Use Presets in Premiere Pro & After Effects to give your video editing and motion design projects unique color looks.

I use video editing presets often to quickly create stylized looks for color grading. They are a more affordable option than plugins for those on a budget. There are several FREE preset collections available online that will work in Premiere Pro or After Effects (they work in one application or the other, not both). These Premiere Pro and After Effects presets are a combination of multiple effects that you can use as is or modify to create your own custom looks.

In this post I’ll share a few resources for free Premiere Pro presets and how to install them on your system. Then we’ll tackle free AE presets, with installation instructions as well.

Adobe Premiere Pro Presets

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Created by Jarle Leirpoll, this Premiere Pro preset pack consists of Looks & Grading Tools. Jarle’s Looks has common color grading looks like bleach bypass, cross process and teal/orange (cool/warm). The Grading Tools has corrective options like “3-Way Skin Tone Fix” and “Curve Highlight Roll-off”.

Check out this tutorial on how to use these free Premiere Pro presets in your video editing projects and DOWNLOAD the pack from PremierePro.net.

Some of Jarle’s presets are designed to be used on adjustment layers, which is a quick way to apply a look to all the clips in your sequence.

Studio 1 Productions

Studio 1 Productions has a free set of 56 Premiere Pro presets called CinemaFX. These range from film styles (1960, 70s, 80s) to warm & cool looks. DOWNLOAD

Installing Premiere Pro Presets

Installing Premiere Pro presets is quite simple. With the “Effects Panel” selected, right click and select “Import Presets” (or use the pulldown menu). Navigate to the preset file and click OK. The presets are now installed. It’s that easy.

The Premiere Pro presets will be listed in the Presets Bin in the “Effects Panel”.

After Effects Presets

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This super informative filmmaking and video production website has a collection of over 50 free After Effects presets. DOWNLOAD

They’ve also included a video tutorial that shows you how to install and modify these AE color grading presets:

The “Blue Brown” preset has a a nice tobacco look without completely tinting the footage like a traditional sepia effect would. Hindi bhakti song mp3.

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Blue Brown preset

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This is a nice collection of 29 After Effects color grading looks. I like the “Beach” preset, as it has a nice warm look and you can quickly modify the color by changing the “Photo Filter” color. DOWNLOAD

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Beach Preset

Installing After Effects Presets

Drop the presets in the After Effects Presets Folder on your system. Then launch After Effects and the AE presets will appear in the Effects and Presets Panel under “Animation Presets”.

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Updated on 07/15/2015
Here are 56 presets for Adobe Premiere that will give your videos a more cinematic coloring look. The presets are totally free.
The presets works with NTSC and PAL, and any video resolution size. All presets are made with Premiere's built-in controls.
NOTE: You will find that the presets will give you different results depending on the footage, the lighting of the shot, etc. You can adjust the preset controls to achieve the desired effect. All presets were made by the staff at Studio 1 Productions.

The demo requires QuickTime 7 or Windows 7, 8 or 10

Installing the Presets into Premiere CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5 and CS5
1) You MUST follow these instructions exactly.
2) Click on the download button below for the Cinema FX preset and select Save As (or Save Target As). NOTE: Please make sure you know where you are saving this file to.
3) Unzip the Cinema-FX.zip you just downloaded. If you are on Windows 7 or 8 and you don't have a zip program, you can just Right Click on the Cinema-FX.zip file name and then select Extract All. This will unzip the file for you.
4) Once you have unzipped the Cinema-FX.zip file, you will find a folder named Cinema-FX. In side that folder you will find the following 3 files:

• Cinema-FX-Installer.bat - This is the program that will install the presets into the proper location.
• Cinema-FX.prfpset - This is the actual preset file.
• Readme.txt - This is a text file that will explain how to install the presets manually, in case for some reason you don't want to use the Cinema-FX.bat program to install the presets for you.

5) Now, RIGHT CLICK on Cinema-FX-Installer.bat and then select Run as Administrator.
6) The program will run and a menu will come up. Select which version of Premiere you are running and the Cinema FX preset will now install in the correct location.
Now, follow the steps below to Import Cinema FX into Premiere.
Importing Cinema FX Preset into Premiere.
7) Start up Premiere and Open a Project.
8) Once the Premiere Project loads, look in the bottom left area of the screen. You will see a tab mark Effects. Click on the Effects tab.
9) Right Click on the folder marked Presets and then select Import Preset.
For Premiere CS5, navigate to the C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Premiere Pro CS5Presets folder. There you will see the Preset file called Cinema-FX.prfpset Click on that filename and then select Open. The Presets will now be installed.
For Premiere CS5.5, navigate to the C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Premiere Pro CS5.5Presets folder. There you will see the Preset file called Cinema-FX.prfpset Click on that filename and then select Open. The Presets will now be installed.
For Premiere CS6, navigate to the C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Premiere Pro CS6Presets folder. There you will see the Preset file called Cinema-FX.prfpset Click on that filename and then select Open. The Presets will now be installed.
For Premiere CC, navigate to the C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Premiere Pro CCPresets folder. There you will see the Preset file called Cinema-FX.prfpset Click on that filename and then select Open. The Presets will now be installed.
For Premiere CC 2014, navigate to the C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Premiere Pro CC 2014Presets folder. There you will see the Preset file called Cinema-FX.prfpset Click on that filename and then select Open. The Presets will now be installed.
For Premiere CC 2015, navigate to the C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Premiere Pro CC 2015Presets folder. There you will see the Preset file called Cinema-FX.prfpset Click on that filename and then select Open. The Presets will now be installed.

Cinema-FX Presets for Premiere
Please do NOT host the Cinema FX Presets on other sites. If you want to share them with others, simply link to this page. Thanks.
Cinema-FX Presets are brought to you by David Knarr of Studio 1 Productions