Color Correction & Grade | Adobe Premiere Pro 2020

It’s now time to download all the material needed for the course. You will need 200MBs of free disk space in your machine to be able to download it and follow the course properly.

Here in the resources you will find 2 links that will download the Material automatically once clicked.

You will download the.ZIP file named:

- Premiere Pro 2020_MATERIAL_S15.zip

- Premiere Pro_Shortcuts.pdf

Once downloaded the file I recommend copying it somewhere in your machine and unzip it.

Inside the main folder you’ll find a PDF with some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts.

And you'll also find the video clips and music needed for the class.

I'd suggest to Create a new Main Folder called "Premiere Pro 2020_Colour Correction and Grade_MATERIAL".

Inside the main folder you will find 2 subfolders, one called "S.15_Lecture" (where you will find the material for that specific section and where you will save the project for that section too) and one called "S.15_Exercise" (where you will find the material for the same section's exercise and where you will save the project for that exercise).

Everything will make sense as soon as we start with the first lecture.

After completing your exercise on your own, in the Course Content, you’ll see an “Exercise Review” video, where I do the exercise too. This is for you to double check what you have done and can be used as a reminder for anything you might have missed. Also, before the exercise, still in the Course Content, you will find a quiz to revise what you’ve just learned.

Don’t worry now, after a few sections together you’ll get use to the workflow.

Also in the Course Content you will see the Section number, which does not match with the Section number of the actual course.

Great, now that you have what’s needed, let’s get to know Adobe Premiere.

FOR WINDOWS USERS:

When you download the Material folders, you'll see some files named "._.DS.Store", ".DS.Store" and also the video files starting with "._". These are all files of reference that Mac computers create. Just ignore them.

You will be able to import the files in Premiere by just ignoring those DS files, when prompted.

In this video we’ll setup the project for the next lecture together and you will:

- what colour correction is

- understanding more about the light temperature

In this video you will:

- overview the Lumetri Color Panel

- how to copy and paste a Lumetri Color effects from a clip to another.

In this video you will:

- understand how to read the luminosity waveforms

- understand the tone of a clip including exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows and much more.

In this video you will learn:

- what white balance is

- what the vectorscope is and how to read it

- how to use auto white balance

- how to white balance video clips manually.

In this video you will learn:

- to use the RGB Curves.

In this video you will learn:

- to use the Hue Saturation Curves.

In this video you will learn:

- how to use the colour wheels

- how to use a reference monitor

- how to match the colour correction of different clips.

In this video you will learn:

- the HSL Secondary colour.

In this video you will learn:

- how to add a vignette to the video.

Tasks for this exercise:

- open the project “S.15_Lecture” and save it as “S.15_Exercise”. Save it in the Exercise folder of that section.

- finish to color correct the clips left in the project, by white balancing and match all the clips

- work on the tone of the clips and use the curves

- delete the adjustment layer with the LUT we have created together during the lectures. Create a new adjustment layer and add a look of your choice to the whole video.

In the exercise review I complete the exercise of this related section for you to double check and revise the skills you have just learned.

Once again, a very well done for finishing the course and commit until the end of it.
I wish you all the best for your future and hope to see some of your video editing work online too.

Please do not forget to write any question about Premiere Pro in the Q&A section of the website and also, please take a minute to write a review, it would help me to improve it or simply know what's right.

Consider to sign up to my website at www.mamoair.com to find many more free video making and editing tutorials and to find my future courses.

You can follow me on youtube.com/MamoAir for more video making and editing tutorials and you can get some merchandise from www.WeFew.net (get 50% with the code "MAMOAIR_PREMIERE" at the checkout).

THANKS!