You can adjust each of these parts separately via this diagonal line, which is flat by default, and if you click and drag towards the top left you’re making things brighter, and if you drag towards the bottom right, you’re making things darker.With white selected here, the bottom left square is the shadows – in this clip that’s the foreground, the darkest parts of your clip, and then the next two squares are the midtones, which would be the parts in between the darkest and lightest which in this clip would be these misty mountains, and then highlights is the top right, square which controls the brightest parts of your clip which in this clip is clearly the sunset. Tone Curve controls the shadows, midtones and highlights separately from each other, and for different colors as well.LUT’s are a quick way to make some really cool effects – you can use them in conjunction with the rest of the basic tab, or to apply the same filter to a bunch of different clips.
Finally on the basic tab you’ve got Look Up Profiles (LUT) – you can download LUTs from a bunch of different places on the web, these can be for advanced color correction or to apply kind of like filters that you might have in your phone or wherever.
Use the color picker to pick the white in your video and it will subtly changed the color of everything in the clip, making the skin tones look more real and vivid. To White Balance your clips, double-click and get to color settings, and turn white balance on, and you can see its calculated like a grey color. Also, different cameras have slightly different color grades, so if you’re using a few different clips in your project you’ll want to balance your whites so that pure white looks the same across your clipsĢ. For example, in the morning whites will be slightly cooler with less reds, and in the evening it will be warmer with less blues and greens. White Balance is basically how white white is in your clip.
Use the dropdown to get brighter or darker auto adjustments.
For example, it automatically will brighten a dark clip with a lot of shadows in the foreground. This is a quick and dirty setting that lets VideoStudio analyse your clip for you, and give you its best guess.
Use the Auto Tone Adjustment, make manual adjustments to hue and exposure, control white balance and temperature on video clips, add LUT profiles or make more creative adjustments to radically change your footage – or even dive deeper with tone curves and HSL tuning.ġ.Drag a couple of clips onto the timeline and double-click the clip, and then select color to get to the color properties.
With VideoStudio Ultimate, you’ve got access to pro level color grading tools.