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

Using the Video Limiter effect

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

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Using the Video Limiter effect

- [Instructor] Now, in this case, if we take a look at this particular shot, you'll notice that we definitely have some areas that are pretty bright and some very saturated colors. What I'm going to do is add a new adjustment layer, just make sure you have the project panel active when you do this. And it'll automatically get scaled to the project. Drag it in and place it above. Now, what you can do is select that layer and apply an effect. Go to the effects controls, and type in the word limit. And what you'll see, is a video limiter. Now, there are two choices here, a legacy version and a newer version. Let's go with the one that's the newer color correction method, and apply it. Now, from the effect controls, you'll see what's happening. This allows you to control how the effect is applied. I'm going to pull this off to the side here so it's a bit easier. So we can see our scopes. And what we're going to do is make a little bit more room. The goal here is that we keep the shots legal. So the clip levels lets us set a hard cap. 100 is really strict, and then you'll see ones that a little bit more loose, depending upon if it's European broadcast standards, or the stricter US standards. In any case, what happens here as we drag through, is you'll notice that nothing went above 100. If we toggle that off, it does. Additionally, it's going to deal with other problem colors. So if we take a look here under the compression method, I can tell what it does before it starts to compress. So we can apply a slight range here, so it's got a little bit more roll off. And the gamut warning shows us the problem areas if there's a problem color. You're not going to run with that on, but it does help you identify the hotspots or the oversaturated areas. And you see there that that really does pull it down nicely. What this does is allows us to get the shots within the correct standard. And, as a simple adjustment layer, it's a nice pass. This means that you can quickly apply it to the sequence and pull it through. Additionally if you want to tweak, you can turn on that gamut warning, and look for the problems, and then use something simple like the curves here, and just come into the saturation versus saturation. My suggestion is, add a simple point here, and pull down the saturation for the more saturated areas. Like so, a gentle roll off will help. Now if we take a look at this, it's a simple change, but it means that the more saturated areas have been pulled down nicely and we have no clipping at all. This means that the sequence is ready for delivery.

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