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If you want to go to that next level of Premiere Pro experience
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then there are a couple of effects from your Library that you should know about.
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These are popular effects that are used for many applications
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So let's see which one they are and how they work.
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What up, guys! Jordy here for cinecom.net
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and welcome to another exciting Premiere Pro tutorial.
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This time we're going to take a look at five very popular effects from the Library
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that are used very often and they have many applications, so let's get right into it.
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The first one that you should know about is the Transform effect, let me search that from here,
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Transform right here under Distort.
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I'm going to drag that to my first example here,
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it's just a simple text file and the Transform effect actually has
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all the basic properties that you can also find in the Motion here on top.
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and those are the Anchor Point, Position, Scale, etc.
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Now, why should you use this effect over the standard properties?
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Well, here's why, guys.
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I'm going to animate this text, for example, the position,
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I'm going to put this text outside of the canvas,
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create a keyframe for that, go a little bit forward in time,
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and bring that back into the frame, like so.
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And if I'm going to play this we'll just have a standard animation,
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something that we could have also created with the normal properties here on top.
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But, this effect has an extra option.
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Down below here you can uncheck "Use composition's shutter angle"
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and set one of yourself and that way we can also add a little bit of motion blur to this text
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which makes it more natural.
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So I'm going to set the shutter angle here to 180 °
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which is a standard motion blur,
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and right away you can see kind of what it does here to the text,
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If we're going to set this number higher, so for example 250,
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then you will see that there's going to be more motion blur to it
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and now the animation looks a lot more natural because of this motion blur.
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So if you are doing any sort of animations,
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always make sure to use the Transform effect for that.
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Let's have a look at the second example, right here.
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This time I'm going to search for the Track Matte key inside my Effects Library
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and it's right here underneath the Keying.
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What I have here in this example, guys, is on top I've got this graphic here,
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and these are just two rectangles that I put on top of each other,
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nothing more than that, you can actually create any kind of shape that you want,
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you can do that, by the way, from the Pen tool down below here,
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and just draw your own shape or use any of the presets,
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such as the Rectangle tool, or the Ellipse tool.
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And what we can do now is kind of map the clip that we have down below here,
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which is this waiter,
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to that graphic.
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So let's do that, I'm going to drag the Track Matte key to that clip below,
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and from the properties here I'm going to say that the Matte
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is going to be on video channel number 2, which is that graphic that I've created
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and right away you will see that it will use that graphic as the Matte
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and now we have this image and our nice creation here.
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And a great thing is that we can always change the graphics afterwards,
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for example, I can take this shape here and kind of move it elsewhere,
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and you'll see that we can create different shapes from that.
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So this is definitely an effect that it's used very often to create custom transitions
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because we can also animate these graphics here, of course,
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you can let them come in here from the right, for example, and do all sorts of things.
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Alright, so that's it for the second effect that you should always know about.
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Let's head over to the third one, I'm going to go back to my Effects Library
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and just search for the basic 3D.
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Also an effect that -I believe- is overlooked sometimes,
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we can actually create some sort of a 3D effect inside Premiere Pro.
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It's not the same as in After Effects, of course, but it's all about the ending result
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and I do believe that, often for the small things here,
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that this Basic 3D effect has some cool things here.
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We can create nice animations, for example,
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have it kind of turn around a couple of times here, to then reveal a sort of text.
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Or you can also work with like multiple layers in here
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and make some sort of a cover flow effect,
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where you have like different objects coming in and out,
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but kind of have that 3D effect to it, so for example,
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this text here starts first here on the left side
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you know, and as it kind of comes in here from the right
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we then also kind of swivel that, so that it sits straight.
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And that way we kinda have this more 3D effect to it.
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I'm actually using this a lot. Also,
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another great application is to use this inside lower thirds animations,
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where you have kind of the text coming in here on the bottom
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and you want to create this nice animation over it.
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We'll just kind of use the basic 3D here to have it do something.
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For example, we can let it come in from the right side here, let's just do that quickly.
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You want to create a keyframe for the position,
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and actually I should be using the Transform effect right now, so I'm sorry for that,
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don't pay too much attention to it.
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All right, so the swivel effect, also I'm going to create a keyframe for that
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and just let that go to the zero.
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And now we kind of have something going on like this.
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There we go, a nice additional movement to the text that is coming in.
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Also tons of possibilities.
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But we have two more awesome effects, so let's check them out.
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In the next one we've got this pretty girl walking, looking into the lens,
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but something went wrong here, guys, actually we weren't allowed to film her.
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So what I've done here is duplicated that layer and actually created a mask around her face
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and tracked that mask together with her.
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And this is actually being used very often, you can also do this on license plates, etc.
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and in the Effects Library what I'm going to do now is search for Mosaic,
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there we go,
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and just drag that to that second layer, like so.
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And because I've masked her face out from the Opacity here,
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let me just disable that first layer just for a moment,
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so that you can see what we're actually working with here,
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just her face that has been masked, like so.
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So, right here we've got that Mosaic effect onto it
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and we can actually change how many blocks that you want in here.
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For example let's put this on 50 to 50 ratio
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and now we have got this very natural blurred out face, like so.
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Something that is also used very often is just the normal Gaussian blur
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and here we also have a nice tip for you guys,
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I'm going to search for Blur in the Effects Library right here, the Gaussian blur.
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You've probably heard about this before
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but what I do want to show you guys are these kind of, these icons here on the right side.
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You've probably notice them before but might never asked yourself what are these icons.
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Well, the first one here is pretty important actually,
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it stands for that it is an accelerated effect
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and this means that it goes together with your graphical cards,
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meaning that it will render a lot faster.
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Even dragging this Gaussian blur on top of the first layer here
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and then we just set that Blur for example to 20,
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or even more, let's set that to 50, because she cannot be recognizable
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and I can just play this back in real time very fast.
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But, if I'm going to take something else like the Camera Blur here
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which doesn't have that icon of the accelerated effect here in this first column,
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then you will see that I have some more trouble to render this.
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So I'm going to stand in the beginning of this clip, play this back
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and you'll see that it just takes a while before it starts
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and it definitely not plays back smoothly.
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So if you want to save time then always go for that Gaussian blur,
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or just look for other effects that have that same icon here, next to it,
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which will render a lot faster.
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Alright, and then there's one last effect that I believe
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any advanced Premiere Pro user should know about.
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I'm going to go to my Clips folder right here,
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I don't have it in my timeline yet because it actually works before...
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...we are going to drag this into the timeline.
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Right here, guys, I've got a shot of a girl that I was following with this bouquet
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and I actually have my camera upside down on the Ronin gimbal.
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So we're gonna need to flip this image and there are two ways to do that,
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we can drag this clip into the timeline and then kind of do it,
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but I always like to look for the correct shot here in this long clip.
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for example, right here, set my In point and my Out point
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and then drag that into the timeline.
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But it's very hard to focus on what's actually happening here because it's upside down.
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So I'm just going to go to my Effects and look for the Flip.
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And we actually have two Flips here the Horizontal flip and the Vertical flip.
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This is something that all users forget,
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but if you are filming upside down you actually have to flip it both horizontally and vertically.
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And by holding down the Ctrl key you can actually select both of these effects
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and drag that into the Source monitor on your clip
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and this way you can now kind of view this clip in your Source monitor while it's flipped.
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And, for example, I'm going to pick out some nice shots here,
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right here where she's kind of picking up one of those marshmallows or whatever that is,
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and then eats that up.
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So I wanna take this shot right here and drag that into the timeline, like so
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and we'll kind of remember that so I don't have to add those effects back into it.
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So it's definitely something that is used a lot
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and I believe not really an effect that you're going to do much with in your edits,
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so that's why you can already put this effect on your clip
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before you're actually going to bring this to the timeline.
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Alright guys, that was it again for this awesome tutorial,
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or more of an information video.
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If you have any other effects that any advanced Premiere Pro user should know about,
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let me know in the comments below, it's very nice to share that with the Community.
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Thank you guys so much for watching,
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make sure to subscribe to our channel, and as always...
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...stay creative!