Make stylized videos

Use LumaFusion to fix color problems or add creative looks

THERE ARE MANY reasons why a filmmaker might want to alter the color and tones of footage. Clips may be incorrectly exposed or suffer from color casts, for example. These problems can occur when shooting on Auto or in contrasting lighting conditions.

An editor may also want to creatively adjust (or ‘grade’) their footage to create a particular look, such as making their material look colorful and warm, or washed out and cold, to evoke a particular mood. Amateur filmmakers might use in–camera settings to create high contrasting and vibrantly colored clips. These clips are harder to adjust in post– production apps, because tonal details may be missing from the footage.

Professional video makers often shoot using a neutral camera setting that produces clips with a flat contrast and drab colors. This enables them to capture more shadow and highlight detail. LumaFusion excels at grading thanks to its Color and Effects editor. This enables you to adjust colors and tones to overcome common problems with your original video footage. For example, you can selectively lighten underexposed shadows without blowing out correctly exposed highlights, or boost a landscape’s weak and dreary colors without making skin tones look overly orange.

LumaFusion also provides a collection of color grading preset effects that instantly alter color and tone. These presets provide a handy springboard to the grading process, as you can modify their settings to fine–tune the look that they make. You can even combine multiple effects as layers to produce a range of creative results.

Once you’ve graded a clip you can copy the adjustments and apply it to other non-graded clips.