 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you step by step how to create a subtle vignette. Why would you do this? Well this has that nice nostalgic washed out colors where it looks like you read their you know nice memories. It's very often used in film for things like you know flashbacks, memories, nice types things that is often accompanied with color correction as well. But let me just show you how to make the vignette while I got you. Now here I've already done it and if I turn this layer off this is the original footage. It's just this nice lady kind of hanging out walking into the beach and then let's say she's having a memory and she wants to remember that nice time she went to the beach. You create a nice little subtle vignette like this and bang that's what you get. All right off on. Okay cool here we go let's start from scratch. I'm going to go ahead and delete everything except the video. Okay so I've got the footage here. The first step is you drag and you drop that footage into the timeline just like this. Also I am currently in the effects workspace however I should be in the editing workspace at least for now so that you guys can get a better feel for what I'm up to. The next step is and this is I don't always do this but I recommend it. I'm going to go ahead and duplicate this video so I'm going to hold down the alt or the option key and I'm going to push up and when you do that that creates a second copy of the video. The underlying video still stays there but the second copy is now the one we're going to be working on. Okay good the next step is you want to create a adjustment layer. Now here's what here's some of the things I want to show you sometimes when you open up Adobe Premiere Pro you'll get a small project box like this. What you need to do is you need to expand this and I generally recommend expanding it until you see this here this little paper with the folded edge because this is how you can create a new adjustment layer. You can also go up to file and go to new and create adjustment layers this way but this is the best way so you want to go to new item right here and then you're going to have the option to create an adjustment layer. Make sure the adjustment layer is the same size as your composition. It is by default but just in case and then hit okay. It's going to load that into the project panel like this. Now my setting is for a one second adjustment layer but that is not what we want so here's what we're going to do. We're going to drag the adjustment layer on top of the copied video and it's there for one second. Now we're just going to slide this out so that is the full duration of the entire clip so the adjustment layer is now up and running. We are in business and I'm just going to go ahead and make this a little bit easier to see. I don't even need the audio so I'm just going to delete it. Okay we're on our way. Now making sure you're left click on the adjustment layer we're now going to go ahead and add an effect. So I'm going to go up to the top here. I'm going to click on the effects workspace and 99 out of 100 times you're going to see the effects panel right here over at the top. If you do not see the effects panel go to window and make sure there is a check mark beside effects. Okay excellent the effect we're looking for is called circle. It's very original. It's under video effects generate circle. Drag and drop that on the adjustment layer. You're going to get a white little dot like this not to panic we're still in business. Now making sure that you're still on the adjustment layer we are going to go to the effects control panel. We're going to slide down a little bit and you're going to see the circle effect has been applied. What you need to do next is you need to adjust the radius. I am going to increase it drastically so that it fills up most of this shot almost to the edges right right about somewhere around there. There's a little bit of space on the left and the right edge and of course there's some space up on the top right top left bottom left bottom right that's where the vignette is going to go. So we've done that and I'll show you a little more as we go here. So I've got the circle I've increased the radius to about 935 whatever works for you. Now the next step and this is the critical one is you want to go making sure you're clicked on circle go to blending mode and down click that and make sure you click stencil alpha. When you do that you're going to see some magic. All right now we're cooking you see the vignette is going to be all this black stuff on the edges and it's going to be feathered. So we've gone ahead and we've created the circle we've gone ahead and we turned it into a stencil alpha blending mode. The next step is we're going to go to the feather here we're going to drip we're going to click on that little sideways chevron and we're going to increase the feather opacity let's see if it says that here yeah feather outer pardon me we're going to increase the feather outer considerably so we're going to keep push it up and to the point where it's not too black on the edges so I'm thinking somewhere around there what do you guys think does that look like a proper vignette let's see off on okay now for a lot of people that's all you need to do you've got your vignette if you want to go ahead and color correct this to make it I don't know maybe change the colors up so that it looks more nostalgic or maybe she's having a memory you can go ahead and go into color correction under effects going to lumichu presets pardon me let's not even use presets let's just go right into video effects drop down to color correction and then depending on what you're looking for you can drag and drop that I'm going to go ahead and just drop color balance onto the adjustment layer and when I do that it's going to come down here and you're going to see color balance has been applied to the adjustment layer now I'm going to just adjust the hue well I don't really want to do that too much do I I might want to drop it back a little bit I want to make it a little lighter let's see what it looks like whoa Millie we want to increase the lightness a little bit because we're just making that nice faded out remembrance and we might even desaturated the smidgen because a lot of cameras from a long time ago were desaturated they had lower saturations when you took a nice shot like that anyways guys that's an example of how to create a very subtle vignette in like two or three minutes guys thanks for watching I have a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned