Essential Graphics and Visual Effects

Name: Essential Graphics and Visual Effects
Author: Jeff Shaffer

Learn how to use templates to create motion graphics and visual effects tools to enhance your videos

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Hello, in today's lesson, we'll learn about the many options available to create and edit graphics and titles using the Essential Graphics Panel in Premiere Pro. Graphics such as titles, lower thirds, chapters, and credits can be created entirely within Premiere Pro or you can add templates from Adobe Stock, After Effects, or within Premiere Pro itself. To access this Essential Graphics Panel, I'll enter into the graphics workspace. The panel appears to the right. The Browse tab lets you view the templates that shipped with Premiere Pro, templates from Adobe Stock, or imported templates created in After Effects. Templates exist in a wide variety of styles and types that can be customized with colors and fonts as desired. Here I could scroll through a sampling of what's available and you can also with the Adobe Stock choose whether they're free or premium. You can also create your own graphics using shape tools and the Pen tool in the Tools panel. Underneath the Pen tool, there is the Rectangle tool for example. I could take this tool, click and drag out a rectangle. I could change the fill color to a solid or even a gradient color. Very easily I can add a stroke or a shadow and I could add other elements such as type. I can even change the name of my shape here as you can see there. The position can be pinned to a specific spot in the frame. And in fact other objects can be pinned to the object in already created such as type for example with the Responsive design tool as you can see here. We'll discuss responsive design in greater detail in an upcoming lesson. If I moved down to the Align and Transform options, you can see I could center the object here using those options there and then there are alignment options for multiple objects in a scene as well. Of course I could also manually position with the scrubby tools here x and y-coordinates. I can change the scale of the object by clicking and dragging. I can change aspects like various points on the object here. I can drag that around. We also have an anchor point which can be moved with this tool to a different place. The anchor point is where the, it's the central point about which the object is rotated or scaled, but that can emanate from a corner instead. So if I were gonna do that and rotate that, you can see it hinges on that point versus having it in the center where it'll be like a pin in the middle pinning the object around. You can also take the Selection tool and change the scale and shape of the object manually. Type can be added to your graphic simply by selecting the Type tool. All the same controls plus text and character options will become available. So if I type in lower thirds, for example I can position that to align that as you see there. It has its own anchor point as well. I could change the font any time. Take the Type tool, select Type. Change the font to something else. There we go with the Optima on this. Select that whole thing. There we go, you can also take that object. As you see, this is now a separate layer in the Essential Graphics Panel and the order of those layers can be changed, effecting the result. Stroke, drop shadow, and more can be added to both the shape and type layers. So I could put a drop shadow on the type here, increase the density. Adjust the angle and the distance. Black, make it easier to see. Go, bit of a drop shadow on there. And one can even use the text or the shape as a mask. We have this option down the bottom here. So if I were to go to my rectangle for example and change the fill to a gradient color, this is where you could choose the colors of the gradient. So I'll choose the blue green say, there we go. All right, so now we have a gradient there. I go to my Type tool and I say Mask with Text, and the type itself has a gradient inside of it. So the Mask with Text achieves that result. If I were to invert it, you can see the result there. Basically cuts it out. In this lesson, you've seen some of the many options available in Premiere Pro to create and edit graphics.

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Course Description

In this course, you will examine the essential graphics panel, understand motion graphics templates, as well as how to create a responsive design. You will also learn how to add motion graphics, stabilize shaky video, use motion blur, and how to remove noise and film grain from videos.

What You'll Learn

Navigate and use the Essential Graphics Panel
Use templates to create motion graphics, including motion graphics templates
Create a responsive design
Stabilize shaky video and apply motion blur
Remove noise and film grain from videos
Create closed captions

Key Takeaways

The course covers the Essential Graphics Panel and how motion graphics templates work.
Learners practice adding motion graphics and creating a responsive design.
The course teaches techniques to stabilize shaky video and apply motion blur.
Removing noise and film grain from videos is part of the course content.
Creating closed captions is included among the lessons.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will examine the Essential Graphics Panel, understand motion graphics templates, and learn how to create a responsive design. You will also learn how to add motion graphics, stabilize shaky video, use motion blur, and remove noise and film grain from videos.

What lessons does this course include?

The course includes lessons on the Essential Graphics Panel, Responsive Design, Motion Graphics Templates, Create Closed Captions, and Stabilize Shaky Video.

What skills does this course help me develop?

It helps you build skills in digital video effects, motion graphic design, motion graphics, motion graphics software, video processing, and visual effects.

Does this course cover fixing problems in video footage?

Yes. You will learn how to stabilize shaky video, use motion blur, and remove noise and film grain from videos.