Diversity and Dissent in Education- Premiere Pro Part II

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  • Lumertri Color is the color correcting effect in Premiere Pro
  • Lumetri Scopes are various graphic meters for assisting in color correction.

Set Up

  • Choose the Color workspace or the MML-Dual Screen workspace.
  • Make sure you can see the Lumertri Color and Lumertri Scopes panels at the same time.
  • When the the Lumertri Color panel is open Selection Follows Playhead is tuned on.
    • This makes it so that the Lumertri Color and Lumertri Scopes panels always show the clip under the playhead.

Basics Controls

  • The check box at the top right of each section can be used to bypass the entire section.
  • Double click on a slider to rest that value to it's default.
  • To add a mask go to the Effects Controls panel and add a mask to Lumetri Color.
  • Color Wheels: Drag around the circle to choose a color. Drag to the edge to increase the intensity. Double click to rest to the default.

Saving Presets

  • At the top of the Lumetri panel click the 3 horizontal lines.
  • Use Export .look to export a LUT.
    • This can be imported in the Creative section
  • Use Save Preset to export a preset.
    • This can be used to add a Lumetri Effect to a clip with all of the settings editable.

Lumetri Color Sections

  • Basic Correction: technical corrections to exposures
  • Creative: apply and adjust looks
  • Curves: refine the look using RGB Curves and the Hue Saturation Curve
  • Color Wheels: adjust shadows mid-tones and highlights
  • HSL Secondary: isolate a color to apply secondary correction
  • Vignette: apply a vignette

Basic Correction

White Balance
  • Set White Balance by using the Eyedropper tool to click on a white object in clip.
  • Use the Temperature slider to adjust color temperature.
    • Left for cooler and right for warmer.
  • The Tint slider compensates for a green or magenta tint.
    • Left to add green and right to add magenta.
Tone
  • Exposure: Sets the brightness of the clip. right expands highlights and left expands shadows.
  • Contrast: Adjusts midtones.
  • Highlights: Adjusts bright areas
  • Shadows: Adjusts dark areas.
  • Whites: Adjusts white clipping
  • Blacks: Adjust black clipping
  • Reset: resets all controls to the 0.
  • Auto: Click to automatically maximize the tonal scale and minimize highlight and shadow clipping.
    • This can be useful to start from but do not rely on it.
  • Saturation: Adjusts the saturation levels.

Creative

This section is used to apply and modify Looks.

Looks are presets designed to give the video a certain film look. You can use the included Looks, load other Looks or make custom Looks with Speedgrade.

  • Look: Use the pull down menu to choose a Look. Or click on the image to browse thru the Looks. Double click to apply it.
  • Intensity: Adjusts the intensity of the Look.
  • Faded Film: Applies a faded film effect.
  • Sharpen: Adjusts the edge definition. Too much can make the video look unnatural.
  • Vibrance: changes lower saturated colors with less effect on the higher saturation colors. Also prevents skin tones from being over saturated.
  • Saturation: Adjusts saturation of all colors equally.
  • Tint Balance: Adjust the tint of the shadows and highlights.

Curves

Use to refine the clip with RGB Curves and the Hue Saturation Curve.

RGB Curves
  • The white luma curve controls all 3 colors simultaneously.
  • Click on the red, green or blue to adjust a color independently
  • Click to add a point. Command click to delete a point.
  • Dragging up or down lighten or darkens the clip.
  • Dragging left or right increases or decrease contrast.
Hue Saturation Curves
  • Drag the white wheel outward to saturate or inward to desaturate.
  • Click on the wheel to add edit points.
  • Drag the to modify specific hues.
  • Or click one of the small circles to select a preset color range.

Color Wheels

Adjust shadows, midtones, and highlights using color wheels for more precise color adjustments.

  • Use the 3 wheels to adjust shadows, midtone and highlights.
  • Use the sliders to to increase or decrease the setting.

HSL Secondary

The hue, saturation and luma secondary section is used to isolate a color or luma key and apply a secondary color correction to it.

Control for Setting the Key
  • The H, S and L sections all have check boxes to bypass the setting
  • The top triangle controls the range of the setting.
  • The bottom triangle adds a feathering to the range.
  • Click on the gray bar to drag the range.
  • When a setting is being adjusted the display switches to the mask.
  • Click the check box next to the mask controls to turn the mask on.
  • The mask has three different display settings.
Set the Key
  1. Use one of the preset colors or use the eyedropper to pick the target color
  2. Press the command key with the eyedropper to select a 5 x 5 grid of pixels.
  3. Adjust the range and feathering of the hue.
  4. Fine tune the mask by adjusting the saturation and luma setting.
  5. Use Denoise and Blur as needed to refine the mask.
Adjust the Color
  • Use the little circles at the top to choose between one or three color wheels.
  • Each color wheel con be used to modify the selected color.
  • Each wheel has a luma adjustment slider.
  • Use the Temperature slider to adjust color temperature.
    • Left for cooler and right for warmer.
  • The Tint slider compensates for a green or magenta tint.
    • Left to add green and right to add magenta.
  • Contrast: Adjusts midtones.
  • Sharpen: Sharpens or blurs the selected color.
  • Saturation: Adjusts the saturation

Vigenette

Apply a vignette to achieve a look that is faded out at the edges, and bright at the center. 

When recording video and audio on separate devices, like a Canon DSLR camera and a flash recorder, bringing the audio and video clips to be merged together in the Project panel can be done in a few short steps.

Preparation

  • Open Premiere, create a new project folder and a new project.
  • Dual System Sound with a DSLR
  • Import the Video Files.
    1. In the Finder copy the video files to you project folder.
    2. Go to File > Import and select the video files.
  • Import the Audio Files.
    1. In the Finder copy the audio files to you project folder.
    2. Go to File > Import and select the audio files.

Merged Clips

Once your audio and video clips are imported into the Project panel, find the correlating audio and video clips you want. There should be an audio and visual sync point, such as the sound of a clapper, at the beginning of the clips. Find the sync points for both and then follow the steps below.

Creating a Merged Clip

  1. In the Project panel, double click on the video clip. This will open it up in the Source Monitor. Set the playhead at the point where the clapper hits and set the in-point by pressing I.
  2. Next set the in-point for the audio clip. Drag either end of the horizontal Zoom Bar to zoom in and then locate the clapper hit and set the in-point by pressing I.
    1. If the clapper hit does not land on a frame got to the Panel Menu in the top right of the panel and select Show Audio Time Units. Now the Playhead and be placed anywhere.
  3. After both in-points are made, select the audio and video clips in the Project panel, by pressing Command and clicking on both clips.
  4. Once they are highlighted, go to Clip > Merge Clips....
  5. In the Merge Clips dialog name the clip.
  6. For Synchronize Point select In Points.
  7. If you do not want the audio from the video file in the merged clips select Remove Audio From AV Clip.
  8. Click OK.


If you have a stereo audio file or a stereo audio track in a video file and you only want to use the left or right channel Premiere Pro has multiple ways of accomplishing this.

A common a example would be a stereo file with audio on the left channel and silence on the right channel.

Effects

  • The Fill Left with Right or Fill Right with Left audio effects can be used to duplicate the audio from one channel to another.


  1. Select the audio clip in the Timeline.
  2. Open the Effects panel.
  3. Expand the Audio Effects folder.
  4. Drag the Fill Left with Right or Fill Right with Left effect on the clip in the Timeline.
    • Fill Right with Left duplicates the left channel onto the right channel.
    • Fill Left with Right duplicates the right channel onto the left channel.
  5. Now the audio will playback on both channels. The waveform display in the Timeline will only show audio on one channel.

Breakout to Mono

The Breakout to Mono command creates mono audio master clips from a stereo audio or video clip. The clips reference the original file. No new media is created.

  1. Select a clip in the Project panel.
  2. Go to Clip > Audio Options > Breakout to Mono
  3. Two new clips will be created in the Project panel.
  4. The new clips will have the original filename with either Left or Right added to them.
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