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  1. Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
  2. Beta releases
    1. Beta Program Overview
    2. Premiere Pro Beta Home
  3. Getting started
    1. Get started with Adobe Premiere Pro
    2. What's new in Premiere Pro
    3. Best practices for updating Premiere Pro
    4. Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
    5. Accessibility in Premiere Pro
    6. Frequently asked questions
    7. Release notes
  4. Hardware and operating system requirements
    1. Hardware recommendations
    2. System requirements
    3. GPU and GPU Driver requirements
    4. GPU Accelerated Rendering & Hardware Encoding/Decoding
    5. How to install drivers from NVIDIA
  5. Creating projects
    1. Start a new project
    2. Open projects
    3. Move and delete projects
    4. Work with multiple open projects
    5. Work with Project Shortcuts
    6. Backward compatibility of Premiere Pro projects
    7. Open and edit Premiere Rush projects in Premiere Pro
    8. Best Practices: Create your own project templates
  6. Workspaces and workflows
    1. Workspaces
    2. Import and export FAQs
    3. Working with Panels
    4. Windows touch and gesture controls
    5. Use Premiere Pro in a dual-monitor setup
  7. Frame.io
    1. Install and activate Frame.io
    2. Use Frame.io with Premiere Pro and After Effects
    3. Integrate Adobe Workfront and Frame.io
    4. Invite collaborators to co-edit a project
    5. Frequently asked questions
  8. Import media
    1. Importing
      1. Transfer files
      2. Importing still images
      3. Importing digital audio
    2. Importing from Avid or Final Cut
      1. Importing AAF project files from Avid Media Composer
      2. Importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X
    3. Searching for imported media
      1. Media intelligence and Search panel
      2. Frequently asked questions
    4. File formats
      1. Supported file formats
      2. Support for Blackmagic RAW
    5. Working with timecode
  9. Editing
    1. Edit video
    2. Sequences
      1. Create and change sequences
      2. Set In and Out points in the Source Monitor
      3. Add clips to sequences
      4. Rearrange and move clips
      5. Find, select, and group clips in a sequence
      6. Remove clips from a sequence
      7. Change sequence settings
      8. Edit from sequences loaded into the Source Monitor
      9. Simplify sequences
      10. Rendering and previewing sequences
      11. Working with markers
      12. Add markers to clips
      13. Create markers in Effect Controls panel
      14. Set default marker colors
      15. Find, move, and delete markers
      16. Show or hide markers by color
      17. View marker comments
      18. Copy and paste sequence markers
      19. Sharing markers with After Effects
      20. Source patching and track targeting
      21. Scene edit detection
    3. Generative Extend
      1. Overview 
      2. Frequently asked questions
      3. Known issues
    4. Cut and trim clips
      1. Split or cut clips
      2. Trim clips
      3. Edit in Trim mode
      4. Perform J cuts and L cuts
      5. Create and play clips
      6. Adjust Trimming and Playback preferences
    5. Video
      1. Synchronizing audio and video with Merge Clips
      2. Render and replace media
      3. Undo, history, and events
      4. Freeze and hold frames
      5. Working with aspect ratios
    6. Audio
      1. Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
      2. Edit audio clips in the Source Monitor
      3. Audio Track Mixer
      4. Adjusting volume levels
      5. Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
      6. Enhance Speech
      7. Enhance Speech FAQs
      8. Audio Category Tagging
      9. Automatically duck audio
      10. Remix audio
      11. Monitor clip volume and pan using Audio Clip Mixer
      12. Audio balancing and panning
      13. Advanced Audio - Submixes, downmixing, and routing
      14. Audio effects and transitions
      15. Working with audio transitions
      16. Apply effects to audio
      17. Measure audio using the Loudness Radar effect
      18. Recording audio mixes
      19. Editing audio in the timeline
      20. Audio channel mapping in Premiere Pro
      21. Use Adobe Stock audio in Premiere Pro
    7. Text-Based Editing
      1. Text-Based Editing
      2. Text-Based Editing FAQs
    8. Advanced editing
      1. Multi-camera editing workflow
      2. Editing VR
    9. Best Practices
      1. Best Practices: Mix audio faster
      2. Best Practices: Editing efficiently
      3. Editing workflows for feature films
  10. Video Effects and Transitions
    1. Overview of video effects and transitions
    2. Effects
      1. Types of effects in Premiere Pro
      2. Modern transitions, effects, and animations in Premiere Pro
      3. Apply and remove effects
      4. Use FX badges
      5. Effect presets
      6. Metadata effect in Premiere Pro
      7. Automatically reframe video for different social media channels
      8. Color correction effects
      9. Effects Manager
      10. Change duration and speed of clips
      11. Adjustment Layers
      12. Stabilize footage
    3. Transitions
      1. Applying transitions in Premiere Pro
      2. Modifying and customizing transitions
      3. Morph Cut
  11. Titles, Graphics, and Captions
    1. Properties panel
      1. About Properties panel
      2. Edit text
      3. Edit shapes
      4. Change the appearance of text and shapes
      5. Apply gradients
      6. Linked and Track Styles
      7. Working with style browser
      8. Draw with the Pen tool
      9. Align objects
      10. Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
      11. Edit audio
      12. Edit video
      13. Mask with shape
      14. Create reveal animations using masking techniques
      15. Create, apply, and redefine text styles
      16. Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
    2. Captions
      1. Speech to Text
      2. Translate captions
      3. Download language packs for transcription
      4. Working with captions
      5. Check spelling and Find and Replace
      6. Export text
      7. Speech to Text FAQs
      8. Translate captions FAQs
    3. Motion Graphics Templates
      1. Install and use Motion Graphics templates
      2. Replace images or videos in Motion Graphics templates
      3. Use data-driven Motion Graphics templates
    4. Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
    5. Retiring the Legacy Titler FAQs
    6. Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
  12. Fonts and emojis
    1. Color fonts
    2. Emojis
  13. Animation and Keyframing
    1. Adding, navigating, and setting keyframes
    2. Animating effects
    3. Use Motion effect to edit and animate clips
    4. Optimize keyframe automation
    5. Moving and copying keyframes
    6. Viewing and adjusting effects and keyframes
  14. Compositing
    1. Compositing, alpha channels, and adjusting clip opacity
    2. Masking and tracking
    3. Blending modes
  15. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
    2. Color Settings
    3. Auto Color
    4. Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
    5. Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
    6. Correct and match colors between shots
    7. Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
    8. Create vignettes
    9. Looks and LUTs
    10. Lumetri scopes
    11. Timeline tone mapping
    12. HDR for broadcasters
    13. Enable DirectX HDR support
  16. Color management
    1. About color management 
    2. How color management works
    3. Auto Detection of Log Camera Formats and Raw Media
    4. Disable color management
    5. Manage source media colors in the Program Monitor
    6. Configure clips for color management using Clip Modify
    7. Configure sequence color management
    8. Customize color presets for new or existing sequences
    9. Configure a sequence’s output color space
    10. Color management options
    11. Color management and Lumetri Color
    12. Premiere Pro and After Effects color management compatibility
    13. Working with color managed iPhone media
    14. Frequently asked questions
    15. Color management and new version compatibility FAQ
  17. Exporting media
    1. Export video
    2. Export Preset Manager
    3. Workflow and overview for exporting
    4. Quick export
    5. Exporting for the Web and mobile devices
    6. Export a still image
    7. Content Credentials in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder
    8. Exporting projects for other applications
    9. Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools
    10. Export to Panasonic P2 format
    11. Create and export HDR videos for YouTube on Macintosh
    12. Export settings
      1. Export settings reference
      2. Basic Video Settings
      3. Encoding Settings
    13. Best Practices: Export faster
  18. Collaborative editing
    1. Collaboration in Premiere Pro
    2. Get started with collaborative video editing
    3. Create Team Projects
    4. Add and manage media in Team Projects
    5. Invite and manage collaborators
    6. Share and manage changes with collaborators
    7. View auto saves and versions of Team Projects
    8. Manage Team Projects
    9. Linked Team Projects
    10. Frequently asked questions
  19. Long form and Episodic workflows
    1. Long Form and Episodic Workflow Guide
    2. Using Productions
    3. How clips work across projects in a Production
    4. Best Practices: Working with Productions
  20. Working with other Adobe applications
    1. After Effects and Photoshop
    2. Dynamic Link
    3. Audition
    4. Prelude
  21. Organizing and Managing Assets
    1. Working in the Project panel
    2. Organize assets in the Project panel
    3. Playing assets
    4. Search assets
    5. Creative Cloud Libraries
    6. Sync Settings in Premiere Pro
    7. Consolidate, transcode, and archive projects
    8. Managing metadata
    9. Content Credentials in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder
    10. Best Practices
      1. Best Practices: Learning from broadcast production
      2. Best Practices: Working with native formats
  22. Improving Performance and Troubleshooting
    1. Set preferences
    2. Reset and restore preferences
    3. Recovery Mode
    4. Working with Proxies
      1. Proxy overview
      2. Ingest and Proxy Workflow
    5. Check if your system is compatible with Premiere Pro
    6. Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
    7. Eliminate flicker
    8. Interlacing and field order
    9. Smart rendering
    10. Control surface support
    11. Best Practices: Working with native formats
    12. Removal of software rendering options
    13. Knowledge Base
      1. Known issues
      2. Fixed issues
      3. Fix Premiere Pro crash issues
      4. Why do my Premiere Pro exports look washed out?
      5. Unable to migrate settings after updating Premiere Pro
      6. Green and pink video in Premiere Pro or Premiere Rush
      7. How do I manage the Media Cache in Premiere Pro?
      8. Fix errors when rendering or exporting
      9. Troubleshoot issues related to playback and performance in Premiere Pro
  23. Extensions and plugins
    1. Installing plugins and extensions in Premiere Pro
    2. Latest plugins from third-party developers
  24. Video and audio streaming
    1. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)
  25. Monitoring Assets and Offline Media
    1. Monitoring assets
      1. Using the Source Monitor and Program Monitor
      2. Using the Reference Monitor
    2. Offline media
      1. Working with offline clips
      2. Creating clips for offline editing
      3. Relinking offline media

Learn how to elevate your edits with modern transitions, cinematic effects, and stunning text and graphic animations — all available at no additional cost in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro has a new set of modern effects, transitions, and animations added to the existing list. These 90 brand-new effects are designed to help you enhance your work with cinematic transitions, polished effects, and dynamic text and graphic animations. With no need for a separate plug-in or subscriptions, these effects include redefined classic transitions, updated effects such as dissolves, blurs, and wipes, offering a much smoother, richer, and fresher take on familiar styles.

All effects are GPU-accelerated, delivering real-time playback even as you adjust settings or layer multiple effects, without the need for rendering. You can use every transition, effect, and animation in its default state, or adjust and customize every parameter from scratch for complete creative control.

Effects

Whether you're looking to fine-tune your edits, add striking light effects, or incorporate blur for a stylized depth, the following effect categories can help you save time while delivering polished, professional-looking results.

Tools FX

Name

Function

Clone FX

Duplicate and animate visual elements such as logos, text, or footage with offset timing.

Channel Mix FX

Mix and remap color channels across RGB, HSV, and YUV spaces, allowing for custom color adjustments.

Auto Align FX

Automatically positions elements like titles or logos within your video layout.

A video clip that has the Channel Mix FX effect applied.

Lights and Blurs FX

Name

Function

RGB Split FX

Split color channels for chromatic distortions.

Glint FX

Introduce brief sparkling or glimmering highlights.

Light Leaks FX

Add glow and occasional flare, which are traditionally seen when light leaks into the camera film.

Echo Glow FX

Apply a stylized glow effect featuring echoing light or trailing glow dynamics.

Bokeh Blur FX

Soften the background and draw focus using distinctive shapes like circles, hexagons, or other custom forms.

Compound Blur FX

Add a multi-layer blur that uses any layer from your timeline (like a matte or another clip) as a blur source.

Edge Glow FX

Accentuate the outlines or contours of your footage with a vibrant, radiant glow.

Wonder Glow FX

Add a vibrant, radiant light to your footage.

Focus Glow FX

 Apply a localized glow around focal areas in your footage.

Volumetric Ray FX

Add natural and realistic light rays.

A video clip that has the Echo Glow FX applied.

Essentials FX

Name

Function

Mosaic FX

Apply pixelation with customizable geometric shapes, using dynamic polygonal or grid-based segmentation.

Vignette FX

Subtly darken the edges of your footage, helping to focus attention toward the center frame.

Stroke FX

Add bold, customizable outlines to any element -text, shapes, or footage to make them pop.

Long Shadow FX

Add extended shadows to flat graphics to achieve a 3D-style depth.

Rounded Crop FX

Crop using rounded shapes for soft framing.

Blur FX

Apply controlled blur and use for selective focus or background softening.

Alpha FX

Controls transparency and use for overlay transitions or layering effects.

A video clip that has the Mosaic FX effect applied.

Motion

Name

Function

3D Rotate FX

Apply full-space 3D rotation to your footage.

Spin FX

Add dynamic, continuous rotation to elements.

Spacer FX

Create smooth scene separation by adding deliberate spacing between clips or elements.

Shrink FX

Animate elements to shrink over time.

Move FX

Move video elements across the frame with smooth, customizable motion.

Grow FX

Animate elements to grow or expand.

Wiggle FX

Apply randomized, lively, playful motion to footage for a jittery aesthetic.

Camera Shake FX

Shake your footage to simulate handheld camera movement.

A video clip that has the Camera Shake FX effect applied.

Explore alternative looks with Surprise Me button

The Surprise Me feature lets you instantly explore alternative looks and variations without manually adjusting parameters. Each click generates a new randomized configuration, helping you discover fresh creative options faster.

  1. Select the transition in your sequence.

  2. Go to the Effect Controls panel and expand the properties of the effect or transition that you have applied.

  3. Select the Surprise Me button.

  4. Each click generates a unique variation of the applied effect and transition. Do this multiple times to explore different randomized variations until you find the look you want.

Transitions

The Transitions include a versatile set of categories designed to streamline editing, add visual depth, and easily create professional, engaging results.

Essentials

Name

Function

Mosaic Impacts

Apply a pixelated mosaic effect that breaks down your image into geometric tiles.

Star Wipe Impacts

Add transitions between clips using a star-shaped reveal or conceal.

Chaos Impacts

Create a dynamic, randomized distortion of the footage that collapses or explodes into the next scene.

Burn Alpha Impacts

Use an alpha channel burn effect, where parts of the image dissolve away with fiery edges to reveal the next shot.

Flash Impacts

Add a bright flash or overexposure burst that smoothly hides the cut.

Blur to Color Impacts

Apply a blur that transitions into a solid color, then fades into the next scene.

Roll Impacts

Roll the outgoing shot into the incoming one with a natural spinning or rolling motion.

Stretch Impacts

Stretch and pull the footage across the screen, smoothly warping into the following clip.

Dissolve Impacts

Blend one clip into another through gradual opacity changes.

Push Impacts

Slide the following clip over the previous one in any direction.

Burn Chroma Impacts

Use colorful burn edges and chromatic distortions to wipe from one clip to another.

Blur Dissolve Impacts

Apply a blur while dissolving between shots.

Neon Wipe Impacts

Wipe from one scene to the next using glowing neon edges.

Luma Fade Impacts

Add transitions by fading the image based on brightness values from light to dark or vice versa.

Clock Wipe Impacts

Reveal the next shot using a rotating clock-hand wipe.

Linear Wipe Impacts

Unveils the incoming clip with a straight-line wipe - horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

Frame Impacts

Apply a frame-like border effect that slides, scales, or animates to transition between clips.

A video clip that has the Blur Dissolve Impacts transition applied.

Transformers

Name

Function

Film Roll Impacts

Mimic the look of film rolling through a projector.

Page Peel Impacts

Turn your footage like the corner of a page being peeled back to reveal the next clip.

Louver Impacts

Add a transition that uses horizontal or vertical blinds that open or close to reveal the next scene.

3D Spin Impacts

Rotate the clip in 3D space, spinning it around to transition dynamically into the next shot. 

3D Roll Impacts

Roll the footage in a three-dimensional perspective, giving depth and movement between clips.

Panel Wipe Impacts

Use sliding panels that open, close, or move across the frame to reveal the next scene.

Split Impacts

Split the screen into sections that slide apart or together as a transition effect.

Plateau Wipe Impacts

Flatten one clip into a plateau-like surface before unfolding into the next.

Slice Impacts

Cut the image into multiple slices that slide, stagger, or shift away to reveal the following clip.

Wave Impacts

Use a fluid, wave-like distortion that ripples to morph from one scene to the next.

Stretch Wipe Impacts

Stretch and pull the footage across in a wipe motion, creating a smooth elastic effect.

Mirror Impacts

Apply mirrored reflections during the transition.

A video clip that has the 3D Spin Impacts transition applied.

Animation

Name

Function

Pull Motion Impacts

Create smooth, dynamic pull transitions to seamlessly draw one scene toward the next.

Block Motion Impacts

Break the video into moving blocks that transition between scenes.

Travel Motion Impacts

Slide one scene out while pushing the next in.

Spin Motion Impacts

Rotate your clips with seamless spinning effects, adding momentum between shots.

Flip Motion Impacts

Flip one clip into another, vertically or horizontally, as a transition effect.

Spring Motion Impacts

Bring bouncy spring-like movement to scene changes.

Pop Motion Impacts

Snap popping transitions that make clips jump in or out.

Fold Motion Impacts

Unfold or fold clips like paper layers, creating origami-like transitions.

Typewriter Impacts

Reveal text or visuals with a typing effect, letter by letter.

A video clip that has the Spring Motion Impacts transition applied.

Lights & Blurs

Name

Function

Chroma Leak Impacts

Add colorful light leaks with vibrant chromatic flares between shots.

Light Sweep Impacts

Create a sweeping beam of light that passes across the frame to reveal the next scene.

Solarize Impacts

Transition using inverted or high-contrast color mimicking a photographic solarization effect.

Ray Impacts

Project light rays that burst across the transition.

Radial Blur Impacts

Spin the transition with a radial blur that pulls focus toward or away from the center.

Directional Blur Impacts

Smoothly blur the transition along a horizontal, vertical, or custom direction.

Glow Impacts

Add a glowing effect that intensifies brightness and gently fades into the next shot.

Flare Impacts

Use lens flares for scene transition.

Zoom Blur Impacts

Blend shots with a zoom-like blur effect, simulating fast movement or warp speed.

Stripe Impacts

Transition using bands or stripes of light.

Soft Wipe Impacts

Apply natural lens-style blur for a soft, out-of-focus transition between clips.

Light Leak Impacts

Simulate natural film burns and light leaks for transition into the next clip.

Phosphor Impacts

Create a glowing phosphorescent fade, leaving trails of light as the transition occurs.

A video clip that has the Zoom Blur Impacts transition applied.

Smart Tools

Name

Function

Motion Tween

Automatically create smooth in-between animations (tweens) for position, scale, and rotation.

Motion Camera

Simulate handheld camera movements to make static shots feel alive.

Text Animator

Animate titles and text with professional motion presets, without the need for complex keyframing.

Shape Flow

Generate flowing shape-based animations that can be used for transitions, backgrounds, or accent graphics.

A video clip that has the Shape Flow transition applied.

Distortions

Name

Function

VHS Damage Impacts

Simulate old-school VHS tape glitches, static, and tracking errors.

Flicker Impacts

Create intense light flickers or strobe-like transitions.

TV Power Impacts

Mimic the look of a TV turning on or off, with static bursts and screen distortion.

Glass Impacts

Shatter or distort the frame like broken glass for a scene change.

Earthquake Impacts

Shake the footage with camera rumble for seismic transition effect.

Grunge Impacts

Add gritty textures, scratches, and dirt overlays as a transition.

Kaleidoscope Impacts

Fragment the image into symmetrical, kaleidoscopic patterns for transitions.

Liquid Distortion Impacts

Warp the frame with fluid, water-like distortions that ripple into the next scene.

Glitch Impacts

Use digital glitches, pixelation, and data-moshing for a techy transition effect.

A video clip that has the VHS Damage Impacts transition applied.

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