Lumetri Color - Premiere Pro
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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.
Contents
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 zero.
- To add a mask go to the Effects Controls panel and add a mask to Lumetri Color.
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.
- Lefty 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.