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Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

Lesson 41 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete Guide

Abba Shapiro

Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

Lesson 41 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete Guide

Abba Shapiro

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Lesson Info

41. Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

Summary (Generated from Transcript)

In this lesson, the instructor demonstrates how to adjust color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro CC by using the Lumetri color panel and working with master clips. He explains the challenges and problems of a sample video clip and shows how to fix them using the Lumetri color filter. The instructor also explains how to apply color correction to master clips, so that the corrections are automatically applied to all instances of the clip in the project. He also mentions the importance of checking the master clip for any accidentally applied filters. The instructor concludes the lesson by mentioning the use of third-party plugins for more advanced color correction techniques.

Q&A:

  1. What are some challenges or problems with the sample video clip shown in the lesson?

    The video clip is blown out, has a green tint, and a pink tint due to the red element in the shot.

  2. How can these challenges be fixed using color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro CC?

    The challenges can be fixed using the Lumetri color filter in the Lumetri color panel.

  3. What is a master clip and how can color correction be applied to it?

    A master clip is the original clip in the project bin. Color correction can be applied to a master clip by selecting it in the effects controls panel and applying the desired color correction filter.

  4. How does applying color correction to a master clip affect the instances of the clip in the project?

    Applying color correction to a master clip ensures that the corrections are automatically applied to all instances of the clip in the project.

  5. Why is it important to check the master clip for accidentally applied filters?

    Accidentally applied filters on the master clip can affect all instances of the clip in the project and cause confusion when viewing the clip in the timeline.

  6. What are some advantages of using third-party plugins for color correction?

    Third-party plugins can provide more advanced color correction techniques and can save a significant amount of time compared to manual color correction.

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Understanding Editing: Bootcamp Overview

07:25
2

Understanding Editing: Overview

25:25
3

Understanding Editing: Video Examples

25:07
4

Tour The Interface: Digital Video Workflow

16:38
5

Tour The Interface: Project Panel

12:28
6

Tour The Interface: Choosing Your Shot

07:18
7

Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over

10:31
8

Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

05:26
9

Tour The Interface: Edit Markers

08:46
10

Building a Rough Cut: Cut Planning

21:46
11

Building a Rough Cut: Selecting Media

25:01
12

Building a Rough Cut: The Edit

30:50
13

Building a Rough Cut: Edit Points

13:43
14

Refining Your Edit: Preparation

10:29
15

Refining Your Edit: Making Cuts

25:19
16

Refining Your Edit: Using Markers

16:31
17

Refining Your Edit: J and L Cuts

15:57
18

Refining Your Edit: Replace Edit

05:04
19

Working with Audio: Overview

17:43
20

Working with Audio: Levels

13:36
21

Working with Audio: Music

10:00
22

Working with Audio: Mixing And Syncing

14:50
23

Transitions: Overview

13:44
24

Transitions: Effect Controls

09:31
25

Filters & Effects: Overview

18:05
26

Filters & Effects: Using Multiple Filters

22:18
27

Motion & Animation: Motion And Animation Overview

09:40
28

Motion & Animation: Movement With Still Images

26:56
29

Motion & Animation: Picture In Picture

10:57
30

Motion & Animation: Motion Effects

17:08
31

Titling & Graphics: Overview

27:11
32

Titling & Graphics: Advanced Tools

11:03
33

Titling & Graphics: Roll And Crawl Effects

08:01
34

Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop

12:17
35

Speed Changes: Overview

21:12
36

Speed Changes: Stills And Variable Speeds

06:23
37

Color Correction: Overview

07:39
38

Color Correction: Lumetri Scopes

11:32
39

Color Correction: Contrast

21:37
40

Color Correction: Advanced Tools

15:12
41

Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

07:45
42

Finishing: Prepping for Output

14:53
43

Finishing: QC Edit Points

24:56
44

Sharing & Exporting: Overview

29:05
45

Sharing & Exporting: Size And Quality

24:46
46

Ingesting Media:

28:39
47

Ingesting Media: Transferring And Importing

31:15
48

Media Management & Archiving

26:10
49

Multi-Camera Editing: Overview

14:26
50

Multi-Camera Editing: Creating A Sequence

20:04
51

Multi-Camera Editing: Switching Multiple Cameras

15:31
52

Multi-Camera Editing: Finalizing

12:37
53

Creating Timelapses: Shooting Strategies

18:04
54

Creating Timelapses: Editing Images

14:21
55

Creating Timelapses: Importing Strategies

18:47
56

Creating Timelapses: Animation

05:58
57

Advanced Editing Techniques: Take Command Of Your Timeline

22:36
58

Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

07:57
59

Advanced Editing Techniques: Keyboard Shortcuts

12:00
60

Advanced Editing Techniques: Preference Hacks

21:15
61

Thinking Like an Editor: Editing Choices

31:55
62

Thinking Like an Editor: Telling the Story

23:50
63

Special Tools: Warp Stabilizer

17:59
64

Special Tools: Morph Cut

06:56
65

Special Tools: Green Screen

20:16

Lesson Info

Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

Here's an example. Now here's a shot we look at. It's a, if we look at this on the scope. And I want to have some interaction here. I want you to tell me, based upon the scope, and based upon the image, what are some of my challenges? Or what are, what's the problem? Other than it looks like nobody wants to be in Amsterdam this day. It's a little blown out. It's a little green. Maybe even a little pink. You know, from the red over here. There's my sky. I can see that. As a matter of fact, if you look at the waveform, it's kind of like a graphical representation of what's happening from left to right. You can see the elements. Colorwise, it's meh. But we wanna make it better. We should be able to make it better. I think I might have even cheated. I might have pre-baked. Let me, I wanna see if I pre-baked this. I did. I actually did it and turned it off. I would just, we can look at the finish because it's gotta, kinda crazy. So, this is, you can, I want, you can see how easily you can, ...

or not easily, this was all fixed with the lumetri color filter by going down through those steps. And if we have time I can do that. But I wanna show you something else that is a really useful feature. I talked about something called master clips. Or, adjusting color to a master clip. Let's say I shot a lot of footage. By the way, this was shot with a GoPro. Four k GoPro. It just wasn't balanced. But I shot a lot of stuff that day. And I shot some long stuff. And I wanna be able to color correct everything. Not just what's in my timeline. So I wanna point out something that's important and valuable. And you can find this in two locations. When you're inside the lumetri color panel, you'll see here, that there's two panels. One that says master. And one that says just the clip, which is oh four. It doesn't matter which one of these boxes is checked. But this is the master clip. The one that's inside of your project bin. If I go over here, to my effects controls, I have the same options. You'll notice, I fixed it on this clip that's in the sequence. Here's my fix. Turned it on and off. But if I look at the master, there's no color filter there. So what I can do, and I'm gonna show you this is a couple of examples, is, let's say, we're not even color correcting at all. Let's say I wanna make everything black and white on this reel of film we'll call it. I can go ahead and I can apply to the master clip, because this is selected as master, any filter I want. Now my filters have been relocated because we really weren't using them. Where are my filters? I don't see them. So I'm just gonna get them from here. Effects. Here they go. And we're gonna go and we'll do we discovered that there is one called black and white. Black and white. And I'm gonna actually throw this on the master. And what you see is this just turned to a really ugly color but, the point is, that's because in reality this is now black and white. And every time I use any piece of this clip, and if it's a 20 minute clip, it will come in with that correction. In this case black and white. Or any effect you want. I want to show you that you can do this with any filter. So you can color correct it. I'm gonna actually go now apply this color correction to the master of this clip. So every time I load it from the project file it will already be corrected. So to do that, I'm gonna switch back over here to the master. And there's my black and white. I'm gonna select it. And delete it. I don't want it black and white anymore. That was just for an example. I wanna go over here. And this is the clip in the timeline. I'll turn it on so you can see it. I'm gonna copy. Command c. I'm copying every change I made. And this is the clip in the timeline. The master, even though I'm clicking up here, is actually the clip in the project bin. So remember, and this is a little hard to get your head wrapped around, if I did a match frame, this is the clip from here. This is the clip, this is good. This is what I like. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just look kind of at the other side that's down here and apply that color correction. Under effects control, I'm gonna hit paste. Now in the master, it's all corrected. The reason it looks horrible here, doesn't look horrible there, is because if I look at this here, guess what, it has the same color correction on it twice. So I'm gonna go ahead and delete that. So now what I've done is I've applied it to the master so anytime I use any part of this clip in my show it's already correct. It's already neutral. I can still add a look to it. I can still add other filters to it. But I don't have to worry about, oh I have to go back and paste this in. Or do that. And it's really nice. So, the tricky thing about this is, if I load this clip into my timeline, and I look at it, I don't know at first blush that there's a filter on here unless I remembered that. Because I would have to look at the master side and then I would see that's there. I point that out, as you'd probably make the fix, but sometimes you forget that you've done this, and you're like, "I don't remember why it." And usually it's not because you color corrected it. It's because somehow you pasted like a blur, or some kind of strange thing on it, and you're like, "Every time I open this clip it looks horrible. But there is no filter on it." If that ever crosses your mind, look at the master side and see if you accidentally pasted something in. And that could cause you to have a few less headaches. So, with that, I think we're close to the end on the time. I will again open up the floor to questions about color grading. This should be enough to get you started. And hopefully to fix some of the challenges you had. When, one of the questions, and I do wanna just kind of throw that out there, one of the things that's a challenge is scene-to-scene color correction. You can do that by just toggling back and forth, and fixing one, just make the match to the eye, and to the scope. Scopes are really good for matching scenes 'cause as you toggle back and forth, you'll see dramatic changes in one aspect of the scope perhaps. And you'll say like, "Oh, there's a little more red." The scope should be very similar between the two shots. And then you can balance that way. Personally I have done that. But there are some reasonably priced third-party plug-ins that literally say, I put the filter on. I point to what I want it to match to. It does an analysis. And it gets it really close. And then I can go have lunch and life is happy. So, third-party plug-ins are great. Sometimes they may seem expensive momentarily. $100. Think of what you're time is worth. If you spend 40 hours color correcting, and you could do this in four with a plug-in that allows you to do it faster, you just got 36 hours of time for that $100 you invested. So, keep in mind, that, yes you can do a lot of things with what's here. But there's some great stuff out there.

Class Materials

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Building a Rough Cut - Project Files
Refining Your Edit - Project File
Working with Audio Project File
Motion Effects - Project Files
Titling and Graphics - Project Files
Speed Changes - Project Files
Color Correction - Project Files
Finishing - Project Files
Multi-Camera Editing - Project Files (Large Download - 3.25GB)
Creating Timelapses - Project Files (Large Download - 1.25GB)
Thinking Like An Editor - Project Files
Special Tools - Project Files
Photos

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I've never even tried video editing before this class. I opened the program once and panicked. After only 9 lessons I was able to throw a short video together (basic of course, but still pretty cool). I wish all of my teachers growing up were just like Abba. He goes over everything without dragging anything on for too long. He repeats things just enough for me to actually remember them, and he is funny. He keeps it fun and shows that even he makes mistakes. I can't even believe how much I have learned in less than a quarter of his class. I have a long way to go and am very excited to learn more. This class is worth every penny and more! I was hesitant on buying the class because I have CS6 and he works with CC, but I have already used what I've learned in his course to create a video. The first 9 lessons were already worth what I paid for the entire course. Thank you, Abba! You are an awesome teacher! You have me absolutely obsessed with creating right now! I highly recommend! You won't find this thorough of a course for this decent price!

a Creativelive Student
 

Just bought this yesterday and cannot stop watching!!!! What a FANTASTIC teacher-- just love the way he explains everything. For someone like me (who has a zillion questions) it is perfect. As soon as he introduces a feature, he explains several aspects in such a way that's easy to grasp and remember. So, so happy I got this. Thank you Abba and CreativeLive!

a Creativelive Student
 

I am only on lesson 19 and I am so glad I bought this class, so worth it and Abba packs so much information into these lessons its crazy. I will for sure have to come back and watch again when I need to remember to do stuff or need a refresher. He is funny and quirky and a great teacher. I so recommend this to anyone wanting to become a better video editor!! I am coming from being self taught and using iMovie and he makes it so simple and understandable. Can't wait to learn more :)

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