Envato Tuts+: 100 Free Adobe Premiere Pro Add-Ons: Presets, Templates and Plugins

You might know Adobe Premiere Pro as an powerful non-linear video editing program, but did you know that your NLE can do all sorts of things besides editing? In this article, we've compiled over a hundred freebies to help you supercharge Premiere—presets, templates, plug-ins—plus a few of our favourite items from VideoHive. With these add-ons you might not need to leave Premiere ever again! —Envato Tuts+

McDonald's Chicken Big Mac

Edited by Jimmy Falinski

Footage was a mix of Arri Amira and the Phantom high-speed camera. All slow motion was done in-camera. Footage was cut on-set and back at the production company.

The speed ramp technique I used for this commercial was done the old school way: chopping up the clip with the razor tool, and then retiming those individual clips. It doesn't have the smoothness of speed ramping with keyframes.

—Jimmy Falinski

Credits

  • Agency: DDB Copenhagen
  • Company: Spoiled
  • Director: Mike Nybroe
  • Dop: Claus Rosenløv
  • Producer: Amalie Herskind
  • Foodstylist: Christopher Bomann

Justin Odisho: How to Create a Handwritten Title Text Effect in Adobe Premiere Pro

Learn how to create a unique handwritten text title in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 with this tutorial. —Justin Odisho

 

Learn how to create handwritten text on your video in Premiere Pro. This is not a font—it's your actual handwriting! In this tutorial, Justin Odisho teaches how to capture your handwriting and composite it on your footage in Premiere Pro.

First, write your text with a black marker on a white piece of paper, as Justin demonstrates at 0:08. Then, take a picture of your text and import the photo into Premiere Pro. At 1:04 Justin cleans up with photo by drawing a mask around the text, eliminating all unwanted areas of the paper. 

The next step is critical. At 1:29, Justin says to apply specific blend modes depending on what you want the final text to look like. Choose Multiply if want the text to remain black; choose Screen if you want to change the text to white. In either case, the blend mode is used to make the paper transparent and only the text visible.

In this example, Justin wants white text. So at 1:53 he shows how to invert the RGB curve (or luma curve) in the Lumetri Color panel; he sets the black point to white and the white point to black. This changes the black text to white, but still leaves some of the paper behind. Justin finesses the RGB curve into an S-shape which increases the contrast and eliminates the remaining paper.

Going further, Justin shows how to add a custom color to the handwritten text at 3:10. To do this, add a color matte under the text and apply the Track Matte Key effect to the text clip. Select the appropriate Matte track in the Effect Controls so the text reveals the color underneath it. From here you can nest the text and the color matte and apply transitions to your handwritten text.

Christian Maté Grab: How to Create an Instagram Story in Premiere Pro

Here's a quick tutorial on how to create Instagram Stories in Adobe Premiere Pro! As you may have seen it on my Instagram channel I often use videos I recorded with the Sony or the Mavic in my story so I put together how I create them in Premiere Pro, how to render the video and also how I send it to my phone in best quality. —Christian Maté Grab

Make your Instagram Stories more cinematic by sharing video edited and color graded in Premiere Pro. In this tutorial, Christian Maté Grab shares his method for creating Instagram Stories in Premiere Pro. He opens up his Sequence Settings at 0:33 to show you his vertical video dimensions for his stories. (Yes, vertical. It's a legit format now. Get over it.) He edits his Instagram stories in a 9:16 sequence that's 900x1600 pixels. As a bonus, Christian does some quick color grading in the Lumetri Color panel at 1:20

At 1:58 Christian reveals his settings for exporting video to Instagram. Pause the video to read his settings as he scrolls through them. One key thing to point out is Christian uses a 15 Mbps bitrate and encodes his videos at Maximum Depth and Maximum Render quality.

Lastly, at 2:35 Christian shows how he uses Apple's Air Drop to transfer the video from his Mac to his iPhone to post to Instagram Stories.

Imagineer Systems: Tutorial Color Correction Masking with Mocha VR in Premiere Pro

In this tutorial mocha Product Manager Martin Brennand takes you through using mocha VR for tracking and masking to isolate specific areas for shadows and highlight correction in VR footage with Lumetri color grading tools. Mocha VR is a new plug-in that runs inside of both Adobe Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC for 360 video tracking, masking, rig removal and stabilization. —Imagineer Systems