Find and group effects
Standard effects are listed in the Effects panel and are organized into two main bins, Video Effects and Audio Effects. Within each bin, Premiere Pro lists effects by type in nested bins. For example, the Blur and Sharpen bin contains effects that defocus an image, such as Gaussian Blur and Directional Blur.
Find audio effects in bins named for the type of audio clips they support: mono, stereo, or 5.1.
You can also locate an effect by typing the effect name in the Contains box.
To open the Effects panel, choose Window > Effects, or click the Effects tab.
Karl Soule explains the meanings of the icons for 32-bit (32-bpc) and YUV effects in a pair of articles on the Adobe website:
Filter effects by type
Three buttons appear under the search field toward the upper left of the Effects panel. These buttons act as filters for three types of effects:
accelerated
effects (See GPU-accelerated effects.)
32-bit
Color effects (See High-bit-depth effects.)
YUV
effects
Create bins of favorite effects
- In the Effects panel, click the New
Custom Bin button
, or
choose New Custom Bin from the Effects panel menu. A new Custom
bin appears in the Effects panel. You can rename it. - Drag effects to the Custom bin. A copy of the effect is listed in the Custom bin. You can create additional Custom bins, which are numbered.
- To rename the custom bin, click the existing name to select the folder, click it again to select the name field, and type the new name.
.Apply effects to clips
You can apply one or more Standard effects to a clip by dragging effect icons from the Effects panel to a clip in a Timeline panel. Alternatively, select the clip and drag the effect icon to the Effect Controls panel. In Premiere Pro CS6, select the clip and double click an effect in the Effects panel to apply it. You can apply the same effect multiple times, using different settings each time.
You can apply Standard effects to more than one clip at a time by first selecting all the clips you want to affect.
You can also temporarily disable any effect, which suppresses the effect without removing it, or you can remove the effect completely.
To view and adjust effects for a selected clip, use the Effect Controls panel. Alternatively, you can view and adjust effects for a clip in a Timeline panel by expanding its track and selecting the proper viewing options.
By default, when you apply an effect to a clip, the effect is active for the duration of the clip. However, you can make an effect start and stop at specific times or make the effect more or less intense by using keyframes.
- Do one of the following:
To apply one or more effects to a single clip, select and drag the effects to the clip in the Timeline.
To apply one or more effects to more than one clip, first select the clips. Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) each of the desired clips in the Timeline. Then, drag one effect or a selected group of effects to any of the selected clips.
Select a clip, and then double click the effect (Premiere Pro CS6.)
To apply an audio effect, drag the effect to an audio clip or the audio portion of a video clip. You cannot apply audio effects to a clip when Show Track Volume or Show Track Keyframes is enabled for the Audio track.
If the clip is selected
in a Timeline panel, you can drag the effect directly to the Effect
Controls panel.
Copy and paste clip effects
You can easily copy and paste effects from one clip to one or more other clips. For example, you can apply identical color correction to a series of clips shot in similar lighting conditions. You can copy effects from a clip in one track of a sequence and paste them onto clips in another track. You do not have to target the destination track.
You can copy and paste individual effects in the Effect Controls panel. You can also copy all effect values (including keyframes for Fixed and Standard effects) from a clip in any sequence. You can paste these values to another clip in any sequence using the Paste Attributes command. With Paste Attributes, effects intrinsic to the source clip—Motion, Opacity, Time Remapping, and Volume—replace those effects in the destination clips. All other effects (including keyframes) are added to the list of effects already applied to the destination clips.
If the effect includes keyframes, these keyframes appear at comparable positions in the target clip, starting at the beginning of the clip. If the target clip is shorter than the source clip, keyframes are pasted beyond the target clip Out point. To view these keyframes, move the clip Out point to a time later than the location of the keyframe, or deselect the Pin To Clip option.
- In a Timeline panel, select the clip that contains the effect or effects you want to copy.
- (Optional) To select one or more effects to copy, in the Effect Controls panel, select the effect you want to copy. Shift-click to select multiple effects. To select all effects, skip this step.
- Choose Edit > Copy.
- In a Timeline panel, select the clip to which you want
to paste the effect and choose one of the following:
To paste one or more effects, choose Edit > Paste.
To paste all effects, choose Edit > Paste Attributes.
Remove all effects from a clip
- Select the clip in a Timeline panel. To make sure that only one clip is selected, click an empty space in the Timeline, then click the clip. Click a spot in the time ruler above the selected clip to move the current-time indicator to that location.
- Do one of the following:
From the Effect Controls panel menu, choose Remove Effects
Select Clip > Remove Effects
Right-click a clip in a Timeline panel, and select Remove Effects.
- in the Remove Effects dialog box, select the types of effects you want to remove, and click OK.
All selected applied effect types are removed from the clip and all selected intrinsic effects are returned to their default settings.
Disable or enable effects in a clip
Select one or more effects in the Effect
Controls panel, and do one of the following:Click the Effect button
to
disable effects.Click an empty Effect button box to enable effects.
Deselect or select the Effect Enabled command in the Effect Controls panel menu.
You can create a custom keyboard shortcut
for the Effect Enabled command. This will toggle an effect on and
off. See Customize or load keyboard shortcuts