Getting started
Most feature films are color corrected. The purpose is less to fix a shot gone bad and more to give the film a "look" that matches its mood or genre: from warm reds for landscapes and sepia tones for historic shots to cold blues for hard-edge films or a gritty look for urban dramas. Color correctionor color enhancingis big business, and Premiere Pro has a full suite of professional color enhancing effects.Those color-oriented effects offer more than color correction. You can select a color and change it, create a 3D look, convert a clip to grayscale with the exception of a single color, or remove all colors outside a specific color range. I'll give you a sample of some of these in this lesson.In previous lessons, you've encountered a few uses for nested sequences. I review those uses in this lesson, show you a couple more and show you one little goodie: how to put more than one transition at an edit point.Software as deep as Premiere Pro fosters plenty of functionality. In this lesson I show you three nifty editing techniques: obscuring someone's identity, creating a real mirror effect, and adding white flash transitions.Premiere Pro's default keyboard shortcuts are too numerous to use, much less memorize. But there are several you will come to rely on. I list my favorites and show you how to customize keyboard commands to suit your editing style.