How to get a fire sparks & smoke effect in Premiere Pro?

[rolf_7787]

Hello,

I am a complete beginner to Premiere Pro and cannot find anything on the forum on my question (most likely because I do not know the correct words).

There is a video to which I want to add a few fire sparks and a bit of smoke coming from the bottom and moving upwards. I have a bit of experience with Photoshop and think of it like laying an additional layer with the effects above the original video in Premiere Pro. 

I already used Google, but it confused me even more.

1. Do I need to learn how to create these effects in AfterEffects and only then can use them in Premiere Pro?

2. It seems some people sell these effects, but I do not understand what the difference between an element and a plugin is. And is that a good solution overall?

3. What would you recommend is the best way for a beginner to get this kind of effect?

I hope you can help me out and it is understandable. If there are any questions I am happy to help.

Kind regards,

Rolf

[R Neil Haugen]

An "element" is similar to a graphic or shape, some discreet item in a format/form that can be imported, used, and modified in the NLE.

A plug-in is a functional additional sort of "panel" with other capabilities based on it's own software.

AfterEffects has a fair amount of special-effects stuff included, and there are major tools for modifiying the view of the effect, far more than in Premiere. So Ae may have what you need.

There are also plug-ins available through places like aescripts.com and Maxon/Red-Giant and others that have all sorts of special vision and sound things that can be worked with directly in Premiere.

And everyone does this differently. 

[RobShultz · Accepted solution]

You may want to consider stock footage from Adobe Stock or a company like Artbears.. if you use footage against a black background you can use the "Screen" blend mode to make the black transparent.

[Ishan Y · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

As Rob pointed out, overlaying stock footage to your project will be the fastest way to get the effect. You can find the stock video in Adobe Stock (https://adobe.ly/3PbTNQH). I found a tutorial that covers the workflow here: https://adobe.ly/4fD2L40.

Thanks,

Ishan

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[rolf_7787]

Thank you very much @R Neil Haugen @RobShultz @Ishan Y for your fast and helpful support! 

That helps me a lot and it is great to get such high quality feedback from the community.

I think I understood now how this works and will try that out what works best for me 🙂

[Dreamtime8 · Accepted solution]

Also try Pixabay.com, everything on that site is free to use. I found these:

sparks-fire-burn-particles

particles-sparks

smoke-ascending

[Warren Heaton]

If using content from Pixabay, be certain that usage is done so under their "Free for use under the Pixabay Content License".

[Warren Heaton]

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