ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2.0
User Guide
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Color balance, angle, and saturation controls
The Fast Color Corrector and the Three-Way Color Corrector effects offer Hue Balance and Angle color wheels and
a Saturation control for balancing color in your video. Color balance is just what its name implies, balancing the red,
green, and blue components to produce the desired color of white and neutral grays in the image. Depending on the
desired effect, you may not want the color balance in a clip to be completely neutral. Perhaps you want a intimate
family scene to have a warm (reddish) color cast or maybe the scene in your crime documentary requires a cool
(bluish) color cast.
When making adjustments with the color wheel and Saturation control, it’s useful open a Reference Monitor to view
the Vectorscope ganged to the composite video in the Program Monitor.
The color wheel adjustments offer the following adjustments:
Hue Angle
Rotates the color towards a target color. Moving the outer ring to the left rotates the colors towards green.
Moving the outer ring to the right rotates the colors towards red.
Balance Magnitude
Controls the intensity of the color introduced into the video. Moving the circle out from the
center increases the magnitude (intensity). The intensity can be fine-tuned by moving the Balance Gain handle.
Balance Gain
Affects the relative coarseness or fineness of the Balance Magnitude and Balance Angle adjustment.
Keeping the perpendicular handle of this control close to the center of the wheel makes the adjustment very subtle
(fine). Moving the handle towards to outer ring makes the adjustment very obvious (coarse).
Balance Angle
Shifts the video color towards a target color. Moving the Balance Magnitude circle towards a specific
hue shifts the color accordingly. The intensity of the shift is controlled by the combined adjustment of the Balance
Magnitude and Balance Gain.
Color correction adjustments using the color wheel
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Hue Angle
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Balance Magnitude
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Balance Gain
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Balance Angle
The Saturation slider controls the color saturation in the video. Moving the slider to 0 desaturates the image so only
the luminance values show (an image made up of white, grays, and black). Moving the slider to the right increases
the saturation.
Desaturated image (left); Saturated image (right)
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