in this video. I want to show you how to color correct with adjustment layers. It's an easy way to apply the same color correction to multiple clips in your video sequence right now we have all these clips of Anthony speaking and I could go and copy this lou metric color effect and select all of the interview clips on my timeline and paste it. But maybe later on I might make a small adjustment to the the saturation or to the contrast as I see necessary. Then I would have to go through and edit it for all of the different clips. An easier way is with an adjustment layer. So we need a track between our interview here and the rest of this B roll and the titles up here. So I'm going to select all of these titles and the B roll just by selecting and I'm going to move it up one track. So now we have this track in between then I'm going to go to my project file, I'm going to go to the new item button and go adjustment layer. Select OK. And now we have this adjustment layer and you might want ...

to title it so you know what it is? I'll say a camera color so I know that it's the color correction for a camera. Now I'm going to put it right on top and throughout this entire video. Then I'm going to select the actual color correction for this clip right here. Actually, first I have to decide am I going to use it from this clip which I did with the look obtainable? Or this one which I did from scratch. They look very similar except for this one has have the vignette. So I think I'm going to keep the one from the vignette. I'm actually going to copy it. So select it, command see or cut it, command X. And then paste it on the adjustment layer. Command V. Control V. If you're on a pc, then I'm going to go to this next clip right here that had the previous color correction and delete that one. So now none of these clips right here from interview camera a have any color correction on the actual clip itself. This adjustment layer does though, and if I wanted to make a change, say I do want to add or decrease the vignette, say I want to just decrease the vignette, I can do it right here in the effects controls or by opening up the loo metric color panel, Change it to zero and it changes it for the entire video in one click without any copying or pacing. So I would suggest using adjustment layers when you have interview clips like this when you're editing a narrative film or a documentary with video clips from all kinds of different scenarios. This won't necessarily work from you because the color correction will be different for every clip. But when you're editing a an interview or something where it's the same lighting setup, it's the same exact correction you want to apply to all kinds of clips. Sometimes the adjustment layer will work better now you might be asking what happens when I want to use the B. Track down here. We haven't even thought about using this interview B camera and we can do that by either deleting the A camera or maybe I want to cut from the A camera to the B. Camera. So let's go through this. Maybe I wanna ugly, you know, that doesn't go viral. Maybe right here I want to cut it to the wide camera. What I can do, I can't just select the A camera and drag in because what happens is the audio gets dragged in as well. I can options select which allows me to just choose the video of this track and drag in so now the audio stays there but then it cuts to the wide image. The problem is that this adjustment layer isn't perfect for the wide shot. The wide shot settings were a little bit different. So what we can do actually is let's just open this up just a little bit so I can see more of my timeline. I can add another adjustment layer between my a camera and my B. Camera and change the settings for this B camera shot. I'm just going to duplicate this. A camera adjustment layer right here just by selecting it and pressing command C command V. Rename it by pressing, return on my keyboard and typing in. B. Camera color and put it right here above the B camera shot. Then I'm going to start out with this lou metric color effect that I already added to the a camera. So I'm going to copy that and paste it onto the B. Camera profile. Then I'm going to delete this adjustment layer where the B. Camera is shining through with my razor blade tool C. On your keyboard if you want to get to that and then V. To get back to your selection tool. So now this adjustment layer is affecting all of our B camera. I just have to brighten it a little bit so I'm just going to go down to exposure, set it to zero, maybe even point to something like that. 0.1 small adjustments so now we can cut from here to there, the color correction looks the same, the colors look the same in each of these adjustment layers are affecting all of the video clips for that camera, all the A camera and the camera. If you have any questions, let me know. Otherwise we'll see you in the next video for now. I want you to actually go through and color correct your footage not only for the interview clips but for any B roll that you've chosen to use

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Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Lesson Info

58. Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

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