This tutorial is based on Adobe Premiere 5.1 for Apple Mac. The Windows version is very similar but newer versions of Premiere (version 6+) are slightly different.

Premiere's video filters allow you to create a large selection of special effects, as well as letting you adjust the colour balance or contrast of your video. When you choose to apply filters to a video clip, the window on the right will pop up. On the left of this window is a menu showing all the available filters, and on the right is a list of all the filters currently applied to the clip. Filters can be easily added, removed or adjusted, and any number may be applied to the same clip.

As you apply each filter (or if you edit its settings later) a window such as the one on the left will pop up. This contains slider and check boxes for all the available settings for the filter, and a preview image, so that you can tell what you are doing.

Filter settings be changed over time using keyframes in the timeline area near the bottom of the filters window. If you scroll down the list of available filters, you should find "Quicktime Filters" (Mac version only). These contain a further selection of useful effects such as "film noise" and an animated cloud creator.

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