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Color grading day for night

Color grading day for night - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Creating a PSA Commercial

Color grading day for night

- A Day4Night conversion is a very typical type of shot to perform in video production. Shooting at nighttime can be more expensive, just because of the time of day, and more challenging due to the lower light situations. What often happens is we shoot slightly underexposed, or at later in the day, but then use color grading and other tools to push it that much further. Let me show ya. In this Premier Pro project, I've brought in just a single shot. This is shot at about five o'clock. And with the white balance, it definitely looks later in the day. But I'd like to push it even later so it feels at night. You'll notice that we did turn on the house lights to help push, and make it look, later at night. These are the little things that you wanna do on location to make it look a little bit more plausible. Don't think it's a nighttime shot, but forget to turn on your night lights. So here's what I'm gonna try to do. Push it to something that looks a little bit more like this. This…

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