Generate effects

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Explore the effects in Premiere Pro to create custom visuals for your clips, such as gradients, lightning, lens flares, and animated color ramps.

Effect Name

Description

4-Color Gradient

Creates a gradient with four colors. Use the Positions and Colors controls to animate the positions and colors of the four effect points, blending them into solid-color circles, each with an effect point as its center.

Lens Flare

Simulates what happens when bright light hits a camera lens.

Lightning

Creates animated lightning bolts, Jacob’s Ladders, or other electric visuals between two specified points in a clip. The effect animates automatically across the clip’s duration without keyframes.

Ramp

Creates a color gradient, either linear or radial. You can animate the start and end positions, vary the colors, and use Ramp Scatter control to disperse the ramp colors and eliminate banding.