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Big news! Big news, Again…
Adobe this time came out with a big update for most of its apps.
Including Premiere Pro.
And for the first time in history, they finally listened to us.
This update is not packed with a ton of new features, there're of course a few,
but it wasn't their main focus.
They finally worked on performance and stability!
So, with the new update Premiere should not crash as often anymore,
or freeze up randomly.
At least that's what they claim.
We've been working in the beta version for several months now,
and it did crashed here and there!
Of course that was a beta version, so let's give the official update
some time before we judge.
Anyways, one of the biggest new features in Premiere Pro
can be found within the Lumetri panel.
And it's sits under the Curves tab.
You will notice that the big color wheel there is now gone,
and we've got a bunch of new lines on which we can draw these curves.
And here are five ways how you can actually use these curves in the real world.
And I'm gonna start off with the normal RGB curves.
These where already there.
The shot that we're working with looks pretty flat,
that’s because it was recorded in a LOG format.
Basically what log does is lifting the shadows and pulling down the highlights,
to capture as much dynamic range as possible.
So what we can do with the curves is the opposite.
One the bottom we can find the shadow, so Yannick is gonna pull that down.
In the top right lays the highlights, which we're gonna pull up.
See how we're creating as S-curve,
which is a very healthy way to create contrast without crushing anything.
You can also choose how much you need to pull the curves for the highlights
and the shadows to preserve as much detail as possible.
And this is almost as fast as the normal contrast slider,
but you have a ton more control over the contrast.
So this might be the first color correction.
From the top in the Lumetri panel there's now a dropdown menu.
From here we can rename the current Lumetri effect.
And I'm gonna call this 'basic correction'.
Then going back into that dropdown menu,
I will now add a new Lumetri color effect.
And, you know, let's name this one 'Skin tones'.
With the first new curves features
we can make a selection of the skin tones by simply clicking and adding points.
In between we're going to add a third point,
which we can lift up to add more saturation or pull down to decrease the saturation.
And this kinda works the same way as the HSL secondary.
Where you first select a specific color in your video and then you can manipulate that.
So by increasing the saturation for the skin tones,
we're making it a bit more vivid or warmer.
Which is needed for Lorenzo, he’s looking pretty dead in this example.
The third curves option is called Hue vs Luma.
Again, we're going to make a selection of the skin tones color
and lift it up to make the face of Lorenzo brighter.
Making it pop out better within the scene.
Now, if you are selecting other parts within your video,
you can head over to your Effects Controls, locate the Lumetri effect called skin tones
and click on the Ellipse Mask tool.
Place that over the face of your subject and feather it a bunch.
The color adjustments that we've just done will now only be applied within that circle.
Alright, let's add another Lumetri effect, this time we're going to call it Sky Boost.
We've got a beautiful sky, but we’re going to make it pop out even better.
In the hue vs saturation curves, I'm gonna do the exact same thing as last time,
but now select the blue and increase the saturation for it.
If you're having trouble selecting the sky,
probably because there's not enough blue in there,
you can also go into the luma vs saturation curve.
The left side are the shadows and the right side are the highlights.
So by puling up the right side, we can add more saturation in the highlights,
which is going to be the sky.
Next up, the green bushes in the back do not look so interesting to me.
So what I can do is head over to the hue vs hue.
Make a green selection, and pull it to a different color.
It's autumn, so the leafs should be red or brown.
And by the way guys, I'm constantly making manual selections.
You can of course also use the color picker to make an automatic selection,
but that never works so good.
Usually the selection is too small, resulting in weird artifacts
such as banding when you’re going to make changes.
Then the last thing that I'd like to show you guys
is when we go back into the normal curves, we know that this represent the luminance.
But by clicking on either Red, Green or Blue on the top,
we can change the luminance values for only that specific color.
So if we click on the red and pull down the shadows only,
and you wanna bring back the highlights
because this tool will always try to make curves.
We can then make some interesting color shifts.
We can remove some red from the shadows, making it more grunchy.
Or add a little bit of red, making your shot more nostalgic and warm.
A very quick way of creating custom gradings.
I do have to mention, that with everything that we've just seen,
you need to be careful.
Do not overdo something.
Usually subtle changes that still look natural
can be much better than “over the top” gradings.
And those where my 5 color grading tricks
using nothing but the new curves inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
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Thank you so much for watching, thank you Yannick for the screencasts.
And like always…
-Stay Creative!
-Yeah, that.
-Yannick, you’re wearing a Copy Cat t-shirt!
-Isn’t it Friday?
-No, it’s Tuesday, Yannick!
-My bad.