From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Fixing Video Color and Exposure Problems
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Adjusting foreground and background with layers and the RotoBrush tool
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Fixing Video Color and Exposure Problems
Adjusting foreground and background with layers and the RotoBrush tool
another tool you could take advantage of is the Roto Brush in After Effects. While Premiere offers great masks, Roto Brush is going to intelligently track the footage and allow you to cut the footage apart into different pieces. This can allow you to send footage over, extract it to its own layer, from the background. Let's take a look at using After Effects's Roto Brush for more advanced color correction. In this case, we have a lot of moving subjects, so I'm going to split the subjects from foreground to background. The first step is to take the clip, and I'm going to duplicate it so there's two instances of the clip. Now, I'll right-click on the top one and choose Replace With After Effects Composition. If it's not already running, After Effects will launch. Let's give this a save, and we'll call it Roto. The clip is added to the project. Now, let's double-click to open up the layer, and using the Roto Brush tool, I can begin to define my subjects. What I suggest is paint on your…
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The Levels effect2m 47s
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Relighting a scene with Lighting effects3m 5s
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Stabilizing exposure with the Color Stabilizer effect in After Effects4m 38s
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The Change Color effect and Change to Color effect3m 53s
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Neutralizing color with the CC Color Neutralizer in After Effects2m 28s
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Adjusting foreground and background with layers and the RotoBrush tool10m 10s
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