FAQ: How to preview the Film Impact Effects and Transisitons

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi.

If you were wondering if there was a way to preview the Film Impact effects and transitions, I have some news for you. Yes, there is!

Choose Window > Extensions > Film Impact Dashboard.

Great! Right?

See also:

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Kevin

[MyerPj]

Hey @Kevin-Monahan 

Of all the good things happening with Premiere Pro right now, this is my favorite.

Thank very much!

🙂

[Averdahl]

I agree! 🙂

Slighly OT, but i have the old pre-subscription Transition Pack 1 and Transition Pack 4 from Film Impact and just opened some old projects to test. I uninstalled both packs before and the projects open without issues and the transitions works as expected. No errors or manual replacement, it just worked. I am impressed! 🙂

Hey @Kevin-Monahan 

Of all the good things happening with Premiere Pro right now, this is my favorite.

Thank very much!

🙂

By @MyerPj

[R Neil Haugen]

Thanks a TON Kevin, this is a vast uptick to the FilmImpact usability.

[Victor5CD3]

Very good, the best feature so far. I tested it here and it's working very well with my Canon AVCHD & MXF camcorders. I updated my version in the first initial tests and didn't find any bugs or errors. Everything is working correctly. I hope I don't have to go back to 25.2.3. Now I need to implement subtitle animations with text effects like CapCut.

[R Neil Haugen]

If you use the extension as Kevin shows, you also get the text effects of Typing and Animate ... that is a nice addition!

[PresidentJade]

This update with the Film Impact extension has broken my Premiere Pro interface. And when I open the Film Impact Dashboard its just a big empty black box: 

I have to say that I'm really not impressed. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Understood, why you're not overly impressed? I would of course suggest the 'normal' troubleshooting steps when weird stuff happens in Premiere, as often, it does work ...

1) close the program, hold down the shift key and relaunch. Select the option to dump all cache files.

After waiting for it to rebuild a bit, see if it is now working correctly. If not, 

2) Close, delete all preference files (rename them is what I do so Premiere doesn't load them, but they're still there) ... and restart then. See if it works.

3) Use the CC Desktop app to uninstall Premiere, then reboot, and re-install.

[PresidentJade]

Thank you for the reply R Neil 🙂

After doing all that you suggested, including uninstalling Premiere Pro, restarting the PC and reinstalling, it has unfortunately made things worse.

Now, when I open the Film Impact Dashboard, a big empty black box appears (as before), but also beside that another window appears over the Source window (it covers it) and I am unable to close it or navigate within it (in other words, it is unresponsive as I can't use the scroll bar to go up or down nor can I select any effects as clicking on them does absolutely nothing. It's as if the Film Impact window is frozen over my Source window which prevents me from using the Source window: (Source/Effect Controls/Audio Clip Mixer/Metadata)

To close the frozen Film Impact window that is covering my Source window, I have to Reset the Workspace to the Saved Layout. The Film Impact window then disappears. But when I try to open it again, I'm back to square one: a frozen Film Impact window covering my Source window.

I guess I'll just have to wait and hope that this will be fixed in the next Premiere Pro update.

Again, thank you for trying to help.

[R Neil Haugen]

That's just bizarre, and what a pain! Yea, hopefully someone pops in with something to get that working for you.