Narrator: In this section,
we're going to be looking at some of the visual effects
and some of the fun things 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 type of effects there are
in Premiere Pro and the first thing we're going to do
is I've just put together this sequence of this same clip
six times with different effects.
And we're just gonna watch through it
and see all of 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 added some grain in this shot.
With this shot, we added this spotlight effect.
With this next one 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 surface 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 colour levels.
Changing the highlight shadow levels.
Under blur and sharpen, we can add blurs,
different types of blurs.
Colour correction.
These are all of your colour correction effects
if you don't want to use the lumetri colour panel.
The three way colour corrector.
This is the main effect that we used to use as editors
to colour correct our footage before the lumetri panel.
One of the most fun bins is the stylize.
We can make our videos have brush strokes
to look like it's a moving painting.
We can emboss the edges.
We can create a mosaic.
Texturize.
I'll let you go through all 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 colour noise
because the colour 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 centre will adjust where your light is set.
Both the major and the minor radius will adjust
how big and small your light is.
The 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 two.
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 flip it.
So we used the horizontal flip effect.
And it just flopped the image from right to left.
And it just flopped the image, so now they're walking
on the left hand side.
And sometimes flipping and 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 have 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 eye 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 edges.
Just another effect you can see
that I can adjust the bevel edges,
where the light's coming from to create that shadow
on the edges.
The colour, so we want to make this something wild and fun
with like a blue edge or something like that.
And then the intensity of the light.
Again how contrasty 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 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 colour.
Let's drag it onto our clip.
It's automatically adjusting the colours of our footage.
See this on and off makes it a little more contrasty
and that's actually pretty darn nice I would say.
So the auto colour 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 I use most
in the next few lessons.
Otherwise, just have fun with it
and we'll see you in the next lessons.