From the course: Creating a Short Film: 11 Color Grading
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Understanding primary vs. secondary correction - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 11 Color Grading
Understanding primary vs. secondary correction
- Throughout this course, we'll be constantly referring to all kinds of terms. So let's take a minute to define them. Often we use the terms color grading and color correction interchangeably. Now, some people see a distinction here. They view correction as the first step when you're fixing problems and grading as applying a creative look to the footage. But if you think about it, that's a big gray area. When you darken the shadows, is that correction or grading? I mean, it could be both. So most of the time in this course, just to keep it simple, we'll use these two terms synonymously to refer to any kind of color adjustments. We'll also talk about primary and secondary corrections. Primary corrections are when you're tweaking the entire scene, mostly to get all the colors, the highlights and shadows, in the right place. Secondary corrections refer to going in and making a specific localized change, like changing a sweater…
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