Premiere Pro · Color and look
How to use an adjustment layer in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Choose File > New > Adjustment Layer, drag it onto a track above your clips, and stretch it across them. Any effect on it, such as Lumetri Color, applies to everything below.
In Premiere Pro
01
Create it
Choose File > New > Adjustment Layer (or the New Item button in the Project panel). Keep the sequence's size and click OK.
02
Place it
Drag it onto a track above the clips, such as V3, and drag its ends to cover the section.
03
Add effects
Drop Lumetri Color, a blur or any video effect onto it.
04
Control it
Lower its Opacity to blend the effect, or draw a mask in Effect Controls to limit it to part of the frame.
- Graphics and captions above the adjustment layer are not affected; anything below it is.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie applies looks to the whole edit when you ask.
Ask for a look across the project, such as film grain or a warmer grade. Film grain, haze and split tone show in Eddie's player and MP4 renders only; no timeline export carries them, so rebuild them on an adjustment layer in Premiere.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Why can't I find adjustment layer in Premiere?
- Use File > New > Adjustment Layer. It's greyed out until a project is open.
- Do adjustment layers slow down playback?
- Heavy effects on them can. Render the section or lower the playback resolution.