Chapter 11: applying effects, Working with effects – Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 User Manual
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Chapter 11: Applying Effects
Using the Effects panel and Effect Controls panel, you can exercise great control over video and audio effects.
Working with effects
Working with effects
Adobe Premiere Pro includes a variety of audio and video effects that you can apply to clips in your video program.
An effect can add a special visual or audio characteristic or provide an unusual feature attribute. For example, an
effect can alter the exposure or color of footage, manipulate sound, distort images, or add artistic effects. You can
also use effects to rotate and animate a clip or adjust its size and position within the frame. The intensity of an effect
is determined by values that you control. The controls for all effects can also be animated using keyframes in the
Effect Controls panel or Timeline panel.
Adobe Premiere Pro has Fixed effects and Standard effects. Standard effects generally affect a clip’s image quality
and appearance, while Fixed effects adjust the clip’s position, scale, movement, opacity, speed, and audio volume.
By default, Fixed effects are automatically applied to every clip in a sequence, but they make no changes to the clip
until they are manipulated.
You can create and apply presets for all effects. You can animate effects using keyframes and view information about
individual keyframes directly in the Timeline panel.
Note: Adobe Premiere Pro can process all effects at an 8 bits per channel (bpc) color depth in the RGB colorspace. Some
effects can be processed at either 16
bpc
or 32 bpc floating point depth and some in the YUV colorspace. Choose
Project > Project Settings > Video Rendering and then select the Maximum Bit Depth option to have Adobe Premiere
Pro process an effect at the highest possible quality. Keep in mind that this option uses lots of processing power.
See also
Applying audio effects to clips
Applying audio effects in the Audio Mixer
April 1, 2008