From the course: Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors

It's all in the Effect Controls panel - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors

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It's all in the Effect Controls panel

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- [Instructor] All clips in sequences have some intrinsic effects applied automatically. If I select one of these clips, I'm in the Effect Controls panel sequence here and go to the Effect Controls panel, I can see the motion effect automatically apply to all visual clips opacity time remapping. And because this clip has some audio, I also have channel volume, that's individual channel volume controls and panner. No matter how you apply effects in Premiere Pro, all of the Effect Controls are going to appear here. And there is a limitation, you can only see the effect controls for one clip at a time. If I lasso , to select a few clips, I just get a note saying that there are multiple clips selected. However, if I, for example, have multiple clips selected, and go to the audio workspace, which is really I suppose just a shortcut to opening up the essential sound panel. I can use this panel to apply effects to multiple clips. I'll just scroll over a little here so we can see those clips better. And I'll zoom out a little. And we can see that really only one of these has any meaningful audio. Still, I'm going to click to set these as dialogue. And I'm going to use the clip volume control to just make these a little quieter. It's tempting to believe that when you're working on clips in the essential sound panel, that's the end of the story. The essential sound panel has the control and you're modifying an effect on those clips. And that's it. But what's actually happening with the essential sound panel is you're applying and modifying the settings for regular effects. In fact, you can find all of the effects in the effects panel and the settings still exist in the Effect Controls panel. Here in the Effect Controls panel, I still can't access all of those effects settings because I've got three clips selected. So I'll click on the background of the timeline to deselect and click on just one of these clips to select it and scroll down. And here we can see, I've actually applied a hard limiter effect. So in modifying the clip volume in the essential sound panel, I wasn't modifying the rubber band, for example or even the regular volume control. Here, you can see there's no particular change has been made. Instead, some cleverly worked out settings have been applied to the hard limiter effect. And if I click on this edit button to go into the custom setup, we can begin to see those adjustments. Here we go, input boost minus 7.1 db which matches the setting in essential sound panel. You'll notice though there are other options here. So while you can use the essential sound panel to set up effects, there's a lot more detail available if you want it. we'll come on to sound a little bit later in detail. I'll close this panel for now. So this principle of making changes in something like the essential sound panel and seeing the results of that in the Effect Controls panel is consistent throughout Premiere Pro. I'm going to switch to the color workspace. And let me just move my play head over a little. You can see that we've got some adjustments made to this clip. And we know that something's happening because the effects badge is lit up. That tells me that there's an effect, at least some kind of effect applied to the clip. Once again, if I go to the Effect Controls panel, I can scroll down a little and there's the lumetri color effect. In fact, however complex the settings might seem in the lumetri color panel, every one of these options is available right here in the Effect Controls panel. So these panels, the libertary color panel, this central sound panel and even the central graphics panel are all really conduits into the Effect Controls panel. Effects are taken from the effects panel, applied to the clip or multiple clips and the settings are configured in the Effect Controls panel. Here's another example. I have a graphic clip selected now. And over in the Effect Controls panel, you can see we've got our vector motion effect. That's because graphics and titles in Premiere Pro are vector-based. And here's our text layer. Again, all of the controls available in the central graphics panel are available right here. So those three panels are very convenient and very user friendly, but they don't break the traditional way that Premier Pro works with effects.

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