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Create a glitch (distortion) effect in Premiere Pro

Jordy Vandeput 705K views

Offset the RGB channels in Adobe Premiere Pro and create an epic glitch effect. Download the preset from the tutorial to drag and drop the effect.

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It's Tuesday and you know what that means. This week we're taking a look inside Premiere Pro again and create a glitch or distortion effect . The glitch effect is something very popular that is usually created inside After Effect. Some third party plugins even allow many customization. But the glitch effect is actually no that hard to create, that's why we're letting Premiere Pro shine again.

Digital video is made out of 3 color channels; namely red, green and blue (RGB). To make the glitch effect work, we have to take these channels apart which we will learn from the tutorial.

Glitch effects can be used for various projects. Sometimes I would even apply them in after movies and edit the effect on a beat from the music. Other great uses are to use such a glitch as a transition. Just like using light leaks, it's a different way of switching scenes. But be careful using such fancy effects. Even if they look 'awesome', doesn't always mean we should use them everywhere.

Effects like this glitch is a pretty extreme thing and characterizes your edit. If it doesn't fit the style and the content of you video, then don't use it. But never be afraid of experimenting :-)

5 More Glitch & Distortion Presets

Due to the popularity of this tutorial video, we've decided to create 5 simple to use presets for Premiere Pro CS6 and CC. They're completely free and you can check them out here: ERROR: Glitch & Distortion Presets for Premiere Pro

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.

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Gilbert Ray 7 years ago

Thank You Jordy

Dave 7 years ago

thanks Jordy!

shreyas 7 years ago

i cant see the keyframes i can only see the colours

souhail 5 years ago

you have to pay i think

Nicolas Galindo 7 years ago

Thanks a lot from Colombia (South América)!

Totiparche 7 years ago

Hey I could only find the BLUE glitch, GREEN glitch and RED glitch presets in the package but there was no FINAL glitch anyone else with the same issue???

kushal arora 8 years ago

Bro, you are great I learned a lot from a week back I started learning Premiere Pro and today I know good level photoshop... All Thanks To You and Orange83.

Chris joseph 8 years ago

I work on Adobe Premiere pro CC 2018 now, when I tried the present, it didn't have the keyframes on it. I followed the tutorial, but the keyframes didn't appear on the task bar and therefore, no glitch effect. What's the problem!?

Rene 8 years ago

With me too

Chrisberyy.tz 8 years ago

great work, thank you so much

Michelle Voloszyn Carvalho 9 years ago

The 5 more effects isn't working. "Due to the popularity of this tutorial video, we’ve decided to create 5 simple to use presets for Premiere Pro CS6 and CC. They’re completely free and you can check them out below: [product id=”33967″]"

Felix Seeger 9 years ago

your shortcode to your download products is just displayed, but not the actuall downloads. maybe a wp-plugin issue...

Jordy Vandeput 9 years ago

That's for the notice! I think it's a caching issue. I've just cleared it on the server, could you try holding CTRL + SHIFT + R for a hard refresh of the page?

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