Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 - Manual (Page 364)

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1. In a Timeline panel, select the clip you want to adjust so it appears in the Program Monitor.
2. If you want to replace a color in the displayed clip with a color in another clip in your project, open that other clip in the Source Monitor.
3. Apply the Color Replace effect to the clip you want to adjust.
4. In the Effect Controls panel, click the Setup icon for the Color Replace effect.
5. In the Color Replace Settings dialog box, move the pointer over the Clip Sample image so it becomes an eyedropper, and then click to
choose the color to be replaced. You can also click the Target Color swatch and select a color in the Adobe Color Picker.
6. Choose the replacement color by clicking the Replace Color swatch and selecting the color in the Adobe Color Picker.
7. Broaden or reduce the range of the color you’re replacing by dragging the Similarity slider.
8. Select the Solid Colors option to replace the specified color without preserving any gray levels.
Remove color in a clip
To quickly remove color in a clip, apply the Black & White effect from the Image Control bin of the Video Effects bin.
1. Set up your workspace for color correction.
2. Select the clip in a Timeline panel and apply either the Fast Color Corrector or the Three-way Color Corrector. See also Apply effects to
clips .
3. In the Effect Controls panel, click the triangle to expand the Fast Color Corrector or the Three-way Color Corrector controls.
4. (Optional) Select the Show Split View option if you want to view a before and after comparison of your adjustment in the Program Monitor.
You can specify whether the split view is horizontal or vertical by choosing from the Layout menu. You can also adjust the relative proportion
of the before and after views.
5. (Optional for the Three-way Color Corrector only) Do any of the following:
To restrict your adjustments to a specific tonal range, choose Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights from the Tonal Range menu. Choosing
Master applies adjustments to the entire tonal range of the image. If necessary, use the Tonal Range Definition controls to define the
different tonal ranges.
To restrict your adjustments to a color or range of colors, click the triangle to expand the Secondary Color Correction controls. Define the
color or color range by using the Eyedropper tool or slider controls, or enter numeric values. See also
Specify a color or range of colors
to adjust .
6. Scrub the underlined text or enter a value lower than 100 for the Saturation control. You can also click the triangle to expand the control so
you can drag the slider.
Mix color channels in a clip
1. In the Effects panel, click the triangle to expand the Video Effects bin, and then click the triangle to expand the Adjust bin.
2. Drag the Channel Mixer effect to the clip in a Timeline panel.
If the clip is already selected in a Timeline panel, you can drag the Channel Mixer effect to the Video Effects section of the Effect
Controls panel.
3. Decrease or increase a channel’s contribution to the output channel by doing any of the following to a source color channel:
Scrub an underlined value to the left or right.
Click an underlined value, type a value between –200% and +200% in the value box, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
Click the triangle to expand the Channel Mixer controls, and drag the slider to the left or right.
4. (Optional) Drag the slider, scrub the underlined text, or type a value for the channel’s constant value (Red-Const, Green-Const, or Blue-
Const). This value adds a base amount of a channel to the output channel.
5. (Optional) Select the Monochrome option to create an image containing only gray values. This option achieves this result by applying the
same settings to all the output channels.
Isolate a single color using Color Pass
The Color Pass effect lets you isolate a single color or a range of colors. Adjustments are made in a dialog box showing the Clip Sample and
Output Sample. You can also adjust the Color Pass effect properties in the Effect Controls panel.
If you want to color correct a single color or range of colors in a clip, use the Secondary Color Correction controls in the Color Correction
effects.
1. Drag the Color Pass effect to a clip.
2. In the Effect Controls panel, click the Setup icon for the Color Pass effect.
3. In the Color Pass Settings dialog box, do one of the following to select the color that you want to preserve:
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