Source: [Adobe Quick Start](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/getting-started/adobe)

# Adobe Quick Start

## Install and activate Scatter

1. Sign in to your [Video Village Account](https://license.videovillage.com) and find your Scatter license page.
2. Download the **Video Village Plugins** app.
3. On the license page, select `Activate on this device` to launch the Video Village Plugins app and install your license automatically.

### If you can't open the activation link

Select `Get activation code` on the license page and copy the code. Open the Video Village Plugins app, select `Activate a product`, then paste the code when prompted.

4. In the Video Village Plugins app, select `Adobe`, then select `Install`. (Premiere Pro and After Effects must not be running during installation.)

## Color management

In Premiere, it is typically necessary to enable `Display Color Management` under `Premiere Pro › Settings › Color`. We also recommend changing `Viewer Gamma` to `2.2 (Web)` under `File › Project Settings › Color` to mitigate viewer inaccuracies.

Premiere Pro › Settings › Color
![Display Color Management enabled in Premiere Pro preferences](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/premiere-display-color-management-1ca08f4e.png)

File › Project Settings › Color
![Premiere Pro project color settings with Viewer Gamma set to 2.2 Web](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/premiere-viewer-gamma-1ec8817a.png)

On Windows 11, enable `Automatically manage color for apps` under `Settings › System › Display › Color Management`.

![Windows 11 Color Management with Automatically manage color for apps enabled](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/windows-auto-color-management-380feac3.png)

In After Effects, set `Working Color Space` to `sRGB IEC61966-2.1` under `File › Project Settings › Color`.

![After Effects project color settings with sRGB as the working color space](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/filmbox/getting-started/after-effects-working-space-3e3c099c.png)

## Add Scatter to an adjustment layer

In Premiere, we recommend adding an adjustment layer above your clips and applying **Scatter** to it from the `Effects` panel. Scatter can also be applied directly to a clip, but Premiere will render it at the clip’s native resolution instead of the timeline resolution which may reduce performance.

In After Effects, apply Scatter to an adjustment layer or directly to the layer that needs diffusion.

## Select your camera

![Scatter Source control set to Arri Log C](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/scatter/getting-started/source-control-6eb70153.png)

Set `Source` in Scatter to match the native log color space of your footage or the scene-referred working space you have transformed it into.

- **For graphics** or clips that were not recorded in a log color space, set `Source` to `(Inaccurate) Gamma 2.4`. This may produce a useful approximation, but will be less accurate than with scene-referred footage.

## Interface Tour

![Scatter Source, Family, Strength, Intensity, and Focal Length controls](https://videovillage.com/images/learn/scatter/full-guide/core-controls-fd6e5681.png)

**[Source](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/core-controls#source)**: Choose the colorspace of your “log” or “scene-referred” footage or working space.

**[Family and Strength](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/core-controls#family)**: Select the family of profiled filters, then select the strength of the selected filter family.

**[Intensity](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/core-controls#intensity)**: Amplify or reduce the effect of the active filter.

**[Focal Length](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/core-controls#focal-length)**: Reduce or enlarge the falloff to approximate other fields of view, expressed in millimeters of focal length on s35mm.

**[Highlight Color Recovery](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/highlight-color-recovery)**: Rebuild color information in blown-out highlight regions by considering the hue of neighboring pixels so diffusion can be calculated more naturally.

**[Highlight Adjustment](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/highlight-adjustment)**: Amplify or reduce diffused highlights either for creative effect or to compensate for clipped highlights that should be brighter than what the sensor was able to record.

**[Edge](https://videovillage.com/learn/scatter/full-guide/edges)**: Select Vignette, Mirrored, or Repeated to determine how Scatter extrapolates beyond image bounds.

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