- Alright so the new version of Premiere,
Premiere 2019 just came out.
And it's always fun and interesting
seeing what kind of new things they put in,
but for me there's one feature that I really like.
And I'm a fan of color grading.
You know, I like to take a lot of time
putting it into color grading,
make sure the colors are right.
So my favorite feature of the 2019 Premiere
are these things, these kind of weird looking things.
They're actually really powerful for color grading,
and if you're new to these,
yeah, they're gonna look weird and kinda scary at first,
but they're actually really simple,
we'll get into it.
I just really like that they're putting
a lot of these color grading features into Premiere,
you don't have to use other programs.
It's still not as good as something like DaVinci Resolve,
which is like a color grading powerhouse,
but it is really nice having these new
color grading features.
So let me show you how these things work.
Let's go into Premiere,
I have my little clip here,
and I have a grade applied already,
it's a mixture of Colorista and Lumetri.
That's usually how I color grade in Premiere.
If you like my look you can check it out down below.
Then we're gonna go into Color, Curves,
and then Hue Saturation Curves.
The first one here is Hue vs. Saturation.
This one's really simple, you basically just
pick a color and you can change the saturation
of that color.
So you can do this with any color in the image,
it's really simple, really easy, but powerful.
Next we have the Hue vs. Hue curve,
and this is great for changing colors.
So let's say for example, you don't really like
the color of these trees, they're a little bit too green,
and you want them to be a little bit more teal blue.
So you just choose that color,
and then you're gonna adjust it until
you find the right color that you like.
So for example if there's a red car
and it's not looking quite right,
it's a little bit too magenta,
you want it to look more, you know, orangey red,
you can change it up really quickly, really easily.
The third one is Hue vs. Luma,
and here we're choosing a color and changing
the exposure of that color.
So in this example we're gonna choose the skin tone
which is orange,
and we can make the skin tones either brighter or darker,
just like that, really quickly,
it's isolating just that single color
and changing the exposure.
But this one is my favorite.
It's the Luma vs. Saturation.
And this one, it's a little bit more confusing,
but essentially what you can do
is change the saturation of different exposure values.
So you're not just changing the saturation
of the whole image,
you can for example desaturate the shadows
or the highlights or the midtones,
you get to choose what luminance values
you're gonna either add saturation to,
or take away saturation.
Okay, so why should you care about this,
it sounds kind of arbitrary.
Well, actually, if you wanna be really good
at color grading, there's kind of a secret
that a lot of people don't know about.
And that is that the darkest parts of your image,
the deep blacks, should have no saturation
or color to them.
They shouldn't be tinted blue or green or red
or any color, they should just be pure black.
And then same with the very brightest parts
of your image, the highlights should be just pure white.
They shouldn't have any color contamination to them,
for the most part.
Now these aren't hard fast rules,
but if you look at pretty much any Hollywood film,
this is gonna be true.
And it's because that's kind of how our eyes see things.
When something is completely dark,
we can't see anything there,
we don't see a color, we just see black.
And the same thing goes for really bright things.
We don't see color there, we just see a bright white light.
It's a really subtle slight change,
but it's something that kind of separates
the noobs from the pros.
It's one of those little things
that ends up making a big difference,
even though the difference might not be super apparent
as you're doing it, but overall it just makes it look
much more natural.
How do we do this?
It's really simple and easy.
We're gonna start with the left side, which is the shadows,
and we're just gonna make this little curve,
bring down the saturation in the shadows,
and then we're gonna do the same thing
on the right side, which is actually the highlights,
and we're gonna bring that saturation down.
Really subtle, really small slight change,
but it just makes it look so much more natural.
And this especially holds true if you wanna go
for a really heavy grade,
a really heavy look,
so for example we're gonna start
completely fresh from scratch,
and we're gonna go heavy on the teal and orange,
a really contrasty saturation look,
we're gonna go heavy on this one.
So we're gonna add the contrast,
we're gonna bring down the shadows,
bring up the highlights,
and then we're gonna add a ton of blue teal
into the shadows,
and then the midtones we're gonna go to orange,
and then we're gonna add a bunch of saturation.
Now that grade doesn't look very good,
it's just too much, it's too saturated,
the colors are too vibrant,
it's just, it's too much.
You've graded it way too heavy.
The hair is blue, the sky is really blue,
it just does not look natural.
So what do we do?
Well, we desaturate the shadows and the highlights
and boom, right away it looks way more natural.
The hair is no longer blue,
the really dark parts are actually black,
there's no saturation, no color contamination there,
and then same with the highlights.
So basically with this technique
you can go really heavy on your grade
and still make it look natural.
People aren't gonna be like, whoa, calm down,
that's a little bit too much.
It's a small, subtle trick again,
but it does separate kind of the pros from the beginners.
These are the little tips and tricks
that you need to know if you really want
to get good at color grading.
So there we go, that is my favorite feature
of Premiere 2019.
I'm really enjoying these new color grading tools
and I highly recommend that you check them out
because it is worth it.
It is gonna make your color grades a lot better
and you're just gonna have more fun doing it
when you have more control over what you're doing.
Alright, that's it for this video,
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and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye.
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