adding visual effects to your videos can make them more interesting and engaging but working
in after-effects can be very time-consuming and not to mention there's a huge learning curve what
if I told you you can make awesome effects for your videos without even having to leave Premiere
Pro in this video I'm going to show you five of my favorite visual effects that you can build
right in Premiere Pro let's get into it hello creators I'm Ben Toalson from Podia where we
empower creators like you to make a living doing what you love I'm going to show you a quick video
I made that includes five visual effects that I created right in Premiere Pro and then after
that I'm going to show you how I built them and how you can use them in your videos check it out
so that was my studio where I work every day to put videos like this together and I'm already
got the sequence created so I'm gonna take you through step by step and show you how I built
these effects this first one is 3d text motion now normally you would take this in After Effects and
you would create a virtual camera and you'd set the text up so that it could follow the tracking
and all of that complicated stuff while doing it that way is really cool and gives you a lot more
flexibility there's a really simple way to do a similar effect in Premiere Pro and I'm gonna show
that to you now so here in the timeline I've got my clip which is right here in the first track and
then I've got some text which is nested and I'll show you what I mean by that in fact I'm going
to go ahead and pull that out so this is just text and what I've done is I've just adjusted
the position and the scale and then I'm also added some blur so you can see as it gets closer it gets
a little bit blurrier as it gets further away it's a little bit sharper and really all I did was line
up the text was something in the shot so I took the edge and I kind of lined it up with the edge
of my bookshelf here and as the bookshelf gets closer I just changed the position and the scale
of the text element there are a lot of different ways to do that I just used the vector motion
that's already in place at the top of the clip you can do that down here in the text area you
can change the position in the scale you can also add a transform effect which I'll talk about in a
little bit what really helps sell this is that I took a very clean slow shot and I zoomed in and
that shot already kind of has some depth now I did have to make some adjustments you'll see I
created some keyframes in the position and scale sections and so how you do that is you take your
playhead in the effects area and wherever you need to make an adjustment you can just a keyframe when
you add a keyframe you can change the position and it's automatically going to create a smooth
movement between where it was here and where it will be here but I had to put one right here in
the middle because there was a little bit of an extra camera movement and again this is me being
nitpicky you don't have to be this nitpicky the next thing I want to show you is a really simple
effect but it has a lot of different uses and that's the transform and in this specific case
I want to show you how you can use transform to create motion blur I used to think that you can
only do motion blur in After Effects by you know checking the little motion blur box it didn't have
anything like that in Premiere Pro which is a real bummer found out that if you use the transform
effect which you can find under video effects and distort there it is it gives you a lot of
these different options you can change the anchor point of an object you can change its position you
can change its scale but the thing that adds the motion blur is to come down here and you
can uncheck use composition shutter angle because you might want to apply a different level of blur
to various items but if you do that and then you change the shutter angle to something like 150
that adds a little bit of blur so you can see as this Studio Tour text is coming in from the side
it's a little bit blurry and then as it settles into its spot it gets nice and crisp that's just
a little subtle effect that makes it a little bit more interesting than if you just had text coming
in and it didn't have that blur it just feels a little bit more natural and interesting to the eye
the next thing I want to show you is an opacity mask now the opacity mask is something that you
can use for all kinds of different applications it's really subtle in between these two shots
but you can see as the shot is moving there's kind of the swipe and it changes the perspective what's
really happening there if I take that effect off so what I actually with the camera is I
brought it over and I was just looking at the wall well that's not that interesting so I took
this second shot where I was kind of sweeping past my microphone and revealing my computer and I took
those two shots back-to-back on purpose so that I could create this effect under the opacity you've
got these shapes and this pen tool and you can actually use these to create what's called a mask
when you click on it and I'm gonna show you the mask that I've already created you can see this
big outline this point represents this key frame represents this state for the mask and then as I
move it across I've changed the state here to hide it now I've done some interesting things here that
I'll walk you through because these two different states exist it's automatically gonna create a
transition between the two all you have to do is when you've created a new keyframe you can
move these to wherever you need to to change what that new state will look like what I've also done
is I've taken the mask feather and I brought it up it usually starts at 10 I'm taking it up closer to
50 because I want to as you can see it pass I'm gonna go and click off of that but it kind of
creates this blurry edge that hides the effect a little bit more so you can see it in action
here and that soft edge just kind of hides the effect so that you're not focused on this solid
line that's moving across the screen so to walk you through this effect again you just select the
clip that you want to mask you come down here to opacity and you select your shape and one of the
interesting things about this also is that if you have your mask you can actually come out here and
you can add points and you can manipulate those so that you can get a little bit more creative with
how you reveal or hide an object you just make sure your toggle animation is on and then you
select a start point create a keyframe and then select an end point and create another keyframe
now what's a little bit weird about this effect is when you create a new keyframe it doesn't show
you any of the controls up here so after you've created a new keyframe you just have to come back
over here and select the mask and then you can make adjustments to it and it'll update those
positions for that keyframe the next effect I want to show you is this transition this transition is
one of my favorites and it's something that once you build it you can actually just copy and paste
it or duplicate it and use it in other sections of your video without having to rebuild it every time
you might remember another video I made where I actually showed you this effect now I'm gonna
walk you through how I actually built it you're actually gonna come over here to the project
window and you're gonna click on new item and then select adjustment layer these should match what
you already have set for your sequence so you can press ok and it's just gonna create a new layer
here which you can drag into your timeline now the way the adjustment layer works is any effects
that are applied to it are applied to any clips that are below it so you can change the color
you can add motion blur you can add all kinds of things and that will translate to the footage that
is below that clip so here I have the adjustment layer selected I'm going to go ahead and drag lens
distortion and directional blur to the adjustment layer for this effect we want to make sure that
the directional blur is above the lens distortion for some reason when it's the other way it leaves
this weird kind of border effect around the edge so to avoid that I've changed the order and it
looks right so let's say we want to create this transition between this clip and this clip okay
so I'm actually going to line up my playhead right between the two and then I'm going to
select the adjustment layer again and here I want to create I want to toggle on the animation and
create keyframes for the directional blur and for the curvature and lens Distortion okay so this is
going to be Mike piqué now I'm gonna come out here a few frames before and I'm gonna add new
keyframes and then I'm gonna come out here a few frames after and I'm gonna create new keyframes so
then I'm gonna navigate back here to this Center 1 and I'm gonna go ahead and change the direction
of this to 90 degrees okay because I want it to blur out instead of up and down and then I'm gonna
change the blur length too it's gonna have to be a lot more than that I'm gonna up it to about a
hundred so now just that by itself kind of creates a cool effect but you can see this border weird
border thing that I was talking about so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the lens distortion
effect and I'm gonna change the curvature again we're doing we're doing it right here in this
middle keyframe I'm gonna change it to where it's curving out so if I take you can you can see if I
take the directional blur off you can see it's curving out I'm gonna curb this out about 50
but I could make this even more exaggerated if I wanted to I could come out here and I could change
this to a hundred now again I'm not applying these effects to either one of these clips but because
it's in the adjustment layer it's applying it to the clips below so now I've got this really
big transition now I don't need all of this extra stuff so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
come out here just before the transition begins and I'm gonna cut this clip I'm gonna come out
here just after the transition ends and I'm gonna delete the rest of that so now I've got this nice
little transition and the last thing I'm gonna do to make this easier for me is I'm gonna come
out here to the center and with the adjustment layer selected I'm going to click the M key and
that's gonna create a little marker right here and that marker as long as my magnet is turned on that
marker will automatically align with the edges of other clips so if I take this and I duplicate it
for example that marker already lines up so now I can use that effect in other places all right
and then the fifth effect I'm going to show you is something that I really enjoyed doing with certain
elements instead of fading them in or instead of sliding them in from the side I like to do
this effect where they kind of appear and bounce in After Effects is really great for doing this
because it has a lot of really easy tools that you can use to create that effect but you can also do
that in Premiere Pro and there's a pretty simple way to do that what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
select this text layer and I'm going to scroll down here to where we've got the scale of the text
now you could do this up here under vector motion or you could come down here and you could do it on
the scale of the text itself the technique is pretty straightforward what I do is I come in
here and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna delete all of these so that I can build it from scratch
for you so I've got my first keyframe and that's by default that's gonna be set to a hundred and so
it just appears so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create at least three additional keyframes and
this last keyframe is going to be the ending point and that's 100% see that's where you
want the scale to be 100% in the keyframe before the last one we're going to bring this down by a
few points so we're gonna say 97 and then the one before that we're gonna bring that up to 105 now
the important thing about this is we're actually changing the values of these keyframes based on
the ending position what we want to do is we want to create an effect where when the next comes in
it overshoots 100% and then it under shoots 100% and then it finds its way back up so we want it
to overshoot by more when it when it first comes in we want it to overshoot by more than what it
under shoots and so you've got a curve that I don't know if this is gonna translate well on
camera but it kind of looks like this alright so it bounces comes out wide and comes a little bit
shorter and then boom lands right there now you can actually add additional keyframes to this
so you can make the effect go wider a little bit less a little bit less a little bit less you can
do that for as many keyframes as you want as long as the last keyframe is 100% so in this case I'm
only using three points to create this effect so we're gonna go 105 and then 97 and then 100 this
scale drop down will actually show you the lines and you can see it's really got this kind of boxy
look to it and what that's doing to the effect is it's just kind of making it look a little
bit stagnant so to make that look a little bit more dynamic we're gonna select these last three
we're gonna right click and then we're gonna click on the bezzie a Bezier does I don't know
how to pronounce it but you can see now it makes the lines smoother and now so we watch it it just
looks a little bit smoother just just a tiny bit smoother so that's how you create that effect now
you may have noticed throughout the video I've got these sections where it speeds up a little bit and
slows down and that's called time remapping or speed ramping and that's also something you can
do in Premiere Pro I'm gonna save that for its own tutorial video at some point in the future
let me know in the comments if that's something you'd be interested in learning about as well so
those were my five favorite visual effects to build right in Premiere Pro let me know
in the comments if any of these were new to you or if there are any visual effects that you use
in Premiere Pro that you'd like to share with others if you found this video you full and you
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