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Workflow for color correction
Aloha all,
The project I’m playing with now was shot on a Panasonic GH-5 using VLOG color. I downloaded Panasonic’s LUT library, and have found a couple of looks that I like. Of course, throwing a LUT on the footage is only the beginning of the process. Matching and tweaking are still to be done.
Since I’ll be applying the same LUT to all the footage in a given scene, which is the “better” workflow? Should I:
1 – use an adjustment layer to drop the LUT on the entire sequence, then use Lumetri Color to do clip-by-clip tweaks, or…
2 – Apply the LUT to each clip individually, then use Lumetri Color to tweak?
I can see pros and cons to each, and was wondering what your thoughts are.
Mahalo!
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I personally add an adjustment layer to the entire sequence. After that I go through the individual clips as necessary to match shots. If everything was properly white balanced and exposed correctly you shouldn’t have much to do here.
You can add as many adjustment layers you want, Coloring is subjective,, but you still have to meet certain technical requirements for luminance, saturation, and black. If you want it all green that’s up to you. Your RGB waveform is your best friend to help you keep it legal.
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if your video falls outside the range of the lut, premiere will clip it first. you would need to bring it into range with an above copy of lumetri, so just watch out for that.
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One of the most efficient ways to do pre-color in Premiere:
Apply a LUT to a clip and if need be adjust it in the Lumetri color panel. Then export that LUT look as an effect preset.
Next, highlight all other clips in your bin that you want to have that look applied to. Drag the newly created color preset onto those clips and voila, you’ve now pre-colored your media.
The benefit of this workflow is that if you want to adjust that color look at some point, you can simply create a new effect preset LUT and then to apply it to all of your clips you highlight all of your clips in a bin, control click and turn off master clip effect and then drag the new effect preset onto those clips and they’ll all change. In addition, those changes will ripple through any timelines where you have used those clips.
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That is amazing! This is a functionality I was not aware of!
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