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 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.
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.
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
Use to isolate a color or luma key and apply a secondary color correction to it.
Vigenette
Apply a vignette to achieve a look that is faded out at the edges, and bright at the center.