FAQ: Video Effects Order and How it Affects Your Visuals

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Order of Processing is so often a problem and rarely understood by many users. Great article!

A summary of Premiere's typical processing order ...

The Effects Control panel shows everything pretty much top down in each section, Video and Audio.

So in Video, if you've got say Warp applied, then added Lumetri, Warp gets processed first, Lumetri afterwards.

Within many effects, like Lumetri, the order of processing is by top-down within the controls.

Within Lumetri, the tabs are processed in order, with the top control of each tab going first within the tab. The one tab that works differently is the Curves tab. The RGB Curve tool is processed first, then used as the input for each of the other HSL curves in that tab. Essentially the equivalent of a "parallel node" in node-based apps.

The top-down processing of the Basic tab gives an interesting use of the Exposure slider against the Contrast slider. The Contrast control "pivots" on the exact middle 50 value on the 0-100 scale. Shadows and highlights both go out from the middle value. But if you use the Exposure slider to lift or drop the image, you control where the middle of the image is when the Contrast control becomes active. And therefore the "pivot" point of the Contrast control.

Adding instances of effects (whether Lumetri or any other) to a clip 'stacks' the effects in the ECP in the order added, and you can drag/drop them to change the order.

Again, all effects on a clip will be processed essentially top to bottom.

Now ... Adjustment layers add an interesting twist. Because they are also, within themselves, top-down. However, they are processed after all effects applied directly to the clip are processed. So if you have a Lumetri on a clip, and a Lumetri on an AL, the clip Lumetri is processed then the AL Lumetri instance.

If you have mulitple ALs, say on video tracks 2, 3, and 4 ... the clip effects are processed first. Then the effects on the AL for V2 ... then the effects applied to the AL on V3 ... and then the effects applied to the AL on V4. Got that?  😉

Nesting also adds a twist. The effects applied to the clip before nesting are processed first, in top-down order in the ECP. Then the effects added after the nest are processed in top-down order.

Finally, I recommend ... if you've got the REAL heavyweight effect Warp applied to a clip ... after getting the the Warp "right", do a render & replace operation to a good codec. Get all that heavy processing done and FINISHED so Premiere and you can simply get on with the rest of the work.