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A Digital Video Primer
Visual excitement: For each eect that comes with Aer Eects or that you add to your toolkit,
there are an unlimited number of ways to apply that eect. e eects functionality in Adobe
Premiere Pro is based on the toolset in Aer Eects and they work quite similarly. You organize
your eects in the Eects & Presets panel, and manipulate the properties of eects in the Eect
Controls panel.
• Liquify: When you apply Liquify, you can distort footage using brush-based Liquify tools
similar to those in Photoshop. For example, the Turbulence tool smoothly scrambles pixels
and is great for creating clouds, smoke, and other similar eects. e Clone Stamp tool makes
it easy to clone the distortion from one part of an image to another, and the Twirl tools rotate
pixels clockwise or counter-clockwise. You can use the Shi Pixels and Reection tools to
move pixels perpendicular to the brush stroke to create the eect of reections in water. Work
with the Reconstruction tool to make dramatic distortions more subtle or return the footage to
its original state. You can customize settings for each tool, and use masks to protect, or freeze
areas of the footage so that the Liquify tools don’t modify them. You can control how quickly
a distortion animates by setting keyframes for Distortion Percentage; if you want to apply a
distortion to tracked footage, you can oset the distortion mesh by applying tracking data to
the Distortion Mesh Oset property.
• Warp: Transform layers with a Warp eect. Fieen preset warp styles give you options that
range from transforming layers into regular geometric shapes, such as Arcs, Wave, and Flag,
to simulating the look of objects viewed through a sheye lens or inated like a balloon. You
can animate the eect easily by setting keyframes for the Bend and Distortion properties, and
you can customize each Warp Style by changing its axis and specifying a more or less extreme
Bend value.
The Liquify tool was used to make the
cat’s eyes bulge and to add a small smile.
The Eect Controls panel in After Eects
Using the Scribble eect, you can vary the look of
animated scribbles by adjusting how much the ll
wiggles, where the ll starts and ends, where it is
applied to a mask, how it is composited with the layer,
and how random the variations in the ll appear.