Venetian blind Effect missing in New update , Help

Replacement for the old Venetian Blinds effect in Premiere Pro

A lot of us used the Venetian Blinds effect back in the day to compare cuts. You’d drop your old export under the new one, throw blinds on it, and instantly see what changed. Since Adobe pulled it into the obsolete pile, there hasn’t been a direct replacement.

Here’s a simple workaround that does the same thing with Track Matte Key and some custom PNG mattes.

How to set it up:

1. Put your old cut on V1.

2. Put your new cut on V2.

3. Drop one of the PNG mattes on V3.

4. Apply Track Matte Key to V2.

   • Set the Matte to Video 3

   • Set Composite Using to Matte Luma

White = new cut, black = see-through to the old cut.

What’s included:

• A version with 20 stripes

• A thinner stripe version

• 45-degree blinds in both directions

All of these are just simple black and white PNGs. Premiere reads them fine, no alpha channel needed. Once you’ve got them in your project, you can reuse them any time you want that quick cut comparison.

Credit where it’s due: James Honiball, Don Fisco and Geraldo Puga put this together and we’re sharing it here as a free solution for anyone who misses the Venetian Blinds trick.