in this section we're going to be looking at some of the visual effects and fun things that we can do to make our projects look better or more interesting. So in this lesson we want to just learn how to add effects, learn more about what types of effects there are in premiere Pro. And the first thing we're going to do is I've just put together the sequence of the same clip six times with different effects and we're just gonna watch through it and see all the different things that you can do in premiere pro. So this is the first clip, no effects. Just this couple walking down the beach, let me just rewind just a bit. So walking down the beach, no effects, natural light. Here's another effect. This is a threshold effect. Get that black and white. We add some grain in this shot with this shot we added this spotlight effect with this next one we we actually flipped the effect so it's going to the left and with this one we added this bevel kind of style and this is just scratching the surfa...

ce on what types of effects you can add if you go to your effects bin, let me just close down these bins. You can see that there are so many types of effects. And if you open up one of these folders you can see different adjustment effects, changing the color levels, changing the highlight shadow levels under blur and sharpen. We can add blurs different types of blurs color correction. These are all of your color correction effects. If you don't want to use the loo metric color panel, the three way color corrector. This is the main effect that we used to use as editors to color correct our footage before the loo metric panel. One of the most fun bins is the style eyes. We can make our videos have brushstrokes to look like it's a moving painting, we can embossed the edges, we can create a mosaic texturizing. I'll let you go through all of the effects but I want you to understand how to use them first. With all these effects you'll notice in our effects control bin or panel that up here we have the effect settings. So for threshold it's simple. The level of the threshold we can increase or decrease the amount of threshold, allowing more of the highlights to have some black texture. But if we decrease it all the way only the dark parts of this image get this sort of dark silhouette. If I turn this off you'll see just the dark parts right here and this image is actually a good one to see this out on because there are so many highlights on this bright warm beach. So you can adjust all of your levels with the effects controls here we have the noise effect added And we have 25% noise which is actually a lot more than I typically would add. But I wanted to just really show you what happens when you add noise. So if you want to add a little bit of dust and grain, make it a little bit noisy. Like an old film camera use the noise effect The noise type I uncheck the use color noise because the color noise. If I make it a lot bigger, you can see that it has all these red and green and yellow dots. I like just the black and white noise and typically maybe around 10% or so just a subtle amount, just a very subtle amount. With this next one we have a lot more options. So this is the lighting effects. You have Multiple lights that you can add to your clip with this effect. I'm just using the light one. All of these effects adjust something so the center will adjust where your light is set, both the major and the minor radius will adjust how big and small you're light is, angle will adjust where it's coming from. I wanted to match where the sun was coming from for this clip so it looks like that spotlight is actually just the sun. The intensity is how bright or dark the light is. You can actually make it darker and the focus is how wide or narrow it is. How much of a sort of feathering does it have into the rest of the footage And this is just light one. We can add another light if we wanted to go into light, to we can change from none to another spotlight and we can move this around, do anything we want with it with the next clip we just flipped it so we use the horizontal flip effect and it just flop the image from right to left and it just flop the image. So now they're walking on the left hand side and sometimes flipping an image can make a more dynamic shot or dynamic transition right here, we have the action of this footage over here in the bottom left corner. Say we had another shot that we're cutting to after this. That has the subject down here in the bottom left corner. We wouldn't want the subjects of this shot to be on this corner and then the next shot the subjects on this corner, it's a more fluid and peaceful transition. If the main I catching subject is in the same relatively the same area of the frame. So using the horizontal flip, we can make this shot match that and then with this last one, this is just the bevel edge is just another effect. You can see that. I can adjust the beveled edges where the light's coming from to create that shadow on the edges, the color. So we want to make this something wild and fun with like a blue edge or something like that and the intensity of the light again, how contrasting we want that light to learn all of these effects. It would take a very long time for me to walk through every single one. So what I, I think you should do and the way that I learned these effects is just to play around with them. Just go one at a time, add them to your clips, see what it does say. Hey, what's this auto color? Let's drag it onto our clip. It's automatically adjusting the colors of our footage. See this on and off, makes it a little bit more contrasting and that's actually pretty darn nice, I would say. So the auto color is a cool effect and just go through them and see which ones you like. There's some that I've never even touched and some that I use almost on every project. If you have any specific questions about a specific effect, please let me know I will be covering some of the ones that I use most in the next few lessons. Otherwise, just have fun with it and we'll see you in the next lessons

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Adding and Adjusting Effects to Your Video Clips

Adding and Adjusting Effects to Your Video Clips

Lesson Info

75. Adding and Adjusting Effects to Your Video Clips

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video