Premiere Pro Guru: Adjustment Layers and Nesting

Nondestructively apply effects, color correction, and filmic looks to video footage in Premiere Pro with adjustment layers and nesting.

Getting Started

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Using Nesting Techniques to Improve Your Workflow

• What is nesting and why should you nest?
• Effects and techniques that require nesting
• When to nest and when to use the source: Editing nests into new sequences
• Naming strategies for nested sequences
• When to render and replace your nest
• Essential keyboard shortcuts for nesting

2. Using Adjustment Layers to Make Your Effects Easier to Manage

• What are adjustment layers and why should we use them?
• Common effects that should be applied using adjustment layers
• Saving and applying presets to adjustment layers
• Creating a template project: Saving an adjustment layer

3. Using Adjustment Layers to Create Visual Adjustments

• Using the scopes
• Adjusting your footage using primary color corrections
• Adjusting your footage using secondary color corrections
• Adjusting skin tones
• Warming (or cooling) your footage
• Masking your effect

4. Using Adjustment Layers to Create Specific Looks

• Creating the film look effect
• Creating the sepia look effect
• Creating the rack focus effect
• Creating the �bleach bypass� effect

5. Using LUTS

• What is a lookup table (LUT)?
• Creating LUTS in Adobe SpeedGrade
• Apply LUTS using the Lumetri effect
• LUTS vs. effects in Premiere Pro

Conclusion

• Goodbye