Basic editing filters: Sharpen and Colour correction

Report · Mar 28, 2020

Hey everyone, it's Pablo again! 🙂

Just wanted to know what are your thoughts and best work around tips for sharpen clips and color correct them on Premiere. I'm not planning to do anything crazy such as emulate film stocks and so on. I'm mostly looking for an "easy" and reliable way to modify basic color appearence and to sharp some clips that have a bit out of focus.

I'm currently using Premiere Pro 2020.

Thanks again and all the best

Warmest regards,

Pablo

Report · Mar 28, 2020

basically sharpening is problematic. Sometimes adding a little bit will help, sometimes not. As far as color goes, just play around with the basic controls in the lumetri panel. Switching your workspace to the color one will make this easier. it's very useful to learn the basics of reading the scopes. do some googling. lots of tutorials out there.

Report · Apr 02, 2020

Hi mrgrenadier!

I hope you are good and safe.

Thanks - will do. I've already seen million of tutorials... hard to pick the route to follow.

Report · Mar 28, 2020

mgrenadier is correct especially on the sharpening. There is some in the Lumetri panel of the Color workspace, but ... you can only add a little bit before it looks awful.

As to color/tonal corrections ... start by setting your white & black/shadow values for a clean image, and you may wish to turn saturation to 0 while doing so in order to most clearly see the tonal ... brightness/contrast ... values.

Then bring Sat back to normal, and use either White Balance (which only touches the mids through whites) and/or the Creative Tab's Shadow/Highlights "tint" wheels. Go for a clean image without notable color casts.

Past that ... it's all cleanup and taste ... which takes just practice and doing. And studying what others do. I've some things on my blog especially if you go back to the previous page of posts.

rNeilPhotog.com

Neil

Report · Apr 02, 2020

Hey Neil,

Thanks for your feedback and answer.

Will patiently check your web and recommendations.

Thanks again and stay safe!

Pablo

Report · Mar 28, 2020

unsharp is better than sharpen. any blurriness can be improved with AE's deshake camera deblur plugin or reelsmart's motion blur set to negative 2.

Report · Apr 02, 2020

Sadly I don't have After Effects 😞

Any other route that I can apply using Premiere that would suit my needs?

Thanks in advance and hope you are safe.

Regards,

Pablo

Report · Apr 02, 2020

To find the effect, search for Unsharp Mask in your Premiere Effects panel.

Report · Apr 02, 2020

Pablo,

You can do a little sharpening in Lumetri but check it in playback at 100% after rendering to see what it looks like.

It is also useful to apply a second instance of Lumetri with a mask on it in the ECP, and use that to Sharon only the crucial area/s. This makes them look sharper visually without needing as much done.

Beil

Report · Apr 02, 2020

I'm safe at least, not sure about good. yes there are a lot of tutorials out there. R. Neil's advice is spot on. I'm an old f*rt and been dealing with how to handle color correction for a long time. I know this may be anathema here, but you might explore the manuals for davinci resolve. resolve started out as a color correction tool and the interface is excellent and the basic version is free Blackmagic has published a reasonably priced kindle ebook on using app and for the most part the principles involved in doing color correction will apply to the lumetri panels in premiere although the interface is different.

that said, I use the lumetric color correction for most projects from within premiere.