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Another quick one this month, but it’s an important one: colour correction.
Inevitably, at times, your video will be dark (again, I’m looking at you, mobile phone users!) and will need some colour, and/or brightness adjustments.
Luma Lift/Gain/Gamma
First, as ever, add a video to the timeline.
Right click on it and go to Add Effect > Colour>LumaLiftGainGamma
There’s a similar, but different, option under Colour Correction, but I prefer this one.
I won’t go into what each slider does, as you’ll see the results when you move the slider (or change the numerical value), but the Gamma slider will enhance the colour of your video. The other two will effectively adjust the brightness and contrast.
So now you know how to get your video files looking much better. The tricky bit is trying to get all those video files looking the same throughout the video without one being brighter/darker than the previous one. Unfortunately, I don’t have a fix for that, but my advice is to try and keep the same lighting in your scenes when making the video in the first place. That will save time in the long run, effectively eliminating this step altogether.