Understanding Color in Adobe Premiere Pro

Understand how white balance and color correction align footage from different sources—mirrorless, DSLR, point-and-shoot, and phones—to preserve natural colors in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Explore the Kelvin scale and its role in white balance for video. See how lighting from candlelight to moonlight maps to Kelvin values and guides your camera's white balance.

Explain how the kelvin scale guides auto white balance to keep whites neutral under daylight around 5500 kelvin, and demonstrate selecting true white to adjust warm and blue casts.

Use auto white balance judiciously, as you can adjust it in post with raw footage, and stick to one lighting source in venues like churches or weddings.

Learn to calibrate white balance using 18 percent gray cards, white balance targets, and color checkers like the X-Rite color passport, with in-camera and Lightroom calibration steps.

Set your camera’s white balance to 3300 kelvin using a gray card reference indoors, aligning the meter and camera with the warm light to avoid orange casts.

Set the white side of the expodisc on the camera, shoot from the subject back toward the camera, and read the light to set 3300K white balance for led source.

Outdoors, capture a white balance reading with a green card to set a custom pre-selection at 5600 kelvin, accounting for green to magenta, then save to M2.

Calibrate white balance in shade using a green card at 6000 K with magenta one, then save as a preset and compare to auto white balance.

Access the practice folder with project files, videos, and pictures, and use the converter to downgrade Premiere Pro files for backward compatibility with older versions.

Practice adjusting white balance across three clips to ensure whites and blacks look correct, and assess your results in the next video.

Learn to correct exposure, white balance, and saturation in Adobe Premiere Pro, using basic correction to recover detail from flat footage and balance blacks, whites, and midtones before color grading.

Master the waveform scope to read exposure and luminance across blacks, shadows, midtones, highlights, and whites. Use these reads to adjust blacks, whites, shadows, and highlights for consistent color.

Apply the zone system to guide exposure and color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro. See how Ansel Adams’ zone table maps skin tones to the waveform scope for precise adjustments.

Explore the zone system and waveform scope in Adobe Premiere Pro through three practice files—the monkey scene and a late-night sunset—manipulating luminance with the luma scope.

Reviewing color correction techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro, this practice 2 session guides adjusting blacks, whites, shadows, highlights, and saturation using scopes to achieve balanced exposure and color tones.

Balance the red, green, and blue channels using the rgb parade scope in premiere pro to correct color casts and achieve a neutral, balanced image.

Master rgb curves high contrast by adjusting shadows and highlights, balance color with rgb parade and vectorscope, and refine skin tones through saturation, temperature, and hue controls.