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sofias55222881
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March 13, 2018
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Can't make any opacity in adjustment layer

Hey all!

Why can't I do any opacity setting in the adjustment layer in premiere pro? All I can do is color correction, but not keyframing any opacity work. Please help.

    excited_Genie16B8Correct answer
    Legend
    March 13, 2018

    It's just the way Adjustment Layers work.  If you're removing opacity from the AL, then you're left showing what's underneath.  All you'd be adjusting is whatever else is applied to the AL.

    If you want to reduce the opacity of the clip underneath, you'll need to apply that to the clip directly.

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    Admired_Buttercup0005
    Participant
    March 9, 2025

    Hey, in case anyone else happens upon this discussion as I did - and Adjustment Layers may have changed in the past 7 years - I was able to accomplish this by basically doing the opposite. Make your Adjustment Layer go from 0% to 100% opacity, and set the Blend Mode to "Subtract" which causes it to darken the layers below.

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    30269269zvx3
    Participant
    June 4, 2023

    I had the same problem. Changing Opacity only changes the Adjustment layer itself and not the clips underneath. Use the "Transform" effect to start affecting your clips 

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      sofias55222881Author
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      March 13, 2018

      Thank you guys! What I want to do is make a fade to black transition. but sinse the clip is an ultra key (greenscreen) consisting of two layers, it will be wrong. I then tried to use an AL. But that doesn’t Work as I said. Nothing happens when I try use the opacity with keyframes.

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      Richard TOULON
      Richard TOULON
      Legend
      March 13, 2018

      Alright, what you have to do is to make those two layers became one.Just select them, right clic ---- Nest. Now you can add a transition or use opacity keyframes. If you want to open this nested sequence, just double clic on it.

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        sofias55222881Author
        Participant
        March 13, 2018

        Great. Thx again.  

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        excited_Genie16B8Correct answer
        Legend
        March 13, 2018

        It's just the way Adjustment Layers work.  If you're removing opacity from the AL, then you're left showing what's underneath.  All you'd be adjusting is whatever else is applied to the AL.

        If you want to reduce the opacity of the clip underneath, you'll need to apply that to the clip directly.

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          Richard TOULON
          Richard TOULON
          Legend
          March 13, 2018

          Pretty confusing to me. What are you trying to do ? Change the opacity over time of the color correction made in the adjustement layer ?

          It works for me. Something could be wrong in your process. Verify that the lumetri fx is really on the adjustement layer. And had your keyframe in the opacity section of the Adjustment layer. I can't really see why it's not working for you. Tell us more and verify everything.

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