Tutorial: Applying Looks and Matching Shots in Adobe CC
Recent upgrades to Adobe CC make it easy to apply graded looks in Adobe Premiere Pro CC and match shots with different color temperatures via seamless roundtripping between Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC.
Adjusting the Effect in Premiere Pro
Now let’s say you’re satisfied with what the Shot Matcher did and I don’t want to match it to any of these other clips. But you want to go back to Premiere Pro because I want to do some more editing. Just go back up to the panel of buttons at the top, and click the Premiere Pro icon button that takes you straight back to Premiere Pro (Figure 11, below). Of course, it’ll ask you to save it.
Figure 11. Linking back to Premiere Pro.
When you re-open your project in Premiere Pro, you’ll see that the effect you created in SpeedGrade is carried over back to your Premiere Pro timeline, just like any change you make when roundtripping between Premiere Pro and Audition or After Effects.
Now, the other cool thing is that when I select the clip that we matched to the other shot, I’ll find that it’s been brought in as a Lumetri effect and I can still switch it on and off, even though I can’t make adjustments to it.
If you want to make adjustments, however, there’s a way to do it. Go back to the Project panel, select a new item, and create an Adjustment Layer (Figure 12, below). If you’re familiar with Photoshop, you’ll find that it’s a similar kind of thing.
Figure 12. Creating an Adjustment Layer.
When the Adjustment Layer dialog open, make sure the settings match your sequence, and then drag the adjustment layer over to the video track above the track you want to adjust (Figure 13, below). Of course, it doesn’t need to be over all of the clips in the timeline, so you can trim it so it’s above just the one clip you want to adjust (in this case, the one we matched to the shot with the cooler color temperature).
Figure 13. The adjustment layer trimmed to the length of the clip we want to adjust.
With this adjustment layer I can apply virtually any other effect on top of what’s already applied directly to the clip below it. So if I want to go to Lumetri Looks and layer on another look--say, a bleach bypass--I can drag it over and see right away how it changes the look. Now, the beauty of having this on an adjustment layer is that I have more control. I can adjust how much of that we see. I can crank the Opacity all the way down, somewhere in the middle, or all the way up. And we have blend mode options as well (Figure 14, below), which will further change the way it interacts with the Lumetri Look that’s come over from SpeedGrade.
Figure 14. Adjusting the adjustment layer. Click the image to see it at full size.
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