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Chapter 4, Setting Up Realtime Effects withAdobe Premiere Pro
Matching colors between two clips
You can perform a color match to match colors between two clips (such as skin
tone, sky, etc.). The co lor match lets yo u select colors from a reference clip to
match to your target clip. You can affect the colors globally (Master), or just the
Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights.
You can select the colors for your reference color and match color by either
clicking the Color Picker button or the eyedropper.
The eyedropper can be used in two ways:
$Click the eyedropper button and click on the desired color in your clip.
$Click the eyedropper button and click and drag anywhere on your clip to
create a rectangular area containing the color you want to select. The
selected color will b e an average of the pixel infor mation contained w ithin
the rectangle.
°To perform a color match:
1Prepare your workspace for color correction by choosing Window >
Workspace > Color Correction.
2Open your target clip (clip that contains the colors you want to correct) in the
Source Monitor.
¦NoteFor best resul ts when using a targe t clip that has multip le effects
applied to it, create a nested sequence and open it in your Source Monitor
before performing the color match. For more information about creating
nested sequences, see your Adobe Premiere Pro documentation.
3Apply the Matrox Color Correction effect to your target clip on the
timeline.
4Use the controls under the Reference Monitor to move to a frame in your
reference clip that contains the colors you want to match.
5Use the controls under the Source Monitor to go to the frame in your target
clip that contains the colors you want to match to your reference clip.
Eyedropper
Color Picker button