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Apply Bevel Alpha and Alpha Glow. Use keyframes in Alpha Glow to animate the size 
of the glow.
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Ultra Key provides the best quality for both simple and complex color key–related 
compositing tasks and is GPU-accelerated with the Adobe Mercury Engine.
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If a green screen is not lit evenly, it will be more difficult to key out. Multiple key filters 
may be necessary to select the various shades of green in a poorly lit green screen.
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The Opacity setting adjusts the amount of transparency of all the pixels in the frame 
evenly. Blend modes allow you to blend the clip with the clip below it based on the 
blend mode selected.
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A matte allows you to make a portion of the video frame transparent. A track matte 
can be static, or it may be animated to follow motion in the video.

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WORKING WITH COLOR, NESTED 
SEQUENCES, AND SHORTCUTS
Topics covered in this lesson
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Exploring color-oriented effects
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Adjusting and enhancing color
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Using nested sequences
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Applying recommended keyboard shortcuts
This lesson will take approximately 60 minutes.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 off ers a dozen video eff ects 
for enhancing or adjusting colors. In this lesson, you’ll 
explore some specialized editing techniques, includ-
ing nesting clips and sequences, and you’ll learn some 
keyboard shortcuts to speed up your editing.

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LESSON 16
Working with Color, Nested Sequences, and Shortcuts
Getting started
Most feature films are color-corrected. The purpose of 
color correction
is less to fix 
a shot gone bad than it is to give the film a look that matches its mood or genre: 
from warm reds for landscapes and sepia tones for historic shots to cold blues for 
hard-edged films or a gritty look for urban dramas. Color correction (also known 
as 
color enhancing 
or
color grading
) is big business, and Adobe Premiere Pro has 
a full suite of professional color-enhancing effects.
These color-oriented effects offer more than just color correction. You can select 
a color and change it, convert a clip to grayscale (with the exception of a single 
color), or remove all colors outside a specific color range. You’ll see samples of 
some of these techniques in this lesson.
You’ll also learn about the power of nested sequences as you change the look of 
a complex effect by changing one nested clip.
The default keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro are too numerous to use 
all of them, much less memorize them, but you will come to rely on several. In 
this lesson, you’ll also learn how to customize keyboard commands to suit your 
editing style.