Match Look: balance your clips and give them one look

Applies to 0.11Updated 10 Nov 20261 min read

Balance the clips to one another, then give them all the same look, built in or one of your installed looks, in one undo step.

Pro.

Open it

• View › Match Look…, or in the Color panel, Match › Match Look….

The window

• Clips: Selected clips (the default when clips are selected), Whole sequence, or In to Out.
• Look: seven built in (Cinematic, Documentary, Warm Film, Cool Night, Natural, Noir, Vintage), your installed looks grouped as in the Look browser, or No look (balance only).
• Intensity: 0–100 %.
• Balance the clips to one another first (exposure, contrast, colour): on by default.

What it does

• Balance: each clip is measured on three of its frames and brought gently towards the others’ brightness, contrast and colour. A night shot among day shots is brightened a little, never turned into day.
• Look: the same look goes on every clip.
• Everything is an ordinary effect you can change in Effect Controls, named for example “Color — Match Look balance” or “Color — Match Look: Cinematic”.
• Running it again replaces only what Match Look added. Your own grades stay. One undo step takes it all back.
• Graphics, titles and nested sequences are not changed.