Film Presets

Report · May 23, 2012

I've packaged some basic Premiere Pro presets for everyone. It includes the old Film Fades from a ways back (the built-in Adobe version of the Film Fade doesn't really emulate a genuine film fade all that well), as well as some Letterboxing presets for both 16:9 and 4:3 media.

Unzip the file, and from the Presets bin do a Right Click>Import Presets...

The In/Out fades are based on the standard 1 second duration. If you need more or less, you'll have to adjust the keyframes.

The Title fade is based on the standard 5 second duration, so again longer or shorter titles will require a keyframe adjustment.

The Letterboxing presets are based on the Crop effect, after doing the math to determine how much should be cropped to get the desired result. The 16:9 options work equally well on SD or HD media. The 4:3 are obviously for SD only. The presets can be applied directly to a clip, to a nested sequence, or in CS6, to an Adjustment layer.

Enjoy.

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Report · Mar 01, 2013

You can change any parameters you like in the Effect Controls panel. When you've got it the way you want, select each 'effect' that will be part of the preset using CTRL, right click and Save Preset.

Report · Oct 08, 2013

Hi Jim. I have downloaded your presets and used the letterbox in my videos, but it seems after a recent PP CC update the letterbox preset doesn't play nice with my timeline. I added the 2:35 letterbox to an adjustment layer and I have the adjustment layer over all the clips in my timeline. But for some reason the letterbox preset is causes my timeline to jump and stutter on certain parts especially on parts of the video that have dissolves. I know for sure its the preset because when I disable it, the video plays perfect, or if I remove a section of the adjustment layer with the preset the video plays fine. Can you assist on why this happens?

Report · Aug 19, 2014

Hi Jim how can I create my own letterbox presets the way you did. I want to create some custom ones for my workflow.