How I COLOR CORRECT & GRADE My YouTube Talking Head Setup In Premiere Pro
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How I COLOR CORRECT & GRADE My YouTube Talking Head Setup In Premiere Pro
In this video, you'll learn the color correcting and grading that Will does during the talking head intros and outros of his YouTube videos using Premiere Pro CC and Lumetri Color.
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Welcome back to another video in this one i'm going to show you my workflow for color correcting and color grading the talking head footage at the beginning of my youtube videos now we are currently building out a new studio so this look will eventually change but i thought it'd be cool to break down the settings and workflows that i've been using up to this point and right off the bat i will say that the camera does not look like this raw i'll show you what the raw footage looks like it's drastically different [Music] so that is how the footage looks like straight out of the camera as you can see there's almost no blue tones in it at all it's a lot more dull and it really is a big difference from the raw look to the final look so let's jump into premiere pro and get started [Music] all right with premiere pro open let's turn off all of these layers except for the first one and then in our lumetri color tab we will go up and set it to our top one that means we are working on our top layer here now first off i do want to say that when they came out with lumetri color i didn't know that you could stack the effects like this before that you'd use the three-way color and of course you could just duplicate them as many times as you want and do as much color correction or grading as you'd like but when they came up with a lumetri color it introduced this new panel window and i thought this is as much as you could work with i didn't realize that you could copy and paste lumetri color and then change them up here.
So that's a good tip for you if you didn't know that all right with only the top layer selected let's go into the basic tab and you'll see that i don't have an input lut the reason is the original footage was not shot in log so i don't need to correct it from that original log look now at the top here you'll notice that for the temperature i've made it uh minus 36.6 so it is quite a bit towards the blue that means it does introduce quite a lot of blue into the image i tend to like a little more blue in the image so that's sort of the decision behind that and then down here in the creative tab you can see for the look i've added one of our own luts this is our bright day blue skylet and just by the name you can tell that this is meant for brighter days with nice blue skies however as you can see for this example i am using it in an indoor scene and i think it works pretty nicely as well so it's pretty versatile i have the intensity set to 100 and i haven't really changed anything else down here.
Let's go back up to the basic correction tab so under the tone i've increased the exposure to 0.4 making it a little brighter i haven't touched the contrast or the highlights but i have increased the shadows a little bit that sort of brightens up the darker areas and i do boost the whites and the shadows in most clips that i work with i think it ends up looking a little nicer and then i did not touch the saturation and blacks our lut does add a lot of saturation so i would leave it as zero as well if you're using it and that's all i do on the main lut lumetri color effect another quick note if you right click it you can rename them and you can see i have done exactly that this helps just for organization when you're editing so moving on the next one we have is one for fixing the lip color so in adding our lut and messing around with all the settings and making things more blue the lip color change to be a little more pinkish purple so to make it a little more natural i've included another luma tree so we'll go to the second one here and then you can see the only thing i've added is the hsl secondary and this is sampling only the lip color so if we turn this on you can see those are really the only areas that this effect will change the second one it is picking a bit of the beard up and bottom of the nose but again it's not going to really change too much there so the idea is i've selected the lip color i've blurred it slightly and then i've corrected it away from that pinkish purple color and then brought the tint a little more to the green pretty straightforward so we'll go to the third one this one is our smooth skin one so as you can see if you're staring at the skin this one makes quite a big difference.
The idea is it blends a little more of the blemishes out and i tend to get a little bit of red skin in certain areas around my face so this sort of hides those spots and makes the skin look a little more even and of course in doing so it takes a little bit of the dynamics out of the face but i tend to like this look a little better if you do compare it it might seem like it's a little too harsh but again people only see the final look so they don't really have anything to compare it to so this just looks normal so again on this third one i only have the hsl secondary on and then once again i have sampled just the face dialed in those tones blurred it a little bit and then beside the color wheel i've increased the slider to make the skin tones a little brighter and more even and then i've also reduced the sharpen here by -13 just so the footage isn't as sharp on my face this helps with blending some of the blemishes and the pores in my face to make it look like a little more uh i'd say polished so you know you can go all the way up make me look like a ghost or you go all the way down make it look like i got some pretty bad burns oh man you get the idea so you can try to find a sweet spot for you if you're looking for more details on um smoothing out the skin i do have a tutorial exactly on my entire workflow for smoothing skin so you can check that out on our channel and my next one is add skin tone so let's turn that on and you can see what that does it makes a little more orange be introduced into my skin and the idea is you have your main lut you fix any major issues you brighten and smooth out the skin and then you bring back in some skin tone once again i believe yep we only have the hsl secondary dialed in the skin tone.
As you can see it's pretty much the same as before once again blurring the image and this one is once again dropping the sharpen and then bringing up the skin tone a little more toward the orange and then up to this point you can see that's where we're at and the last thing we have is the vignette so I prefer adding a vignette and darkening the edges a bit again you may not like it but I think it's better, especially I have this wall here that sort of falls off and there are some cables here running for the that went up to the projector so it's just nice being able to darken that and it helps draw your eyes toward the center of frame where I, of course, want you to look because I want you to pay attention to what I'm saying not what's in the background so the way I do that is right in lumetri this comes with it it's just a vignette and I have it set to minus one with a midpoint of 21 roundness of 100 feather at 100. all right so that's pretty much how i color correct and color grade every talking head clip that i have you know i may use a different lut or i may change some settings depending on the environment but generally speaking i had a bunch of these to keep organization and it allows me to turn off one or turn on another to dial in exactly what i'm going for compare them and it ultimately makes my life a little easier because i'm not guessing which ones i'm working on.
Now the last tip i want to share is once you have your setup you can simply hold command on the mac or control on the pc and then highlight them all right click and go to save preset and then once your preset is saved it'll end up showing up in the presets folder and then this way the next time you record a video in the same environment you know with similar lighting you can just simply drop the preset onto your footage and you might have to change a few things but it's much faster than doing this all from scratch so i would highly suggest getting used to making presets because it makes your life a lot easier alright i hope you found that helpful on my workflow for color correcting and color grading my talking head clips if you found this video helpful give it a thumbs up and we have over 100 other filmmaking tutorials on this channel if you're interested check those out hit that subscribe button so we upload videos pretty frequently every month so if you want to get a notification just turn on the notification bell as well thanks so much for watching and we will see you next time.
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