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2 Questions that I think are easy!
Hi I’m an upgrader to Premiere Pro 1 from Canopus and Premiere 6.5.
Can someone help me on how to do these two things please.
1.) I simply want to make footage monochrome and set it to a certain colour.eg. Make all the footage like a blue duotone etc. I used to do this with Canopus quite easily but can’t seem to find where the effect for this is hiding.
2.) Getting Multiply or Screen effects to work. ie.
I’ve used Photoshop to place text over photos and then the screen and multiply effects to make interesting blends of the text into the picture below…how do I do this in Premiere Pro?
I’ve tried creating footage on a track…then placing a white text title above it. I’ve then tried choosing the Screen or Multiply Keying effects..however the text doesnt seem to do anything at all like it would in Photoshop…just stays white. How do I get these effects to do the blending into the track below?
Thanks for any help.
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2 Replies
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1) Apply the Black and White effect, then apply Tint. Instead of B/W, I usually use Color Balance (HLS) and drop the Saturation to -100. It looks a little better to my eye.
2) The Screen Key won’t affect white text, as the end result (with the default values) uses the brightest (whitest) value. Multiply should cause the white text to darken, but it depends on the pixels in the video track below it (it is the opposite of Screen; it keeps the darkest/blackest value).
Premiere Pro is not necessarily the best application for compositing like this. It doesn’t have nearly the range and capability of blending modes like Photoshop does. After Effects, however, does. If you need to do motion graphics or more complex compositing work than Premiere allows, use AE.
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Thanks for these tips..
re: Black and White..or saturation drop and then tint…that works well…just an extra step compared to the ‘old’ Canopus Raptor! I miss a few of the quick Canopus effect features..eg. Old Movie etc.
Also thanks for the tips re: Screen and Multiply…I thought that would have worked quite easily in Premiere too…I’ll have to sink my teeth into After Effects..I’ve just got quite used to Premiere now…and can do things quickly with that…
..it’s amazing the power of Premiere these days in itself..with the keyframes etc.Thanks again!
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