 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro 2022 tutorial on this one I'm going to show you how to change the background color if you have a clip like this in a sequence and you've got black bars on the sides and you would rather that be a color because you're not going to be rendering it transparently you're going to want to render it with a background color here's how you do it now first off you see I've got a guy here who appears to be vacuuming the forest what does that mean it means he probably was out picking mushrooms and he might have ate one or two too many on his trip yeah we've all vacuumed the forest you know what's up okay guys very very simple to do I'm going to go down here to the bottom left side of the project panel down here and if you don't see this just pull this out a little bit until you see this little piece of paper with the dog gear on the bottom left left click on new item and you're going to see you have a few options the one we're looking for on this one is color mat left click on color mat it will automatically create a color mat that is the exact size and proportions to the sequence left click on okay here's what you want to do now you want to pick the color for the background so I'm not going to go too far into detail so we're going to do this one with red why because red alert this guy shouldn't be out vacuuming the forest it's just not something you're supposed to do all right so we've got a red background I'm a left click on okay and it's gonna we're just gonna call it red alert all right good enough left click on okay you'll see now that it has been added into my project panel but obviously it hasn't been added into the sequence the next step if you're following along is you want to actually move this I've already got it on v2 but you want to move it up so basically you want it on v2 or v3 I've got it on v2 because I don't have a whole lot going on in this video now I'm going to left click on my color mat which I've labeled or named red alert going to drag and drop that underneath the video now watch the background color has changed I'm going to pull this out here so that the background color or the background mat is the entire length of the video and here you don't you're gonna see the guy here vacuuming up the forest with red background that's how you do it guys it's a quick video thanks for watching I've got a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned be back soon