bit more and that's looking a bit better and then i think the cyan can probably push a little bit not too much the blue blue seems to be just a tiny tiny bit off doesn't it so let's let's try and just a touch siam cyan blue yeah they're looking good yellow i think that seems to be okay the red the red seems to be a little bit off as well doesn't it so let's let's slightly adjust that now you can see i'm not having to do an awful lot with it it's just it's just slightly tweaking it and now that we've got that i can see that the cyan is probably can probably push even a little bit more if i come back up to hue and saturation now let's push that let's boost that back up a bit the blue i think maybe can even come up a little bit let's boost that a bit more and maybe that yellow maybe that yellow can come back up a bit now so it's it's almost now a perfect perfect wagon wheel in the scope let's do this back to 100 fit the window let's turn off that opacity look at that so lumetri color before and after before and after and so there it is how to get the most color accurate footage that you can using the color checker video in premiere pro i hope that that has been of use to you and if it has then give me a thumbs up down below let me know that you've enjoyed it and please leave a comment let's have a 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Length: 13min 51sec (831 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 11 2020