Speaker 1: One way to make your videos look better without upgrading any of your equipment is by color grading because you can take your videos straight out of camera from looking like this to this. And this is all for free. I'm going to show you how to do so so you can do it yourself. Let's go. You got to just press record. Hey, what's up? It's Omar Zachary with Think Media helping you build your influence with online video. And sometimes we do techie reviews. Other times we do tutorials just like this one. So if you're new here, consider subscribing. Now before I get into the tutorial, I wanted to tell you the difference between color correcting and color grading. Color correction is oftentimes minimal exposure and color adjustments done to a video clip. Color grading is more or less the style of which the clip is with the use of a LUT or a preset. So based on the clip you see right now, this is how it looks straight out of the camera. And this is how it looks color corrected like this. You can notice it looks pretty good and you could probably ship the video from this point. But this is how it'll look color graded. Personally, I like to get my color correction done in camera as much as I can and as far as my exposure and white balance goes. I do this by setting custom white balance to my scene so I don't have to worry too much about it in post. One rule of thumb to get the best results is locking in your settings. And what I mean by this is not having auto features on when it comes to white balance or exposure. It's not the best look when you slap on a preset to an entire video. And without making the necessary tweaks possible, because then it'll look just like that, like you just slapped on something on your top of your video, it doesn't look that cool. But as an introduction to color grading, let's jump into Premiere Pro and see how it's done. If you are in this window workspace, which is this is the default setting. If you don't see this, you can actually click over to window workspaces editing. And then you can see right here it says color. When I click that you can see all these kind of settings come up. If I click the clip I want to grade or adjust. I can just simply click and then now I can adjust things like my white balance so I can cool it off if I feel like it was a little too warm. I can bring down my highlights and bring down my shadows. I can mess with my blacks. I can also add saturation and some sharpness. But this is just a cool way to kind of like give your video a little bit more juice if you'd like to. Now, you know, you don't have to get into color grading and I'm a fan of cameras that actually have great colors straight out of the camera without having to do this. But it's definitely something cool. You can start playing and dabbling with it. So like if you want to add like a certain vibe to your video or just make it pop a little bit like this video as you're seeing right now, this is how it looks not graded. And then when I throw my grade on and then it looks like this. But you know, a lot of people go and spend a lot of money on LUTs and things like that. There's actually a free preset that Premiere has I want to show you right now. That's super easy to use and I just love how it looks. And so let's go into that right now. I'm going to go into the effects panel. And then I'm going to search the word. Fuji. Now, this first Fuji preset that's in Premiere Pro is totally free. When I drag this onto my clip, it really adds a nice little flare. But then then you can hop right back into color and adjust it a little bit more. So I think it's a little warm. So I'm going to cool it off a little bit, probably bring down the blacks. I like to up the saturation a tad because it's a little flat. And then. If you want to adjust the intensity, so like maybe you're shooting with footage that's already, you know, has your all your colors there. You can actually lower or increase the intensity of this preset or LUT if you're using one. But you know, like I'll bring it down a little bit. But just that quick little add on to my clip, if I toggle on and off the clip, you can see the difference. And that didn't take me much time at all. And so I really enjoy color grading because not only is it therapeutic, I feel like it's really fun to really get your colors right. Get the skin tones right. And also in different situations, like when we're shooting outside or we change the lighting up or we're using natural light to really get the look that you're really going for. So that's how you can color correct or color grade your videos. Hopefully you can try and play with this yourself. And I think more than anything, it just takes practice. Oftentimes what you think looks good doesn't. And you'll find as you train your eye and you continue to color grade and mess around with things and you compare your videos to what you were trying to achieve. You will train your eye to actually know what actually looks good. But if you got value in this video, hit that like button for me. And question for you is what would you like to learn in Adobe Premiere Pro? Let me know in the comments section below and be sure to check out our playlist on Adobe Premiere Pro where you can learn a lot of the tips and tricks kind of like in this video. And you can check that out by clicking or tapping the screen. And I cannot wait to see you in a future video. Peace.