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Chapter 13: Applying Effects
Working with effects
Working with effects
Adobe Premiere Pro includes a variety of 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. The intensity of an effect
is determined by values that you control. The controls for all effects can also be animated using keyframes in the
Effect Controls panel.
Adobe Premiere Pro has Fixed effects and Standard effects. Standard effects generally affect a clip’s image quality and
appearance, while Fixed effects adjust the clip’s position, scale, movement, opacity, and audio volume. By default,
Fixed effects are automatically applied to every clip in a sequence.
In Adobe Premiere Pro you can create and apply presets for all effects. You can animate effects using keyframes and
view information about individual keyframes directly in the Timeline panel.
Note:
Adobe Premiere Pro can process all effects at an 8-bit color depth in the RGB colorspace. Some effects can be
processed at either 16-bit or 32-bit (floating point) depth and some in the YUV colorspace. Choose Project > Project
Settings > Video Rendering and then select the Maximum Bit Depth option to have Adobe Premiere Pro process an effect
at the highest possible quality. Keep in mind that this option uses lots of processing power.
See also
“Effect presets” on page 258
“About Fixed effects” on page 250
“About Standard effects” on page 251
“To edit keyframe graphs in the Effect Controls panel” on page 238
About Fixed effects
Every clip you add to the Timeline panel has Fixed effects preapplied, 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 may be easier to use. The Fixed effects include the following:
Motion
Includes properties that allow you to animate, rotate, and scale your clips or composite them with other
clips. (To adjust the Motion effect in the Program Monitor, see “To adjust position, scale, and rotation” on page 246
and “Animating motion in the Program Monitor” on page 247.)
Opacity
Lets you to reduce the opacity of a clip for use in such effects as overlays, fades, and dissolves. (To adjust the
Opacity effect in the Timeline panel, see “Adjusting the opacity of clips” on page 357.)
Volume
Controls the volume for any clip that contains audio. (To adjust the Volume effect in the Timeline panel,
Effect Controls panel, or Audio Mixer, see “To adjust the volume in the Timeline panel” on page 187, “To adjust the