Sepia Tone in Adobe Premiere

AHaskins · Post by **AHaskins** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:40 pm

This makes me seem like a foolish newbie...

Okay, I seem to have a predicament. I have a few clips in an AMV I'm making that really need to have a sepia tone in them. Sadly, I don't know how to achieve that in Adobe Premiere. I know I have to just change the channel alignment, and I've tried every combination I can think of. All I need, really, is an RGB of a sepia tone.

...Also, as a side note, here's another thing that's been bothering me. I once saw someone use a lens flare as a transition. It seemed kinda cheesy at the time, but I need to know how to make one for the video I'm making. I've searched through all the transitions I could find in premiere, and I can't find a it. If anyone has ever used the transition, could you drop me a hint as to how you did it?

Thanks...

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 4:11 pm

the cheap way to do it is to convert it to black and white and then tint with a brownish yellow colour

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 4:20 pm

you can do this with the Quicktime Effects as well. Just use the film noise filter, set the settings all down so there's no dust and scratches, and select Sepia Tone for the color.

AHaskins · Post by **AHaskins** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:05 pm

Thanks, Absolute Destiny

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Not to be greedy, but does anyone here know where to get the "lens flare transition"?

risk one · Post by **risk one** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 6:50 pm

AHaskins wrote:Thanks, Absolute Destiny ...

Not to be greedy, but does anyone here know where to get the "lens flare transition"?

I don't exactly know what you're talking about, but it sounds like you should just apply a lens flare to clip A, use keyframes to make it flare up, so it fills the screen, cut to clip B which starts with a screen filling flare, decreasing in size.

Or you could just use white flashes (by putting a white matte under your video and fading in and out quickly).

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 8:12 pm

the lense flare comes with premiere, look in video effects..I think under "Render"

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:11 pm

risk one wrote:
AHaskins wrote:Thanks, Absolute Destiny ...

Not to be greedy, but does anyone here know where to get the "lens flare transition"?
I don't exactly know what you're talking about, but it sounds like you should just apply a lens flare to clip A, use keyframes to make it flare up, so it fills the screen, cut to clip B which starts with a screen filling flare, decreasing in size.

Or you could just use white flashes (by putting a white matte under your video and fading in and out quickly).

Personally, I swear by white/black flashes, whereas I still don't know what a video lens flare looks like.

Maybe I should see Evolution one of these days.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:15 pm

Jebadia wrote:the lens flare comes with premiere, look in video effects..I think under "Render"

Well, that's where it is in Photoshop, so that would make sense.

AHaskins · Post by **AHaskins** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:20 pm

Nevermind, I suppose. I was talking about a lens flare transition, by the way, and the one in "render" is an effect. Although using keyframes might work...

Anyway, thanks. I guess the AMV I saw the transition in was either done in another program or used keyframes really well...

Thanks again.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:41 pm

Jebadia wrote:you can do this with the Quicktime Effects as well. Just use the film noise filter, set the settings all down so there's no dust and scratches, and select Sepia Tone for the color.

I'm trying to learn Premiere Pro (after 5.1), and I can't find Quicktime effects anywhere... which, I guess, is understandable if they didn't make a version of this program for the Mac. But still, those effects and transitions were cool in 5.1. NOW what am I gonna do for <s>a sepia or</s> an implode?