Okay, so hopefully we're able to figure out how to get these two clips to match. Here's how I would do it. I would first go to my overexposed clip and fix that one too. How I like it and then go back to the underexposed and try to match it to the overexposed shot rather than trying to do them both at one time. I think it's better to just get one right and then match the other one. So with I'm just gonna go with my timeline indicator right in between the two. And then I could literally just press the left arrow key and then the right arrow key to go back and forth between these two clips and edit them. So with this overexposed clip I'm going to take the exposure slider and overall just drop it down. So I think doing that, something like that is good. I could try to take my whites down because I want some more detail in that salt. But as you can see if I do that, even with the highlights, it's not getting any detail back from the salt. And that's an issue with the filming of it. You have...

to be mindful of the kind of detail you lose when you have an over exposed part of your frame. Sometimes fixing it in post is not an option. So I'm just going to leave that how it is because I like the contrast when I decrease the whites you see and the highlights, you see that I'm losing a lot of that contrast and I don't like that for this particular shot. So just with the exposure to get it to a spot that you like, negative 1.8, that seems to be perfect for me now, I'm just going to go back to my underexposed shot and try to match it. So first I can just try to match it with the explosion exposure slider. I can increase it and just compare contrast. What I'm looking at is the wall. So I'm just staring at this part of the wall, going back and forth trying to get it to match. And let's see as soon as I get there, I'll be happy. Something like 1.5 that's pretty darn close. But as I go back and forth, what I noticed is the overexposed image has lots of contrast because actually decreasing and overexposed clip will increase contrast while increasing and underexposed clip will actually make it less contrasted and more flat. So first I can take this contrast slider and just crank this up, Crank it up until it looks similar to the amount of contrast in the other clip that is pretty darn good, I could even go a little bit farther. That is looking pretty darn good. There's a couple small things that are different now and one thing is when I increase the contrast that brought up the highlights or the wall so I can go in here for the underexposed and actually dial back the wall just a little bit, something like that is pretty good and the other thing is right here I can tell this kind of is a little bit brighter than this. So the overexposed shot, this coaster stack is a little bit brighter then on the underexposed image so I can go to my underexposed and just with the shadows, bring those up just a little bit, the light is just a little bit different and maybe that's just because of when we were shooting, you know, light might have changed but that is pretty darn close if we play through this aside from you see the cut because there's a change in the position. But if we go here and close these down and out of transition, you would barely be able to tell that there's a difference between those two clips, it's barely anything right there. Let's make this crosses all even shorter. That is pretty darn close the this is still a little bit dark. Let me bring this back up a touch. Okay, that's I mean no one's gonna notice that except for you. You can try to protect this stuff until you go crazy, but that's pretty good. Hopefully that helps you. Hopefully that's kind of what you were doing and hopefully you got something as close as I did if you win about this another way, please let me know post your clip, post a screenshot of your clip and let us know what adjustments you made to your clip to get them to match. Thanks for practicing. I hope you're enjoying this course so far and we'll see you in another lesson.

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Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Lesson Info

57. Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video