Premiere Pro comes with several different ways to work with effects to enhance your clips and sequences.
Let's see how we can work with intrinsic-based effects and apply additional effects from the effects tab onto clips.
To follow along with what I'm about to show you, download the project file and sample clips that accompany this tutorial.
I currently have the effects sequence open, and my play head is over the second clip.
In order to see its built-in or intrinsic-based effects, I want to select the clip and go over the effect controls on my top left-hand corner in the editing workspace.
If effect controls are not showing, simply go to window, effect controls.
In effect controls, we can see effects for motion, opacity, and time remapping built onto the clip.
I'll hit the disclosure triangle next to motion to reveal parameters for position, scale, rotation, and anchor point.
Next to the word scale is the scale value.
I'll click and hold to scrub to scale up my clip.
Next to the word rotation, this time I'll click on the value and enter 20 degrees to rotate my clip 20 degrees to the right.
If I want to reset these parameters, there are some hooked arrows over the right which I'll click so I'll reset the parameter for rotation.
Or I can reset the entire effects at the very top.
Next to the word motion is a wire frame icon.
If you click on the wire frame icon, we have the ability to scale, reposition, and rotate the clip directly within the program monitor.
In the new version of Premiere Pro, I can also take the anchor point and adjust it without making a change to the clip's position.
I'll hit control Z, or command Z on a Mac, to undo.
Let's move over to the fourth clip on the timeline where we'd like to apply an effect from the effects tab.
Behind my project panel is the effects tab, which I'll click on.
If you don't see it, simply go to window, effects, and here you'll see a bunch of folders containing presets, audio effects, and video effects.
I can click the disclosure triangle to reveal all the categories for video effects or next to the magnifying glass do a search.
I'll search for the word tint.
The tint effect is displayed under the color correction category.
I'll select the tint effect and drag it onto the fourth clip in the timeline to apply it to the clip.
Inside my effect controls, you'll see the tint effects.
And to the left of the word tint is an FX badge which I can click to turn the effect off and on.
We also have parameter controls to remap the black and white values as well as control the amount of tints.
I'll enter a value of 50 to scale back that amount.
If I'm unhappy with the effect, I can select the word tint and hit delete to remove it from the clip.
Besides being able to add effects from the effects tab onto clips in our timeline, we can also apply them to an adjustment layer.
The adjustment layer will only affect clips that are on video tracks below where you position it.
In the project panel, I'll go to the new item icon and choose to create an adjustment layer, in which the video settings will match the currently open sequence.
I'll now drag the adjustment layer from the project panel into the timeline over the second and third clips, then use my regular trim to extend it to make sure it matches its length.
So let me go to the effects tab, and this time I'll clear my search results of the word tints and search for the word flip.
I'll apply a horizontal flip by dragging it onto the adjustment layer.
And we can see now that a flip has been applied to both of our clips in the timeline.
In the effect controls, I'll click the FX badge to turn that effect off and on.
Let's move now to the fifth clip on the timeline with our play it over top of it and select the clip to see that there are already three effects on this clip.
One of those effects was a change just to the motion parameters.
I'll hit the disclosure triangle to show you this clip has been scaled up.
There's also a lens flare and a text rise effect.
I would like to take all of these effects and save it as a preset.
So I'm going to click on the word motion, command or control click the word lens flare, and command or control click the word texturize.
Control or right click any of these words and choose to save a preset from the contextual menu.
Under the save preset dialogue box, I'll call this scale, lens flare, and text for texturize, and I'll hit okay.
If I clear my search results in the effects tab and look under the presets, at the very top I'll see a new effect containing my preset.
If I go over the fourth clip of the timeline, I'll select the preset and drag it onto the fourth clip.
And that's how we work with effects in Premiere Pro.
