Premiere Pro : Color grading from zero to hero

2. Download Files: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video, I will show you how to download the class resources. We start by clicking on projects and resources. Then we click on download the class files. We get this page here and we click on Download, then download anyway, the download starts and when it's completed, you will get this file here. This file contains the class resources. So we extract the file. Here we are. We get this folder, Double-click on it to open it. And we have here the class resources. Each video in a single folder, this contains its resources. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 3. Interface: Hello and welcome to this video. We start with the software interface. Now when we open the software, we usually get this interface right here. Editing interface, which is the default interface. Software has multiple interfaces, but the one we will focus on is the color interface. So we click on Color. And as you see, the interface becomes like this. We have here the screen, the timeline, and the Lumetri Scopes. And in here we have this menu which we use to edit the colors. We will talk about this menu in details in the coming videos. You can customize your interface. In case the Lumetri Scopes is not visible, you click on it from here. And if it is not here, all you have to do is to go to Windows and make sure it's checked like this. Then you will click here and select the window you want. You can add or remove any window you want. We'll talk about this in details as well in the coming videos. We have here, the timeline. If you have a media file in the timeline, it will be shown in this screen. You can edit the size of each window. Like this. Just each of them based on the size of your screen and your personal preference. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 4. Lumetri scopes: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about the Lumetri Scopes. Like I said before, to show the Lumetri Scopes, we go to Window and whichever the Lumetri Scopes option. Then we get these tools. You may get more tools or fewer ones. To set the number of tools. There's two ways. The first one, you right-click here and deselect the tools you want to show end-use. I will explain each tool later. The second way is clicking here, we get the same menu and we slept the tools we want. The first tool we have is the vector scope HLS. The second one is the vector scope YUV. This tool allows us to see the color of density. For example, we have here in this video the color yellow. In here we can see its density. If I decrease the yellow color from here. If I decrease it, you will see the change in its density in the vector scope YUV. Like I said, this tool allows us to see the density of the colors in the video. And the victor scope HLS allows us to see the LUMO levels. The third tool is the histogram, which allows us to see the balance of all the colors. Next we have the parade RGB. We use it to see the thermal levels of the video. If we have the colors red, orange, yellow in the video, that means the video has high thermal level. And if we have the cold colors like blue, etc, it means the video has low thermal levels. As you see, we have three main colors, red, green, and blue. Next we have the waveform RGB. We use it to see the light rate and our videos. These are all the tools here. You can use them all or just few of them. You select the tool you want to use from this menu as I showed you before. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 5. Exposure: Hello and welcome to this video. This video we will talk about the exposure and how to set it. When we are talking about sedentary exposure, there are three main settings to talk about. The first one is the shadow. The shadow enables us to edit. The dark spots are places in our videos. The second is the highlight, which enables us to edit the bright spots are places in our videos. Unless we have the mid tones which we use to edit. The spots are places between the dark and bright places. To set the exposure, we need to show the waveform RGB. We only need the waveform RGB, so we hide the other windows here. Now right-click on it and we slept with form type. And we slept Luma. The video exposure is shown here like this. The rate needs to be between 0100. It should not be over 100 or below 0. Because if it's below 0, the video is too dark. And if it's over 100, the video is too bright. For example, if we increase the exposure like this, the video is too bright. If we decrease the exposure like this, the video is too dark. Now we start editing the exposure. And to do so, we use the highlights, the shadows, the whites and the blacks. You may think that the blacks option will interfere with the shadows, but it will not because they are not the same. For example, if we decrease the shadows, we decrease the shadow in the whole video. But if we decrease the blacks, we only affect the dark spots in the video. We start editing the exposure by increasing the highlights a bit. Then we decrease the shadows. The whites, the blacks. Perfect. There we are. Take a look at the video before and after we edited the exposure. You can see the difference in the waveform as well. Like I said before, just make sure not to exceed 100 or go below 0. This is one way to edit the exposure in our videos. There is another way to do so. We remove what we did. Then we go to Color Wheels and Match. You will find the main three settings, I said before, the mid tones, the shadows and the highlights. Now we decrease the shadows. Increase the highlights. We decrease the mid-tones. Now take a look at the difference before and after. I keep emphasizing on this point, don't succeed 100 or go below 0. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 6. Color balance: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about scholar balance and how to set it. We have here of three videos, three examples. We showed the parade RGB. We remove the waveform luma. You can see we have three main colors here. We have blue for cold colors, red for hot scholars, and we have green. You can see this video has more hot scholars, so we need to balance it. The first way to balance it isn't automatic way. So we go to Basic Correction and we click on the white balance selector. We click on this white place. Here we are. The colors are balanced. As you see, the three main colors here are relatively balanced as well. This is one way to do it. We have another way. We go to the second video example. You can see in this video, the cold colors are overwhelming in the video. Hence, the blue color is high in here. We use the temperature and the tint options to balance it. Since the video is bluish, we will reverse it like this. We increase the green color here like this. We are take a look at the video before and after. This is before. This is after. But now we move to the third video example. In this video, the green color is the higher one. And we will balance it with a different way than the two ways. Before we select the curves option, we select RGB curves. And do we have here four colors, white, red, green, and blue? Like I said, green is the higher color we selected. And it did it like this. From both ends. You can see the difference now. The red color is high now, so we need to edit it a bit as well. Perfect. Here we are. We have three ways to cut our balance, our videos. Like I said, we have three ways to balance your colors selected the way you like. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 7. Saturation: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about the saturation. We have this video here as an example. As you see it has low saturation. We go to Basic Correction and we increase the saturation like this. You can see the difference before and after. We added a difference video. Let's say that we want to edit the saturation of single color and not the whole video. Because if we adjusted the saturation from here at the whole video will be affected by that. So adjustments. We go to the curves menu. We select Hue Saturation curves. We have three options. You set. The UVs hue and UBS Luma. We use the UV is set to adjust the saturation of certain color. For example, the yellow color here. We have two ways, an automatic way and manual one. We can adjust the yellow color manually by moving it up or down. But before we move it, we put it between two dots, budgets between two dots. Then we adjusted like this. In case we put a single dots, we will adjust the whole video and not just color we want to adjust. That's why we put the color between two dots. Then we adjusted saturation. Now this is the manual way. The automatic way is we click on the selector and we select the color we want to adjust. As you can see, the yellow color was selected and puts between two dots automatically. And now we can adjust its saturation. Of course, we can adjust any color we want. For example, here we select the color red. We just said like this. Now we add another video. We take a look at the USU option, which enables us to change the object's color. We have this red car here. We click on this lecture in the USU option and we select the car. As you can see, the dots are sets and we can change the cards like this. You can see that we have some spots here that are still in red. We spread the dots like this to include the corner like this. Now we add a new video. We will take a look at the UVA's luma option. We use this option to adjust the brightness of the colors. For example, we select this color here. You can see we adjusted to become darker or brighter. We spread the dots to cover old green color and the video. And do we adjusted like this? This is how we adjust the saturation in our videos, whether it's the whole video or just a single color. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 8. Introduction to color grading: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will work all that we learned in former videos by editing this video right here. We will need three windows in here. The parade, RGB, the waveform, make sure its type is luma. We have the victor scope YUV. First we go to the basic correction menu. Now we don't have to edit these options in order. It depends on what you see as the best look of your video. Now we start by adjusting the black spots in the video. We adjust the blacks, then we adjust the whites, then the shadows, the highlights, just the contrast as well. And slightly the exposure. I would adjust the highlights a bit more. You can see in the waveform window, the waveform is below 100 and over 0. Just the whites a bit more as well. We increase the saturation. Perfect. Now we need to work on the horse color. So we go to curves and we go to VS set. We collect on the selector, we select the horse scanner. We increase it like this. Perfect. Now the video looks better. Take a look at the video before and after. We can adjust the grass color as well. We select the grass and we adjust its color like this. That's better. Just had our video using what we learned in the former videos. And like I said, you use this menu to adjust your video anyway you like. And we use the Lumetri Scopes to gauge our work and to make sure that we are on the right track. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 9. Masking: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about how to use mask into color gradient or color correction process. We use the mask to select certain spots are places that we want to adjust. We have this video here as an example. Now let's say that we want to adjust the background and leave the character untouched. Basically, we need to use the mask. We go to the effects controls window. We have the opacity with three options. The ellipse mask, the four points polygon mask, the pen tool, which enables us to initiate we want, this is the option I use often. Like I said, we will adjust the background and leave the character as it is. We start by duplicating this drug. We hold the Alt button and we drag it up. We select the video on the top, and we click on the pen tool. We make sure that the cursor is at the start of the video. Then we select the character like this. But we leave a space between the line and the character. Unlike what we do in the Photoshop software. Perfect. We hide this layer. And as you see, the character is selected. Now if we move the cursor, you will notice that the character goes outside the selected area. That's why we need to make the line track the character and move with it. Now there are two ways to do that, and many would want by clicking on the mask path. And we adjust the mask manually each time the character moves. Whenever we move the cursor, the character moves and we can just align to drag the character manually. In this way is very hard, especially if the video is too long and the character or the object is moving too fast. We rather use the second way, the automatic way. We click on the track selected mask forward option. This option has three types, position, scale and rotation, then position and rotation, and then just position. We select position, scale and rotation. We clicked on the track selected mask forward and the software sets it up, waits for a bit. Here we are. We hide this layer. The character is selected. Now since we want to work on the background with liquid, converts it to select the background. We showed this back and now we start working on the background. We use the basic correction menu. Just the shadows, the blacks, the highlights, the contrast. Now it's better. Now after we adjusted the background, you can see that there is a noticeable halo or difference here at this space. To fix it, we click on Mask and we get these three dots here. We click and drag the middle dots. Then we'd drag the outer dots and make the gradients here. We hide the line and now you can see that the character is merged with the adjusted background. Do we can keep it as in it until we get the best result. Now take a look at the video. This is before and after we adjusted the background. Now going to move this mask, we remove this video. Then we duplicate the video again. Now, I will only adjust the face of the character. We select the pen tool. We select the character's face. Then we click on track selected mask forward. Waits for a moment. The software attractive face successfully. Now we adjust the face. Just the blacks, the shadows, the highlights, the contrast, and the exposure. Now we go to Creative sharpening. Perfect. You can see we have the same problem as before. We have a halo around the face. So we go to mask and we adjust it. You can put this three dots anyway you want perfect. We click here, we are taking a look at the face before and after. I will decrease the sharpen a little bit. That's better. So this is how you can adjust certain places or spots in your video without affecting the whole video. Just one more thing. The automatic tracking does not work perfectly all the times. Sometimes you will have to drag your character or object manually, especially if the character or the object moves fast in the video. That's it for this video, thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 10. Change color using mask: Hello and welcome to this video. In the former video, we saw how to use masks to adjust certain objects. And in this video we will see how to use the mask to change the color of the selected object. We will change the color of this yellow object right here. But if we went directly to UV ASU and we use the selector to select the objects, then adjust its color. We will notice that all the objects with that color are changed. But we only want to change the color of this object right here. We duplicate the video. We go to capacity and we select the pen tool. We use it just like the object like this. The object moves slightly in the video, so we need to drag it. Click here to drag the object automatically. Waits for a moment. We are. We click Blank and that's good. Now we change the object's color. Paint it in green. As you see, we changed this object's color only and the rest of the video is intact. We click Play. Perfect. This is how we can change the color of certain objects without affecting the rest of the video. This video domestic drag the objects automatically, but this way is not going to work all the time. And sometimes you will need to track the objects manually, especially if the object moves fast in the video. The next video I will explain to you how to track your objects manually. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 11. Manual masking: Hello and welcome to this video. In the former video, we talked about the mask and how to use it to edit colors. We use domestic in an automatic way. And now we will see how to use it manually because the automatic way will not work all the times. And I will show you an example of debt. We stopped by duplicating the video. We go to capacity and we select the Pen tool. Select the character's shirt. The shirts is selected. Now we'll crack it automatically. Look here and we wait for a moment. We are. As you see, the software can crack the shirts perfectly, especially on the sides. That's why we need to check it manually. When I move the mass and the video, you put the cursor at the stars of the video. We zoom in on the shirts. We select the shirts using the pen tool. We click on Mask Path to put a keyframe here. Click here, and then we click on the right arrow button on our keyboard to go to the next frame. We adjust the mask. There's no need to adjust it for this frame. So we move to the next frame. You can see the shirts is slipping outside the mask. So we need to adjust the mask for this spring. And we keep going frame by frame and making the necessary adjustments to the mask until at the end of the video. Perfect. These are the frames we said. Now we can edit our object using the correction menu. Just this halo around the object. We can change the object scholar if we want. I would set the basic correction settings back to default. And as you see, we have changed the color of the character's shirt successfully. This is how to vector objects manually. Like I said, it takes some time and efforts, but it's necessary as the automatic way would not work all the time. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 12. HSL secondary menu: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about HSL secondary menu. We will use it to edit the skin color of this character right here. Without affecting the rest of the video. We go to the HSL secondary menu. We have here to this lecture tools. Then the colors. We have here, the hue, saturation and the brightness. These are all the settings in the HSL secondary menu. Now we use the selector to select the color we want to adjust. We click on the selector and we slept the skin color. Here it is selected. Now we check this box. We are, everything is gone except the color we selected. We have three options here. Color black color gray, and white is black. We will select color green. Now as you see, we have a problem. The character's skin is not fully selected. We click on the second selector. Then we click right here we are and we keep selecting until we select the whole face. Perfect. Now we have the third selector tool. We use it to unselect any color we want. For example, the scholar. You can see f. Do we unselected the phase change so we need to bring it back like this. Perfect. Now the whole face is selected. We can set the situation from here. We can just add like this. We use this setting to soften the edges in here like this. Here we have the brightness setting. I need to fix this spot here. Perfect. Just these colors. We uncheck this box. Now we can make more adjustments and they will be applied to the character's skin only. We have here the correction option. We use it to adjust the skin color. Like this. We can adjust it from here as well. We can look here to get the mid tones, the shadows and the highlights settings. Just the mid tones and the highlights then the shadows. Like I said, we'll start with the mid tones. Then we'd just the highlights. Then we adjust the shadows. Perfect. Take a look at it before and after. The skin was a bit green. Now it's better. We have here more settings that we can use to make more adjustments. We can adjust the temperature, the sharpen the saturation, or any setting. Let's help you use the HSL secondary menu to just the skin color. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 13. Color correcting eyes: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will see how to adjust and edit Eichler in our videos. First, we start by selecting the eye using the mask. We have two ways. We can duplicate the video and select the eye using the pen tool. Or we can go to the Effects menu. You may have the Effects menu in here. In case it's not there, go to Window and check effects from here. Now we talked Lumetri color in here. We get the Lumetri color setting here inside the color correction folder. Then we drag it and we add it to the track. Here we have the Lumetri color setting. We can use the circle to select the eye like this. Now we've just discussed through to make sure that there is gradients between the highlights and the skin light. Now we selected the right so we start adjusting it like this. We adjust the exposure slightly. Then the contrast, the highlights, the shadows. Increase the saturation or decrease it depending on what we want. Now we increase it. Next we go to the HSL secondary menu. Did the eye even more. We go to correction and we adjust the mid tones. Just the highlights. Now the eye looks better. Look at the before and after we made our adjustments. Of course, we can make more adjustments depending on what we want the video to look like. If we played the video, the mask would stay still and DI will move away. Fix this, we click on Mask Path. We track the eye manually like this. Perfect, we click Play and here we are. As you see, we use this cursor to soften the edge and make gradient to the light difference between the I and the skin to make it look natural. This is how we can adjust eyes in our videos. Like the same process to the other eye. We make it the gradients here as well. Perfect. Take a look at the eyes before and after. The eyes look way better now, we track the mask path manually for this eye as well. Perfect. Now as you see, DI are way better. This is how it just eyes in our videos. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 14. Adjustment layer: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about the adjustment layer feature, which enables us to apply a single effects, multiple videos at once. Instead of applying the effect to each video on its own, we have here three videos. It's the same video, but it's split 23. Now if I want to adjust each video on its own, it will take lot of time, especially if we have so many videos. That's why we use the adjustment layer to save us time and efforts. Now we go to the project adjustment layer. Then right-click and we select new item. Then we select Adjustment Layer. We get this window here with the video settings. We click Okay. Then we drag the adjustment layer and put it right here. We adjust it to fill all the videos. Then we start our adjustments. We select the adjustment layer and we go to the basic correction menu. We stopped by adjusting the blacks than the whites. Just the shadows. The highlights contrast just the white slightly. The blacks as well. Then we increase the saturation, increase the exposure. Then we go to hue saturation curves. We just kinda was like this. We go back to the basic correction menu, which is the blacks. Increase, the highlights. Perfect. This is the adjustment. It's a simple one. Now we'll take a look at the second video. Here it is before and after we made our adjustments. You see it's applied to it as well. And the same thing goes for the third video. So this is how we can adjust multiple videos at once. You add the adjustment layer then bracket to cover all the videos you didn't make your adjustments. And we get a by d adjustments to the first two videos only. Then add a difference adjustment to the third video. We just click right here, we drag it and we covered the 2 first videos. But what if we want to add the adjustment to the first and the third video, skipping the middle video. It's very simple. We direct the adjustment layer here, then we use the Razor Tool to cut it like this. Then we'd lead this part here. As you see the adjustments on that applied to the first and the third videos only. Then if you change your mind and wanted to apply to all videos, just drag it like this to cover all the videos. This is how to apply your adjustments to multiple videos in a simple and easy way, saving yourself a lot of time and effort. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 15. Comparison view: Hello and welcome to this video. In the former video, we talked about how to apply adjustments to multiple videos at once. Now here we have these two videos. As you see, there's a difference in colors between these two videos. Now before we adjust these two videos, we need to be able to see them both at the same time. We go to Color Wheels and Match. Then we click on comparison view. We are now we can see both videos and compare them. You can adjust this window size as you want. Now in this video, we will adjust the second video to the black. The first one. We have here multiple options. This is a vertical split view of both videos. And here we have a horizontal split view. We go back to seeing both videos in full, and we start adjusting the colors of this video to match the first one. It's very simple. We use the white balance selector. Click here, and here we are. Then we can adjust the rest of the settings if we want. This is how you can see two videos at the same time and compare between them easily. Instead of going back and forth between videos, then you can make your adjustments. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 16. Black and white look: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will see how to show your videos in black and white. We have this video here as an example. Now we go to the Effects menu. I place it here. It may appear here in your interface. Just make sure to check effects in here. We type black and white. Scroll down. Here it is. We drag it and put it right here. Here we are. The video is shown in black and white. Then we can make some adjustments here if we want. This is how you can show your videos in black and white, then you can make more adjustments using the basic correction menu. Just make sure to keep your adjustments light so that you don't drill in the video. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 17. Create and use lut: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will talk about the lats, Let's say this a lot of time as we can cover grade our videos with a single click. We have here this video as an example. Now, it's scholars like this increase the contrast. Increase the highlights slightly. We decrease the shadows. The whites, the blacks. Increase the saturation. We go to the creative menu, increase the sharpen. Go to the curves menu, go to the hue saturation periods. We use the selectors to select the watercolor and we adjust the watercolor like this. We go back to the basic correction menu. We can just debunk crest to increase it slightly. Perfect. This is the video before and after we made our adjustments. Now we need to save this LUT. It's very simple. Exhibit blind your adjustments. You click here and you select Export cube. Select the location where you want to save your lot, your name it, then you click Save. Now I will delete these adjustments I just made. Now we go to Basic Correction. We click on Input LUT, then we select Browse. We locate the file that we saved, open it and who we are. The adjustments are applied to our video very easily. Now, I will add another video. Here it is. Now I will apply the same latitude as video. I go to Basic Correction, I click on Input LUT, and I select Browse and okay, the last file, I open it and here it is. This is how we can add. Let's do our videos. Of course you have to make several lots, then apply the suitable one to your video. If you have a lead that you want to lead to several videos at once, It's very simple. I will delete these two lots here. I will split this video to help multiple videos in the timeline. We have here five videos and then we want to apply a single letter, all of them at once. All we have to do is right-click here. Select new item, then we select Adjustment Layer. We get this window, we click Okay. We drive the adjustment layer and put it right here. Then we spread it over all the videos. We make sure that the adjustment layer is selected. Then we go to Input LUT and we select Browse. We locate the lats, we open it, and here it is applied to all the videos at once. This way saves us a lot of time and efforts. And of course we can make more adjustments to the left if we want. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 18. Cenematic look: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will see how to add a cinematic look to our videos. We have these three videos here as an example. We slept the first video and then we go to the Color Wheels and Match menu. Then we adjust the video Scholar. Now if you'll notice when we change the video scanner, we changed the character skin color as well. Now we will see how to change the videos scholar without affecting the character's skin color. We started by going to the HSL secondary menu. We select the skin color. Look here. We can see the skin color only and we adjust the settings to see the whole face. Then we add the missing parts here. We hide this part here we had all the parts that we don't need and we keep the ones we need. We click here. Now if I made any adjustments, it will be applied to the character's face. What do we don't want that? We want to apply the adjustments to the background. So click here and here we are now at the adjustments will be applied to the background. Just the backgrounds look, which is the settings to get the look we want to take a look at before and after. As you see just at the background and kept the character's face intact. Here's before and after you can see the face is the same. We click Play and here we are. Now we can use these settings to make any adjustments we want the background without affecting the character's face. We move to the second video. We will do the same thing. We add the cinematic look to the video without Effects interface. We go to the HSL secondary menu. We selected the character's face with located to see the selected parts. And we add these spots here to select the whole face. Perfect. Now we uncheck this box and we'd look here to adjust the background. We make our adjustments. We make it the background bluish. Take a look at the video before and after we made our adjustments. The video is better now and the character's face is intact. You move to the last video. In this video here the character moves so we need to select the character's face using the mask. We go to the Effects menu with type Lumetri Color and we drag it to the video. Then we use the pen tool to select the face. We are just the gradients from here. In this video, we need to add the mask manually, which means we need to adjust the mess in every frame. We said the cursor at the beginning of the video. Then we click on the Mask Path. We sit the cursor at the beginning of the video. Then we click on Mask Path and we adjust the mask on each frame. We keep going like this until we've covered the whole video. I'll keep it as simple as possible because this would take a lot of time and the automatic way would not work on this video. Here we are. Never click on inverts it, apply the adjustments to the background. We go to the Lumetri color, we select the Color Wheels and Match menu, and we make our adjustments. We click Play and here we are. Take a look at the background before and after. And as you see, the character's face remains intact. This is how you can add a cinematic locked to your videos without affecting the character's face. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 19. Color using adjustments layers: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will see how to color grade our videos in a different way. We have this video here as an example. And we will cover graded by adding multiple adjustments layers and merge them together until we get the results we want. Let's click here. We select new item Adjustment Layer. We get this window and we click Okay to add the adjustment layer. Then we will add two more. Now we can align them like this. We just didn't fit the videos length. Perfect. Now we select the first adjustment layer and we will apply the Basic Correction adjustments to this layer. So we go to the basic correction menu and we make our adjustments. We started by adjusting the shadows. Contrast. We adjust the shadows a bit more. The blacks, the highlights, the exposure. Of course you don't have to make the same adjustments on making right here. Now we'll select the second adjustment layer. We go to the creative menu and we make our adjustments. Like I said before, you don't have to make the same adjustments I'm making right now. Then we move to the curves menu. We adjust the colors. You can see now it looks better. Then we slipped the third adjustment layer. Go to the Color Wheels and Match menu, and we make our adjustments in here as well. Now after we are done, we can adjust our gradient using the layers. The first layer. Then we go to the fifths control mineral and we get these settings right here. Then we can adjust the opacity of each layer. Of course, we can go back and fix any setting we want until we get the results we want. This is how we can use the adjustment layers to color grade our videos and how we can use each layer to just our settings until we get the result we want. We have too much saturation here, so we decrease it. Perfect. Like I said, we make our adjustments on each layer, then we adjust it. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 20. Dockyard project: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video and in the coming videos, we will work on multiple examples. We have here at the first example, the video you see right here. We will color graded. It's a video of a dock yard. And we will change the color of the water. To change the color of the water, we go to curves, you saturation curves, USU option. First, we need to select the color of the water. The water is green and blue in here. We select the green color and the blue color. We add a dot here, and just the color. We add another dot here and it just discover as well. We widen the selection to select all the spots we need to look at the video so far. Now we need to increase the color saturation. Go to the basic correction menu, and we increase the saturation. Perfect. You can make more adjustments to the video. Increase the exposure a bit. The contrast, the highlights. We decrease the shadow slightly. As you can see, the water silver green, so we need to make it look a bit blue. We go to the Color Wheels and Match menu. We just the mid-tones, the highlights and shadows to make the water look perfect, we go back to the basic connection menu. We use the white letters to correct the white scholar in the video. Spots here a bit purple. So we go back to the USU and fix them. Perfect. Look now at the video before and after. It looks way better. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 21. Natural landscape video: Hello and welcome to this video. This is the video that we will be working on this time. We started by going into the basic correction menu and SEC video is a bit dark, so we need to increase the exposure slightly. Increase the contrast slightly as well. We increase the highlights. When you increase the highlights or the whites, you need to be careful because if you increase the highlights or the whites too much some details with disappear, make sure it's increased at moderately. Always pay attention to the white spots in your videos. For example, this guy here, if I increase the highlights too much, it will not look good. And like I said, the same thing goes for the whites in here. Make sure to keep things balanced. Now increase the shadows a bit. The contrast. Perfect. The video looks better. Now, go to the Lumetri Scopes window. We showed the waveform Noma. Hide the RGB. Need to decrease the exposure slightly. Perfect. Now we'll work on the green color individual. We'd go to Curves, use saturation curves, UPS, saturation. We select the kind of green. We increase it like this to make it more vibrant. Now we go to the Color Wheels and Match menu. We adjust the shadows, the mid tones, and highlights as well. Perfect. Take a look at the video before and after. It looks way better. Now. If you want, you can increase the colors, just make sure that you don't increase them too much. This is how we can color grade a video like this one here, videos of natural landscapes. We can increase the saturation slightly. This is the video before and after. Like I said, it looks better now for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 22. Change object color: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will see how to change the color of this car right here. We started by going to Curves, hue saturation curves. As I explained before, we use the UVs you options to change colors. So we use this lecture to select the cartilage. Kind of write this selected. We can change it to any color we want. Change it to green. But as you see, there are some spots are still in red in here. The guard is not 100% green. To fix that, we need to widen the color selection to cover all the red color shades in here. We aren't spot started to disappear. We keep going until we get 100% green color. We can incubate to take a look at the video. Perfect. We hide the Lumetri color effect. And as you know, the tail light is normally in red, not green. To fix this, we need to add a moving mask to the daylight. Zoom in on the light. We use the pen tool, just let the light. We want the light to be in red, not the car. So we click on an average it. Now if I click Play, you will see that the red spot moves away from the light. We need to add mask tracking. We go to Mask and click on track selected mess forward. We will see if the automatic way works because sometimes it does not and we use the manual way. Wait for a moment. We are the automatic mask tracking worked. If it didn't, we would have to drop the mask frame-by-frame, like I explained before. Now we zoom in on the daylight. We add the gradients around the mask. Blank. Here we are. The cars color is changed perfectly. Of course, you can change the color to any color you want. We have another examples to work on. We will change the parent of this video to make it look like it's spraying. We will change the color of the grass degree. We go to Curves, hue saturation curves, USU. We select the grass color and we change it to green. Then we go to the basic correction menu, will fix this green color to make it look more real. We use the lights balanced letter to correct the color white, increase the contrast and the shadows. Then we go to Color Wheels and Match. Need to fix the green color. Just the Midtones, shadows and the highlights. Perfect. We click play. Here we are. The video. It looks like it's filmed in this frame. This is the process of changing objects colors in your videos. This is the video before and after. It looks perfect. Now, that's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 23. setting white balance: Hello everyone, Welcome to this video. In this video we'll work on the video we have right here. See how to correct the whites in our videos. We started by going into the basic correction menu. And we use the white balance selector to select this pulse that we want to be white. Click on the white Spanish lecture, then we click right here. And as you see the yellow color and the video turned into white. But it's not 100% white and needs more adjustments. We increase the contrast. We go to the Color Wheels and Match menu. You can see it's still a bit yellow in here, so it just the mid tones and the highlights and the shadows, the mid tones like this. Then we adjust the highlights and we adjust the shadows. We still have some yellow spots in here. We go to Curves, hue saturation curves you've set and we select the yellow spots in here. You see when you clicked on it, the yellow color was selected automatically because this spot is still a bit yellow. So it just cannot remove the color of yellow. Now it's gone. Increase the saturation of the color red. In here. We go back to the basic correction menu and we increase the contrast slightly. Perfect. Take a look at the video before and after we corrected the white color. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 24. Plane project: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will integrate the video we have right here and enhance its quality. We started by going into the basic correction menu. We increase the contrast to make the video more clear. Then we use the white balance selector to select an enhance the whites got our video. Then we adjust the shadows, just the highlights. That's better. Now we go to the Create menu and we increase the sharpen of the video. Now we will add a cinematic locked to the video. Gets a bit bluish. Just the mid tones, the highlights and the shadows. Perfect. This is before and this is after. Now the quality looks way better. We need to get out of the plane. We duplicate the video. Then we add the mask to the plane he was indefensible. We go back to the basic correction menu and we increase the whites. Make it a plane look better. Go to the Lumetri Scopes window. Right-click here and we slept waveform luma. We hide the parade RGB. Now you can see the waveform is within the normal limits above 0 and below 100. We showed the parade RGB back. We need to decrease the blue color slightly. Perfect. This is the video before and after. Now it looks better. Good to see the video. And as you see, the mask is slipping away. So we need to drag the blame. I already tried the automatic tracking but it did not work. So we will track the blame manually. We put the cursor at the beginning of the video, then we click on Mask Path. We select the mask, move the cursor, and just the message accordingly. We keep going until the end of the video. Perfect. Now the mask is set. Just the gradients around domestic saw that there is no obvious difference between the two colors. We click play and who we are. This is the video before and after. Of course, you can make more adjustments to the video if you want. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 25. Color grading using mask tracking: Hello everyone and welcome. This video we will cover grade this video right here. As you see, the video is a bit darker than usual, so we will see how to fix it. We played the video. Here it is. Now if you take a good look, you will find that the character's skin color is similar to the color of these drugs. So if we use the HSL secondary menu to select the character skin, it will select the rocks as well, and any adjustments will be applied to both of them. Here let me show you. As you see the rocks are selected as well and more skin we add more rocks will be edit as well. What we can do to fix this? We would start by duplicating the video. We select the top one and we will add a mask selecting the character only. When we adjust the character, we do not affect the rocks. Now we add the mask using the pen tool. We add character is selected. Now if we track the mask automatically, it will not be precise, so we will drag it manually. Click on Mask Path, you move the cursor here and we adjust the message accordingly. Perfect, we keep going. We move the cursor and adjust accordingly. Like I said before. Perfect, the character may not be selected precisely in here, but I'm only explaining the process to you in your projects, you have to make sure that everything is precise and perfect as possible. And of course, in your budget, so you have to adjust the mask frame-by-frame and always pay attention to the details. Now the mess is ready. We go to the HSL secondary menu, select the character's skin, and we hide the second video. Then we look here and we slept the whole character's skin. I'm checking the color grade option. And we showed the seventh video bag. Now we can adjust the character. We go to the basic correction menu, increase the exposure. We're just to contrast the highlights. Then saturation. We go back to the HSL secondary menu, which is the mid tones, highlights as well. The shadows. I want to adjust the highlights and midtones a bit more Perfect. Take a look at the character before and after. Just a mess gradient like this. We click Play and you can see there's a halo around the character. We slipped the second video and just the background. Perfect. We click play. Here we are, the halo is gone. I will duplicate the video to show you the video before and after. As you see, we adjusted the character's skin with EPS effect into rocks in the background. We can add a blur effect to the background as well. We selected the background. Then we go to the Effects menu and we type blur. Then we add the Gaussian blur effect to the video. We adjust the burners from here. We added the effects so that the focus is on the character, not on the background. And here we are. This is the video before and after. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. 26. Color grading food videos: Hello and welcome to this video. In this video we will integrate the video we have right here. We will start by adjusting the contrast of the video. Then we use the white balance selector to select any spots with white colored corrected like this. Increase the contrast slightly, increase the saturation as well so that the colors look more saturated. As you know, videos that have food in them needs to have saturated colors to make the food look better. Perfect. Now we increase skylights. We go to the creative menu. We increase the sharpen. Next we go to the course menu to adjust some of these colors. We go to the hue saturation curves, and we use this lecture to select the tomato. We increase the saturation of the tomato and the Chileans in the video. Of course, make sure that the colors are within the normal range. We showed the Lumetri Scopes window to keep track of their levels. Same thing for the color green in here. Perfect. Here take a look at the video before and after. This is how we can color great videos that contains food. Like I said, if food colors were more saturated, it looks better. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.