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- Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
- Beta releases
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- Creating projects
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- Frame.io
- Import media
- Importing
- Importing from Avid or Final Cut
- File formats
- Working with timecode
- Editing
- Edit video
- Sequences
- Create and change sequences
- Set In and Out points in the Source Monitor
- Add clips to sequences
- Rearrange and move clips
- Find, select, and group clips in a sequence
- Remove clips from a sequence
- Change sequence settings
- Edit from sequences loaded into the Source Monitor
- Simplify sequences
- Rendering and previewing sequences
- Working with markers
- Add markers to clips
- Create markers in Effect Controls panel
- Set default marker colors
- Find, move, and delete markers
- Show or hide markers by color
- View marker comments
- Copy and paste sequence markers
- Sharing markers with After Effects
- Source patching and track targeting
- Scene edit detection
- Cut and trim clips
- Video
- Audio
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Edit audio clips in the Source Monitor
- Audio Track Mixer
- Adjusting volume levels
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Enhance Speech
- Enhance Speech FAQs
- Audio Category Tagging
- Automatically duck audio
- Remix audio
- Monitor clip volume and pan using Audio Clip Mixer
- Audio balancing and panning
- Advanced Audio - Submixes, downmixing, and routing
- Audio effects and transitions
- Working with audio transitions
- Apply effects to audio
- Measure audio using the Loudness Radar effect
- Recording audio mixes
- Editing audio in the timeline
- Audio channel mapping in Premiere Pro
- Use Adobe Stock audio in Premiere Pro
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Text-Based Editing
- Advanced editing
- Best Practices
- Video Effects and Transitions
- Overview of video effects and transitions
- Effects
- Transitions
- Titles, Graphics, and Captions
- Overview of the Essential Graphics panel
- Graphics and Titles
- Graphics
- Create a shape
- Draw with the Pen tool
- Align and distribute objects
- Change the appearance of text and shapes
- Apply gradients
- Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
- Install and use Motion Graphics templates
- Replace images or videos in Motion Graphics templates
- Use data-driven Motion Graphics templates
- Captions
- Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
- Retiring the Legacy Titler FAQs
- Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
- Fonts and emojis
- Animation and Keyframing
- Compositing
- Color Correction and Grading
- Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
- Color Settings
- Auto Color
- Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
- Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
- Correct and match colors between shots
- Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
- Create vignettes
- Looks and LUTs
- Lumetri scopes
- Display Color Management
- Timeline tone mapping
- HDR for broadcasters
- Enable DirectX HDR support
- Exporting media
- Collaborative editing
- Collaboration in Premiere Pro
- Get started with collaborative video editing
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- Add and manage media in Team Projects
- Invite and manage collaborators
- Share and manage changes with collaborators
- View auto saves and versions of Team Projects
- Manage Team Projects
- Linked Team Projects
- Frequently asked questions
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- Working with other Adobe applications
- Organizing and Managing Assets
- Improving Performance and Troubleshooting
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- Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
- Eliminate flicker
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- Smart rendering
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- Best Practices: Working with native formats
- Knowledge Base
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- Green and pink video in Premiere Pro or Premiere Rush
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Explore the variety of audio and video effects that Premiere Pro offers. Also learn how to find and organize effects in the Effects panel.
Premiere Pro includes various audio and video effects that you can apply to clips in your video program. An effect can add a special visual or audio characteristic or provide an unusual feature attribute. For example, an effect can alter the exposure or color of footage, manipulate sound, distort images, or add artistic effects. You can also use effects to rotate and animate a clip or adjust its size and position within the frame. You control the intensity of an effect by the values that you set for it. You can also animate the controls for most effects using keyframes in the Effect Controls panel or in a Timeline panel.
You can create and apply presets for all effects. You can animate effects using keyframes and view information about individual keyframes directly in a Timeline panel.
Types of effects
Premiere Pro has many in-built effects. Some are fixed effects (effects that are pre-applied or built-in). Some are standard effects that you apply to a clip. Effects can also be clip-based (applied to a clip), or track-based (applied to a track). You can also use effects created by external manufacturers that you can use as a plug-in in Premiere Pro.
Effects in Premiere Pro are also grouped into the following categories for better searchability. Three buttons appear under the search field toward the upper left of the Effects panel. These buttons act as filters for three types of effects:
When you toggle one of these buttons on, only effects and transitions of its type are shown in the list of effects below. You can toggle one or more of these buttons to filter the list of effects for any combination of attributes.
Read on for more information on all the different types of effects.
Fixed effects
Every clip you add to a Timeline panel has Fixed effects pre-applied, or built in. Fixed effects control the inherent properties of a clip and appear in the Effect Controls panel whenever the clip is selected. You can adjust all of the Fixed effects in the Effect Controls panel. However, the Program Monitor, Timeline panel, and Audio Mixer also provide controls that are often easier to use. The Fixed effects include the following:
Motion
Includes properties that allow you to animate, rotate, and scale your clips, adjust their anti-flicker property, or composite them with other clips. (To adjust the Motion effect in the Program Monitor, see Adjust position, scale, and rotation and Animate motion in the Program Monitor.)
Opacity
Lets you reduce the opacity of a clip for use in such effects as overlays, fades, and dissolves.
Time Remapping
Lets you slow down, speed up, or reverse playback, or freeze a frame, for any part of a clip. Provides fine control for the acceleration or deceleration of these changes.
Volume
Controls the volume for any clip that contains audio. (For information about adjusting the Volume effect, see Adjust volume with keyframes, Adjust volume in Effect Controls, Set track volume in the Audio Mixer, Adjusting gain and volume, Normalize one or more clips, and Normalize the Master track.)
Because Fixed effects are already built in to each clip, you need only adjust their properties to activate them.
Premiere Pro renders Fixed effects after any Standard effects that are applied to the clip. Standard effects are rendered in the order in which they appear, from the top down. You can change the order of Standard effects by dragging them to a new position in the Effect Controls panel, but you can’t reorder Fixed effects.
If you want to change the render order of Fixed effects, use Standard effects instead. Use the Transform effect in place of the Motion effect. Use the Alpha Adjust effect in place of the Opacity effect, and the Volume effect in place of the fixed Volume effect. While these effects are not identical to the Fixed effects, their properties are equivalent.
Standard effects
Standard effects are additional effects that you must first apply to a clip to create a desired result. You can apply any number or combination of Standard effects to any clip in a sequence. Use Standard effects to add special characteristics or to edit your video, such as adjusting tone or trimming pixels. Premiere Pro includes many video and audio effects, which are located in the Effects panel. Standard effects must be applied to a clip and then adjusted in the Effect Controls panel. Certain video effects allow direct manipulation using handles in the Program Monitor. All Standard effect properties can be animated over time using keyframing and changing the shape of the graphs in the Effect Controls panel. The smoothness or speed of the effect animation can be fine-tuned by adjusting the shape of Bezier curves in the Effect Controls panel.
The effects listed in the Effects panel depend on the actual effect files in the language subfolder of the Premiere Pro Plug-ins folder. You can expand the repertoire of effects by adding compatible Adobe plug-in files or plug-in packages available through other third-party developers.
Clip-based and track-based effects
All video effects—both Fixed and Standard effects—are clip-based. They alter individual clips. You can apply a clip-based effect to more than one clip at a time by creating a nested sequence.
Audio effects can be applied to either clips or to tracks. To apply track-based effects, use the Audio Mixer. If you add keyframes to the effect, you can then adjust the effect either in the Audio Mixer or a Timeline panel.
Effect plug-ins
In addition to the dozens of effects included with Premiere Pro, many effects are available in the form of plug-ins. You can purchase plug-ins from Adobe or third-party vendors, or acquire from other compatible applications. For example, many Adobe After Effects plug-ins and VST plug-ins can be used in Premiere Pro. However, Adobe officially supports only plug-ins that are installed with the application.
Any effect is available to Premiere Pro when its plug-in file is present in the common Plug-ins folder:
(Windows) Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\<version>\MediaCore
(Mac OS) /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/<version>/MediaCore
Using the installer for a plug-in is the best way to make sure the plug-in and its related files are installed in the right place.
When you open a project with references to missing effects, Premiere Pro does the following:
- tells you which effects are missing
- marks the effects as offline
- performs any rendering without the effects
For a current list of third-party plug-ins, see the Adobe website.
To edit a project containing add-on plug-ins on more than one computer, install the plug-ins on all the computers.
GPU-Accelerated effects
Here is a list of GPU accelerated effects available in Adobe Premiere Pro. For these effects, playback would be in real time and doesn't require rendering.
Some effects can take advantage of the processing power of the GPU to accelerate rendering.
See Premiere Pro system requirements for information on supported GPUs (graphics cards).
On Mac OS, CUDA acceleration features require Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later.
Acceleration is available for an accelerated effect only when a supported video card is installed. If a supported video card is not installed, the Accelerated Effects filter button still functions. The Accelerated Effects badge is shown in a disabled state to indicate that acceleration is not available.
Disable or enable GPU acceleration of effects
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In the Video Rendering And Playback section, select the appropriate renderer: Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration or Mercury Playback Engine Software Only.
Merk:This option is available to select only if your computer supports it.
32-bit Color
Premiere Pro includes some video effects and transitions that support high-bit-depth processing. When applied to high-bit-depth assets, such as v210-format video and 16-bit-per-channel (bpc) Photoshop files, these effects can be rendered with 32bpc pixels. The result is better color resolution and smoother color gradients with these assets than would be possible with the earlier standard 8 bit per channel pixels. A 32-bpc badge appears to the right of the effect name in the Effects panel for each high-bit-depth effect.
To enable high-bit-depth rendering for these effects, select the Maximum Bit Depth video rendering option in the New Sequence dialog box.
32-bpc effects render at 32 bits per channel only when every effect in the render pipeline is a 32-bpc effect. If you place an 8-bpc effect into a sequence that contains a 32-bpc effect, Premiere Pro renders all the effects in the sequence at 8 bits.
YUV effects
Effects in Premiere Pro that have the YUV logo do the processing directly on the YUV values without converting them to RGB first. The pixel values are never converted to RGB, and there is no unwanted color shifting.
These effects make it easy for you to adjust contrast and exposure without shifting color.
Search for effects
Standard effects are listed in the Effects panel and are organized into two main bins, Video Effects and Audio Effects. Within each bin, Premiere Pro lists effects by type in nested bins. For example, the Blur and Sharpen bin contains effects that defocus an image, such as Gaussian Blur and Directional Blur.
Find audio effects in bins named for the type of audio clips they support: mono, stereo, or 5.1.
You can also locate an effect by typing the effect name in the Contains box.
To open the Effects panel, choose Window > Effects, or click the Effects tab.
You can also use the filters in the Effects panel to sort filters based on whether they are Accelerated, 32-bit Color, or YUV effects. When you toggle one of these buttons on, only effects and transitions of its type are shown in the list of effects below. You can toggle one or more of these buttons to filter the list of effects for any combination of attributes.
Group effects
You can group your favorite effects by placing them together in customized bins.
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In the Effects panel, click the New Custom Bin button , or choose New Custom Bin from the Effects panel menu. A new Custom bin appears in the Effects panel. You can rename it.
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Drag effects to the Custom bin. A copy of the effect is listed in the Custom bin. You can create more Custom bins, which are numbered.
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To rename the custom bin, click the existing name to select the folder, click it again to select the name field, and type the new name.
Removing custom bins
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In the Effects panel, select a Custom bin and do one of the following:
Click the Delete Custom Items button .
Choose Delete Custom Items from the Effects panel menu.
Press Delete.
Press Backspace.
Merk:You can remove Custom bins only from the Effects panel.
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Click OK.
List of Accelerated, 32-bit, and YUV effects in Premiere Pro
Use the following filters to quickly check whether an effect is accelerated, 32-bit, or a YUV effect.
List of accelerated effects in Premiere Pro
Here is a list of the effects and transitions that can be accelerated by CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Lumetri Color
- Crop
- Warp Stabilizer
- Ultra Key
- Horizontal Flip
- Brightness & Contrast
- Transform
- Drop Shadow
- Dip To Black
- Film Dissolve
- Sharpen
- Tint
- Verical Flip
- Additive Dissolve
- Track Matte Key
- Basic 3D
- Mosaic
- Fast Blur (already obsolete)
- Dip To White
- Lens Distortion
- Push
- Invert
- Slide
- Wipe
- Morph Cut
- RGB Curves (already obsolete)
- Offset
- Timecode
- Edge Feather
- Color Replace
- Simple Text
- Auto Reframe
- VR Glow
- Gamma Correction
- ASC CDL
- ProcAmp
- Extract
- Alpha Glow
- Mirror
- VR Digital Glitch
- Alpha Adjust
- Fast Color Corrector (already obsolete)
- Ramp
- Color Pass
- VR Blur
- Find Edges
- Black & White
- VR De-Noise
- Clip Name
- RGB Color Corrector (already obsolete)
- VR Chromatic Abberations
- VR Color Gradients
- Three-Way Color Corrector (already obsolete)
- VR Rotate Sphere
- SDR Conform
- Levels
- VR Fractal Noise
- VR Iris Wipe
- VR Gradient Wipe
- VR Light Rays
- VR Projection
- VR Mobius Zoom
- Noise
- VR Chroma Leaks
- Video Limiter
- VR Light Leaks
- VR Spherical Blur
- VR Sharpen
- VR Plane To Sphere
- Luma Corrector (already obsolete)
- VR Random Blocks
- Video Limiter (already obsolete)
- Gaussian Blur
- Directional Blur
- Cross Dissolve
- Whip
- Reduce Interlace Flicker
- Strobe
- Split
- Center Split
- Non-Additive Dissolve
List of 32-bit Color effects in Premiere Pro
- Cross Dissolve
- Dip to Black
- Dip to White
- Film Dissolve
- Band Wipe
- Barn Doors
- Checker Wipe
- CheckerBoard
- Clock Wipe
- Gradient Wipe
- Inset
- Pinwheel
- Radial Wipe
- Random Blocks
- Random Wipe
- Spiral Boxes
- Venetian Blinds
- Wedge Wipe
- Zig-Zag Blocks
List of YUV effects in Premiere Pro
- ProcAmp
- Gaussian Blur
- Lumetri Color
- Video Limiter
- Black & White
- Alpha Adjust
- Luma Key
- Track Matte Key
- Fast Color Corrector
- Luma Corrector
- Luma Curve
- RGB Color Corrector
- RGB Curves
- Three-Way Color Corrector
- Video Limiter (Legacy)
- Crop
- Edge Feather
- Horizontal Flip
- Clip Name
- Simple Text
- Timecode
- Cross Dissolve
- Dip to Black
- Dip to White
- Film Dissolve
- Iris Box
- Iris Cross
- Iris Diamond
- Iris Round
- Band Slide
- Band Wipe
- Barn Doors
- Checker Wipe
- CheckerBoard
- Clock Wipe
- Gradient Wipe
- Inset
- Pinwheel
- Radial Wipe
- Random Blocks
- Random Wipe
- Spiral Boxes
- Venetian Blinds
- Wedge Wipe
- Wipe
- Zig-Zag Blocks