Introduction to advanced color correction & grading in Premiere Pro

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Course info

146 lessons / 17 hours 49 quiz questions 14 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
• There won’t be anything you can’t mask or blur.
• We will get your computer running at warp speed using Proxies, Scratch Disk & Cache management. 
• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

You owe it to yourself -  sign up and get ready to become a Premiere Pro Super Hero.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

All right, I'm back, live in action, just to check you're still awake. This next section is all about color. I put this little intro in here, because color is quite broad in terms of-- we're going to look at-- we did a bit of color correction, in the Essentials course, but we're going to go a lot more advanced now. We're also going to look at some color grading, and for me, kind of like a sub group of all of that, and super important is, kind of consistency of color across different clips, which is probably some of the hardest things to do. 

So yeah, it's a long one, there's a lot to cover, and when I say long one, I don't mean, like long and boring, I mean long and interesting. It just means that there's a lot of different ways to approach the same thing. We're doing the same thing, we want a certain look, both correct, and have a certain kind of visual appeal, but there's lots of ways of approaching it, and I guess I want to show you a bunch of different ways, not every single way, but all of the big ones that you'll find, because people get a little bit-- if you look online there's a lot of people defending ways of doing stuff, "You must color grade this way", or, "You must fix skin tones this way." 

I'm going to show you a couple of different ways of approaching the same thing, and it will be right, one of them will be right for you, circle that one, go, "That one's awesome, that suits my needs greatly," but it's really interesting to figure, see what all the different ways of approaching it is, because you might find that the job you're working on now, it's going to be, the technique will be different for the next job, there's things like budget, both the, how much money is in the project, and your time budget, and what you're allowed to do. 

Also, things like, are you the videographer, are you shooting it, or are you able to influence the shoot, which is going to make a big difference to what you get, and start editing. Also, are you dealing with stock video, and where is it going, is it going to feature linked film, or is it going to a YouTube, sorry, Instagram story. They are going to decide a lot on, like what techniques you want to do, have time to do, can be bothered doing. So yeah, I'm going to run through all the great ones here. 

The other thing to cover quickly, before we get started, is proxies. Proxies are super helpful, when you're trying to do your edits, but when you come to things like color correction, and grading, and contrast, it's best to either turn them off, if your machine can handle it, because you want great pixels there, to be adjusting, you don't have to, if you--

Many people still, professionals grade with proxies, because they have to. You've just got to make sure you're using the right kind of proxy. So if you are very interested in correct color and matching scenes, it's probably best to use a proxy, that is something like the ProRes 2, sorry 422, or maybe the Go Pro Cineform, that's a nice one that works across different Mac and PC, those are great ones that won't degrade the color and the depth of color too much. So make sure proxy's either turned off, or you're using a proxy, like I mentioned before. 

All right, let's get started. Are you wondering what happened there, where is it, yep, banged into a shelf, that's what happened there. All right, let's get color grading.

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