It is our job to deliver as much of the final image (within reason) so that the director/client/agency has an accurate assessment of what it will look like. The task of VFX has steadily fallen more and more onto the lap of editors. Plugins help us accomplish effects that are often too time consuming or expensive to create from scratch.įree plugins make it possible for everyone to harness their power and apply them creatively. Ideally, you are not adding visual effects to hide mistakes or to cover up deficiencies in the story…but this has been know to happen. Sometimes these effects are added only as eye candy to add production value to a project. These effects can emphasize something to make it more evident, subtly isolate a certain element or blend several assets into one shot. When editing any project, there are moments when a visual effect can be applied to help the story be told. Below you will find some of my favorite free plugins and effects that I use when editing feature films. Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on Favorite Free Premiere Pro Plugins & Presets – Version 2.0Īfter working on VFX intensive feature films like: Deadpool, Gone Girl and Sharknado 2, I’ve learned the power of both subtle and overt visual effects. All the parameters are ready to go with just a few clicks inside Adobe Premiere Pro. There is no need to research or experiment with output settings. These stock specific presets provide the ideal file settings for uploading videos to Adobe Stock. Presets are a great way to streamline your outputs for all sorts of deliverables. ![]() Even if you use your own custom settings, please remember to uncheck the audio box ![]() While this is only a small inconvenience for them, it is a nice gesture to make the content they just licensed as easy to use as possible. That means the editor who ends up using it, has to unlink and delete a useless audio track from their timeline. You may be wondering “Can’t I just erase the audio in the timeline and export the clip? What difference does it make?” The answer is yes, you can do that, but the resulting stock asset will still have a silent audio track attached when someone downloads it. For example, a shot of a roaring lion, isn’t much different than a shot of a yawning lion without the audio. There are some instances when audio will enhance the clip. In most cases stock clips are better without audio. We recommend not taking up extra space with your files.įor each of the three resolution settings, there are two presets with different audio settings. There are just two empty seats taking up space. If you put eight people in a ten-passenger van, it’s still a ten-passenger van, but it didn’t magically make two extra people. This color information is not added or interpolated into the resulting file somehow. Putting 8-bit files in 10-bit containers does not give them 10-bits of color. The bit depth determines the number of colors the file can reproduce accurately, and you simply cannot create color where it doesn’t exist. Even 8-bit 4:2:2 source footage won’t gain anything from using the larger 10-bit ProRes preset. You might be tempted to output a lower spec source file with the QuickTime preset in order to increase its quality. For this reason, we recommend using H.264 presets when you capture your source footage at 8-bit or 4:2:0. They contain setting that deliver a high-quality image in a small file – but not so small that quality becomes suspect. The Adobe Stock presets that use H.264 fall on the lower side of robustness. Regardless of the delivery or file integrity, H.264 is a highly efficient codec that delivers excellent image quality in a relatively small package. In other cases, it can deliver files with limited technical properties for ease of delivery over the web and streaming platforms. ![]() Sometimes the H.264 compression scheme is used to create very robust file formats that support high-end needs similar to ProRes. ![]() H.264 covers a broad range of applications and codecs.
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