Premiere Pro - Adjusting tonality -- brightness & contrast

NOTE: I used Premiere Pro CS6 when recording these lessons. The CC version of Premiere Pro behaves differently.

Previous versions had scopes accessed in the Reference monitor either by the panel menu or later by clicking the little wrench icon toward the lower-right corner of the panel.

In 2015, Adobe replaced the Reference monitor scopes with scopes taken from the company's professional color grading product, SpeedGrade. To access those scopes go to the Windows menu and click on Lumetri Scopes.

The Lumetri scopes work very much like the old Reference monitor scopes.

This lesson explains how to use the YC Waveform scope to analyze clips tonality: brightness & contrast. Then use either the Fast Color Corrector or the RGB Curves video effect to adjust tonality to ensure a full contrast range.

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[MalMilligan]

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[TMAXgames]

This is the best tutorial for tonality I've found. Thank you so much for your clarity, brevity and efficiency.

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[Bakamanzz]

This is the best explanation about color corrections I've seen on youtube, so many tutorials mix up correction with grading, this was very helpful. This helped me understand scopes more clearly and when to use curves and when to just use the input or outputs on "fast color correction." There's more to it when it involves skin tones but this was very helpful.

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