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Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast

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The temptation is always to choose the easiest tool in the box when sometimes another tool will do an much better job! In this Premiere Pro tutorial Andrew Devis will show you how to avoid using the dreaded brightness & contrast tool and damaging your shot in the process! Andrew will show you the correct tool to choose so that the full dynamic range is preserved and your shot looks great when you need to brighten it or change the contrast.



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Re: Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
by Ann Baldwin
Gosh, I wish I'd known this a while back. I have been using the Brightness & Contrast effect (wrist thoroughly slapped), but from now on I'll use the Fast Color Corrector. I'd also never known about the Reference Monitor, which will be immensely useful. Thanks a million!

Ann Baldwin
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'Art Changes Lives'
@Ann Baldwin
by Andrew Devis
Hi Ann

I'm really pleased you're learning new things from the tutorials, and by using the FCC you will not crush the luminance range of your images which will increase the quality of the final results which is always good.

I too took a while to find the reference monitor but once you start using it you will find it becomes an indispensable part of your work-flow.

Thanks for sharing and thanks for the link - I love your work!
Andrew

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Re: Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
by Sean Kenny
Thank you so much...very helpful.

Sean
SomethingTV.com
Re: Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
by Heather Ferreira
Thank you so much for posting this extremely helpful and uncomplicated tutorial. I am a film student at New York University and, while NYU teaches Final Cut Pro, I find I prefer Adobe Premiere Pro for my post-production needs. Lately I've been editing my first student film, and your suggestions turned out to be invaluable. The segment was a little underlit and on a very slow film, yet pushing it any further f-stops would have hurt the final image. I was looking for a simple, effective way to adjust the brightness and contrast of my film, and your tutorial fixed the problem. Thanks to you and to Creative Cow for providing such a great service to filmmakers!
@Heather Ferreira
by Andrew Devis
Hi Heather
Really pleased to hear that the tutorial helped you :o) In fact, you are exactly they type of person I'm aiming to reach with these tutorials - a skilled student keen to learn the basics well.

Thanks for your comment
Andrew

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Re: Tutorial: Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
by Ann Bens
Hi Andrew, excellent tutorial. Looking forward to Part 2.
Ann
Re: Tutorial: Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
by Andrew Devis
Hi Ann

Thanks for the comment. Part 2 is uploaded and should be on line soon, parts 3 & 4 will be uploaded tomorrow (I hope).

Thanks again
Andrew

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Re: Tutorial: Color Correction 1: Brightness & Contrast
by Alex Udell
Good one Andrew!!!

Thx...

Alex


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