Jordy here for cinecom.net! And it is Tuesday.
You know what that means? Crazy tips and tricks about filmmaking and editing.
Now, our last video about five essential effects in Premiere
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so, that's why we've put up another list
of five essential effects in Premiere Pro that you should know about.
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Enough with that advertising now, let's dive into the wonderful world of Premiere Pro.
And we'll start it off easy with a very simple effect called Unsharp Mask.
Basically what it'll do is sharpen your video clips.
And you actually always wanna do that.
Now, you might ask, I always film everything in focus, so, why should I sharpen my clips?
Well, that is actually a very good question.
In fact, sharpening your footage is a great way to make it seem like there's more detail in the shot,
plus giving it the illusion of a bigger resolution.
Now, cameras usually do this for us.
Inside the picture profile settings you'll find this sharpness option.
Now, what your camera will do is just sharpen the entire frame,
including the parts that are out of focus.
And that's the worst thing that you can do,
sharpening something that is out of focus.
The only thing that you will give more detail is the digital noise.
So, what I do is disable the sharpness in my camera and use this unsharp mask effect
to only increase the sharpness of things that are in focus.
The amount will control how much you're adding sharpness,
the radius will increase the width of the added sharpness.
Usually you wanna keep this very low.
And the Threshold will control which parts get the sharpness.
Here's a before,
and here's an after shot.
If you can, make sure to watch this on full screen so that you can see how the subject pops out great!
Alright! The next Premiere effect that will change your life forever is called Roughen Edges.
It's actually one of the first effects that I found out in the very early days of Premiere.
And what this allows you to do is to add a style to the edge of an object.
And this works pretty good on text.
So, just search for Roughen Edges and drag that effect to your text.
Within the settings you can choose how your edge needs to be changed
and the normal roughen, or the one with a color option,
is pretty cool to make your edge look soft.
Definitely if you're going to decrease that sharpness.
It looks like a puffy cloud now.
And we can animate that so that the text reveals itself,
or we can bring it to life by animating the evolution
and just make it part of the clouds.
On the opposite, when I change the edge type to rusty color,
it will bite more into the text,
and like the name says, it will make it rusty.
And with some tweaks to the scaling and complexity
I was able to pull off this nice organic striped text.
So, it's a nice effect with a lot potential to create a unique design or animation.
The third effect is called Compound Blur.
And this is actually the opposite of what we did in the beginning with the unsharp mask.
What this effect will do is blur your shot where there's little contrast.
So, with this we can create those pale skin tones like we often see in those commercials.
Now, the effect doesn't work so great as you can see,
so, we have to come up with a solution
to make sure that the model's eyes are still very sharp.
So, I'm going to duplicate this layer and place it on track number 02.
Delete that compound blur from it
and change the blending mode under opacity to multiply.
And now you've giving your model a very soft skin,
but you remain that sharpness in the details of the shot.
Next up is the Magnify Effect. And we'll use our naked model again here as an example.
This effect will magnify a certain area in your shot.
And this is a lot of fun.
To start with you can give someone a bigger head.
But you can also apply this effect twice to your shot
and put a smaller magnification on the talent's eyes.
make sure to feather it a little bit to disguise the edges.
And this is endless!
Just imagine what you could do with having two magnification effects on your actress...
...or actor.
If your talent is moving, though, you'll need to manually track the position of the magnifier.
It's simple but it can take some time.
And the final effect is called Linear Wipe.
A very simple effect, but I notice I'm using this a lot myself,
so it had to be on the list.
We'll first create a text layer and animate its position from left to right.
So we now have this animation.
To make it reveal itself, we can use that linear wipe effect,
which essentially just crops into your video
and now the text will reveal itself from behind there.
To take this a step further, we've designed something here
with some shapes inside Premiere Pro.
I have the text on a different layer, to which I apply the linear effect to.
I make sure the transition completion lines up with the shape I've created
and with the wipe angle, I can get the angle to line up too.
And now it seems like the text is coming out behind the line.
So again, many possibilities with a simple effect.
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