Create an intro sequence in Premiere Pro
Jordy Vandeput
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Learn how to mask a subject and animate a still frame as an opening credit or intro sequence used in soaps. Watch the Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial video.
This week we'll experiment again with Adobe Premiere Pro as we're creating an intro sequence to introduce the actors before the film or series starts. What's so special about this tutorial is that we do everything inside Premiere Pro.
We'll start by masking out the actress as we like to have her come loose from the background. This creates a parallax effects which adds more dynamics as the clip will turn into a still with the frame hold option.
Once the subject is cut out, we can add a stroke around it. Unlike After Effects, we can't search for a stroke or edge effect in the library. We need to use the 'Paint Bucket' and change several settings to make it act like a proper stroke around the newly created transparent layer.
In the next step we'll animate a slight scale movement on the actress and add a name tag next to her. As we have two layers, we can animate the name tag from behind her. Always make sure to create smooth keyframes (with ease in/out) and add a motion blur to it.
Jordy Vandeput
Founder of Cinecom · 2.75M+ subscribers on YouTube
Jordy Vandeput is a Belgian filmmaker who has taught practical filmmaking to millions through Cinecom. He breaks professional techniques down into clear, repeatable steps you can use on your very next project.
20 comments
the video doesn’t work in premiere pro cc 2018
Excellent job on the masking! I've just sent this to my editing team. Another intro pack for Premiere that's useful (in .mogrt format) https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/youtube-intro-templates/
Hello.. I'm using Adobe CC 2015 and already download it, but can't open project file.
The project was created in a later version. I believe CC 2015.3. You can upgrade via the creative cloud application. The latest version is CC 2017
I downloaded and it seems empty too. I had Premiere CS6 and update to Premiere CC 2017 and still nothing. Is there any chance that you can send me the projet? [email protected]
I've re-uploaded the project file. If you download it again it should work.
Hi, the downloaded project does not work in premiere pro 2017 CC. It looks empty.
In CC 2017 it should work. Do you see any errors?
I am trying to reproduce the paint bucket effect but on a still image (jpg) and it does not work. Is it something that only works on video sequence ?
hey, I need a help here,, everything when smooth as I following the tutorials until nesting the clip after masking it. my problem is that after giving the effect paint bucket, I can't see the stroke, Ive already made it to transparant for the filling selector and stroke for the stroke, and the stroke number is also more than 3. but btw I've just figured it out. so Im not using transparancy but "alpha channel" for filling selector. why does it so?
Hi Jordy, I cant find the "free draw bezier" in my opacity ;( Im using Premium Pro CS6
I benefited a lot from you
thank you am free happy