From the course: Premiere Pro: Mastering Effects and Transitions

Using generative effects - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro: Mastering Effects and Transitions

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Using generative effects

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take a look at generative effects inside of Adobe Premier Pro. I'm here at my Chapter2_7 sequence, and I'm in my effects workspace, so I can see my effects tab here on the right-hand side. In the video effects section, let's go to the generate category. Some of these, when you apply it to the video source, will automatically take over that video clip until we make some changes, like the four color gradients. Let's take that and apply it to the clip in the Chapter2_7 sequence. Press shift five to bring up your effect controls, and just make sure your video clip is selected. And if we take a look at the four color gradient and select it by its name, it has on-screen controls where we can adjust the four points of the gradient. So you can drag these to various areas of the screen. One thing we could do is, of course, get a better color pattern going here. So if you click on each of these, let's add a bit of a red-orange overlay overall. So I'll just change up that first color, head to orange for the second, and continue to an orange. An orange-red for the third. And follow up with a reddish purplish color for the last. And this completely changes the gradient. Now, you have complete control over moving each of these items, so we can line up the two orange controls and also the pink ones. And to really add this to the video clip involves a blending mode. So we're essentially adding a grad filter on top of our video clip. I'll change the blending mode from none to overlay, and you can try a few other ones until you find a look that you like. On top of using the blend mode, you can play with the overall opacity of this effect to dial it back, so it's not as strong, and even play around with the blend of the overall gradient pattern into the other colors that were defined. Let's remove the four color gradient from the clip. And in this instance, we'll apply a ramp, which is just a simple black and white gradient to begin with. Just like before, there is a blend control, which will allow us to blend this into a clip. However, there are no blended modes. So this could be served better to place onto an adjustment layer to affect the clip underneath. Let's select a radial ramp in this instance, and select the ramp by its name to make some adjustments to this generative effect. Adding a black center. I'll change that end color to be a darker orange, in this case. Let me take that wrap effect and delete it from the clip. In many cases, the generative effect that you'll add will take over your entire video clip, but there are a few exceptions, such as the lens flare effect, which will be applied on top of your video clip, and that you can, of course, blend with the original layer that's underneath it as well. And there you have it, adding generative effects inside of Adobe Premier Pro.

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