How to adjust local brightness or Contrast in Adobe Premiere Elements 12 ?

<p>In still photo, I know how to apply <a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Adobe-Photoshop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">photoshop</a> to balance the brightness/contrast between a bright windows facing garden and people chatting in living room next to the bright windows. Just wondering if APE 12 is able to do the balance in video editing ? If so, how ? <br>

or I have to go for Première Pro ?</p>

<p>Check on Adobe's Premiere forum site. There are some good posters there.</p>

<p>In still photo, I know how to apply <a href="Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 20.0.1 / CS2 9.0 Free Free Download - VideoHelp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">photoshop</a> to balance the brightness/contrast between a bright windows facing garden and people chatting in living room next to the bright windows. Just wondering if APE 12 is able to do the balance in video editing ? If so, how ? <br>

or I have to go for Première Pro ?</p>

before going with Premiere have a look at davinci resolve … they offer a free version which should be sufficient for most "non video profs. " … this software is the industries standard for color grading and though "easy" (very intuitive) to learn

 

ps.: in addition its lightning fast with render engine build in

Edited January 21, 2019 by n-j

The dynamic range of video is very limited compared to a modern digital still camera. For one, basic video has an 8 bit color depth. 10 bit is found only in high end video, and 12 bit rare outside of advanced cinematic cameras. You can deal with highlights using so-called "log x" gamma, which imposes a very broad shoulder on the exposure curve, and a very flat image. "X" usually has the value of 2 or 3. Normal contrast is restored in processing, and can be selectively masked, with layers. I know this can be done in Adobe Premiere Pro, but "Elements" I'm not so sure.