Very Good Premiere Pro Color Correction Tutorial

Hello Everyone.
This video Tutorial is By Mr. Jeff Sengstack from Lynda.com
He Is an excellent Instructor. Very good Video Tutorial..
Watch the Online Video Course Premiere Pro: Color Correction and Enhancement

Have to pay to view them, so not much use.

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If you're on PrPro CC, I'd get Speedgrade also and take a run over to it for your correction work ... commonly known as grading. Yea, you can do it in PrPro, but as a noob ... never got the footage I worked "there" as far along as when working in Sg. Might help.
Next ... the scopes here are quite interesting ... first, set your lower-end of the footage to the point where you either go for good "broadcast" (blacks that you WANT black about 16 on a 0-255 scale), then lift the contrast/highs/whatever control until your whites just tip out on top. Next correct for gamma, the overall placement of the mids/upper mids, then start with your color work.
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AMD CPU will not cut it.....it lacks the necessary instruction set that Intel has that apply to video processing.
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http://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/using-the-3way-coco-as-a-secondary-color-correct or/

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Hello everybody,
I have some questions about work flow in AE concerning compositing and Color Correction. I saw many tuts about (f.e. Lynda.com Premiere Pro Color Correction and Enhancement... and tuts by Andrew Davis here in creative.cow).
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Dave is correct. (And so is Mylenium. No need to be rude, when he was jsut trying to explain that you were introducing unnecessary complexity.)
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Système d'exploitation
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As Claudio points out, this forum is for discussing the Adobe Forums, themselves.
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Bonjour,
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Good luck,
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Bonjour,
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There is a very active Premiere Pro Forum, and I will Move your post to that forum. Your link, and any e-mail subscriptions will follow.
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