Color Correction effects overview

Last updated on Aug 22, 2025

Learn more about Color Correction effects and adjustments in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro provides professional-quality Color Correction tools that let you edit footage directly on your timeline. You can find the color and luminance adjusting effects in the Color Correction bin inside the Video Effects bin. Apply an effect and then adjust its properties using the Effect Controls panel.

Color correction adjustments are used for several reasons:

  • Modify footage so that clips appear to be shot under the same conditions.
  • Adjust colors in a clip so it appears to have been shot at night instead of day.
  • Adjust the exposure of an image to recover details from the over-exposed highlights.
  • Enhance a color in a clip to add graphic elements.
  • Restrict colors in a clip to a particular range, such as the broadcast-safe range.
Two pictures, with one that is an overexposed image with the waveform in the upper limits of the IRE scale. The second one is the corrected image with the waveform within 7.5 to 100 IRE.
Edit footage to correct exposure directly on your timeline.

A. Overexposed image with the waveform in the upper limits of the IRE scale  B. Corrected image with the waveform within 7.5 to 100 IRE 

Color Correction effects are applied the same way as Standard effects. Although other effects also adjust color and luminance, the Color Correction effects are designed for making fine color and luminance corrections.

Tip

The Color Correction effects and other color effects are clip-based. However, you can apply them to multiple clips using nesting sequences. When correcting color, use Lumetri scopes to help you analyze the chroma and luminance in a clip. You can view a scope in a separate Lumetri panel so that you can check your video levels as you make adjustments.