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Using effects in Premiere Pro

In this section we’ll learn about some of the basic effects you can run in your editing program. These include reducing shake, color correction and animating a fake zoom. Hopefully, this will give you the foundation to do other effects if needed.

Reducing camera shake

In this section you’ll learn how to reduce minor camera shake. This isn’t a miracle worker so please don’t expect it to be, there is also the trade off of your image being cropped to make up for the adjustments necessary.

Creating a fake zoom

In this section you’ll learn how to animate a fake camera zoom. This introduces the idea of keyframes a technique which will allow you to animate other effects in Premiere Pro and other editing and effects applications

Color correcting your footage

Color correction and grading (applying a look to your footage) is one of the last steps you want to do before you export your movie. Just like position and scale above any of these effects can be animated over time.