Color correction: From PP 1.5 to PP 2.0

[PaPa]

Hey guys,

i recently made the jump from premier pro 1.5 to 2.0 and am now finding it rediculously difficult to achieve the same type of color correction i was able to do with ease in 1.5

In 1.5 it was simple, there was one effect aclled Color corrector and in it, it had the ability to

1) manipulate what was white, black and grey
2) the hues
3) HSL which included saturation, brightness, contrast, contrast center, gamma, master pedestal, and RGB Gain
4) RGB, which included levels for the gamma, pedestal, and gain in all Red, Green, and Blue, as well as a gamma, pedestal, and gain for all of them, in this you could manipulate the master, lows, mids, and highs,

5) you had the curves to play with

im finding it extremely difficult to find all these in pp 2.0

it seems as though i have to add 3 or 4 layers of different effects t oachieve anything similar. But sometimes dont find them at all

What is this whole secondary color correction thingy? No matter what i do it seems to affect nothing. And these double bars with little triangles that shift to the left and the right, leaving checkard boxes in them,, i really really really dont get it, and normally it does not take me this long to get accustomed to new software. i learned final cut pro in a day for color correction, and ive been using this one for a good two weeks now and im at the same point of retartedness with its CC'ing than i was the first time i tried it, and failed, quite miserably..

please help!

thanks.


( me wonders if i should go back to pp 1.5 untill i start to use hi def footage )

 

[Kevin Dorsey]

Secondary color correction allows you to specify a specific color in the image to be corrected...so you could select just the grass in the shot, or the sky, and change how that is affected without disturbing the other colors. Select mask view to see what you are selecting. You select the eyedropper with the plus sign to select simliiar colors, the minus eye dropper will remove colors.

The double bars sounds like you might be referring to the tonal range. If you select tonal range as your view, and move those arrows, you'll see the highlights, mids, and shadows changing. Then when you make adjustments, you'll know which areas will be affected.

Hope this helps
-Kevin

 

[Huy Vu]

All the controls for hue, saturation etc. have been consolidated into the Fast Color Corrector. RGB control can be adjusted with Curves (which is still available) and everything else you mentioned can be done using Levels.

 

[PaPa]

i just feel like they've thrown everything in different places and its much harder to access now..

It might be much more customizable, but man is it ever that much more confusin to use.....

wonder if ill just go back to pp 1.5...

 

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Kevin, you mentioned secondary CC'ing in PPRO 2, is there a similar effect in PPRO 1.5 to correct specific colors, in CC, other than a simple "color pass" or "color select"?

 

[khmuse]

i just feel like they've thrown everything in different places and its much harder to access now..

It might be much more customizable, but man is it ever that much more confusin to use.....

wonder if ill just go back to pp 1.5...

Give yourself a bit of time to get familiar with 2.0. It really is a much better program across the board.

You will never want to go back once you have spent a bit of time with it.

 

[Kevin Dorsey]

Invision, I don't have 1.5 anymore, but I think secondary was introduced with 2.0.
Color Finesse, a plug-in for Premiere and After Effects, has secondary color correction as well. Color Finesse is a powerful add-on, it's like having a little davinci on your desktop.

-Kevin