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Using adjustment layers in Adobe Premiere Pro

Using adjustment layers in Adobe Premiere Pro

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Using adjustment layers in Adobe Premiere Pro

If you want to work faster, one useful way to do this is with adjustment layers. Adjustment layers make it easy to apply an effect to multiple clips at once. To add an adjustment layer, just click on the New icon and you can choose New Adjustment Layer. You will need one adjustment layer per project typically, unless you have different sequence sizes. In this case, it'll set the settings to automatically match the current sequence. Now, this sequence already has one in it. Let's make this a little bit bigger. And you'll see here on layer two, we have an adjustment layer. This adjustment layer has a few things applied. Let's take a look at it. And I'll make it visible. First up, there was a black and white effect, but more importantly, let's change the blending mode for a moment and put this back to normal. Now you really understand what's happening. In this case, multiple effects are being combined. A Gaussian blur to soften the clip. Make sure you take advantage of Repeat Edge Pixels…

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