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.
Limits of Shot Matcher
So the Shot Matcher function is good for subtle shifts, but it’s less effective for drastic changes. Back at the beginning of this video I’m working on, there’s some beautiful sunrise footage, with nice orange and yellow shades going on, and then it abruptly goes to mid-morning two hours later with a much less dramatic shot of a traffic light. I don’t want that change to happen so abruptly.
So we’ll use File > Direct Link to Adobe SpeedGrade to go back to SpeedGrade, and choose the 2-Up Display. Then we’ll move our first head over to the traffic light, and then bring a sunrise shot into the left side of the 2-Up Display, and apply the Shot Matcher to make the mid-morning shot look like it was shot at sunrise. You can see the before (top) and after (bottom) in Figure 15 (below), and obviously it’s a bit too extreme.
Figure 15. Shot Matcher is not as effective for big changes in lighting as it is for subtle ones. Click the image to see it at full size.
With a change in lighting as dramatic as this, Shot Matcher provides an interesting look, but not necessarily one we’d want to keep in the final film. But it’s very useful for subtle changes in lighting. If, let’s say, somebody accidentally moves one of your lights on set just a little bit and it just changes enough to where you want to be able to try to restore the previous look without reshooting the scene, or if you’ve just got subtle color balance or white balance or tonal changes, Shot Matcher will fix them. Say you’re shooting outdoors and a cloud moves in front of the sun so it changes the color a little bit--you can easily fix that now.
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