• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Color correction/effects when working with long clips

  Posted by Howard Zinman on November 9, 2011 at 11:26 pm

  Hi,

  First time poster!

  I’m a beginner with Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5. I’m using it right now to do some color correction on badly produced DVD’s in my film collection! I was wondering if it is possible when doing color correction effects on a clip if you can apply different effects to different parts of a clip. For example – At the beginning of a clip, the scene is really bright, but, some 30 minutes later, the clip is really dark. Is it possible to darken the beginning and lighten the ending? How would you folks deal with a situation like this? Would you edit the film down to smaller parts? If so, how would you go about that?

  Thanks for the help!

  Howard

  Jeff Pulera replied 14 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Pulera

  November 11, 2011 at 10:36 pm

  Hi Howard,

  Quite simply actually. Apply your color correction effect to the long clip, but when the scene changes and needs different correction applied, use the Razor Tool to slice at that point, and so on. Each clip segment can then have different amounts of color correction applied. If the change takes place mid-scene (not at a cut in original), you can smooth abrupt changes in color between segments by just applying a Dissolve transition at the cut.

  Regards,

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers

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