How to Choose Color Correction Effects in Adobe Premiere Pro

As you become more familiar with editing video, you may be ready to experiment with color correction effect. There are many different effects that can be applied to your clips when working in Adobe Premiere Pro. It is important to understand what can be done with each of these effects.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Fast Color Corrector effect adjusts a clip’s color through hue and saturation. There are levels controls for adjusting the intensity of shadows, midtones, and highlights. This effect is great for making simple color corrections.

2. The Luma Corrector effect adjusts the brightness and contrast in the highlights, midtones, and shadows of a clip

3. The Luma Curve effect adjusts the brightness and contrast of a clip through a curve adjustment. You can specify the color range to be corrected using Secondary Color Correction controls.

4. The RGB Color Corrector effect adjusts the color in a clip, by adjusting tonal ranges that you can define for the highlights, midtones, and shadows. You can also make tonal adjustments to individual channels, or specify the color range to be corrected using Secondary Color Correction controls.

5. RGB Curves effect adjusts the clip’s color using curve adjustments for each channel, and each curve has 16 different points in the image’s tonal range.

6. The Three-Way Color Corrector effect lets you make more subtle corrections to the clip’s hue, saturation, and brightness for the shadow, midtones, and highlights. The effect also has a histogram that displays the image’s luminance. You can further refine your adjustments by specifying the color range to be corrected by using the Secondary Color Correction controls.

7. The Video Limiter effect lets you limit the luminance and color in the clip so that they fall within definable parameters.