From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Fixing Video Color and Exposure Problems

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Fixing your white balance

Fixing your white balance

From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Fixing Video Color and Exposure Problems

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Fixing your white balance

- A common problem with footage is white balance. White is often used as a reference for the camera, because it helps it color calibrate. And ideally you set a white balance when shooting your footage, or before you capture it. But afterwards you can adjust this. And if the white balance is off, it often produces a color cast, or shift that can be quite noticeable. Let's go here to the project panel and load up 2:2, In this case we've got two shots, and the first is not properly color balanced, and the second is. If you look at RGB parade, you can definitely see a difference between the two. All right, let's select that first shot there, and take a look at temperature. I see that there's too much blue, so what I'm going to do is play with the temperature balance here, and pull that down. What I'm trying to do is get the red and blue, in balance. And using tint here, I can further manipulate. Well, that's looking a lot better, but it's not quite right. Still, we have a problem. At the…

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