Correct color in video

Adobe® Premiere® Pro includes effects that allow you to adjust color in video, such as the Color Corrector effect. By using this effect, you can correct problems such as smeared colors, color casts from mixed lighting, or loss of detail in highlights and shadows. Each adjustment you make is accurately displayed in the industry standard waveform monitor and vectorscope.


Optimize your workspace.

Optimize Adobe Premiere Pro to work with color-correction tools by choosing Window > Workspace > Color Correction. This command docks the Effects and Effect Controls windows in the Project window and opens a Reference Monitor window next to the Program view.

Open an existing project that contains clips that need color correction.

Sync the Reference Monitor and Program view.

The Reference Monitor window allows you to view the waveform monitor or vectorscope and clips simultaneously. Choose Gang To Program Monitor from the Reference Monitor menu so that both windows show the same frame in the timeline. Then, choose Waveform from the same menu.

To navigate between frames, use the playback controls in the Reference Monitor window to keep this window in front of the Monitor window.
Apply the Color Corrector effect to a clip.

Click the Effects tab in the Project window and type color corrector in the Contains text box. When the Color Corrector effect appears, drag the effect icon to the clip in the Timeline window.

Move the current-time indicator to a frame in the clip and then select the clip in the Timeline window. Click the Effect Controls tab in the Project window to show all effects associated with the selected clip and then expand the Color Corrector effect to view the controls.