What video effect for color desaturation? (e.g. Hue/Saturation in Photoshop)

Hi all,
What is the Premiere equivalent of the HUE/SATURATION adjustment layer found i Photoshop ? I am trying to slightly desaturate (about -53%) my movie to give it a more gritty look. I could easily get the look I wanted in Photoshpo by going to NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER-->HUE/SATURATION.
Is there a similar approach for Premiere? In the Video effects folder somewhere? Thanks!

Use the "Fast Color Corrector and "Saturation".

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That's simple parralax animation to give the illusion that the camera would be very close to the talent while keeping the background in frame. Nothing magic there, given that all the backgrounds are artificial and have been added in post, anyway.

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Video effects for a horror/thriller trailer

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In general, no, you cannot do two video effects at the same time.
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Need Video Effects for project (see what kind in description)

Need background flames, inversion of colors, bluring, and the ability to put pictures on top of the current video.
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METC wrote:
Need background flames, inversion of colors, bluring, and the ability to put pictures on top of the current video.
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Mshinderman wrote:
Hello!
I am an aspiring death metal vocalist who wants to record some stuff just for fun. I recently heard that garageband has stuff like vocal compression and reverb, which I had previously heard a lot of death metal bands use on their vocal tracks.
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