About standard effects, About clip-based and track-based effects – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Effects and transitions
Last updated 11/6/2011
Time Remapping
Lets you slow down, speed up, or reverse playback, or freeze a frame, for any part of a clip. Provides
fine control for the acceleration or deceleration of these changes.
Volume
Controls the volume for any clip that contains audio. (For information about adjusting the Volume effect, see
Adjust track volume with keyframes
Adjust volume in Effect Controls
Because Fixed effects are already built in to each clip, you need only adjust their properties to activate them.
Premiere Pro renders Fixed effects after any Standard effects that are applied to the clip. Standard effects are rendered
in the order in which they appear, from the top down. You can change the order of Standard effects by dragging them
to a new position in the Effect Controls panel, but you can’t reorder Fixed effects.
If you want to change the render order of Fixed effects, use Standard effects instead. Use the Transform effect in place
of the Motion effect. Use the Alpha Adjust effect in place of the Opacity effect, and the Volume effect in place of the
fixed Volume effect. While these effects are not identical to the Fixed effects, their properties are equivalent.
About Standard effects
Standard effects are additional effects that you must first apply to a clip to create a desired result. You can apply any
number or combination of Standard effects to any clip in a sequence. Use Standard effects to add special characteristics
or to edit your video, such as adjusting tone or trimming pixels. Premiere Pro includes many video and audio effects,
which are located in the Effects panel. Standard effects must be applied to a clip and then adjusted in the Effect
Controls panel. Certain video effects allow direct manipulation using handles in the Program Monitor. All Standard
effect properties can be animated over time using keyframing and changing the shape of the graphs in the Effect
Controls panel. The smoothness or speed of the effect animation can be fine-tuned by adjusting the shape of Bezier
curves in the Effect Controls panel.
Note: The effects listed in the Effects panel depend on the actual effect files in the language subfolder of the Premiere Pro
Plug-ins folder. You can expand the repertoire of effects by adding compatible Adobe plug-in files or plug-in packages
available through other third-party developers.
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About clip-based and track-based effects
All video effects—both Fixed and Standard effects—are clip-based. They alter individual clips. You can apply a clip-
based effect to more than one clip at a time by creating a nested sequence.
Audio effects can be applied to either clips or to tracks. To apply track-based effects, use the Audio Mixer. If you add
keyframes to the effect, you can then adjust the effect either in the Audio Mixer or a Timeline panel.
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