Animated Matte is a Guided Edit which when applied to your video reveals it in different shapes and styles. Pick an overlay and apply it to add dramatic effects to your videos, or a select scene.
Last updated on
16 May 2021
- Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
- Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
- Workspace and workflow
- Working with projects
- Importing and adding media
- Arranging clips
- Editing clips
- Reduce noise
- Select object
- Candid Moments
- Color Match
- Smart Trim
- Change clip speed and duration
- Split clips
- Freeze and hold frames
- Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
- Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
- Replace footage
- Working with source clips
- Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
- Trim clips
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Artistic effects
- Color Correction and Grading
- Applying transitions
- Special effects basics
- Effects reference
- Applying and removing effects
- Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
- Time remapping - Guided edit
- Effects basics
- Working with effect presets
- Finding and organizing effects
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Best practices to create a time-lapse video
- Applying special effects
- Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
- Transparency and superimposing
- Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
- Apply an Effects Mask to your video
- Adjust temperature and tint
- Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
- Create a picture-in-picture overlay
- Applying effects using Adjustment layers
- Adding Title to your movie
- Removing haze
- Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
- Create a Vignetting effect
- Add a Split Tone Effect
- Add FilmLooks effects
- Add an HSL Tuner effect
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Animated Sky - Guided edit
- Select object
- Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
- Double exposure- Guided Edit
- Special audio effects
- Movie titles
- Creating titles
- Adding shapes and images to titles
- Adding color and shadows to titles
- Apply Gradients
- Create Titles and MOGRTs
- Add responsive design
- Editing and formatting text
- Align and transform objects
- Motion Titles
- Appearance of text and shapes
- Exporting and importing titles
- Arranging objects in titles
- Designing titles for TV
- Applying styles to text and graphics
- Adding a video in the title
- Disc menus
- Sharing and exporting your movies
What are Animated Mattes?
How will my videos look with this effect?
Here are some examples of Animated Mattes used in videos.
How to apply Animated mattes as overlays to reveal videos?
Select Guided > Video Adjustments > Animated Mattes. Click Add Media to add a video . Select the appropriate import option and import media. Once imported, the media file gets added to the Project Assets bin. Drag-and-drop the media file to the Video 1 track on the Timeline.
Now, to add animated overlays to this media file, in the right panel, click on the Graphics icon. This will show you the available animated matte overlays. Drag the animated matte overlay you wish to apply and drop it on another video track (eg. Video 2) on the Timeline just above the video clip on the Video 1 track.
Note: You can add multiple overlay clips to get different effects.
A scissor icon appears on the playhead. Click the icon to split the part of the video where overlay is not applied. This helps you retain the remaining portion of the video.
To ensure the video is revealed as the animation plays, add the Track Matte Key effect. Click on the Effects icon on the right panel and drag-and-drop the Track Matte Key effect onto the highlighted video on the Video 1 track of the Timeline.
In the Applied Effects window on the right panel, set Matte to the video track you have added it on (eg. Video 2) and Composite Using to Matte Luma.
Play the video to see the video being revealed in a dramatic way. To export the final output, select File > Export and Share. For information about various exports and share options available, see Export and share your videos.
Use mattes as transition from one video to another
You can use Animated Mattes as transition between two clips. Applying transition provides smooth shift from one clip to another. Transitions can also convey a tone or mood, suggest the passage of time, or separate parts of the story.
How to apply Animated mattes as transitions?
For using Animated mattes as transition, you require two video clips. Click Add Media to add the assets you wish to work with. Select the appropriate import option and import media. Once imported, the media file gets added to the Project Assets bin.
Drop Clip 2 (outgoing clip) on Track 2. From the Effects panel, select Track Matte Key effect and drag-drop it on the clip. To adjust the settings of this effect, set Matte to Video 3 (In the next step, you will add the Reveal Video Matte on track Video 3) and Composit Using to Matte Luma. Ensure the Reverse checkbox is checked.
Add the Reveal Track Matte clip on video track 3. From the Graphics panel, open the Show All drop-down and select Reveal Video Mattes. Select the matte you want to apply for the transition and drop it on the track Video 3 on the timeline such that the end of the clip aligns with the end of Clip 2. You can use Timestretch to fasten or slow down the transition effect.
Place Clip 1 (incoming clip) on track 1 such that its beginning aligns with the beginning of the Reveal Track Matte clip on Track 3. To make this clip fade in, right clik on the clip > Fade > Fade In Video.
Play the video to see the video being revealed in a dramatic way. To export the final output, select File > Export and Share.