From the course: Introduction to Video Color Correction

Which software does this course use?

From the course: Introduction to Video Color Correction

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Which software does this course use?

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- [Instructor] This is a course on video color correction, with a focus on concepts, workflow, and strategy without an overly heavy emphasis on software-specific techniques. Chapters one and two are conceptual chapters. We talk about the history, theory, and philosophy of color correction and color grading, and we won't be touching any software in those chapters. In chapters three through six, we will be focusing more on the practical elements of color correction and color grading, and to do that, we need to work in software to carry out those steps, but we've set it up so that you can learn the basic concepts from this course and then apply them in whatever software you use. That said, in this training, we've chosen to primarily use Adobe Premiere Pro, for a couple of reasons. First, we found it has the widest reach, being a very popular software among this training audience. And second, we believe it's at a suitable ability level for this audience, since many users already have a working familiarity with Premiere or other Adobe products. Now this course was initially recorded using the Premiere Pro 2021 version of the software, specifically version 15.1, and that's important to know because Premiere Pro is not backwards compatible. So if you're following along with the exercise files, there are some important things to understand. First of all, to figure out what version of Premiere Pro you're running, you can check the name at the OS level. Premiere appends the year, so it's in plain sight. If you want more specifics on versioning, like exactly what point release you're on, just start up any project and then go to the Premiere Pro menu and choose About Premiere Pro. On a PC, this is under the help menu. Now, what does this mean for how you can work with the exercise files that I've provided? Well, if you're using the same version that I recorded the course in, you don't have to do anything. If you're using a version of Premiere Pro that is older than version 15.1, then it's going to tell you that the project was saved in a newer version and can't be opened in this version. Okay, so if you are on an older version, I recommend upgrading your software. If you're using a version of Premiere Pro that is newer than version 15.1, then when you try to launch the project, you'll receive a prompt that says that the project must be updated to work with the newer software, and this is fast and easy. Premiere just appends an underscore one, and you can change that if you want to. And then you just say okay, and when you do that it creates a whole new project file and doesn't touch the old one. All right, so hopefully that helps in laying out any version questions that you have. Regardless, you should be able to get up and running on whatever version you're working in.

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