Immersive Video effects

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Understand how to use specialized effects in Premiere Pro to apply smooth, VR-friendly effects to 180° and 360° video content.

Immersive Video effect name

Description

VR Blur

The effect blurs without detracting from the immersive experience and is specifically designed for 360° and 180° footage. Everything, including poles and edges, is subtly smoothed throughout the view. No matter where the viewer looks, it maintains a natural appearance by intelligently distributing the blur evenly throughout the scene. It functions flawlessly even on large, high-resolution VR projects because it is GPU-accelerated.

VR Chromatic Aberrations

The effect simulates the lens flaws you might see in a VR headset by adding a subtle color shift to the edges of your 360° video. It produces a delicate, lifelike color fringing that heightens the sense of immersion, making your footage look more stylized or cinematic.

VR Color Gradients

The effect lets you add smooth color transitions across your 360° footage. It creates subtle gradient fills that blend seamlessly across the spherical view, perfect for adding atmospheric tones or stylish color effects while maintaining immersion

VR De-Noise

The effect helps reduce unwanted grain or noise in your 360° footage, making it smoother and cleaner. It’s perfect for improving the quality of low-light scenes or footage with digital noise, without losing detail, so your immersive video looks crisp and professional.

VR Digital Glitch

The effect adds a cool, techy distortion to your 360° video, simulating digital glitches. It creates quick, eye-catching disruptions in the footage, perfect for adding a futuristic or edgy vibe to your VR project, all while keeping the immersive feel intact.

VR Fractal Noise

The effect creates dynamic, organic-looking textures, like smoke, clouds, or abstract patterns. It generates random, evolving noise across your footage, perfect for adding visual interest, backgrounds, or special effects that feel natural and unpredictable.

VR Glow

The effect adds a soft, radiant glow around bright areas of your 360° footage. It enhances light sources, creating a dreamy, ethereal look without disrupting the immersive feel. It is perfect for highlighting lights, adding atmosphere, or making your footage feel more magical.

VR Plane to Sphere

The effect takes flat 2D elements like images, text, or logos and wraps them around a 360° video sphere. It helps integrate these elements smoothly into immersive VR scenes, ensuring they look natural and undistorted, no matter how the viewer looks around.

VR Projection

The effect projects 2D footage onto a 360° spherical surface, allowing you to place flat images or videos within a VR environment seamlessly. It’s perfect for creating realistic backgrounds, textures, or graphics that integrate into the immersive scene.

VR Rotate Sphere

The effect lets you rotate your 360° footage on the X, Y, or Z axis. This helps adjust the view or align the horizon in VR videos, giving you complete control over the scene’s orientation without distorting the immersive experience.

VR Sharpen

The effect enhances fine details and improves the clarity of your 360° video. It's ideal for enhancing the quality of virtual reality videos, particularly in low-resolution or blurry areas, by uniformly sharpening the image throughout the spherical scene without causing distortion.