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LESSON 9
Adding Video Effects
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Choose Video Effects > Image Control > Black & White, and drag the Black & 
White video effect to the Medieval_villain_01.mpeg clip on the Timeline.
Applying this effect immediately converts your full-color footage to black 
and white—or, more accurately, 
grayscale
. It also puts that effect in the Effect 
Controls panel.
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If necessary, click the Effect Controls tab to open it. Toggle the Black & White 
effect off and on by using the button in the Effect Controls panel. Be sure the 
current-time indicator is on this footage clip to view the effect.
Toggling an effect on and off is a good way to see how an effect works with 
other effects. This toggle switch is the only parameter available with the Black 
& White effect. The effect is either on or off.
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 Note:
The Effect 
Controls panel contains 
three other effects: 
Motion, Opacity, and 
Time Remapping. 
These are fixed effects. 
Adobe Premiere Pro 
automatically makes 
them available for all 
video clips. If the clip 
has audio, you will 
also see the Volume 
fixed effect.

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Resolve jarring shifts to grayscale
Moving between full-color and black-and-white clips can be jarring, so here’s a fix: 
Use a cross-dissolve between clips or within the grayscale clip. To put one within the 
clip in this lesson, select the Razor Edit tool (C), cut the clip in two places, drag the 
Cross Dissolve transition to those edit points, select the first and third clip segments 
in turn, and switch off the Black & White effect on both. Now your sequence shifts 
gradually from color to black and white and then back to color. Undo those edits by 
clicking the History tab and clicking Apply Filter.
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Check that the clip is selected so that its parameters are displayed in the Effect 
Controls panel, click Black & White to select it, and then press the Delete key.
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Choose Video Effects > Blur & Sharpen > Directional Blur, and drag the 
Directional Blur effect to the Effect Controls panel.
Here is the other way to apply a video effect: Select the clip in the Timeline 
to display it in the Effect Controls panel, and drag the effect to the Effect 
Controls panel.
Finding effects
With so many Video Effects subfolders, it’s sometimes tricky to locate the effect you 
want. If you know part or all of an effect’s name, start typing it in the Contains text 
box at the top of the Effects panel. Adobe Premiere Pro immediately displays all 
effects and transitions that contain that letter combination, narrowing the search as 
you type.
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In the Effect Controls panel, expand the Directional Blur effect’s filter, and 
note there are options the Black & White effect did not have: Direction, Blur 
Length, and a stopwatch next to each option (the stopwatch icon is to activate 
keyframing, which we will cover later in this lesson).