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What’s with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Adjustment Layers??
I’ve been looking for a few hours and I don’t know why this is so difficult. Does anyone know how to use adjustment layers in PPCS6 the way one would in After Effects (Draw a mask, apply an effect, feather said mask)?
It seems like it should be so simple but when I go to apply any number of Premiere’s wonderful garbage mattes to my adjustment layer, it blacks out the area outside the mask.
Am I doing this right? I’ve found the workaround online (drawing the mask in the titler, duplicating the track and applying all sorts of effects to the tracks). Shouldn’t this be a four step process?
-Add adjustment layer
-Draw Mask
-Apply Effect
-Feather Mask appropriately?Forgive my ranting but this is frustrating. Please help!
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Premiere’s adjustment layer can be thought of an extension of the effects stack for the layer before it. The adjustment layer doesn’t have it’s own alpha so if you add, say, a garbage matte then the alpha layer is applied to the clip under as if you had applied the garbage matte directly.
Soft mattes need to be created with the Titler tool and it sounds like you already know the process.
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Hi Chris,
It sounds like you already have this pretty well figured out but I thought I’d provide this link that defines Adjustment Layers in Premiere and also has some tutorials that may be helpful to you or others searching.
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/help-tutorials-adjustment-layers.html
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
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