Hi, I'm Abba Shapiro and welcome to premiere pro in under 5 minutes today
we're going to look at a couple of effects in the effects panel that can
really help you fine-tune your luminance adjustments on a clip now I really liked
this clip it's actually a call it a skylapse its a time lapse of the stars and
meteor shower and it's real pretty but I really wanna be able to work my black
and white elements and I could do that over in the lumetri color panel but
there's a couple of effects that can really take me to the next level and
those two are shadow and highlights adjustments so let me go ahead and I'm
gonna rearrange my screen just a little bit so that you can work better now we
have are current workspace but I want to rip the effects control tab off my
current panel and just bring it over here to the right and now if I want I
can look at my scopes my effects controls which I'll be using for these
two effects as well as my final image and let me just move this over a little
bit so we're giving them all equal weight if I wanted to I could even go
ahead and close my lumetri color panel now that we have all of this real estate
let's go ahead and use the shadows and highlights affect you'll notice as soon as
I drop the shadow and highlight effect on to the clip it raises the luminance
values and it's this is actually one of my favorite effects to use on a clip
because I can immediately with one effect go ahead and get the shot almost
where I wanted to be now to fine tune it I'm gonna open up a second effect and
that effect is the luma corrector I'm gonna drop the luma corrector on the
clip and nothing will appear to happen but watch when we go to the scopes the
fine control you have on your image now with the scopes i'm only gonna go ahead
I'm only going to work with my waveform so let's close that vector scope and now
I can really fine tune what's happening in my image the first effect that I put on
shadow and highlight it has a default which is checked and a lot of times that
works but if you wanna
tweak it a little bit go ahead click off auto amounts and now you'll have sliders
that you can work with that will control just the shadow amount and the highlight
amount and you can see as I tweak these that my scope changes to we're not only
does my image look into the eye but it also looks good in the scopes so i'm gonna
go ahead and work with my shadows I want them to be nice and deep and there's
even find controls here if you look under more options but we're going to
actually move on to the next effect that I put on my really like I'm gonna close
the shadow and highlight so you can see all the options I have under luma
corrector and you'll see this brightness contrast contrast level and so on and i
can go ahead and create a split you I'm gonna turn that on this is nice because
I can see my before and my after so i'm gonna go ahead and turn on split view it's right
here below composite and above horizontal and I don't want it horizontal
I want it vertical and now as I make changes I'll be able to see what the before and
the after were like including the before and the after on my scopes now at first
blush this looks ok but this is where it really gets cool you'll notice that I
have a choice of working with the master of the entire clip but if I click on
master I have choices to work with my highlights mid tones and shadows so if I
go ahead and select my highlights now when I work with brightness and gamma
and pedestal pedestal being your black levels it only will work in highlights
area so I'm not affecting my blacks or mids at all yet I have all of these
controls to fine tune in that one area so as you see when I work with
brightness it's really only working with the upper part and there's only nuanced
here so let's go ahead and jump down to shadows and now I'm working with the
brightness of just my shadows and you'll see as I move thats adjustment left and
right it doesn't affect the luminance values of Mike mid or my highlight
range it really defines a certain section and that's where this is
really nice because I can really control nuanced with this bring down
just my shadows where I want without affecting either my midtones or my
highlight unless I choose to by selecting highlights or mid tones
instead of master so these are two great effects that you can work with really let
build the luminance values that you want on your clip