Modern effects in Premiere

Ostatnia aktualizacja 9 lis 2026

Learn how to elevate your edits with modern, cinematic effects — all available at no additional cost in Adobe Premiere.

Premiere has a new set of modern effects, transitions, and animations added to the existing list. These effects help you create cinematic transitions, polished visual treatments, and dynamic text and graphic animations without requiring additional plug-ins or subscriptions. The customization options of the effects are endless and allow you to make each of your edits stand out.

The collection features modernized versions of classic effects alongside updated blurs, dissolves, wipes, and other creative tools. Use them as-is for quick results or customize their settings to achieve your own unique look.

All effects are GPU-accelerated, providing smooth, real-time playback while you adjust settings and layer multiple effects. 

Explore the categories below to find tools for color correction, stylized depth, light effects, immersive video workflows, motion graphics, and more.

Blur & Sharpen

Name

Function

Bokeh Blur

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

Channel Blur

Channel Blur lets you blur individual color channels, including the alpha channel. This allows you to soften or adjust specific components of an image without affecting the entire frame. 
You can work in different color modes, such as RGB, HSV, and YUV, depending on your workflow. The effect uses a Gaussian blur to produce smooth, natural-looking results. 
Channel Blur replaces the legacy Channel Blur effect with improved image quality and expanded color space support.

Compound Blur

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

Directional Blur

This effect blurs a clip in a single direction, creating the illusion of motion.

Focus Blur

Create a sense of depth by blurring the edges of a clip. Control the width and height to direct the viewer's focus. You can select a point type or create a Tilt Shift effect.

Gaussian Blur

Apply a Gaussian Blur to an entire clip, with the option to blur horizontally, vertically, or in a specific direction.

Radial Blur

Add a Rotational Blur around a center point. You can adjust the anchor and add feathering for fine control, and add Slices for a unique look.

Reduce Interlace Flicker

This effect is useful when working with interlaced footage. Interlace flickers are usually caused by stripes that become visible in interlaced footage. It can make an unattractive pattern on your video. 
The Reduce Interlace Flicker effect reduces high vertical frequencies, making images more suitable for use in interlaced media (such as NTSC video).

Sharpen

This effect improves contrast where color changes occur and between nearby pixels, making edges and details more distinct and reducing the soft look caused by blur or compression. For example, you can enhance detail in soft or slightly blurry footage.

Unsharp Mask

The Unsharp Mask effect increases the contrast between colors that define an edge.

Zoom Blur

Add a directional blur to a specific point. Adjust the anchor and add feathering to refine your look.

Color Correction

Name

Function

ASC CDL

The American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List (ASC CDL) is a format that standardizes the exchange of primary color information. 
The parameters of CDL are Slope, Offset, and Power. Each function uses a number for the red, green, and blue channels for nine numbers comprising a single-color decision. A 10th number, saturation, applies to the R, G, and B color channels in the combination. 

Alpha Adjust

Use the Alpha Adjust effect when you need to change the default render order of fixed effects. Change the opacity percentage to create levels of transparency and invert the Alpha channel.

Black & White

The Black & White effect converts any color clip to grayscale. That is, colors appear as shades of gray. You cannot apply keyframes to this effect.

Brightness & Contrast

The Brightness & Contrast effect adjusts the brightness and contrast of an entire clip.

Color Mixer

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

Color Pass

The Color Pass effect converts a clip to grayscale, except for specified colors. Use the Color Pass effect to highlight a particular area of a clip.

Color Replace

The Color Replace effect replaces all occurrences of a selected color with a new color, preserving any gray levels. Using this effect, you could change the color of an object in a clip by selecting it and then adjusting the controls to create a different color.

Gamma Correction

The Gamma Correction effect lightens or darkens a clip without substantially changing the shadows and highlights. It does this by changing the brightness levels of the midtones (the middle‑gray levels), while leaving the dark and light areas unaffected.

Gradient Tint

Tint your clip using a gradient. Adjust the colors, angle, feathering to create your own look. You can also change the Type from Linear to Radial or even Luma.

Hue/Saturation

Adjust the hue, saturation, or lightness of your footage. Select Colorize to apply a uniform, single-color tint across the entire clip.

Invert

Invert the color information of an image.

Levels

The Levels effect gives you precise control over brightness and contrast. It combines several tools, Color Balance, Gamma Correction, Brightness and Contrast, and Invert, making it flexible for adjusting image tone and dynamic range without stacking multiple effects.

Lumetri Color

Lumetri Color provides professional-quality color grading and correction tools that let you grade your footage directly on your editing timeline. Using these tools, you can adjust color, contrast, and light in your sequences in new and innovative ways.

ProcAmp

The ProcAmp effect operates like a traditional video-processing amplifier. It lets you fine-tune brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and even the split percentage of your image.

Tint

The Tint effect alters an image’s color information. For each pixel, the luminance value specifies a blend between two colors. Map Black To and Map White To specify to which colors dark and bright pixels are mapped. Intermediate pixels are assigned intermediate values. Amount To Tint specifies the intensity of the effect.

Video Limiter

Use the Video Limiter effect to limit RGB values to meet HDTV digital broadcast specifications. You can use it as a per-shot effect or add it as an output effect to limit the entire sequence upon export. The Video Limiter enabled on the timeline is applied during editing and export. The Video Limiter does not include the additional chrominance limiting needed for legacy Analog NTSC transmissions.

Vignette

Subtly darken and soften the edges of footage to focus attention toward the center frame.

Distort

Name

Function

Corner Pin

Distorts an image by independently adjusting its four corners.

Lens Distortion

Simulates or corrects lens distortion.

Magnify

Creates a magnifying lens that enlarges a selected area of the frame. Customize the lens size, magnification, edge softness, border, shadow, and position to highlight details or create focus effects.

Mirror

Reflects part of an image across a specified line.

Spherize

Distorts a layer by wrapping a region of the image onto a sphere.

Turbulent Displace

Creates organic distortions using procedural turbulence.

Twirl

Rotate pixels around a center point with refined radius and angle precision for cleaner, more controllable spin distortion.

Warp Stabilizer

You can fix shaky video in Premiere with the Warp Stabilizer effect. It removes jitter caused by camera movement, making it possible to transform shaky, handheld footage into steady, smooth shots.

Wave Warp

Produces the appearance of a wave traveling across an image. You can create a variety of different wave shapes, including square, circular, and sine waves. The Wave Warp effect is automatically animated at a constant speed across the time range (without keyframes). To vary speeds, you need to set keyframes.

A circular magnifying lens enlarges a person standing in the background while a skater moves through a skate park.
Use the Magnify effect to enlarge and highlight a specific area of the frame.

Generate

Name

Function

4-Color Gradient

This effect produces a four-color gradient. The gradient is defined by four effect points, whose positions and colors can be animated using the Position & Color controls. The gradient consists of four solid-color circles blended together, each with an effect point at its center.

Fill

Fill an entire clip, graphic, or mask with a solid color while preserving alpha transparency. Adjust color, opacity, and invert settings to quickly recolor visual elements.

Gradient

Create customizable linear or radial gradients using dedicated tone and ambient color controls. Fine-tune the look with built-in options for repeats, feathering, grain, texture, and color depth to ensure smooth blending and prevent color banding.

Immersive Video

Name

Function

VR Blur

The effect blurs without detracting from the immersive experience and is specifically designed for 360° and 180° footage. Everything, including poles and edges, is subtly smoothed throughout the view. No matter where the viewer looks, it maintains a natural appearance by evenly distributing blur throughout the scene. It functions flawlessly even on large, high-resolution VR projects because it's GPU-accelerated.

VR Chromatic Aberration

The effect simulates the lens flaws you might see in a VR headset by subtly shifting the color at the edges of your 360° video. It produces a delicate, lifelike color fringing that heightens the sense of immersion, making your footage look more stylized or cinematic.

VR Color Gradients

The effect lets you add smooth color transitions across your 360° footage. It creates subtle gradient fills that blend seamlessly across the spherical view, perfect for adding atmospheric tones or stylish color effects while maintaining immersion.

VR De-Noise

The effect helps reduce unwanted grain or noise in your 360° footage, making it smoother and cleaner. It’s perfect for improving the quality of low-light scenes or footage with digital noise, without losing detail, so your immersive video looks crisp and professional.

VR Digital Glitch

The effect adds a cool, techy distortion to your 360° video, simulating digital glitches. It creates quick, eye-catching disruptions in the footage, perfect for adding a futuristic or edgy vibe to your VR project, all while keeping the immersive feel intact.

VR Fractal Noise

The effect creates dynamic, organic-looking textures, like smoke, clouds, or abstract patterns. It generates random, evolving noise across your footage, perfect for adding visual interest, backgrounds, or special effects that feel natural and unpredictable.

VR Glow

The effect adds a soft, radiant glow around bright areas of your 360° footage. It enhances light sources, creating a dreamy, ethereal look without disrupting the immersive feel. It is perfect for highlighting lights, adding atmosphere, or making your footage feel more magical.

VR Plane to Sphere

The effect takes flat 2D elements like images, text, or logos and wraps them around a 360° video sphere. It helps integrate these elements smoothly into immersive VR scenes, ensuring they look natural and undistorted, no matter how the viewer looks around.

VR Projection

The effect projects 2D footage onto a 360° spherical surface, allowing you to place flat images or videos within a VR environment seamlessly. It’s perfect for creating realistic backgrounds, textures, or graphics that integrate into the immersive scene.

VR Rotate Sphere

The effect lets you rotate your 360° footage on the X, Y, or Z axis. This helps adjust the view or align the horizon in VR videos, giving you complete control over the scene’s orientation without distorting the immersive experience.

VR Sharpen

The effect enhances fine details and improves the clarity of your 360° video. It's ideal for enhancing the quality of virtual reality videos, particularly in low-resolution or blurry areas, by uniformly sharpening the image throughout the spherical scene without causing distortion.

Keying

Name

Function

Color Key

Use the effect to key out all image pixels like a specified key color. This effect adjusts only the alpha channel of a clip.

Extract

It converts your video to grayscale. It makes all pixels with a luminance value below the Black Input Level or above the White Input Level appear black, while everything in between appears gray or white. This is great when you want a stylized or monochromatic look.

Logo Cutout

Controls transparency and use for overlay transitions or layering effects.

Luma Key

Use the effect to remove all areas of a layer based on specific luminance or brightness levels. It works best when the object you want to generate a matte has a significantly different luminance than its background.  For example, when keying musical notes on a white background, you can remove the brighter areas so that only the dark notes remain visible and opaque.

Track Matte Key

Reveals one clip (background clip) through another (superimposed clip), using a third file as a matte that creates transparent areas in the superimposed clip. This effect requires two clips and a matte, each placed on its own track. White areas in the matte are opaque in the superimposed clip, preventing underlying clips from showing through. Black areas in the matte are transparent, and gray areas are partially transparent.

Ultra Key

Use the effect to remove a green or blue screen from your footage, making it easy to drop in a new background. It's great for clean, pro-looking composites and gives you controls to fine-tune edges, color spill, and more. For example, swapping out a green screen behind a person with a different video or image background.

Lights & Glows

Name

Function

Echo Glow

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

Edge Glow

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

Glint

Introduce brief sparkling or glimmering highlights.

Lens Flare

Add a customizable simulated lens flare, with control over flare shape, streak intensity, and color to match a range of lighting conditions.

Light Leaks

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

Lighting Effects

Adds creative lighting to your clips using up to five adjustable lights. You can change the light type, direction, intensity, color, lighting center, spread, and even simulate texture with the Bump Layer. This is perfect for adding depth to your footage or a dramatic, stylized look, like a 3D-like surface effect. A lightning effect that appears over only a specific portion of your clip

RGB Split

Split color channels for chromatic distortions.

Volumetric Rays

Add natural and realistic light rays.

Wonder Glow

Add a vibrant, radiant light to your footage.

A video clip that has the Echo Glow applied.

Noise & Grain

Name

Function

Noise

The effect adds random pixels to your footage, creating a grainy, static-like texture. It’s great for simulating the look of older cameras, adding a gritty feel, or matching footage with different sources, giving your video a more raw, vintage, or analog vibe.

Perspective

Name

Function

Basic 3D

This effect lets you rotate and move clips in 3D space, adjusting them around horizontal and vertical axes, and bringing them closer or further away. 
You can also add a specular highlight to simulate light reflecting off a rotated surface. The light source for this highlight is always positioned overhead, behind the viewer, and to the viewer's left, so the image needs to be tilted backward to see the reflection. These highlights can make the 3D effect look more realistic.

Bevel Alpha

Add depth and bevel to your motion graphics

Drop Shadow

This effect adds a shadow that appears behind the clip. The alpha channel of the clip determines the shape of the drop shadow. 
When you add a drop shadow to a clip, a soft-edged outline of its alpha channel appears behind it, as if a shadow is cast on the background or underlying objects. 
Unlike most other effects, Drop Shadow can create a shadow outside the bounds of the clip (the dimensions of the clip’s source). 
To render the shadow without the image, select Shadow Only.

Long Shadow

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

Stylize

Name

Function

Mosaic

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

Brush Strokes

The effect applies a rough, painted look to an image. You can also use this effect to achieve a pointillist style by setting the length of the brush strokes to zero and increasing the stroke density. Although you specify the direction of strokes, they are scattered randomly by a small amount to give a more natural result. This effect alters the alpha channel and the color channels. If you’ve masked out a portion of the image, the brush strokes paint over the edges of the mask.

Find Edges

The Find Edges effect identifies areas of the image with significant transitions and emphasizes the edges. Edges can appear as dark lines against a white background or colored lines against a black background. If the Find Edges effect is applied, images often look like sketches or photographic negatives of the original.

Posterize

Reduce continuous color gradations into distinct tonal bands to create bold, retro, or graphic poster-style looks. Customize step intervals and color splits using amount and phase shift, refine the look with built-in saturation and exposure controls, and dial in the blend with the original frame. Select Posterize Alpha to apply stepped transparency levels to alpha channels and graphic cutouts.

Roughen Edges

The Roughen Edges effect roughs up the edges of a clip’s alpha channel by using calculations. It gives rasterized text or graphics a naturally rough look, like that of eroded metal or typewriter text.

Strobe Light

The Strobe Light effect produces rhythmic flashes or pulsating color bursts over a clip. Use duration, gap, and easing to control the timing and transition curve of each flash. Fine-tune intensity, set a base color, and add randomness with variation and hue variation for dynamic, shifting colors.

Emboss

Create a raised, stamped relief by emphasizing the edges and contours of your footage. Adjust the amount, edge lighting, and angle to set the direction and depth of the light source; dial in tactile surface warping with refraction and distortion; and refine the look with softness, custom color, and built-in blend modes.

Bevel & Emboss

Create a raised, stamped relief by emphasizing the edges and contours of your footage. Adjust amount, edge lighting, and angle to set the direction and depth of the light source, dial in tactile surface warping with refraction and distortion, and refine the look using softness, custom color, and built-in blend modes.

Time

Name

Function

Posterize Time

The Posterize Time effect locks a clip to a specific frame rate. Posterize Time is useful on its own as a special effect, but it also has more subtle uses. For example, 60-field video footage can be locked to 24 fps (and then field-rendered at 60 fields per second) to give a film-like look. This effect is sometimes called a strobe in hardware devices.

A video clip that has the Mosaic FX effect applied.

Transform

Name

Function

3D Rotate

Apply full-space 3D rotation to your footage.

Spin

Add dynamic, continuous rotation to elements.

Spacer

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

Shrink

Animate elements to shrink over time.

Move

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

Grow

Animate elements to grow or expand.

Wiggle

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

Camera Shake

Shake your footage to simulate handheld camera movement.

Auto Reframe

The effect makes it easy to auto-reframe your video clips to match the aspect ratio of different social media platforms. It's time-saving when applied to a whole sequence at once rather than reframing a single clip at a time.

Offset

The Offset effect pans the image within a clip. Visual information pushed off one side of the image appears on the opposite side.

Transform

The effect lets you adjust a clip’s position, size, rotation, and opacity, giving you control over how it moves and appears on screen.

Horizontal Flip

The Horizontal Flip effect reverses each frame in a clip from left to right; however, the clip still plays forward.

Vertical Flip

The effect turns your clip upside down, flipping it from top to bottom. Keyframes cannot be applied to this effect.

Utility

Name

Function

Auto Align

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

Cineon Converter

Provides a high degree of control over the color conversions of Cineon frames. To use the Cineon Converter effect, import a Cineon file and add the clip to a sequence. You can then apply the Cineon Converter effect to the clip and precisely adjust the colors while interactively viewing the results in Program Monitor.

Metadata & Timecode Burn-in

Allows you to display or burn in proper clip metadata on export, including Sound Timecode, Source Timecode, File Name, and Frame Rate. 
This user-requested feature puts more information in the hands of editors who need to view and communicate in-depth clip metadata across many different workflows. 
The effect can be applied to a single clip, an adjustment layer, or a transparent clip to display metadata for the clip in a text overlay. For maximum flexibility, each instance of the effect can display up to five lines of metadata.

Motion Tile

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

Rounded Crop

Crop using rounded shapes for soft framing.

Simple Text

The effect lets you quickly add plain, customizable text to your footage. It's great for quick notes, labels, or simple annotations without extra formatting.

Stroke

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

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.

Select the transition in your sequence.

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

Select the Surprise Me button.

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.