Now in Beta: Obsolete Effects, Transitions and Presets Removed

[eric escobar]

Now in Premiere Pro beta, the Obsolete Effects folder and plug-ins, Obsolete Transitions folder and plug-ins, and presets built from the obsolete effects are removed.

These effects and transitions all have faster, modern alternatives either in Premiere Pro, or offered by third parties. Their current usage is extremely low but represent an outsized percentage of project slowdowns and performance bottlenecks. Please see the table below for suggested alternatives.

CAN I OPEN OLDER PROJECTS THAT HAVE OBSOLETE EFFECTS & TRANSITIONS IN 24.6?

Yes. You can open projects made in a previous versions of Premiere Pro that contain the removed obsolete effects and transitions. The effects and transitions will still appear in your sequences, and in the Effects Control Panel on the clips they’ve been applied to, but the Obsolete Effects folder, Obsolete Transitions folder and four Presets folders – Bevel Edges, Solarize, Convolution Kernel and Blurs (Win Only) will not be accessible in the Project Panel.

You can copy and paste your applied obsolete effects and transitions between clips and sequences in your project and continue working with them on new clips and in new sequences you create.

What you can't do is create a new project and access the removed effects, transitions and presets.

PRESETS FOLDERS

The Bevel Edges, Solarize, Convolution Kernel and Blurs (WIN only) folders and effects presets in the Presets folder are removed. Those presets are built from removed obsolete effects. However, if you have applied those presets in your older projects, they will still be visible, active and available on the sequence and in the Effects Control Panel.

CUSTOM PRESETS

Any custom presets you have created and saved in a previous version may be effected if it contains at least one obsolete effect in the chain of effects. Here is what that means for the possible combination of non-obsolete and obsolete effects in a custom preset:

1. If custom preset contains one or more non-obsolete: REMAINS
2. If a custom preset contains a mix of obsolete and non-obsolete effects: REMAINS
3. If custom preset contains a single or mix of ONLY obsolete effects: REMOVED

We are encouraging everyone to start using modern, high-performance effects and transitions for a faster, more efficient experience when working in Premiere Pro.

In addition to all the great, modern alternatives to the obsolete effects and transitions within Premiere Pro's tool set, there is an extraordinarily robust and vibrant ecosystem of modern and perfromant third party effects, transitions and filters

Effect Name	Platform	Alternative
Anti-Alias	Win	3rd Party
Arithmetic	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri
Auto Color	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Auto Contrast	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Auto Levels	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Bevel Alpha	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Photoshop PSD
Bevel Edges	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Photoshop PSD
Blend	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Blend Modes
Calculations	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri and Blending Modes
Camera View	Win, Mac	Photoshop, After Effects
Cell Pattern	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Photoshop, After Effects
Change Color	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Change-to-Color	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Channel Mixer	Win, Mac	Lumetri
ChannelBlur	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Blurs
Checkboard	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Photoshop PSD
Circle	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Masking Tools
Clip Name	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Metadata Burn-in
Color Balance	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Compound Blur	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	GPU-native blurs
CompoundArithmetic	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Blend Modes
Convolution Kernel	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri
Difference Matte	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Blend Mode
Dust & Scratches	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Gaussian Blur
Ellipse	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Masking
Emboss	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Color Emboss
Equalize	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Eyedropper Fill	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri
Fast Blur	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Gaussian Blur
Fast Color Corrector	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Ghosting	Win	Opacity, Speed Effects
Grid	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Photoshop, Illustrator
Horizontal Hold	Win	3rd Party
Image Matte Key	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Blend Modes
Leave Color	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Luma Corrector	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Luma Curves	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Median (Legacy)	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri, VR-Denoise
Noise Alpha	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Noise
Noise HLS	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Noise
Noise HLS Auto	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Noise
Non Red Key	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Ultra Key
Paint Bucket	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri
Radial Shadow	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Remove Matte	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Keyers and Blend Modes
RGB Color Corrector	Win, Mac Intel	Lumetri
RGB Curves	Win, Mac Intel	Lumetri
Set Matte	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Keyers and Blend Modes
Shadow/ Highlight	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Solarize	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Solid Composite	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Generators
Video Limiter (Legacy)	Win, Mac	Video Limiter
Write-On	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Essential Graphics, After Effects
Texturize	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Three-Way Color Corrector	Win, Mac	Lumetri
Threshold	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Lumetri, Color Tools
Timecode	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	Metadata Burn-in
Vertical Hold	Win	3rd Party
Transition Name
Venetian Blinds	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Flip Over	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Gradient Wipe	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Cube Spin	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party
Radial Wipe	Win, Mac, Mac ARM	3rd Party

[AndyYoungFilm]

Is there any plan to replace radial wipe with something? I know clock-wipes are hacky but we use them a lot in animation, at least on my current show. 

[eric escobar]

Hi AndyYoungFilm, 

There isn't any plan, currently, to replace the obsolete radial wipe transition with something. Have you had a chance to look through third party plug-ins? Or have you tried creating your own matte wipe effect in After Effects that you could use as a real-time radial wipe alternative?
Eric

[R Neil Haugen]

Eric,

I've been surprised that these were carried as long as they have been.

That said, there are still things that you list a replacement for that just aren't at all ... like ... Channel Mixer's replacement is ... Lumetri? Here's the Channel Mixer ...

How in the world do you do channel mixer work in Lumetri? There are no cross-color options in Lumetri at all.  So I would really like a response from you showing how to do channel mixer adjustments in Lumetri, please!

Another point ... the current and staying Noise option is just a limited thing. You have three options ... how much noise, and whether to have color noise or just black dots, and whether to 'clip' the noise. That is it.

Let's look at say Noise Alpha, with just one of the drop down option sets open:

Or let's look at Noise-HLS ...

Both of those have useful options not in the simpler Noise effect.

I am disappointed to be losing both the channel mixer and the actually useful noise addition effects.

[eric escobar]

Hello Neil, 

The obsolete channel mixer in Premiere Pro was a limited, non-performant legacy plug-in. I have found that using the performant, 32-bit channel mixer in After Effects a much better alternative when I specifically need to do a specific channel mixing operation. I have also found that using Lumetri curves, in combination with the new RGBA channel viewer in Premiere Pro's sequence monitor, a very powerful and accurate way to do per-channel color operations.

As for the obsolete noise effects, again, those were non-performant effects when compared to the existing GPU-enabled Noise effect an all the other powerful and performant 3rd party noise plug-ins available (I'm a big fan of RedGiant's Renoiser).

Best, 

Eric

[R Neil Haugen]

Eric,

Thank you for such an informative answer! This is the kind of thing that is actually, and unfortunately, incredibly rare in Adobe documentation. Specifically referring to using the RGB Curves of Lumetri in conjunction with the per-channel view just introduced in the monitor.

I haven't had time to try that, and I'll be on the road until sometime late Monday. That would give perhaps the ability to visually see a change, though I'm mentally struggling to understand how to calculate what's needed.

As to the noising effects ... I've got the full Red Giant suite, and yes, can add noise there. But I could quickly add noise with the HLS version for instance, fairly comparable to the RG option, and quite quickly.

The basic noise effect in Premiere doesn't allow much in the way of truly useful options.

So essentially, for noise, your response indicates that third-party plugins are really the only major option at this point and moving forward. That saddens me some, but ah well, right?

I will be interested in what Alexis brings out first in color changes of course. THAT ... could be intriguing.