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Hello everybody and welcome back to Gal and today we are going to be
covering how to use lumetri curves what the heck are they how do you use
them why are they there I don't know that might be how you're feeling right
now but I'm going to solve that for you in this video now a couple of weeks ago
I covered how to use lumetri color scopes and the panel so you guys should
watch that because it really gives you a foundation on how to color correct your
footage especially if you're using log footage which is high dynamic range
footage so that whole video covers what the heck log is so if you guys are
wondering why I am talking about log and no it's not a log that you put on a fire
so basically what we're going to do is use the story box footage so that
opening sequence that you just saw in the opening of this video I did not
shoot that footage it was actually downloaded from storyblocks now this is
also log footage it kind of looks kind of milky and what we're going to be
doing is using the curves to really accentuate and bring out the colors in
that footage so if you're interested in following along you can use that footage
there's a link in the description box below to that particular list of all of
that footage that I use so yeah I'll stop talking now let's go ahead and jump
into Premiere and I'll show you how to use all alright so here we are in
Premiere Pro here are two clips from storyblocks that we are going to grade
together and go over the curves so the first step is to go into the color
workspace now this pops open the lumetri color panel which we will use and also
be sure to toggle over to select your lumetri scopes and I cover how to read
this luma waveform and how to set that up in my previous color grading tutorial
so be sure to watch that you can follow along still and I'll kind of show you
how to use it in this tutorial but I won't be going over all of the details
so the first step here is to brighten this image up create more contrast so I
actually like to use the curves to do this now the RGB curves is white line
this affects the luminance of the image now if you click up this top one and you
drag it over you can see it makes the image more bright and as I do that it
raises up the luma waveform closer to a hundred and that's what we want to do
and we don't have to bring it all the way up to 100 but enough that is fitting
for the eye so it's not clipping so I'm just going to lower that just a tad bit
more and then also to bring this down closer to zero to create more contrast
on the opposite end of this luma curve here I'm going to just drag this to the
right and you can see that it just brings in a lot more shadow in contrast
so that is how you adjust the brightness and contrast of the
image when you're grading log footage now below the RGB curves if I just
toggle that down you'll find the hue/saturation curves now this allows
you to do more detailed color grading now hue versus sat hue is just a fancy
word for color so just think of hue as any type of color on the spectrum and
Sat is for saturation how much saturation how much depth of color is in
each color so you can see the verse as how much saturation do you want in a
particular hue so for example if I wanted to take this dropper and select a
color a hue let's say this blue color it'll create three dots from which I can
adjust the saturation so if I bring this up you'll see that that blue just gets
far more saturated if I bring it down it desaturates it you see and there's also
blue and her jeans as well so that's why it kind of looks like your desaturating
most of the image here because most of this image is blue so I'm going to
saturate this up a bit just to bring out more color like so now we can also
select another hue let's select the red color here and let's also bring up the
saturation so let's just move this bar so we can get a clearer view here and
here I'm just going to pop this up as well so you see see that difference
there and let's bring that up like so and you can extend these to encompass
more color if you want so more orange or more pink color and if
you ever need to delete anything just hold down the command key or ctrl key if
you're on a PC and you would just select that and it would go away and to create
a new one just click and then you can bring that back up again so this is
looking pretty good I think what else I will do is probably just and here I'll
probably go up to creative and probably add some vibrancy to the image just to
overall saturate some of the colors of the image that aren't that are not
saturated enough and I think that's looking pretty good so we can see the
before and the after here and then the next kerb is
Hue versus Hue so this is changing a color of an existing color so for
example if we wanted to give this a little bit more of an orange teal look
let's say that's what you were going for you would just select this blue color
here and then we can actually when you click that Center dot it gives you the
whole spectrum so if I needed to go more purple to bring this down to get really
experimental here or you could just slightly push this up just to change
this to more of a teal color you see that so now it's no longer the baby blue
it's more of a teal color and let's say for the red we wanted to make that a
little bit more Orange just select that and then what we can do is just drag
this down to the orange color and what we're going to have to do here is
actually widen this to encompass more of that red and then we can bring this down
so see how it's more kind of a pinkish red and as I bring this down it gets
more of an orangy --red so now if I turn this off before you see it was more pink
and blue and now it's more of like a teal and kind of orangish color if
that's what you're going for but let me just undo all of this since I'm not
really going for the orange and teal look for this particular I'm going to
command Z command Z command Z (ctrl Z) on PC until all of those dots disappear now
let's move on to the next one hue versus luma
now this next curve I don't use that often but essentially it allows you to
adjust the brightness of a particular color so for example if I select this
blue color let's go ahead and roll in over here and if I reduce that color see
how it just darkened just that color and then it'll just brighten that color but
it can get really ugly really quickly you see how it gets all distorted so I
don't really use this if you are using it you would probably just do a very
suttle dip just to darken that color a little bit but I'm not going to use it
for this clip but I just wanted to demonstrate it for you now let's go
ahead and move on to luma versus sat so this controls the saturation of
the brightness in the image so if you select a particular area here so let's
say we select this cloud up here if we increase this it'll just add more
saturation in those areas so there's a hint of blue in those areas so as I
increase it it gets more blue in the sky and as you widen that it can encompass
more so we're really adding more saturation into the sky if we wanted to
go for that effect I don't think it looks very good it kind of gets a little
bit distorted but I just wanted to demonstrate that you can really add in
more saturation into your skies if you need to just by selecting an area and
then boosting that saturation if you so like so I'm just going to uncheck that
so that one's not active and the last one is just sat versus sat this is just
controlling the saturation of the saturated areas of the image so for
example if I was going to select this blue color here I could reduce that
saturation or boost it so it's really just taking saturated areas and either
increasing it even further or reducing that saturation so let me just undo that
and I'll do the same thing to the red here so if I really wanted to make this
red red you can see what's happening when I boost that it just makes it that
much more vibrant and as I spread these you can see that that saturation
encompasses the full light so I think that looks pretty cool having that extra
saturation there really makes that color pop and if you really want the red tones
in your video to stand out you can definitely play around with saturation
versus saturation curves so then the next shot here is in the same scene
however there's also yellow so what we can do is we can actually right click
and copy this clip and then on this clip we can right click and paste attributes
and just paste all of the lumetri color we don't
need to copy over the motion so we're going to paste lumetri color and bam
we can already see that it's made a difference if we turn this off and then
on but let's say we want to saturate this yellow even further so this is
where I would actually go up and select this yellow color here from the hue
versus saturation because again we're controlling the saturation of a color
and this is where I can boost this up and you can see the difference there
it just becomes far more intense and if I drop it it becomes far less saturated
so I'm just going to boost this up a bit and we can kind of we don't want to
encompass too much of this because then it starts to get into the skin tones and
I don't want to saturate her skin tones that much in the image so just boost it
up a bit there and now that's looking pretty good like so and if I turn that
off and on you can see the difference in the image so one other thing that I
added here was a letterbox on top I use this site called film crux they have a
great free resources so they have these free letterbox templates in the
letterbox or the black boxes that give it that cinematic look so you just like
subscribe to their newsletter and you can download their litter boxes so I
just took the letterbox from their 1080p preset the whiplash so I just took this
and I dragged it into my project panel and then drag it on top of the footage
extend it out and now when we play it back you can see it has a nice cinematic
look so that's how you use curves in Premiere
Pro hopefully you're no longer intimidated because curves can be
intimidating but now you guys have the tools so you can go out in the world and
you can conquer your footage without fear and that is what this channel is
about just just hit that fear on the ground and don't let it take over
because I know how it is so that's all for this video you guys please leave a
comment below let me know what else you guys want to learn because this channel
is all about you guys in the community of learning so I look forward to hearing
and reading the comment below and I will see you guys next time
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