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    1. About color management 
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    3. Auto Detection of Log Camera Formats and Raw Media
    4. Disable color management
    5. Manage source media colors in the Program Monitor
    6. Configure clips for color management using Clip Modify
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    1. Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
      1. Beta Program Overview
      2. Premiere Pro Beta Home
      1. Get started with Adobe Premiere Pro
      2. What's new in Premiere Pro
      3. Best practices for updating Premiere Pro
      4. Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
      5. Accessibility in Premiere Pro
      6. Frequently asked questions
      7. Release notes
      1. Hardware recommendations
      2. System requirements
      3. GPU and GPU Driver requirements
      4. GPU Accelerated Rendering & Hardware Encoding/Decoding
      5. How to install drivers from NVIDIA
      1. Start a new project
      2. Open projects
      3. Move and delete projects
      4. Work with multiple open projects
      5. Work with Project Shortcuts
      6. Backward compatibility of Premiere Pro projects
      7. Open and edit Premiere Rush projects in Premiere Pro
      8. Best Practices: Create your own project templates
      1. Workspaces
      2. Import and export
      3. Working with Panels
      4. Windows touch and gesture controls
      5. Use Premiere Pro in a dual-monitor setup
      1. Install and activate Frame.io
      2. Use Frame.io with Premiere Pro and After Effects
      3. Integrate Adobe Workfront and Frame.io
      4. Invite collaborators to co-edit a project
      5. Frequently asked questions
        1. Transfer files
        2. Importing still images
        3. Importing digital audio
        1. Importing AAF project files from Avid Media Composer
        2. Importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X
        1. Media intelligence and Search panel
        2. Frequently asked questions
        1. Supported file formats
        2. Support for Blackmagic RAW
      5. Working with timecode
      1. Edit video
        1. Create and change sequences
        2. Set In and Out points in the Source Monitor
        3. Add clips to sequences
        4. Rearrange and move clips
        5. Find, select, and group clips in a sequence
        6. Remove clips from a sequence
        7. Change sequence settings
        8. Edit from sequences loaded into the Source Monitor
        9. Simplify sequences
        10. Rendering and previewing sequences
        11. Working with markers
        12. Add markers to clips
        13. Create markers in Effect Controls panel
        14. Set default marker colors
        15. Find, move, and delete markers
        16. Show or hide markers by color
        17. View marker comments
        18. Copy and paste sequence markers
        19. Sharing markers with After Effects
        20. Source patching and track targeting
        21. Scene edit detection
        1. Overview 
        2. Frequently asked questions
        3. Known issues
        1. Split or cut clips
        2. Trim clips
        3. Edit in Trim mode
        4. Perform J cuts and L cuts
        5. Create and play clips
        6. Adjust Trimming and Playback preferences
        1. Synchronizing audio and video with Merge Clips
        2. Render and replace media
        3. Undo, history, and events
        4. Freeze and hold frames
        5. Working with aspect ratios
        1. Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
        2. Edit audio clips in the Source Monitor
        3. Audio Track Mixer
        4. Adjusting volume levels
        5. Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
        6. Enhance Speech
        7. Enhance Speech FAQs
        8. Audio Category Tagging
        9. Automatically duck audio
        10. Remix audio
        11. Monitor clip volume and pan using Audio Clip Mixer
        12. Audio balancing and panning
        13. Advanced Audio - Submixes, downmixing, and routing
        14. Audio effects and transitions
        15. Working with audio transitions
        16. Apply effects to audio
        17. Measure audio using the Loudness Radar effect
        18. Recording audio mixes
        19. Editing audio in the timeline
        20. Audio channel mapping in Premiere Pro
        21. Use Adobe Stock audio in Premiere Pro
        1. Text-Based Editing
        2. Text-Based Editing FAQs
        1. Multi-camera editing workflow
        2. Editing VR
        1. Best Practices: Mix audio faster
        2. Best Practices: Editing efficiently
        3. Editing workflows for feature films
      1. Overview of video effects and transitions
        1. Types of effects in Premiere Pro
        2. Apply and remove effects
        3. Use FX badges
        4. Effect presets
        5. Metadata effect in Premiere Pro
        6. Automatically reframe video for different social media channels
        7. Color correction effects
        8. Effects Manager
        9. Change duration and speed of clips
        10. Adjustment Layers
        11. Stabilize footage
        1. Applying transitions in Premiere Pro
        2. Modifying and customizing transitions
        3. Morph Cut
        1. About Properties panel
        2. Edit text
        3. Edit shapes
        4. Edit audio
        5. Edit video
        6. Mask with shape
        1. Overview of the Essential Graphics panel
        2. Create a title
        3. Linked and Track Styles
        4. Working with style browser
        5. Create a shape
        6. Draw with the Pen tool
        7. Align and distribute objects
        8. Change the appearance of text and shapes
        9. Apply gradients
        10. Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
        1. Speech to Text
        2. Translate captions
        3. Download language packs for transcription
        4. Working with captions
        5. Check spelling and Find and Replace
        6. Export text
        7. Speech to Text FAQs
        8. Translate captions FAQs
        1. Install and use Motion Graphics templates
        2. Replace images or videos in Motion Graphics templates
        3. Use data-driven Motion Graphics templates
      5. Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
      6. Retiring the Legacy Titler FAQs
      7. Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
      1. Color fonts
      2. Emojis
      1. Adding, navigating, and setting keyframes
      2. Animating effects
      3. Use Motion effect to edit and animate clips
      4. Optimize keyframe automation
      5. Moving and copying keyframes
      6. Viewing and adjusting effects and keyframes
      1. Compositing, alpha channels, and adjusting clip opacity
      2. Masking and tracking
      3. Blending modes
      1. Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
      2. Color Settings
      3. Auto Color
      4. Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
      5. Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
      6. Correct and match colors between shots
      7. Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
      8. Create vignettes
      9. Looks and LUTs
      10. Lumetri scopes
      11. Timeline tone mapping
      12. HDR for broadcasters
      13. Enable DirectX HDR support
    16. Color management
      1. About color management 
      2. How color management works
      3. Auto Detection of Log Camera Formats and Raw Media
      4. Disable color management
      5. Manage source media colors in the Program Monitor
      6. Configure clips for color management using Clip Modify
      7. Configure sequence color management
      8. Customize color presets for new or existing sequences
      9. Configure a sequence’s output color space
      10. Color management options
      11. Color management and Lumetri Color
      12. Premiere Pro and After Effects color management compatibility
      13. Working with color managed iPhone media
      14. Frequently asked questions
      1. Export video
      2. Export Preset Manager
      3. Workflow and overview for exporting
      4. Quick export
      5. Exporting for the Web and mobile devices
      6. Export a still image
      7. Content Credentials in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder
      8. Exporting projects for other applications
      9. Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools
      10. Export to Panasonic P2 format
        1. Export settings reference
        2. Basic Video Settings
        3. Encoding Settings
      12. Best Practices: Export faster
      1. Collaboration in Premiere Pro
      2. Get started with collaborative video editing
      3. Create Team Projects
      4. Add and manage media in Team Projects
      5. Invite and manage collaborators
      6. Share and manage changes with collaborators
      7. View auto saves and versions of Team Projects
      8. Manage Team Projects
      9. Linked Team Projects
      10. Frequently asked questions
      1. Long Form and Episodic Workflow Guide
      2. Using Productions
      3. How clips work across projects in a Production
      4. Best Practices: Working with Productions
      1. After Effects and Photoshop
      2. Dynamic Link
      3. Audition
      4. Prelude
      1. Working in the Project panel
      2. Organize assets in the Project panel
      3. Playing assets
      4. Search assets
      5. Creative Cloud Libraries
      6. Sync Settings in Premiere Pro
      7. Consolidate, transcode, and archive projects
      8. Managing metadata
      9. Content Credentials in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder
        1. Best Practices: Learning from broadcast production
        2. Best Practices: Working with native formats
      1. Set preferences
      2. Reset and restore preferences
      3. Recovery Mode
        1. Proxy overview
        2. Ingest and Proxy Workflow
      5. Check if your system is compatible with Premiere Pro
      6. Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
      7. Eliminate flicker
      8. Interlacing and field order
      9. Smart rendering
      10. Control surface support
      11. Best Practices: Working with native formats
        1. Known issues
        2. Fixed issues
        3. Fix Premiere Pro crash issues
        4. Why do my Premiere Pro exports look washed out?
        5. Unable to migrate settings after updating Premiere Pro
        6. Green and pink video in Premiere Pro or Premiere Rush
        7. How do I manage the Media Cache in Premiere Pro?
        8. Fix errors when rendering or exporting
        9. Troubleshoot issues related to playback and performance in Premiere Pro
      1. Installing plugins and extensions in Premiere Pro
      2. Latest plugins from third-party developers
      1. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)
        1. Using the Source Monitor and Program Monitor
        2. Using the Reference Monitor
        1. Working with offline clips
        2. Creating clips for offline editing
        3. Relinking offline media

    Learn how color management in the Program Monitor provides flexible control over the appearance of source media.

    For maximum flexibility, color management is configured and applied at the Sequence level, so clips aren’t fully color-managed and tone-mapped until they’re edited into a sequence. This is why you can have multiple versions of a program, each in a different sequence with different color settings, all in the same project. This also means that the color management of clips in the Source Monitor must be handled separately, depending on what you need to evaluate while viewing source clips.

    Manage source media colors by doing the following:

    1. The Monitor Color Management submenu in the wrench   menu of the Source Monitor provides three different options for showing your source media.

      Source Monitor provides three different options for how to show your source media.
      Source Monitor provides three different options for how to show your source media.

    2. Select one of the following options:

      Gang to Active Sequence Color Management: By default, the Source Monitor is set to Gang to Active Sequence Color Management. This enables the Source Monitor to match whatever color management is in use by whichever sequence is showing in the Program Monitor.

      Show Wide Gamut Media As Log: If you specifically don’t want to see a color-managed result in the Source Monitor, and you instead want to see how your source media would look on a generic Rec. 709 display, you can set the Source Monitor Color Management submenu to Show Wide Gamut Media As Log. In this mode, all wide gamut media will be presented with a low-contrast log-like appearance that lets you see all of the core values of the media without clipping. In this mode, Display Color Management continues to show both the Source Monitor and Program Monitor correctly according to your computer monitor’s ICC profile. This can be a good mode to use when you’re troubleshooting your source media to evaluate how it looks prior to color management. 

      Show Source in Extended Dynamic Range: If your computer has an HDR computer display, and the Extended Dynamic Range Monitoring project setting is turned on, then wide gamut clips will appear with all the highlight detail your display is capable of showing as pleasingly bright highlights in an ungraded state using the Show Source in Extended Dynamic Range setting, regardless of the Output Peak Luminance setting of your program’s color management.

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