How to Add & Use Adjustment Layers in Adobe Premiere Pro CC

On this episode of The Piedmont Motion Picture Show, we're talking about how to add and use adjustment layers in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

INTRO - 00:00
TUTORIAL START - 0:58
OUTRO - 3:00

I'll show you how to create and apply an adjustment layer over top of your footage, and how to apply color grades or effects to the layer, so that you can affect multiple clips at once.

Adjustment layers in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2019) are a great way to add color grades and effects to your footage, and really open up a door of great possibilities.
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[petterbergmar]

Right click in Project panel -> New Item -> Adjustment Layer

[jenniferrossnagle]

Great instruction, easy to follow! Thanks.

[TheLastWizard]

Dam man, I've watched everyone who puts out Premiere videos. You've got them all beat, clear, smooth, easy to listen to voice. Easy to follow intructions. Gained one sub.

[GallagherCreatives]

Thank you for this. Very easy and not all 'wordy.' Much appreciated!

[danielleallen]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this quick and concise explanation!

[lopsangdlama]

great tutorial, if I were to use adjustment layers on two different clips with two different colors. Can I duplicate it within the timeline and change the effect or do I need to create new adjustment layers and apply the effect on it for the second clip?

[simonstoeckl]

Thanks for the video. Is it also possible to save multiple layers to one preset? Like in your example one preset, which contains grain and lumetri? Because in my case, it only applies one. But everyone is saying you could use more...

[Viodi]

Thanks for the crystal clear explanation. Better than Adobe's site. It doesn't appear like the auto reframe effect works on an adjustment layer. I like the way Magix Vegas handles group effects better than Adobe. With Vegas, the effect is applied to the entire track.

[allahjoseph]

This is honestly the best video on this topic. Extremely straightforward — good stuff my guy!

[DesignedByMaejor]

this is amazing... how would one go about creating and saving adjustment layer transitions in such a way that I could drag and drop them for use in future projects?

[rafaelleto]

Dude, a huge thanks to you! I was jumping from video to video because they didn't teach the basic lumetri color in an adjusment layer. 🚀

[defiverr]

Is it possible to apply the Adjustment layer only to the layer below it, and not all the other video tracks? Similar to AE or Photoshop? thnx.

[thePaintedMoon]

Thank you Ryan!
I have a question not related to adjustment layers...
I imported a hi-res clip w/alpha from After Effects. The clip was keyed in AE and had a lot of motion blur. The clip looked good in the source monitor with and without transparency enabled but when I added it to the sequence there was all sorts of garbage in the transparency. I wanted this clip to play over other tracks. I finally solved the problem by exporting the clip and alpha separately, then using a track matte key using luminance matte. I couldn't find any answers online and to the best of my reasoning I thought Premiere will not 'see' an alpha channel with a lot of b/w gradations (like Photoshop will.) Do you have any ideas on how to get Premiere to see an embedded alpha channel as a luminance matte? It would be a better workflow to have one clip w/alpha than two - the source and the alpha but I haven't found a better way to achieve this.

[RyanCampFilms]

SKIP TO 0:58 TO GET RIGHT TO THE TUTORIAL. What other Adobe Premiere Pro effects and tools would you guys like to see tutorials on in the future?

[TheLudomancer]

If nothing else it's a workaround for when multiple Color Replacement effects on a single layer decide to use the same mask. Much love!

[ajamesbertman]

I didn't know this existed and I've been copy and pasting lumetri adjustments to every clip on wedding videos for years. I am glad I took the time to dive deeper into educating myself! Thank you!

[caseydewitt]

Is there a way to link an adjustment layer to a nested sequence *without* affecting the underlying background layer I have?

[biccyonline]

for me i am trying to create a motion animation to affect the scale of my video, just a simple zoom but the adjustment layer doesn't seem to do this for me

[archiepotter]

Hi, guys. My adjustment layer doesn't affect the video.I applied and transitions and adjusted colors but it doesn't affect the video below at all. Help me guys. I checked tons of videos but still can't fix it.

[tomsatts]

how would i add another layer if I have used the 5 original video layers or is that the max?