8 Best Effects YouTubers Use in Adobe Premiere Pro (NO PLUGINS)

8 Best Effects YouTubers Use

Here are 8 effects YouTubers use in Premiere Pro for YouTube. These are the best free effects that require no plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro

Ken Burns Effect

In this video, I’m going to share with you eight effects built into Adobe Premiere Pro that you can start using in your videos today. Number 1 is use of Ken Burns. This is really popular when it comes to Youtubers and it’s really simple inside of Adobe Premiere Pro. Let me show you exactly what I’m talking about and then I’ll show you how to do it. Let’s get right into this video.

So this is the Ken Burns effect right here. I’m going to press play and you get this zoom effect. So to do this, you might have a stabilized clip. Maybe you had it on your tripod or probably an image shot and you just want to animate the clip to create the moving sequence.

So created a sequence here. And I’m going to animate this photo and I want to go to my effects control tab. If I hit shift five. There it is up here on the left. I’m going to move the play head all the way to the beginning and then on “Motion” I’m going to click on the stopwatch for Position and Scale. And that’s going to create two keyframes right at the beginning.

So now I’m going to move to play head over to where I think I want the effect to end. And I’m going to adjust the Y value of the position and scale to make my effect how I want it. Now I’ll play this. See how it looks. And I think I want to change my position, bring us over a little bit and play that again.

But you can do to make this look smoother at the end because you can select both of these keyframes, right-click go to temporal interpolation, and go to ease in. So we can adjust these keyframes in and select them both here and bring them in closer and the effect will happen sooner. Hit play. And if I select these again and move the keyframes out. It’s going to take the effect longer. There we go. And that’s the Ken Burns effect.

Swoosh in / out text

Here’s an example of how these swoosh in and out would look. It comes from the left all the way up to the right very quickly. So to make our swoosh in and swoosh out text, I’ve created my sequence and edit this clip to the timeline.

And I’m going to get the text tool, and come over here to the program monitor and just start typing in. Type in the word volcano. And I can use the essential graphics panel to make my text larger, and make sure that it is left aligned over here. And I’m just going to grab it and position it somewhere around here. So like I say, you can use the essential graphics panel to do anything you need to the text, change the font, add a little space between my letters here.

First, I’m going to make this text layer a little bit longer. I’m going to move my my playhead about one second I click on my position stopwatch. There’s my first keyframe. Going to bring my play head up by three seconds and click the diamond right here to add another keyframe. There’s our second keyframe.

And I’m going to take to play it all the way at the beginning and change my value to make the text go off of the screen completely to the left. And to play it out, say four seconds and then with text all the way off the screen to the right. And let’s just play this.

And to make that text go across there a lot smoother, I’m going to select these two key frames in the middle and right click. And go to temporal interpolation and go to continuous bezier. Now, if we come over here to this arrow next to position, you can see we had this graph here. Make this a little bit bigger.

Select our keyframe and grab the first one and drag and hold to the left, bring that down. And select the other keyframe and drag. Bring that down to the right. And let’s run this again. And you can add some sound effects here. But there you have it. Ah, swoosh in and out.

Before and After Reveal Effect

Here’s what our before and after example would look like. With the before and after effect, you’re basically going to be utilizing layers. In this clip is going to be the before clip and we’re going to make a copy of it and put that above it for the after clip. And select this clip hold down ALT or option and drag up. And there is my copy.

So the after clip is going to be different than the original clip. So let’s say I applied some kind of effect in this case. I’ll go to the lumetri color panel and I’m going to make sure I’m on the top layer here because that is my after. I’m going to come up here to creative look, and I’m going to find SL Gold Orange. Apply that to my top layer here and I’m going to adjust my shadows here a little bit and highlights bringing those down a little bit.

So let’s say I wanted to showcase the difference just to make things even more apparent. I’ll go to the original clip and desaturate all the way. So we’re going from a desaturated clip to a color graduated clip in an animated way. So I’m selecting the bottom clip here and I’ll take the saturation all the way down and we turn this off. So saturation is completely off on the lower clip.

And so one really simple way is to go into the effects panel, open up the video transitions and find the WIPE transition. So now I want to come to my effects, and search for WIPE, under video transitions. Here is your WIPE effect. First, I want to crop in my clip to the point where I want to start to see the after-effect. And I just guess anywhere right there. I’m going to drag my WIPE effect onto the front of the clip and you can stretch this out to make the animation go slower. Here’s our before and after effect. And here is the WIPE effect. And there it is.

Text Pop-Ups

So for our Pop-Up Text, we need a clip, that we are going to make the text pop up on it. And so this is kind of the clip I’m going to use. “Something I want to pass on to you, is Keep Playing Guitar”. So I’m going to pop up those words, Keep Playing Guitar.

So the first thing we need to do is get our text tool and type in the words in our program monitor. And so I’ve already created my text. And so you just need to type it in the way you want it to look in the end. You can use the essential graphics panel to make your text bigger, change your font. So this is how I want it to look at the end.

So now I need to work on how I’m going to pop in each of these words and when it’s going to happen. So I’m going to create a mask. for each of those words. First, what I want to do with my text layer selected. I want to make a cut on my timeline here, each place where I want the text to pop in. So on the word Keep. something I want to pass on to you is Keep. So I want a cut there, Playing, cut their Guitars and Guitar. So I will have three small clips here on this text track.

For now I’m going to create a mask around each word. I have three clips here. So on each clip I’m going to make a mask, each clip representing each of the three words. I’m going to delete this part of the timeline right here that I don’t need. This has words that are constantly going on display. I don’t need that.

I’m going to highlight the first clip. I want to bring my play head over onto that clip. I’m going to come here and the effects control panel and right here, which says opacity. I’m going to get my pen tool, click on that. I’m going to actually highlight the mask path right here and I’m going to draw my mask. Could be loose. There’s one I’m going to highlight the next clip to bring over to my pen tool. Highlight mask path.

And I’m going to mask out the word “Playing”. Here we go. And I’m going to highlight my third word or the third clip. We may play head over, select my pen tool, highlight my mask path, and I’m going to draw my pen path around here. So now when I play it back, keep people going to something I want to pass on to you. Just Keep Playing Guitar and there’s our pop-up text.

Censor Effect

Next is the Censor Effect. And you can use this to blur out faces, license plates, brand names on any object . So let’s see how this is going to look. So this man is drinking some beer here. I’m just going to blur out the glass of beer in his hand. So this is how it’s going to look.

OK, so I’m going to start off here with this unaltered clip. Already made my sequence and put this clip on the timeline. I’m going to go over to my effects panel and search for something called Mosaic. And down here and the video effects under Stylize, here is Mosaic, drag that onto my clip.

Now, you can see in the program monitor that the effect has covered my entire clip. And go over here to my effects control tab under Mosaic. You can adjust this block size. The larger the block size, the clearer you can see what’s underneath. I going to choose something like 40 for horizontal and 40 for vertical.

So now I’m going to add a mask under Mosaic. There is the different ways that you can create a mask, you can create an ellipse, polygon, or you can draw your mask with the pen tool. I thing I’ll use the pen tool. I’m just going to get an idea roughly where to draw this.

And I’m just going to drag these points to get it in here a little bit more. So this will be my initial mask here. And now under mask 1 over here in my After Effects control. When you click on Mask Path, click on the stopwatch and there is my first keyframe.

And now I’m moving the play head from the program monitor. And I’m just going to move it up there, then move up my mask little by little. Each time I change my play head, I can move up my mask. It’s creating keyframes and I can move very slightly. He’s drinking now. He’s putting it down. Keep on repositioning it. I didn’t have to make that many small movements, but that’s just to show you how it’s tracking.

And if I want to play it back to see what happens there, it’s tracking the glass of beer as he drinks. And when you’re playing it back that way, sometimes you’ll see an area that maybe you need to adjust. You can just move your play head over and it’s better if you’re in the program monitor and when you do it and just reposition your mask in the area that you want to take care of. So that’s the Censor Effect.

Overlay Effect

Now we’re going to create a video overlay effect, see how that looks. So we’re going to use an adjustment layer so I’m going to turn off the adjustment layer. There’s the clip underneath. And with the adjustment layer, we’re creating our overlay and that’s how it can look.

I’m want to start with this clip on my timeline right now. And I’m going to get a new adjustment layer. And these are the dimensions of my timeline right now. So I’m going to say, OK. And put the adjustment layer over my main clip and make it the same length. I’m going to go to my effects panel and search for something called Ramp. And under video effects, Generate. Here’s Ramp.

I’m going to drag it on to my adjustment layer and it covers my clip and I’m going to come over here to my effects controls. And the ramp effect is right here. Now, here’s something called the start color. Click on that. I’m going to click on the yellow here and get something bright. Say, OK. And the end color, I’ll click on that and maybe I’ll get something like an orange color, click OK.

And so they’re blended together very nicely up here. And when we come down here, in our ramp effect, there’s something called blend with the original. And all the way to 100 percent is the image. And so in between is something how you could decide which you like. You change the ramp shape to radial or linear. And now let me play this back. And there you have it. This is how you create a video overlay in Premiere Pro.

Remove Objects Effect

Here’s something we’ve probably all done when we’re making videos. It’s the mic that we’re using. If it’s an overhead mic like this, a lot of times it’s coming into the shot. I’ve overexaggerated here, a lot of times maybe this far into the shot. But let’s see how we can get this out of here

. So the first thing that we might get is something called a clean plate. So a clean plate is something like a still. But in this case, it was just a short clip that I did. I wasn’t sitting there and the mic wasn’t in the frame at all. And so this is going to be a reference point we’re going to use later. So this technique works best if the camera is not moving.

Now, what we need to do is go to the effects controls in here under opacity. Depending on where your object is coming into the frame, you can choose any of these different tools. I’m going to choose to draw this path myself. So I’m just going to draw something in here. Here’s my path. I’m going to hit feather right here, and pull this a little bit. Its the same as using the mask feather over here in the effects control. And then I’m going to click the inverted checkbox right here.

And now here is where I’m going to use this clean plate clip that I made earlier. I’m going to drag that on top of my main clip. Here’s a portion of the clip where the mic is no longer in the frame. I’m not even sitting there. With that top track selected, if I hit shift + E, this export frame dialog comes up.

Now, I want to make sure that the format is PNG import into project is checked and this is just going to be a still or one frame that I’m going to use as my clean plate. And say, OK.

Now I’m going to remove that clip that was on top. I don’t need that, and I’m going to move my main clip up one track. And I’m going to get the still that I saved, it’s over my project panel. And drag it underneath my main clip and increase the size. And see, I can play this back. And this is where I was looking at the mic coming down in the clip. And so it’s gone. So that’s how you could remove an object.

Face Tracking Effect

So here is face tracking and this is what it looks like as I move my face around the camera tracks with me. So I’ll show you how to do this. So to start off with our face tracking, going to need a reference point to help us track our face movements. So on my timeline here, I have my clip. And to help with that reference point, I’ve created a text layer on top of my clip with an X on it .

And right away what I’m going to do is I’m going to zoom in a little bit on my face here. I’m going to go to my X on my text layer and kind of center that in the middle of my face. And now I’m going to highlight my clip on the track below and come over here to motion in the effects control. Click on my position, click on the stopwatch. And that is my first keyframe.

And now what I’m going to do is I’m going to go through and hit my arrow key moving the play had a couple of frames and see what happens here. Not too much. And I’m going to advance this till I get there. There’s a good movement right there. And so now I use my X and Y coordinates over here to line the X up there and at the top of my nose.

And there’s another key frame. Go up anther couple of frames, make another adjustment, and I’ll keep on doing this. Position either with the X or Y and I get some pretty drastic movements here. So that’ll be kind of interesting. And it could get kind of tedious, I guess.

But put on some headphones and take your time. Yeah, I got some good movements here. Just getting in the middle of that mark. Every couple of keyframes just keep on clicking on the arrow key to advance the frames and recenter your mark. And keep going as long as you would like. And keep that centered. I’m going to speed this up a bit.

There seems to be enough to show you what it’s going to look like now. If I play this back. Here’s the face tracking. And there we go. You see all the keyframes that were created up here in the effects control panel. One way to to your face tracking.

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