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Color Grading and Masking the Lumetri Color Effect in Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro Workflow

1

Import Media

File → Import or drag into Project panel.

2

Build Sequence

Drop clips on timeline, J/K/L to play, I/O for in/out points.

3

Color & Audio Pass

Lumetri Color for grading, Essential Sound for audio cleanup.

4

Export

File → Export → Media. H.264 for web, ProRes for archival.

Master Premiere Pro at Noble Desktop

Noble Desktop's Video Editing & Motion Graphics Certificate teaches Premiere Pro alongside After Effects.

In this lesson, we will look at masking in the Lumetri color workspace, specifically how to isolate one section of a clip and turn it black and white. We will also review how to track a mask to follow any movements

Video Transcription

Hi, This is Margaret from Noble Desktop. Today, We'll Be Looking at Creating a Mask in the Lumetri Color Panel.

Let's Make Dan Black and White and His Background Color Separate. We'll Use the Lumetri Color Panel for This. Under Basic Color Correction, You Have Saturation. I Have Dan Clicked On, and I'm Going to Take Away the Saturation, so Everything is Black and White.

Let's Pop over into the Effects Control Tab. Here's Your Lumetri Color You've Just Added. Now, I'm Going to Choose My Mask, and Now Just As We Did with the Blur, We Are Going to Have This Form Around Dan. and When It's Something with the Foreground and the Background, Do Be Sure to Mask Feather It. You Almost Always Have to Do That to Make Sure That There's No Part of Him That's Not Being Covered.

Now, Once Again, I Have My Plate in the Middle of This. You Could Start at the Beginning and Make Your Life Easier, but I Just Made It Harder, so I'm Going to Do Forward and Backwards, and That's Okay. So, Let's Mask Forward. Even Though Somebody's Just Sitting and Talking, They're Definitely Moving, so You Have to Track Every Time You Do a Mask. Let's See How This Works.

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Okay, When You're Working with Something Like This, You're Adding. in Our Next Video, We'll Be Looking at Opacity Masks, Which Are Removing Something to Add Another Image Underneath It.

I Hope You've Enjoyed This Lesson on Creating a Mask Using the Lumetri Panel. This Has Been Margaret with Noble Desktop. Thanks for Watching.

Video Transcript5 sections

1Full Video Transcript

2Introduction to Masking in Lumetri Color

Hi, this is Margaret from Noble Desktop and today we'll be looking at creating a mask in the Lumetri Color panel. Let's make Dan black and white and his background color. Let's separate Dan from the background.

Let's use the Color workspace. We'll use the Lumetri Colors panel for this, and under your basic color correction you have saturation. I have Dan clicked on and I'm going to take away the saturation so everything is black and white.