AUTO LEVELS Color Shifts

[rcolman]

I need to use levels to color and contract correct my underwater footage. I have been using AUTO LEVELS in Premiere Pro, partly because I have not figured out the crappy interface to LEVELS yet.

However, auto leves is giving my severe color shifts when the lighting changes in a scene, which it very likely to do underwater.

Is there any way to minimize or smooth out the color shifts with AUTO LEVELS?

Rick Colman

 

[Charlie99]

You can solve your problem by simply using Auto Contrast instead of Auto Levels.

In PhotoShop Elements, and most likely Premiere Pro also, Auto Levels adjusts the contrast of each color channel independently. That will introduce color shifts.

AUTO CONTRAST will look for the darkest and brightest points in a scene and adjust the gain of all three channels in tandem, so it will improve contrast without changing color balance.