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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. You control the intensity of an effect by the values that you set for it. You can also animate the controls for most effects using keyframes in the Effect Controls panel or in a Timeline panel.

Adobe Premiere Pro has Fixed effects and Standard effects. Standard effects generally affect clip image quality and appearance, while Fixed effects adjust clip position, scale, movement, opacity, speed, and audio volume. By default, Fixed effects are automatically applied to every clip in a sequence, but they do not change 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 a Timeline panel.

Note: Adobe Premiere Pro can process all effects at an 8 bits per channel (bpc) color depth in the RGB color space. Some effects can be processed at either 16-bpc or 32-bpc floating-point depth and some in the YUV color space. Choose File > New > Sequence. Select the Video Rendering tab 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.