How to add gradients in Premiere Pro

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146 lessons / 17 hours 49 quiz questions 14 projects Certificate of achievement

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Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
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• We will get your computer running at warp speed using Proxies, Scratch Disk & Cache management. 
• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi there, in this video we are going to make Background Gradients, this shocking looking color here, for a Color Matte, and I'll show you how to make a different gradient, like this one here, for the Essential Graphics rectangle. Two ways, both gradients, let me show you how. 

All right, adding gradients, easy, easiest is the Essential Graphics version. With it selected, you've got to click on the shape in here, so you're under 'Edit', click on the 'shape', and down here you can click on this and say, instead of Solid you are a Linear or a Radial Gradient, depends, if you want a round one or a straight line one. 

So down the bottom here are your two colors, so click on this color, stop, and then you can pick a color. I'm going to go for that same kind of light green on one side, and on the other side I'm going for a darker version of that, that's what I want, I want something simple. This middle part here is, like, if it's lumped to one side or the other, 50% is in the middle, and this is, here is how see-through it is. So you can click on this and say, the opacity is see-through.

So I'm looking through to the background, which in my case is black, can you see it here, it starts off a full color and then fades through this, is if you want, like maybe another layer underneath, and you'd see that at the moment there's nothing, so it's black, you get the idea? So back up to 100. 

In terms of the direction you can kind of see it here, you can drag it around, once you've clicked 'OK', I can drag this point and that point, there you go. I want mine kind of like starting at the top, and kind of, that's what I want, you want that kind of like drop shadowy kind of effect, that's what I'm going for. If you do a gradient another way, using the Color Matte, it's not a big problem. 

So remember, your Color Matte's in here, I'm going to bring it in, and with it selected, you apply an effect to it. This one is called Ramp, weirdly, so Generate Ramp, you'll never remember that, I never do, Video Effects, Generate Ramp, you add a ramp to it, and there it is. It's a bit strange to work with. Start Color is easy. I'm going to start with something, whoa, let's make it bad. So there's my terrible gradient. 

Now in terms of the direction, there might be a better way of doing this, I can't figure it out, but, even if you just want that really subtle change, have something really high contrast, because it allows you to drag these, click, hold, drag left and right, and get an idea of what's happening here. So you can start messing around with this, there's no hidden, but it works, you can get there eventually, start playing around with it, and even then, if you don't like the red, because nobody should, you can go back to something a little bit more subtle, but at least it's clearer when you're dragging it, when it's something high contrast. This one can be Linear or Radial as well, up to you. That is Gradients in Premiere Pro.

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