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LESSON 16
Working with Color, Nested Sequences, and Shortcuts
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Luma Color and Luma Curve
: These filters adjust brightness and contrast 
in the highlights, midtones, and shadows of a clip. They also correct the hue, 
saturation, and luma in a selected color range.
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Fast Color Corrector
: This effect lets you make instant color changes that you 
can preview in a split-screen view within the Program Monitor. This is a tool 
you are likely to use frequently.
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Three-Way Color Corrector
: This tool enables you to make more subtle 
corrections by letting you adjust hue, saturation, and luminance for highlights, 
midtones, and shadows.
Technical color effects
These are the technical color effects:
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Broadcast Colors
: The Broadcast Colors effect conforms video to display 
properly on TV sets. It corrects problems created by overly bright colors and 
geometric patterns due to some effects or added graphics.
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Video Limiter
: Like Broadcast Colors but with much more precise control, 
Video Limiter enables you to preserve the original video quality of your clip 
while conforming to broadcast TV standards.
Adjusting and enhancing color
In this exercise, you will work with five color-oriented effects: Leave Color, Change 
to Color, Color Balance (RGB), Auto Color, and Fast Color Corrector.
The Leave Color effect
You’ll begin with the Leave Color effect.
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Open Lesson 16-1.prproj.
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Note the office.avi clip is on Video 1, with a good view of the blue desk lamp.
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In the Effects panel, open the Video Effects folder and then the Color 
Correction subfolder, and drag the Leave Color effect to the clip.
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Expand Leave Color in the Effect Controls panel. Using the eyedropper next to 
Color To Leave, click the blue lamp to select the color to retain.
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Set Amount to Decolor to 100%. This converts everything but the selected color 
to grayscale.

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