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Selective Color Effect or Equivalent in Premiere CS6
Hi all — my girlfriend does a lot of color correction and I’m not sure her methods are the most time efficient (files from Premiere are exported as one video sequence which is placed into After Effects and then color corrected). She’d be happy to do it directly in Premiere, but she’s rather fond of the Selective Color filter which is for some reason, only available in After Effects.
She’d use Colorista except that Selective Color gives more control over the blacks, midtones and highlights for each individual color channel, which is important. Does anyone have any tips for something that could give the same amount of control, or another process perhaps?
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[Sean Parker] “She’d use Colorista except that Selective Color gives more control over the blacks, midtones and highlights for each individual color channel, which is important.”
I can’t think of anything you could do with Selective Color that you can’t do with Colorista II — and I can think of a great many things that are easier or more precise with Colorista II. The trick is to use Colorista’s secondaries (adjustments made to portions of the image, qualified with a key), and to stack instances of the effect as necessary.
See Stu Maschwitz’s Colorista II tutorials [link] for a good start on coloring with Colorista II.
[Sean Parker] “Does anyone have any tips for something that could give the same amount of control, or another process perhaps?”
There’s also SpeedGrade (included with CS6) or DaVinci Resolve (Lite version is free), or Color Finesse (bundled with Ae).
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