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Audio effects can be applied to either clips or to tracks. To apply track-based effects, use the Audio Mixer. If you add keyframes to the effect, you
can then adjust the effect either in the Audio Mixer or a Timeline panel.
Effect plug-ins
In addition to the dozens of effects included with Premiere Pro, many effects are available in the form of plug-ins. You can purchase plug-ins from
Adobe or third-party vendors, or acquire from other compatible applications. For example, many Adobe After Effects plug-ins and VST plug-ins can
be used in Premiere Pro. However, Adobe officially supports only plug-ins that are installed with the application.
Any effect is available to Premiere Pro when its plug-in file is present in the common Plug-ins folder:
(Windows) Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\<version>\MediaCore
(Mac OS) /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/<version>/MediaCore
Using the installer for a plug-in is the best way to make sure the plug-in and its related files are installed in the right place.
When you open a project with references to missing effects, Premiere Pro does the following:
tells you which effects are missing
marks the effects as offline
performs any rendering without the effects
For a current list of third-party plug-ins, see the Adobe website.
Toolfarm provides a list of third-party plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro.
For information about the Premiere Pro Developer Center (SDK resources for plug-in development), see the Adobe website.
Clay Asbury presents this video tutorial on using the Pop & HSL Tool in Looks 2 (Magic Bullet Suite 11).
Note: To edit a project containing add-on plug-ins on more than one computer, install the plug-ins on all the computers.
GPU-accelerated effects
Some effects can take advantage of the processing power of a certified graphics card to accelerate rendering. This acceleration of effects using
CUDA technology is a component of the high-performance Mercury playback engine in Premiere Pro.
For Premiere Pro system requirements, including a list of graphics cards that are certified as providing CUDA acceleration of effects in Premiere
Pro, see the Adobe website. For lists of various categories of hardware compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, see the Adobe website.
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GPU-Accerlerated Effects Performance
Enhancements
Jeff Sengstack
Learn how to take advantage of GPU-accelerated
effects. This tutorial shows how to identify
accelerated effects, and to activate GPU support.
It also lists the graphics cards that support GPU
acceleration in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Optimize a Computer for the Mercury
Playback Engine
Jeff Sengstack
Jeff Sengstack provides details tips for optimizing a
computer system and Premiere Pro for best
performance.
For instructions on filtering the effects in the Effects panel so that you can easily find the accelerated effects, see Filter effects by type.
Jeff Sengstack provides detailed tips for optimizing a computer system and Premiere Pro for performance on the Adobe website.
Information about whether a clip can be processed by the CUDA hardware acceleration portion of the Mercury Playback Engine depends on the
dimensions of image and on the available GPU memory. For details, see this page on Todd Kopriva’s Premiere Pro work area blog.
The CUDA processing features of the Mercury Playback Engine also speed up and improve some things other than effects, including scaling. See
this page on Todd Kopriva’s Premiere Pro work area blog for details.
This forum post goes into detail about what the Mercury Playback Engine is and how Premiere Pro CS5 uses CUDA.
For a summary of updates to CUDA acceleration in Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later, see this video by Video2Brain.
This article on the Adobe website provides details about the Mercury Playback Engine and CUDA and answers frequently asked questions.
See this page for more information about CUDA processing in Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and later.
Note: On Mac OS, CUDA acceleration features require Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later.
Disable or enable GPU acceleration of effects
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