How To Change The Background Color In Premiere Pro

Phone call attention to an object in a scene by emphasizing its color and desaturating everything else using Hue and Saturation curve adjustments in Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Adjustments you lot make to the Hue (color) and Saturation (intensity) curves in the Lumetri Color panel in Premiere Pro can issue in dramatic changes to your video — such equally desaturating all just one color in a scene.

Place your footage — it's platonic if it's naturally saturated — in a sequence and switch to the Colour workspace. Option/Alt-click the video clip in the Timeline panel and drag it upward to create a re-create of information technology in the runway above. Keeping the upper clip selected, aggrandize the Bones Correction section of the Lumetri Color panel and drag the Saturation slider to increase information technology slightly, depending on how muted the colors are. Open up the Curves section, actuate the eyedropper for the Hue vs. Sat curve, and click the color you want to isolate in your shot. This places three keyframes in the bend (horizontal line).

In the Curves section of the Lumetri Color panel, click the Hue vs Sat eyedropper and select color to isolate.

In the Hue vs. Saturday curve, drag the first and last keyframes down to reduce their saturation to zero. The isolated colour will remain brilliant, while the others will get grayscale. Depending on the actual color you targeted, you may need to widen or narrow the bend (spacing between the three keyframes) either to sufficiently include the colored highlights and shadows in your object or to exclude colors appearing elsewhere in the shot that fall close to it in the spectrum.

Drag first and last keyframes in Hue vs Sat to zero, leaving the middle one. Ensure keyframes include shadows and highlights.

When adjusting the curve width fails to exclude all traces of colour from extraneous areas, y'all'll need to mask your primary subject then that it constrains the area afflicted by the Lumetri Color curve adjustments. In our instance, nosotros're targeting the bluish in the haversack and want to exclude all traces of blue from the hiker'south shoes and socks, every bit well as from the leafage. Open up the Effect Controls console (Shift+5) and click one of the Opacity mask tools to create the mask. Increasing the Program Monitor'south magnification may assistance you lot finesse the mask's shape and position.

Opacity mask is added to the blue backpack to isolate the color in that object only.

You're done now — unless your masked object moves. In that case, runway the mask for the duration of the shot. Adjacent to Mask Path, click the wrench icon to option the tracking method that suits your moving object best. Click one of the tracking buttons to start the tracking process. If your object enters from offscreen, beginning motion the playhead later in the sequence so your object is in view and and so track backwards. Once you've tracked the mask to the beginning of the shot, go back to where you started tracking and and then track forrard. If the tracked mask strays from the object, click Cease in the Tracking dialog box, reposition or resize the mask as advisable, and then resume tracking. This tin can be a laborious process.

Move the playhead and adjust mask as needed if object moves in the scene.

Play your sequence to ensure that your object is fully, accurately tracked. Only the area inside the mask will exist affected past the Lumetri Colour bend adjustments; everything outside will look normal. With the lower prune selected, expand the Basic Correction section of the Lumetri Color panel and decrease Saturation to zero. Play the sequence. Now only your targeted object should show any colour throughout the shot.

Basic Correction section of the Lumetri Color panel is selected, Saturation decreased to zero.

Once you've singled out the color in your shot, you lot can modify it. With the upper clip selected, adjust the Saturation slider to intensify that color or brand it more muted. Back in the Curves department of the Lumetri Colour panel, click the Hue vs. Hue curve to add a keyframe then drag it around to meet how the color changes to something completely unlike.

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