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OK.

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So really briefly, I want to cover, you know, color grading, how to brighten up a potential video.

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Now, this is something that I face a lot, especially if you're rerecording in like a dimly lit area

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or something along those lines.

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This is really going to help bring the light and take the shadows out of your, you know, your video.

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Right.

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So this could be used for not a number of reasons.

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You can obviously color great doing this, and I'm gonna give you the basics of it.

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But I personally use this about 95 percent of the time when I do it to just simply brighten up my videos.

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Let me show you example how you do it.

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So what you basically want to do.

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Let me drag this over first is make this a little bit bigger so you can see now it might not be that

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evidence you, but.

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Right.

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Really briefly, this is, you know, usually a little bit brighter in my office when I'm filming.

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It's a little bit dim over here.

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There's not that much light.

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You know, I forgot to fully open the blinds.

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And so even though right here behind the camera, like behind the camera, there's a ringlet going,

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it still is difficult to see a little bit.

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And I wanted a little bit brighter.

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Okay.

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So what I can do then is I can color right.

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And come into Adobe premiere.

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Now, keep in mind that you do want to actually select the files.

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So if you want to on your entire file that you're uploading.

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Make sure to select it before you start cutting things right.

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Because if you cut it, you select one.

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It's only going to apply to that one section.

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OK.

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So I must let the entire file because I want to brighten the entire thing to make it a little brighter.

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And I'll show you how to do that here in a second.

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So once you see error excuse me, you want to click color right here.

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And that's going to bring up this section right here.

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Right.

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So typically, what's up for me is effects.

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And you'll see that pop over here.

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Right?

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We have like video effects, video transitions, audio effects, etc., graphics and and like, you

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know, stuff like that.

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But if you actually click over here to color, right.

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It's going to bring up this color window.

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Now, if you're unselected, you're not going be able to pull the sliders over here.

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But if you select the actual file, you will be able to switch the slider.

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So you'll know.

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So you'll notice really fast.

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OK, you can obviously bring the contrast out and it's going to add a little bit of color to it.

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You can bring it up and down.

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So let's take this back like normal right here.

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You can also click in here and hit zero to take it back to normal.

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Now, the way that you can basically brighten this up is you can add shadows, highlights or whites

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or blacks to it.

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OK.

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So if you want contrast, obviously, or to add a little bit of temperature attent, you can play around

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with these in color.

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Great as you want.

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I don't really touch them too much, especially because I don't really focus too heavily.

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I'm not creating like a cinematic edit for a lot of reasons, so I'm not too focused on the way that

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the colors look and play off of each other.

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I just usually and for about ninety nine point nine percent of you, this will be the case to want my

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my videos to be a little bit brighter if possible.

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Right.

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So all I'm really focused it on is I'm hearing a little bit of contrast to add a little bit of color

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here.

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I'm going to add some highlights here a little bit, maybe touch on the shadows a little bit.

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And you'll see, just as I bring these these sliders up, it starts to brighten the thing.

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Now, you don't want to write because then it looks like it's, you know, just fake lighting and it's

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gonna be evident.

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Right.

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But if you just kind of subtly move them, like, let me let me take these back to zero and show you

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just how much of a difference it plays and how it's going to psychologically improve the way that your

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customer perceives the video or the your your viewer perceives the video.

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Right.

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So just a little bit of highlights right here.

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Boom starts brighten it up.

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A little bit of shadows.

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Boom.

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Takes the shadows out, brightens it up.

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Right now, I can add a little bit more contrast, make the video a little bit more contrasty.

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Add some color here.

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I can also add a little bit tint a little bit tempter if I want to, but really if you want to.

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On top of, like, adding a little bit of color, you can also add saturation down here.

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That's going to add a low saturation.

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You don't wanna go to too much, Zain.

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Going to look like you're up.

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You know, what's those things in Willy Wonka?

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The the lupus.

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There you go.

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Then you click clicking Loomba But maybe just like a little bit of saturation here.

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You know, if you take this back to a hundred, which is normal, and you just go drag it over a little

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bit, a little bit of saturation helps a little bit of contrast.

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And then highlights and shadows are going to really brighten the the actual frame up.

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So that's color grading in a nutshell.

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Now, obviously, I'm not a master color grader, but for ninety nine point nine percent of you, you're

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only really gonna be focused on bringing a little bit of color with contrast and saturation and brightening

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up your frame.