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

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Restoring the correct saturation

Restoring the correct saturation

- Saturation is the overall intensity or presence of color in a shot. And typically, you'll adjust this after you adjust exposure. What happens is this. When you brighten a shot, the shot is going to lose saturation. If you darken a shot, saturation will increase. That's why it's important that you make this adjustment after you adjust tone. Let's go to the next sequence here, two dot four, and we'll continue to work with the previous shot. I'll press the backslash key to see the starting state versus the end state. And this is subtle here. Looking at this shot, I want to get the correct, overall exposure. Well, I pretty much feel that we've achieved this. Previously, we recovered highlights but lifted the whites. That works well. And you'll note that we played with the shadows in the black point. Well, this is going to affect the overall saturation. Let's bring up the vector scope here. And I can see the total saturation levels. If I increase saturation, you'll see that it starts to…

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