Using the Matte tools

Let's go ahead and open up the Looks Interface and we have our tractor footage here. …In this tutorial, we're going to look at the Matte Tools in the Matte section. …Now, these mimic tools that you might use on a Matte Box on a camera. …On a camera's Matte Box, there's usually slots on the top, where you could insert …Filters that will do things like change the color of the shot. …It will, maybe if you have a Neutral Density Filter, it will lower the …Exposure and sometimes these are graduated so that they might be bright on …top, dark on the bottom or vice versa. And, there's a lot of different tricks …you can do and so these tools here, mimic those effects.…

Now, let's start with Grad Exposure. I'm going to go ahead and Double Click that. …That applies Grad Exposure, which by default does nothing, but it exposes us …to this little gizmo here, that's basically Look's way of having a Gradient. …This is a really simple tool for adjusting a Gradient, very handy. …So for example, this sky looks a little grey and dull, and it's obviously a very …