Color Correct using Vectorscope YUV & Waveform Luma - Premiere Pro

I heard you want to learn how to color correct?

Awesome. There are different ways to use different scopes to color correct your footage. Today I’ll show you how to use the vectorscope yuv and the waveform luma.

So let’s get into it.

Open lumetri color workspace. If you don’t see your scopes, go up to window and make sure show color scopes is checked. In order to see the vectorscope yuv and waveform luma, open the wrench and make sure they are checked.

They are scary looking, but yes, you really must use them!

The vectorscope yuv will show you all the colors you can see in the frame in the program monitor. The lightness in the center show how much of each color is in the frame.

You can see that lightness change if you dial up and down the saturation.

The waveform luma shows you the exposure of your video. The brightest exposure will be up at 100 and the darkest areas will be down at 0.

You can see the exposure change in the waveform when you dial up and down the exposure.

FYI if you want to reset a slider, just double click on it and it will reset to zero.

Now lets look at the lumetri color tab and all we need is the basic correction tab.

The 1st tab is color, and under color you see white balance. When setting your white balance you can adjust the temp slider to warm or cool, or change the tint from green to magenta. I do not recommend using these sliders. Instead take the eyedropper tool by white balance and click on something white in the frame in the program monitor. Premiere Pro will adjust those sliders for you.

Turn it on and off to see the difference in vectorscope yuv.

Next is the light tab and you can adjust the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks.

The waveform luma is not showing a lot of contrast in my video. If you read the waveform from left to right, it corresponds with the programs monitor, from left to right.

Here you can change the highlights and shadows or whites and blacks to get them close to 100 and 0.

Now toggle the lumetri color effect on and off in the effect controls tab to see the before and after!

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