Dehaze in Premiere

Resolve was built as a $250,000 per seat grading app. Color grading is still the heart and soul of Resolve, so of course it's color is better. There's only a couple apps maybe better, and they're WAY more expensive too.

But as someone who works in Resolve daily, and even does some teaching of it, it isn't near the NLE that Premiere is. And for some things, Avid is still easier to use. They all have differences.

Premiere's color tools can be pushed to do far more than most people, even most colorists, realize. I've had some fun with the colorists I've been close to over the last decade plus, doing things in Premiere that they didn't think possible.

That said, I still am ticked that a previous program manager EOL'd SpeedGrade ... but ah well. Lumetri isn't what SpeedGrade could do. Let alone challenge Resolve for color.

I'd add that often there is a small amount of specific, typically high frequency sharpening in dehaze processes. Past the contrast changes.

All Dehazing tool is, is changes in Contrast, Shadows and some Whites and blacks and a bit of other things, that is all that it is..
All the Exposure and color settings in premier pro can do what Dehazing does, you just have to be creative and find out what is needed to make the correct changes..
Now if you don't want to do all that work, you could get the free copy of davinci resolve and put your video in that and use davinci resolve Dehazing tool until your satisfied, and then bring your edited footage back in to Premier pro, that is an option and davinci resolve does have the best Dehazing tool by far.
I do most of my exposure and color grading in davinci resolve any way because it's far more superior than Premier pro, i have to admit that, facts are facts..

I apply the look then save it as a preset which I now can put in a custom bin.

Yea, there's a couple of the "simple" contrast punching included Lumetri presets that do things slightly differently from each other, and can work as a basis for "dehazing".

One of numerous reasons I wish they had subfolder support for the LUT use in both Technical (Basic tab) and Creative (Creative tab) LUT systems. So you could see them organized by what they do.

Tried that recipe, but was not very successful for me.

I found Lumetri SL Clean Punch (universal) works quite well on some clips.

Oh! I was checking out this recipe here. Have you tried this? https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/removing-haze-in-premiere-elements-has-the-function/m-p/9513576#M116537

I'm checking it out now.

Edit: I guess that's one way to do it. The Cineon Effect does get me in the zone. The Lumetri Settings didn't work for my image. I just used Auto Color and it had better settings than the recipe.

Kevin

Thanks very much for the suggestions. I am a newbie to Premiere and have been using Photoshop and Lightroom for about ten years, I took some drone footage and wanted to enhance the sky as it was somewhat blown out. Using lightroom and photoshop for a still image I can make the sky pop and mask out the areas I don't want to pop. In Premiere I have not found a way to isolate just the sky. Thanks again for any recommendations.

The bit from Ann's suggested YouTube video about using an inverted bw copy of a clip (dragged above original clip) then using the Subtract blend mode is pretty cool ... liked that!

Neil