Premiere Pro Guru: Adjustment Layers and Nesting

Course details

With adjustment layers and nesting, you can nondestructively apply effects, color correction, and filmic looks to video footage in Premiere Pro. Here Luisa Winters explains what nesting is, when to use it, and how to use adjustment layers to apply effects to certain sequences in your timeline. She also covers masking effects; saving presets for future use; creating sepia, film, and other looks with adjustment layers; and using lookup tables (LUTs) to manipulate color in a data-oriented way.

Learning objectives
When and why to nest Premiere Pro
Rendering and replacing nesting
Naming nested sequences
Applying effects with adjustment layers
Saving adjustment layers
Adjusting footage using color corrections
Masking effects
Creating specific looks with adjustment layers

Concepts

Getting Started

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Using Nesting Techniques to Improve Your Workflow

03 - What is nesting and why should you nest
04 - Effects and techniques that require nesting
05 - When to nest and when to use the source - Editing nests into new sequences
06 - Naming strategies for nested sequences
07 - When to render and replace your nest
08 - Essential keyboard shortcuts for nesting

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

09 - What are adjustment layers and why should we use them
10 - Common effects that should be applied using adjustment layers
11 - Saving and applying presets to adjustment layers
12 - Creating a template project - Saving an adjustment layer

3. Using Adjustment Layers to Create Visual Adjustments

13 - Using the scopes
14 - Adjusting your footage using primary color corrections
15 - Adjusting your footage using secondary color corrections
16 - Adjusting skin tones
17 - Warming (or cooling) your footage
18 - Masking your effect

4. Using Adjustment Layers to Create Specific Looks

19 - Creating the film look effect
20 - Creating the sepia look effect
21 - Creating the rack focus effect
22 - Creating the bleach bypass effect

5. Using LUTS

23 - What is a lookup table (LUT)
24 - Creating LUTS in Adobe SpeedGrade
25 - Apply LUTS using the Lumetri effect
26 - LUTS vs. effects in Premiere Pro

Conclusion

27 - Goodbye