Smoke video effects can add depth to your shots and set the mood for your video, but where do you even start creating this mysterious look? Whether you’re editing smoky title sequences, transitions, or overlays, Motion Array has you covered with After Effects and Premiere Pro templates. Plus, there’s a selection of stock motion graphics you can use anytime! Motion Array will also share some great smoke VFX tips to help boost your creativity. Let’s dive in.
Summary
Part 1: Top smoke templates and effects to download
1. Smoke VFX
Smoke VFX is a 4K motion graphic clip with an alpha channel, ready to use in your hottest projects. Composite it onto your footage to create stunning titles and transitional effects, or to give your viewers the feeling of an actual fire.
2. Mystical Opener
If you want a dark, atmospheric intro, try out this smoke template. Get interesting results in your next project with a black-and-white look using just 1 title and 1 logo placeholder. It’s simple, but remarkably effective.
3. Smoky Pack – Logo & Slideshow
Create a smoky slideshow with smooth transitions, perfect for an eye-catching intro to your films, trailers, and teaser videos. There’s excellent news for music artists, too. The grungy transitioning effects in this pack can easily sync to the beat of music for something unique.
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4. Smoke Slideshow
This attention-grabbing template is a great way to showcase products or your portfolio. The realistically animated smoke ring blows toward the viewer and comes in 3 shapes: triangle, square, and circle. The circle smoke ring is so realistic that creative filmmakers will love it.
5. Smoke Transition
With its seamless transitions, this Final Cut Pro smoke template is ideal for giving your project a mind-blowing look. Drop it into your slideshows, films, commercials, promos, or dance videos to create beautifully abstract variety in your clips.
6. Ink-Smoke Transitions (Pack 2)
Is it ink? Smoke? Maybe both! This smoke effect pack has 10 transitions to use with a range of content, including photos and videos. The striking design resembles billowing smoke or ink clouds in water, and will impress your audience. With the right text animation, these effects can lead to epic opening titles.
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7. Cinema Smoke Titles
Reveal your titles in a dramatic atmosphere with an intensely smoky background. This smoke template will make your teasers, promos, and even documentaries stand out. Featuring 20 editable text layers, this template is a must-have for your next project.
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8. Smoke Transition Package
This 4K transitions pack contains 3 variations of smoke bursting across the screen and slowly fading away. You can use the alpha mattes to move between scenes, or position them alongside text and logo animations for a spectacular opening.
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9. Smoke Elements and Titles
If you want a cartoony smoke effect, this After Effects pack is the perfect option. The dynamically animated smoke elements and full-screen title animations are easy to use and can add fun to any typography video or title sequence.
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10. Smoke Logo
This beautiful indent smoke template is an enchanting way to reveal your logo. With a billowing smoke effect and optical flares, its fairy-tale-like 3D logo sting makes an impressive opener to any project.
11. Mystical Smoke Logo
The Mystical Smoke logo indent is a fantastic opener for an edgy video project. The camera slowly pulls out to a reflective logo surrounded by eerie smoke. The dark palette gives this indent a gritty yet stylish feel. Try it out in music videos, creative films, and animations.
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12. Color Smoke Spiral Logo Reveal
This colorful smoke logo reveal is super simple to edit in Premiere Pro. It’s also a terrific way to start and end creative videos. The twisting smoke columns and neon light effects can be adjusted to your own colors, so it’s also super versatile. Try an electric blue palette for a sci-fi feel, or greens and yellows for a supernatural horror. Remember that color theory can be very powerful in your edits.
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13. Smoke History Timeline
Enjoy a slow and cinematically animated After Effects smoke template. You get 8 text and 8 media placeholders to play with. Shake it up with the intelligent color controller for even more options. Dark and dynamically animated, it will fit into a range of projects, and no plugins are needed.
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14. Smoke Pack Two
This pack of 10 stunning motion graphic smoke-effect videos can be used in several ways: to create transitions between scenes, blend with your original media for a smoky atmosphere, or add to title sequences for a spooky feel.
15. Smokey Logo Reveal
This mysterious logo reveal will make a great opening for your film, but with a little creativity, it can be used for much more. The realistic smoke transitions can be built up and combined with other effects. You could even use them to create some mystical lower thirds.
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16. Mirage Smoke Slideshow
A dramatic opener that’s easy to use, the Mirage Smoke Slideshow works with photos and videos. The stylized design and text animations will capture your audience’s attention with a haunting vibe, while the slow, puffy smoke clouds could create a romantic scene for wedding videos or holiday photo slideshows.
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17. Double Exposure – Opening Titles
This smoke template opener uses both double exposure and smoke effect videos to achieve a gritty, cinematic look. The subtle color palette allows your media to blend perfectly with the effects and fade into the background. Try it out in films, music videos, and trailers.
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18. Smoke Impact Pack
For a range of VFX, this motion graphics collection includes 7 high-quality smoke effect videos . You can use these video clips for logo and text transitions, or composite them into your own footage. The graphics make this pack perfect for adding realistic smoke to your scene.
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19. Smoke Transitions
With 70 high-quality transitions featuring curling smoke, this template is an excellent resource for Final Cut Pro editors. Easily drag and drop it onto your footage, and enjoy professional-level effects in minutes.
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20. Smoke Alphabet
Create amazing misty titles with this useful alphabet pack. As the smoky letters appear and disappear on black, you can use them as an overlay, for a countdown clip, or even for lower thirds!
Part 2: 6 pro tips when working with smoke video effects (VFX)
If these smoke templates have inspired you, here are 6 key tips for choosing the right asset for your project. Remember, a storyboard isn’t just for pitches. It’s an essential video planning tool that will help you perfect your smoke effects on the first try.
1. Think about your angles
When considering which smoke stock video or motion graphic to use, compare it to the shot(s) you wish to composite. To successfully build a believable world for your audience, the stock graphic should blend into your original media. If the angle of the smoke stock video is different from the angle you shot your footage, it won’t look realistic.
2. Lighting, lighting, lighting
As with camera angles, lighting has a considerable impact on your composition. If the lighting in your original media is coming from the right, you should choose an asset lit in a similar direction.
3. Match image quality
When you download a smoke stock video or template, animated elements will be high-quality renders. You should check the footage you want to add the VFX to and adjust the quality of the asset to match.
4. Maintain focus
Similarly to image quality, the depth of focus in your shot might be different from that in your VFX asset. Try adding blur effects to blend the smoke template and original media.
5. Remember color correction and grading
You should color-correct both your VFX graphic and original media to help place the effect in your footage. Color grading is a great way to sell the effect. By adding your adjustments to the overall scene, you can blend your VFX further.
6. Build layers of effects
Don’t rely on just one VFX layer if you want a realistic look. Instead, add multiple effects and build up your scene. Let’s say your film has a shot with a house ablaze. Well, where there’s smoke, there’s fire! Layering your fire video effects with billowing smoke will make the scene more authentic. You can even add light leaks or lens flares to the composition to tie it all together.
Smoke video effects look amazing and can add production value to your projects. Smoke effects videos and templates can help you create stunning edits that impress your audiences and clients alike, so get downloading and see where your creativity takes you.
