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November 5, 2024
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Bring Back the Obsolete Effects

  • November 5, 2024
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In the latest update of Premiere Pro, Adobe removed all the obsolete effects and more. For seemingly no good reason. A lot of these effects were used widely and were very helpful. I, for instance, used the Paint Bucket tool to make strokes/outlines for unique shapes and the Change to Color tool often.

 

Adobe posted this with alternatives for the removed effects: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/obsolete-effects-transitions-presets-removed.html#:~:text=As%20part%20of%20ongoing%20work,or%20offered%20by%20third%20parties.

But these do not go into detail for how to actually achieve these desired effects. Or the recomended method is more cumbersome and time-consuming than the effect that was removed. What's more, some of the alternative suggestions are a vague "3rd party". Which is so asinine! I don't want to go to a 3rd party and download something to achieve what used to be baked into Premiere! This is such a downgrade and I cannot believe Adobe is happy telling everyone that they have gone backwards in time.

 

If you look up tutorials for lots of processes, they will mention these obsolete effects that no longer exist. Even tutorials made by or featured by Adobe! The very first link I found to changing the color of a single object was this: https://helpx.adobe.com/ph_fil/premiere-pro/how-to/replace-color.html

This lists a removed effect as the fatest way to complete this! 

 

Please, Adobe, bring back these effects. Put them in normal folders instead of an Obsolete folder. And stop removing features! 

14 replies

Participant
September 21, 2025

This guy has all the Obsolete Effects saved in a preset:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqWYdBxFEs

 

I'm currently using those.

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 13, 2024

Among Jarle Leirpoll's cool presets for PP, are presets for Lumetri, with only curves enabled. Gives you a lighter presence on the clip. You can do it yourself, just click OFF each page/tab of Lumetri except curves/or the tabs you are using.

https://premierepro.net/jarles-premiere-pro-presets-version-4/

 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 13, 2024

Curious what you do only working with curves?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
December 13, 2024

Its very unpractical having to add a whole Lumetri instance only to use the curves, are Lumetri curves any different from RGB Curves? In any case just having the Lumetri curves as an independent effect would be much better as they are used for many effects

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 9, 2024

That was clearly one of the "definitions" Adobe used, that the usage was tiny in relative terms. And staffers have written very clearly here numerous times what those criteria were. No secrets at all, actually almost unusually open about them.

 

They have to prioritize anything. It's what you have to do. We had to make a lot of decisions over the years in our own business we didn't like. But the decisions were necessary.

 

Been there.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2024

As I've said before, it was an act of mercy, Adobe getting rid of the Write-on effect in PP. I didn't work well, and made the user experience worse. It's easy to do with After Effects and it works excellently, check out this 4 minute tutorial:

Write-On Text in After Effects (Easy) - YouTube

 

Participant
December 9, 2024

Just curious where are you geting your stats from. because a lot of  YouTube tutorial used the Obsolet Effects. Evem if less then one percent of users used it, so they remove it, they why not do the same for every single effects that less then 1% of users used, Either way why remove a future if it isnt hindering the software itself. 

Thats why we are demanding it to be back so we dont have to used multple softwares just for one or multiple effects.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 6, 2024

As noted so often, the things in the Obsolete Effects bin were used by less than 1% of the users. And yes, I lost a couple things I used. But for just a very few users, it may not be coming back. That's just reality.

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
December 6, 2024

Yea is dispointing I was going to used the Write-On effects only to find out, it has been remove and I have to used after effect or 3rd party. Why make us jump through so many hoops just to used one effect, if the option isnt hindering the software why remove it and if it is then FIX IT. every step we take for one effect the more time it cost us and overall make the experience worst, and now all the tutorial are useless as well, Adobe please bring back Obsolete Effects.

Participating Frequently
November 7, 2024

Color replace didn't work well for me 😞

It couldn't get the whole object, no matter what similarity I set it to. And the parts it was able to change didn't look realistic.

For a recent project I worked on, I re-downloaded the 2023 version of Premiere to use Change to Color after failing to get the look I wanted by HSL or the Color Replace effect. And out of the 3, that gave me the best result.