Color Grading With Premiere Pro | Quick Pro Tip

Stare closely at the photo below. What do you notice?

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You may have said The Matrix, and you were right. But look closer. Everything has a greenish hue to it. Let’s try another.

Yet again, we see another color adjustment on the scene here in Transformers. Color Grading is something that Hollywood, as well as cinematographers across the globe use to give their films a deeper look, and create emotional response to scenes.

However, even vloggers might need to use a little color grading in their videos. Often, cameras just don’t get it right off the bat. Fortunately, Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 makes this very easy for film makers by adding a new feature called Lumetri Color. If you don’t have this software, I highly recommend getting it if you are serious about your film making.

Start by making sure you have the Lumetri Color window available in your workspace. Head to the window menu at the top and select ‘Lumetri Color’. This will bring up your Lumetri Color adjustment window. In the Basic Correction drop down, you will see quite a few options ranging from color temperature to the intensity of whites and blacks in your video. Anyone familiar with using Lightroom to edit photos, these controls are very similar.

Another great tool to use is the White Balance eyedropper. If you have filmed a video and it appears too artificially yellow, select the eyedropper tool shown below and click on an area in your video that should be white. This will make automatic adjustments for you and bring your color temperature to a more neutral white setting.

One thing to keep in mind is you want to make these edits in a non destructive manner, meaning not applying the adjustments directly to the raw video itself. You can do this by adding an adjustment layer over your video and applying the Lumetri Color effects on that adjustment layer as shown below

Hope this tip helped, let me know what you think in the comments below!

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