Work with a custom bins and preset bins

Use custom bins to store your favorite effects, transitions, and presets in one place. You can create any number of custom and preset bins. As a result, you can also use the bins to reorganize the effects, transitions, and presets into categories that are intuitive to you or more appropriate for your project workflow.

You create and store custom and preset bins in the Effects panel. New preset bins reside inside the root Presets bin. Though you cannot drag them from the Presets bin, you can create and arrange them within that bin in any hierarchy you like. You can place custom bins at the top of the Effects panel hierarchy, or you can nest them within other custom bins.

Note: If you have placed the same item in several different custom bins, and you delete that item from one bin, Premiere Pro deletes each occurrence of the item from the custom and preset bins, and deletes each item from all clips that it affects.

1 In the Effects panel, do one of the following:

•To create a custom bin, click the New Custom Bin button , or choose New Custom Bin from the Effects panel menu.

•To create a presets bin, choose New Presets Bin from the Effects panel menu. Premiere Pro nests each new presets bin in the root Presets bin.

•To nest a new custom or presets bin, select the bin into which you want to place the new bin, and then create a custom or presets bin.

•To rename a bin, select the bin, then click the bin name, and then type a new name and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS). Skip steps 2 and 3.

•To delete a bin or an item in a bin, select the bin or bin item, and then click the Delete Custom Items button at the bottom of the Effects panel. Skip steps 2 and 3.

2Locate the effect, transition, or preset that you want to store in the bin. You may need to resize the panel so that you can see both the item and the bin.

3Drag the item to the bin. Premiere Pro creates a shortcut to the item.

Creating common results

This section contains procedures for achieving of some of the most popular results with Premiere Pro. You can find procedures for achieving many other results with Premiere Pro Community Help search.

Last updated 1/16/2012

Effects and transitions

Fade in video

1To fade a video clip in, or fade up from black, select a clip in a Timeline panel.

2Do one of the following:

•apply a dissolve transition to the beginning of the clip,

•keyframe the opacity of the clip to start at zero and increase to 100%.

More Help topics

“Apply a transition between two clips” on page 333 “Specify clip opacity in a Timeline panel” on page 431

Picture-in-picture (PIP) and split screen

You can use the Position and Scale controls of the Motion effect to create a picture-in-picture (PIP).

See the video tutorial Picture-in-Picture and Split-Screen Effects in Premiere Pro CS3 on the Digital Media Net website.

In this Premiere CS5.5 video tutorial at Infinite Skills, Phil Hawkins shows how to create a reusable Picture-in-Picture effect.

Dennis Radeke shows you how to make a picture-in-picture effect in this video tutorial on AdobeTV.

Zoom and pan a still image

The technique of zooming and panning still images has also come to be known as “the Ken Burns effect”, since documentarian Ken Burns has made extensive use of it.

For a tutorial on zooming and panning still images, see The Ken Burns Effect on the Digital Video Editing blog.

In this Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial, Andrew Devis shows you how to pan and zoom in Premiere Pro like a professional. Learn proper key-frame interpolation so that the movement is smooth.

Place lightning over part of a clip

You can make lightning appear over only part of an original clip.

1Place a Transparent Video clip in a video track above the original clip.

2Apply the Lightning effect to the Transparent Video clip.

3Trim the Transparent Video clip to the duration needed for the appearance of lightning.

More Help topics

“Create a transparent video clip” on page 171 “Lightning effect” on page 374

Create a Jacob’s Ladder

You can create a Jacob’s Ladder effect. The lightning bolt snaps back to a position along the start line after it has been pulled in a given direction.

1 Apply the Lightning effect to a clip.

Last updated 1/16/2012