Final Cut Pro Color Board Equivalent in Premiere Pro

Report · Jan 30, 2017

I've been using Premiere pro CC for a while now and am just getting into color correction and really enjoying the Lumetri panel.

But i've been watching a few color grading tutorials in final cut pro x and notice that the color board option for color correcting looks very simple to use.

it does seem to be limited in its features but in terms of simply looking at a clip and saying i'd like to simply reduce the blues in the shadows here and up the yellow in these lights it is so straight forward.

what is the equivalent tool to use in premiere pro?

I mean if i simply want to remove some blues out of the highlights, shadows or midtones, what is the best way to do it in premiere pro?

I can see that easily i can up the greens or up the reds. is that the right way to do it? But i can't seem to directly remove one color like final cut.

Same thing for exposure. In final cut, you can up the exposure in the mids, shadows or highlights. How do you acheive the same thing in premiere pro?

Report · Jan 30, 2017

I'm not familiar with the FCP feature, but to do what you're asking you'd use either Curves or Color Wheels.

Report · Jan 30, 2017

Within the Lumetri panel, the different tabs have different controls for doing the different tasks a bit ... easier.

Basic tab is primarily designed for "neutralizing" a clip, getting a base white balance, white/black points, shadow/highlight placement, and saturation. Basic ... not necessarily refined.

Creative allows for a few mods to the above.

Curves allows a different tool to affect the shape of the signal up and down the scopes. Fine-tuning of the shadow roll-off, perhaps. Or just bringing the blue white-point down.

Color wheels allows for a finer control for something like the Curves tab ... you've got three segments, Shadows, Mids, Highlights, with separate controls for Luma (the vertical sliders for brightness) and Chroma (the balls or wheels for pushing/pulling color). These divisions are finer than the shadows/highlights ones in the Basic tab ... shadows & highlights affect way up/down the line there.

HSL Key is to use the parameters set for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness to select a specific area of the image to then modify using the controls in the lower half of that tab.

Neil