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The role of secondary correction

The role of secondary correction

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

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The role of secondary correction

- Sometimes as you work with a shot you may need to affect secondary color. Secondary color correction is literally the idea that the grass is greener, the skies are bluer. Being able to go after one area and make a change. In our previous example, as we worked with curves, you saw a lot of secondary color correction. Let's go a bit deeper because this is really what happens a lot in the real world. I'm going to open up sequence 5.1 and you'll see a bunch of different shots here. As we go through, there's the before and the after. And you notice that I made the sky significantly bluer. There's my blue sky. Well, this was done by taking a look at some of those changes there and targeting a specific zone. So, either with a curve or using color wheels, we can start to emphasize a particular area. Now in this case, we were doing this not with just a simple highlight control. Rather, there is an actual control for secondaries. You'll find it here under HSL Secondary. And if we take a look…

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