Color grading and finishing in Premiere Pro CS5.5

by Jarle Leirpoll | September 19th, 2011 | Color Correction Color grading Customizing Editing Premiere Pro Titles Presets Tutorial Workflow | 38 comments

Speed up your color grading and finishing!

This video tutorial teaches how to do primary, secondary and some pretty advanced color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. You’ll learn how to create masks for color correction inside of Premiere Pro, and to tweak parts of the image without affecting others. You’ll learn how to use Jarle’s Grading Tools (a collection of useful presets) to speed up your own color grading workflow.

Also covered are some common finishing techniques like how to fix moiré, blown-out highlights, blue sky fix, sharpening, letterboxing, noise reduction, stabilizing and scaling/crop.

Spreadsheets to Lower Thirds

by Jarle Leirpoll | July 6th, 2011 | Editing Motion Graphics Premiere Pro Titles Sample chapter Tutorial Workflow | 2 comments

Spreadsheets to Lower Thirds

In this free sample chapter from The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro you’ll learn how to take a list of people’s names, occupation, nationality etc. from a spreadsheet and automatically make Photoshop output one lower third per person – including their name and occupation and even a flag representing their nationality – while you’re drinking coffee, or editing the trailer.

Star Wars Text

by Jarle Leirpoll | June 1st, 2011 | Motion Graphics Premiere Pro Titles Templates | 3 comments

Here’s a fun project template that mimics the iconic Star Wars opening titles. Just edit the text, and you’re good to go! The project is made in 1080p50 format, but can easily be changed to whatever you need. As always: The template and the music are free, and you can use them for whatever you want.

The Galactic Center image is not included in the download. Download the full res JPG (6149 x 2902) of Hubble-Spitzer Color Mosaic of the Galactic Center from the Hubble Site before you import this project into your own project.

TV Scan Lines, Premiere Pro title

by Jarle Leirpoll | May 29th, 2011 | Motion Graphics Premiere Pro Titles | 3 comments

This popular “this-is-shown-on-a-screen” effect can easily be achieved with these Premiere Pro titles. Just import these into your project and throw them on a track above the clips that need this effect. Change blend mode to Multiply, and you’re all set. TV Scan Lines in a few seconds!

Free stuff!

Did I mention that it’s all free? Use these wherever you want for whatever you want, but don’t redistribute or sell it. Giving credit will increase your karma. Scan Lines graphics from PremierePro.net by Jarle Leirpoll.

Video Reflection

by Jarle Leirpoll | May 29th, 2011 | Motion Graphics Templates | 3 comments

With this cool Premiere Pro template project, you can create the popular video reflection look in mere seconds! Literally! You no longer need to build this time consuming effect from scratch. Just import the matching sequence from this template project into your own project, swap the clip in the Source sequence with your own footage, and you’re done. Super easy!

An animated 3D video postcard with reflections with your own footage in a few seconds. All within Premiere Pro. No After Effects needed! And it’s all free!

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Night Vision Binoculars HUD

by Jarle Leirpoll | April 29th, 2011 | Motion Graphics Templates | 1 comment

Here’s a free Premiere Pro project template that mimics Night Vision Binoculars. It doesn’t look much like any existing binoculars, but it looks pretty cool. It’s made entirely in Premiere Pro, and can easily be customized. The project is made in 1080p50, but can easily be adapted to other formats.

Everything is free – even the music, textures and sound FX.

Made by Jarle Leirpoll. Music and Sound FX by Lars Nårstad. This is a sample from the upcoming book “The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro“.

Slide Show Projector template

by Jarle Leirpoll | April 29th, 2011 | Motion Graphics Templates | 12 comments

Free template you can use to make your own Slide Show Projector effect in Premiere Pro. Just throw in your own video or stills, and hit Play! Everything is free – even the music, textures and sound FX.

Made by Jarle Leirpoll with some help (a lot actually – he did the boring parts, like making the hairs) from Johan Tofstuen who was an intern in Jarle’s company for a few weeks. Music and Sound FX by Lars Nårstad. This is a sample from the upcoming book “The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro“.