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iii Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements What's new in Premiere Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements Adobe Premiere Elements manual (PDF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 . . . . . .
iv ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS Contents Chapter 6: Editing clips Reduce noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Candid Moments Smart Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
v ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS Contents Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit Create a Vignetting effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Add a Split Tone Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements What's new in Premiere Elements Edit, create, and organize more easily than ever. Improve grainy low-light clips with a simple drag and drop. Create time-lapse videos, animate skies in photos, and fill the black edges around a video to match the rest of the frame with three new Guided Edits.
2 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Animate skies in your photos Make it look like the sky in your photo is moving! Add some wow factor to any photo that includes the sky. The Animated Sky Guided Edit makes it easy to replace a static sky with a moving one for an eye-catching result. See how it works - Animated Sky - Guided edit.
3 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Time-lapse guided edit for photos and videos Fill the frame to match your video Fill in the black bars around photos and videos to match the frame! Often you would have seen black bars on the sides of your photos and videos. These black bars appear because of difference between the aspect ratio of media and the PRE project. Use this guided edit to fill the black bars to match the frame. See how it works - Fill Frame - Guided edit.
4 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Fill black bars on the sides to match frame Find new things to try When you launch Premiere Elements, you can find new Try this cards with green tags in the Home screen. These cards allow you to find out and learn more about new features in the application such as Reduce Noise, Time-Lapse, Fill Frame, and more.
5 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Find videos faster with Smart Tags Just like with your photos, your videos are auto-tagged based on popular subjects like sunsets, birthdays, dogs, cats, and more. Powered by Adobe Sensei. See how it works - Smart tags. Search for videos and photos using automatically assigned tags called Smart tags Find videos by faces Just like with your photos, the faces in your videos are automatically recognized.
6 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Find videos and photos organized in stacks in People view Expanded HEIF and HEVC support This update of Premiere Elements provides support for HEVC and HEIF decoding. For the system requirements, extensions, and other important information, see Using HEVC and HEIF media on Windows.
7 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • Internet connection required for product activation and content download* • Supported browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11, Mozilla Firefox 4 or later, or the latest version of Google Chrome macOS • 64 bit multi-core Intel processor • Intel Core i7 (2.6 GHz) or above and 16 GB RAM recommended for 4K editing • mac OS X v10.15, v10.14, v10.13 • 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) • 7.
8 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • 1280x800 display resolution (at 100% scale factor) • Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver • DVD-ROM drive (for installation from DVD) • Compatible DVD burner to burn DVDs • Windows Media Player (required if importing/exporting Windows Media formats) • Internet connection required for product activation and content download* • Supported browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11, Mozilla Firefox 4 or later, or the latest version of
9 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Windows • 2GHz or faster processor with SSE2 support; dual-core processor required for HDV or AVCHD editing; Intel Core i7 required for XAVC-S • 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 10 • 4GB of RAM • 5GB of available hard-disk space to install applications; additional 10GB to download all optional content • 1280x800 display resolution (at 100% scale factor) • Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver
10 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • 1024x768 display resolution (at 100% scale factor) • Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver • DVD-ROM drive (for installation from DVD) • Compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatible Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs • Windows Media Player (required if importing/exporting Windows Media formats) • Internet connection required for product activation and content download* macOS • 64-bit multicore Intel processor • macO
11 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • QuickTime 7 software • Windows Media Player (required if importing/exporting Windows Media formats) • Internet connection required for product activation and content download* Mac OS • 64-bit multicore Intel processor • Mac OS X v10.9 or v10.
12 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • Mac OS X v10.8 through v10.
13 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Mac OS • 64-bit multicore Intel® processor • Mac OS X v10.7 through v10.9 • 2 GB of RAM • 4 GB of available hard-disk space to install applications; additional 5 GB to download content • Video adapter with the latest updated drivers • 1024x768 display resolution • DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatible Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs) • DV/i.
14 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • QuickTime 7 software. • Internet connection required for Internet-based services. Adobe Premiere Elements 10.0 Windows • 2 GHz or faster processor with SSE2 support; dual-core processor required for HDV or AVCHD editing and Bluray or AVCHD export.
15 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • 4 GB of available hard-disk space to install applications; additional 5 GB to install content • Video card with the latest updated drivers • 1024 x 768 display resolution at 96 dpi or less • Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver • DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatible Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray disc media) • DV/i.
16 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 DV or HDV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader) • QuickTime 7 software Supported import/export formats ASF (import only), AVI, AVCHD (import only), SWF files (import only), Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV, DVD, Dolby® Digital Stereo, H.
17 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Supported import/export formats Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 supports the following import/export formats: ASF (import only), AVI, AVCHD (import only), SWF files (import), Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV, DVD, Dolby® Digital Stereo, H.264, HDV, JPEG, PNG (import only), PSD (import only), MOD and TOD (JVC Everio, import only), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, mp3, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media, WMA (import only), 3GP.
18 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • 1,02 4x 768 display resolution • DVD-ROM drive • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features • Internet connection required for Internet-based services Adobe Premiere Elements 5.0 Windows • Intel® Pentium® 4 or Intel Celeron® (or compatible) 1.
19 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements • 256 MB of RAM • 750 MB of available hard-disk space • 1,024 x 768 16-bit (XGA) display • CD-ROM drive Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 Windows • Intel® Pentium® III or 4 processor at 800 MHz (faster recommended) • Microsoft® Windows® XP® Home or Professional with Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 • 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended) • 800 MB of available hard disk space • Adobe Reader¨ 6.0.1 and Microsoft DirectX 9.
20 Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements Mac OS • PowerPC® processor • OS 9.1, 9.2.x, Mac OS X v. 10.1.3 through 10.1.5 • 128 MB of RAM • 350 MB of available hard disk space • Color monitor with video card capable of thousands of colors • CD-ROM drive • Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0 (for Help menus) Adobe Premiere Elements 1.0 Windows • Intel® Pentium® processor • Microsoft® Windows® 98, NT 4.
21 Chapter 2: Workspace and workflow Get to know the Home screen Workspace basics The Adobe Premiere Elements workspace presents an easy-to-use interface for video enthusiasts. It organizes features into Quick, Guided, and Expert views based on their complexity. Note: If you are using Premiere Elements 2018 and earlier versions, you will also see the eLive tab.
22 Workspace and workflow Quick Goal screen The Quick Goal screen contains the following: • Trim a video clip tile: Click the tile and select a video that you want to trim. The Smart Trim screen opens with the selected video. For information about trimming a video clip, see Premiere Elements 2019 Quick view. • Combine photos and videos to create a single movie tile: Click the tile and select the media that you want to combine. Quick view opens.
23 Workspace and workflow Quick view sceneline A Freeze frame B Rotate right C Delete D Render E Playback controls F Audio preview controls G Program monitor settings H Play full screen I Add audio from computer J Add music K More options (add title or media) L Add media M Add transition N Auto pan and zoom O Change image duration P Edit video clip Q More options (for video) R More options (for caption) S Edit caption text T Change caption duration The Quick view sceneline displays images and video clips
24 Workspace and workflow Quick view timeline The Quick view timeline displays each clip as a series of frames that span the entire clip length. You can trim unwanted portions within individual frames and rearrange them. You can also swap the position of a clip with another to make a coherent movie sequence. Workflow initiation The Quick view timeline includes invocation points to get you started with your video creation process. Click any one of the invocation points to launch the desired workflow.
25 Workspace and workflow The Expert view includes advanced features and tools, such as Audio Mixer and Time Stretch, that professionals use to perform intricate video editing tasks. In addition to the panels available in the Quick view, the Expert view contains the Project assets panel. This panel contains the media files you import into your Premiere Elements project. Use the panel options to organize the files as a list or in a grid. The grid view displays a thumbnail for each file.
26 Workspace and workflow Alternatively, in the Add title or media area in the monitor panel or the Quick view sceneline, click the + sign or > Add Media. choose Add title or media area After the media files are added to the Quick view sceneline, you can rearrange and edit them. For more information, see Add media. Create Use readily available templates and start creating stunning videos by clicking the Create drop-down list.
27 Workspace and workflow Fix Adjust Lets you adjust the inherent properties of your clip, for example color and lighting. You can also use the Smart Fix tool to enhance the quality of your video footage. If you add a title to your clip, use the Adjust panel to alter its properties, if necessary. Tools Provides options that let you add cool effects to your video. For example, use Time Remapping and Smart Mix to add sophisticated motion effects to your video.
28 Workspace and workflow • Start screen Welcome screen When you first launch Adobe Premiere Elements, the Welcome screen is displayed. The product Welcome screen includes options to launch all three products - Premiere Elements, Photoshop Elements, and Elements Organizer. A link to the trial version is available if any of the products is not installed on your computer. Click Video Editor to create a new project, with default settings, in the workspace.
29 Workspace and workflow • Video Editor: Select this option if you want the Adobe Premiere Elements workspace to open every time you launch Adobe Premiere Elements. Start screen The Premiere Elements start screen makes it easier for you to initiate popular workflows. You have several options to start creating your videos. Hover your mouse over each option to learn more about it. Click one of the options to start creating your video.
30 Workspace and workflow Tell your story using titles Enhance your movies with ready-to-use and customizable motion titles. Start by including motion title templates that are preloaded with animated graphic presets, text, and background styles that can all be edited to suit your requirements. Clicking Tell your story using titles opens the Motion Titles selection panel from the action bar. Select and drag a template of your choice and start creating your movie.
31 Workspace and workflow Change preferences You can customize the look and behavior of Premiere Elements, from determining the default length of transitions to setting the brightness of the user interface. Most of these preferences remain in effect until you change them. The preferences you set for scratch disks, however, are saved with your projects. Whenever you open a project, it automatically defaults to the scratch disks you selected for it when you set up that project.
32 Workspace and workflow Audio preferences Play audio while scrubbing Enables audio scrubbing. You can create a keyboard shortcut called “Toggle Audio During Scrubbing” to toggle audio scrubbing on or off while scrubbing. Using a keyboard shortcut is preferable to returning to the Preferences dialog box each time you want to turn audio scrubbing on or off. Minimum Time Interval Thinning Creates keyframes only at intervals larger than the value you specify. Enter a value from 1 through 2000 milliseconds.
33 Workspace and workflow Device Control preferences In the Device Control pane of the Preferences dialog box, you specify the settings Premiere Elements uses to control a playback/recording device, such as a VTR or camcorder. Media preferences Clear Media Cache Premiere Elements creates lot of intermediate files which are used in projects. These are called Media Cache. You can set the media cache size to keep cleaning your hard drive.
34 Workspace and workflow Freeze Frame Grab a single frame from a video clip to use as a still image in your current movie or to save as a still on your hard drive for use elsewhere. For example, you can use a still in your movie to show a character start an action, but then stop midaction, frozen on the screen. For more information, see Freeze and hold frames. Motion Tracking Motion Tracking gives you the ability to track moving objects in a video clip.
35 Workspace and workflow For more information, see Adjust volume and mix audio in the Audio Mixer. Narration You can choose to record a narrative for your video from within Premiere Elements. Using your computer’s microphone, you can narrate clips while previewing them in the Monitor panel. Your narration is then added to the Narration soundtrack visible in either the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. For more information, see Create narrations.
36 Workspace and workflow Redo Ctrl+Shift+Z Shift+Cmd+Z Cut Ctrl+X Cmd+X Copy Ctrl+C Cmd+C Paste Ctrl+V Cmd+V Paste Insert Ctrl+Shift+V Shift+Cmd+V Paste Effects and Adjustments Ctrl+Alt+V Cmd+Opt+V Delete Shift+Delete Delete Delete and Close Gap Backspace return Duplicate Ctrl+Shift+/ Select All Ctrl+A Cmd+A Deselect All Ctrl+Shift+A Shift+Cmd+A Edit Original Ctrl+E Cmd+E Rename Ctrl+H Cmd+H Insert ,(comma) ,(comma) Overwrite .(dot) .
37 Workspace and workflow Text Type Alignment > Left Ctrl+Shift+L Type Alignment > Center Ctrl+Shift+C Type Alignment > Right Ctrl+Shift+R Select > Next Object Above Ctrl+Alt+] Select > Next Object Below Ctrl+Alt+[ Arrange > Bring to Front Ctrl+Shift+] Arrange > Bring Forward Ctrl+] Send to Back Ctrl+Shift+[ Send Backward Ctrl+[ Other Panels Action Windows Mac Go to next narration clip Right Right Go to previous narration clip Left Left Narration Disc Layout Decrement - Increm
38 Workspace and workflow Nudge Selected Object Left by One Pixel Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left Nudge Selected Object Right by Five Pixels Ctrl+Alt+Right Nudge Selected Object Right by One Pixel Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right Nudge Selected Object Up by Five Pixels Ctrl+Alt+Up Nudge Selected Object Up by One Pixel Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up Position Object(s) to Bottom Title Safe Margin Ctrl+Shift+D Position Object(s) to Left Title Safe Margin Ctrl+Shift+F Position Object(s) to Top Title Safe Margin Ctrl+Shift+O Media\Pr
39 Workspace and workflow Show Audio View Shift+A Show Classic View Shift+C Show Next Screen Down Show Previous Screen Up Slide Clip Selection Left Five Frames Alt+Shift+Left Opt+Shift+Left Slide Clip Selection Left One Frame Alt+Left Opt+Left Slide Clip Selection Right Five Frames Alt+Shift+Right Opt+Shift+Right Slide Clip Selection Right One Frame Alt+Right Opt+Right Slip Clip Selection Left Five Frames Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left Cmd+Opt+Shift+Left Slip Clip Selection Left One Frame Ctrl
40 Workspace and workflow 6 Do one of the following: • To erase a shortcut and return it to the command that originally had it, click Undo. • To jump to the command that previously had the shortcut, click Go To. • To simply delete the shortcut you typed, click Clear. • To re-enter the shortcut you typed previously, click Redo. 7 Repeat the procedure to enter as many shortcuts as you want. When you’re finished, click Save As, type a name for your Key Set, and click Save.
41 Workspace and workflow Audio recording Click Add Narration to directly record onto a track. The Narration dialog is displayed and the recorded clip is placed on the target track. The Narration dialog can also be invoked from the Toolspanel. Using the Narration option from the Tools panel will place the narration clip on the Voice track. You can than choose to move it to another track if required.
42 Workspace and workflow Note: By default, audio tracks are displayed as Half waveform while video tracks are displayed as First and last thumbnails. Stand-alone audio clips are displayed in green while audio clips that are linked to a video clip are displayed in blue. When you unlink an audio track from its video, it is displayed in green. Disable audio and video tracks You can now choose to disable specific audio, video, voice, and music tracks by clicking the corresponding toggle icons.
43 Workspace and workflow When in Audio View, the Action bar opens up with Audio categories selected. You can choose to switch to Video categories and continue using the Video feature if required. Beginning Premiere Elements 14, the Audio Meter will no longer be available. The Master Meter instead provides the functionality of the Audio Meter. Undoing changes Undo changes incrementally If you change your mind about an edit or effect, Adobe Premiere Elements provides several ways to undo your work.
44 Workspace and workflow Customizing shortcuts Create custom keyboard shortcuts In addition to using the default set of keyboard shortcuts, you can assign your own custom shortcuts to nearly any menu command, button, or tool. You can save different sets of shortcuts and restore the default settings. 1 Choose Edit > Keyboard Customization. 2 In the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, choose an option from the pop-up menu: • Application displays commands found in the menu bar, organized by category.
45 Workspace and workflow About scratch disks When you edit a project, Adobe Premiere Elements uses disk space to store scratch files for your project. These include captured video and audio, conformed audio, and preview files. Adobe Premiere Elements uses conformed audio files and preview files to optimize performance, allowing real-time editing, high processing quality, and efficient output. All scratch disk files are preserved across work sessions.
46 Workspace and workflow Custom Indicates that the current path isn’t in the pop-up menu. The current path isn’t changed until you click Browse to specify any available disk location. Maximizing scratch disk performance • If your computer has only one hard disk, consider leaving all scratch disk options at their default settings. • If it has more than one, choose large, secondary hard drives for scratch disks and not the main load drive.
47 Chapter 3: Working with projects Creating a project Projects Adobe Premiere Elements creates a project file for every new project that you want to publish or save to work on later. You can also create a project before importing media. The project file references the media that you add to a project. The types of media could include videos, images, titles, and themes among others. Project files are small in size. They include title files and references to the source files that you capture or import.
48 Working with projects You can import a clip whose settings do not match the settings of an empty project. Adobe Premiere Elements overwrites the project settings with the settings of your clip when you drop it on to the Expert view timeline. By default, the folder where you save your project also stores rendered previews, conformed audio files, and captured audio and video. These files are large, so save them to your largest, fastest hard drive.
49 Working with projects Dynamic sequence preset When you add a movie clip to the Expert view timeline, Adobe Premiere Elements automatically changes your project settings in the background to match the clip properties. They include dimension, fps, pixel aspect ratio, and field order. Select presets and change settings Adobe Premiere Elements includes default project presets for media from common sources like cameras, DVD discs, and mobile phones among others.
50 Working with projects Check your project settings Project presets include project settings under three categories: General, Capture, and Video Rendering. After you start a project, you can’t change most of the settings, such as frame rate, size, and aspect ratio. However, you can review the settings to ensure that the media you want to add to the project is compatible. ? Open the project in Premiere Elements, and choose Edit > Project Settings > [category].
51 Working with projects Title Safe Area Specifies the frame edge area to mark as a safe zone for titles, so that titles aren’t cut off by TVs that zoom the picture. A rectangle with crosshairs marks the title-safe zone when you click the Safe Zones button in the monitor. Titles require a wider safe zone than action. Action Safe Area Specifies the frame edge area to mark as a safe zone for action so that TVs that zoom the picture do not exclude the action.
52 Working with projects • To save a copy of a project, choose File > Save As, specify a location and filename, and click Save. • To save a copy of a project and continue working in the original project, choose File > Save A Copy. Specify a location and filename, and click Save. Tip: To specify where Premiere Elements stores project-related files, such as captured video and audio, and previews, set up a scratch disk.
53 Working with projects Preview a movie in the Monitor panel You can preview all or part of a movie at any time in the Monitor panel. To preview a movie, Adobe Premiere Elements must first prepare the clips on all the tracks for viewing, applying effects, motion, opacity, and volume settings. Video quality and frame rate are dynamically adjusted to let you preview the movie in real time. Movies that use only cuts between clips generally preview at normal quality and frame rate.
54 Working with projects Scroll the Expert view timeline during preview You can set an option to automatically scroll the Expert view timeline from right to left, when a sequence is larger than the visible timeline. This way you don’t have to zoom out to see the entire sequence. 1 On Windows®, select Edit > Preferences > General. On Mac® OS, select Adobe Premiere Elements 13 > Preferences > General. 2 Choose an option from the Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling menu.
55 Working with projects Preview a movie in full-screen mode ? Click the Play Full Screen button in the upper-right corner of the application. The preview pane fills the screen, and playback starts automatically. Pause, reverse, and advance a full-screen preview In addition to playing and pausing a full-screen preview, you can reverse or advance in single-frame increments. 1 To display the control bar, move the pointer to the bottom of the screen.
56 Working with projects 2 In the Realtime Playback section, select these options: • Select the Desktop Video Display During Playback option if you want to preview through the Monitor panel and your TV monitor. Deselect this option if playback through the Monitor panel is jerky. • For External Device, choose the option that matches the camcorder or analog-digital converter you’re using to drive your TV monitor. • For Aspect Ratio Conversion, choose Hardware (If supported).
57 Working with projects Render a preview ? Set the work area bar over the area you want to preview, and click the Render button or choose Timeline > Render Work Area. (The rendering time depends on your system’s resources and the complexity of the segment.) You can also render a preview by setting the work area bar and pressing Enter (Windows) or Home (Mac).
58 Working with projects Create Video Collage from Premiere Elements or Elements Organizer 2 Select a layout from the list of templates. Each template is a unique combination of number of grids and effect applied on those grids. For example, you can select a template with 3 grids and Slide In effect or a template with 5 grids and Rotate effect. Hover the mouse over a template to see the name of the effect, click to see the preview.
59 Working with projects Add media from Elements Organizer 4 Drag and drop media from Media bin to the collage. You can preview the media in the Media bin before adding them to the collage. You can also drag media directly from organizer to the collage.
60 Working with projects Add photos and videos A Preview video B Preview image 5 Customize the video collage by using contextual controls. Video Collage Note: The default effect on an image is pan & zoom.
61 Working with projects Customize video collage A Resize handles B Pan/Move tool C Zoom slider D Delete E Swap media F Trim media G Mute clip audio Resize handles Resize the grid and media by dragging the handles. Pan/Move tool Pan: To move the media within the grid, drag the pan tool. Move: To move the grid's content with the grid, click outside the pan tool and drag the selection. Zoom slider Drag the slider left to zoom out or right to zoom in. Delete Delete the grid and media.
62 Working with projects Video Collage settings A Templates B Playback Settings C Add Music Templates Change the template of your video collage with one of the templates available. To change the template, double-click a template or select a template and click Apply. Playback Settings Specify the playback settings for the collage. One after another Play media one after another. All together Play all media together.
63 Working with projects Video collage preview Click Render for smooth playback. Note: It might take some time to load the preview of your video collage. Save and export video collage Save a Video Collage Project To save a video collage, do one of the following: • In the Taskbar, click Save. • Choose File >Save. The Video Collage Project is saved with a .vc filename extension. Note: A file with .vct extension is also created at the same location. This file is required to open the video collage.
64 Working with projects Open a Video Collage Project To open a video collage project, do one of the following: • Choose File > Open Project from the Premiere Elements workspace. • Choose File > Open Video Project from the Video Collage workspace. Browse for the .vc file and click Open. Note: Do not place a file with the name placeholder.png at the location where your video collage is saved as this causes Video Collage workspace to not load properly and you get the media offline error message.
65 Working with projects Creating a video story Create a video story Follow these steps to create a video story: 1 Click Create > Video Story. Or Click Make your Video Story from the Premiere Elements start screen. 2 Adobe Premiere Elements displays tips for creating a video story. You can click the left and right arrows and view the tips. • When you have viewed the tips and want to start creating the video story, click Skip.
66 Working with projects Video story tutorial steps 3 Choose a category to start creating the video story. Click General to create the video story with a general theme. If the theme is not present on the computer, you will see an Online Content Download that displays content being downloaded for that theme. 4 Click the left/right buttons to browse through the various available themes. The image displayed provides a preview of the selected theme.
67 Working with projects 6 Click a video to launch a preview of the video clip. Click to select a file and press Delete to remove a file from the story assets. Press Ctrl + A to select all the clips and then Delete to remove them from the selected story asset. The file is not removed from the location in which it is saved. Click Next. All the files present in Story Assets are included and can be accessed while creating the Story Overview.
68 Working with projects To rearrange the order in which clips are played, drag-and-drop the clips inside the chapter to change the order in which they are played in a chapter. 9 The chapters are displayed in a linear view in Detail View. Detail View lets you edit the chapters by helping preview the videos, render the videos, mark favorite moments, add captions and narration to the chapters, and so on.
69 Working with projects 11 You can perform various operations on chapters in Overview View, such as: • Hide Chapter: Click to hide a chapter from the movie. You can hide only the first and last (Story Title and Story Credits) chapters. • Edit Chapter: Click to edit the chapter. • Delete Chapter: Click to delete a chapter from the video story. • Story Title: Edit the story title for your video story. Every chapter has a title that can be edited.
70 Working with projects Add a caption Click Add/Edit caption to add or edit the captions. 4 Alternatively, in the previous step, click Add Narration to add narration. Add narration Click Record to start recording. Change the Mood setting of the chapter You can choose a predefined mood by clicking the Settings icon next to the Chapter Mood drop-down. In Detail View, select a chapter and select the Chapter mood from the drop-down list.
71 Working with projects The default duration for a theme is approximately 4-6 minutes. You can use Instant Movie on all of the clips in your movie. Alternatively, use it on a subset to create a montage or special feature at the beginning or end of a DVD. You can choose various themes. You can apply all of the properties in a theme, or choose to add only a subset. Likewise, you can add a theme to an entire sequence in the Quick view timeline/Expert view timeline.
72 Working with projects • InstantMovie: Specifies whether you want to perform an auto edit, which automatically trims the clips and adds them to the project based on their Smart Tags. And whether to analyze clips and apply Smart Tags to them. • Apply To: Specifies whether to apply the theme to the entire project or to the selected clips in the Quick view timeline/Expert view timeline. • Music: Specifies whether to use the theme music, your own music (click Browse to locate and open it), or no music.
73 Working with projects View comprehensive file information Adobe Premiere Elements includes tools that you can use to evaluate a file in any supported format stored inside or outside a project. For example, you can determine whether a clip you exported has an appropriate data rate for Internet distribution. Video file properties can include file size, number of video and audio tracks, duration, average frame rate, audio sample rate, video data rate, and compression settings.
74 Working with projects Status Specifies whether a clip is online or offline. If a clip is offline, this option also indicates why. Client Field for adding a client’s name or other details. Adjust columns in List view Use the List view to quickly evaluate, locate, or organize clips based on specific properties. 1 Open the Project Assets panel.
75 Working with projects Display and arrange media items In the Project Assets panel, you can display items in the List view. The List view lets you view more items simultaneously, search, and sort items by properties such as media type and duration. • To sort items in List view, click the column heading by which you want to sort the items. (For example, click Media Type to sort items by type.) If folders are expanded, items sort from the top level and down the Project Assets panel hierarchy.
76 Working with projects Locate missing files for a project Premiere Elements doesn’t store original source files in a project—it references the name and location of each source file when you import it. If you later move, rename, or delete a source file from your computer, the Where Is The File dialog box opens when you next open the project. In addition to source files, a project also references preview files.
77 Working with projects 3 To specify a folder for the project, click Browse and locate the folder. In the Browse For Folder dialog box, you can click Make Folder to create a new folder. 4 After you specify a folder, click OK, and then click OK again to close the Project Archiver dialog box. Premiere Elements places the new files into a folder with a name that starts with either Trimmed, if you chose Archive Project, or Copied, if you chose Copy Project.
78 Chapter 4: Importing and adding media Add media The media files are the building blocks of the movies you create in Adobe Premiere Elements. You can add different types of media files (audio, video, or images) to Adobe Premiere Elements from different sources. To know about the supported file types, see Supported file formats. To know about supported devices, see Supported devices | Adobe Premiere Elements.
79 Importing and adding media 3 Drag one or more media files to the Quick view timeline or Expert view timeline. You can also select the clips and click Add Files. It adds the clips to the timeline. 4 After your clips are added to the timeline, click Done. Add media using Files and Folders Import videos, photos, and audio files from your computer’s hard drive or other storage devices (for example, external hard drive or pen drive).
80 Importing and adding media 3 Do one of the following: • On Windows, select the Numbered Still check box and click Open. • On Mac OS, select the Numbered Still check box and click Import. Adobe Premiere Elements interprets all numbered files as a single sequence. Import photos from your digital camera, phones, or removable drive Import photos from a camera, mobile phone, or through USB. This option opens the Adobe Photo Downloader window.
81 Importing and adding media • To create one or more subfolders for grouping files by criteria, click the drop-down next to the Create Subfolder field. Choose one of the options from the drop-down list for naming the subfolder. • To rename the files in the folder consistently, click the drop-down next to the Rename Files field. Choose an option from the drop-down list for renaming the files. The filename defaults to the folder name you enter.
82 Importing and adding media • Choose File > Add Media From > Videos from cameras and devices. Video Importer dialog box 3 Select the device from Source drop-down in the Video Importer dialog. The importable files are displayed in the panel below the Source menu. The number of files, and the size of the content is displayed at the bottom of the panel containing the content. Note: Video Importer cannot import media from external hard drives.
83 Importing and adding media Note: To rename files, delete them from the Project Assets panel in the Expert view, and reimport them. Custom Name-Number Enter a custom name in the Name field. For example, if you enter My Holiday in the field, the clips are named My Holiday-001, My Holiday-002, and so on. 7 (Optional) If you want to delete the selected files from original location after import, select the option After Copying Delete Originals.
84 Importing and adding media You can add these clips to Adobe Premiere Elements by following the procedure mentioned in Add media using Files and Folders. Note: For WDM devices, make sure that your device is connected with your system and working properly. 1 Do one of the following: • For Windows, click Add Media > Webcam or WDM or select File > Add Media from > Webcam or WDM. • For Mac OS, click Add Media > Webcam or select File > Add Media from > Webcam. The capture screen appears.
85 Importing and adding media An MPEG file can be imported or played in Adobe Premiere Elements if it meets the following criteria: • The file must be in a format that Adobe Premiere Elements supports. • The compressor used to create the file must be compatible with the Premiere Elements decompressor. The compatibility requirements for playing compressed files are less stringent than the requirements for editing them.
86 Importing and adding media Internet files You can download music from the Internet for your projects. WMA (Windows Media Audio) and AAC (QuickTime) files can have pre-encoded settings that don’t allow you to play them in Premiere Elements. Guidelines to add image files By default, Adobe Premiere Elements scales images to fit the project frame size. You can override this behavior and instead add your files at the size at which they were created.
87 Importing and adding media • Use the appropriate field settings to match your project. • You can use an Adobe application (such as Photoshop) to generate the sequence. Select Embed Project Link to open the sequence in the application that was used to create it. For example, select a PSD file in the Project Assets panel in Adobe Premiere Elements. Then, choose Edit > Edit Original to open the file in Photoshop with the original layers intact.
88 Importing and adding media 5.1 audio import Adobe Premiere Elements facilitates importing and playing clips with 5.1 audio in the same format as the project preset. You can create movies combining AVCHD video and stereo audio and 5.1 audio and stereo audio. You can move clips from track to track in the Expert view timeline regardless of whether the audio is 5.1 or stereo. If you import 5.1 audio file to the stereo channel, it is converted to 5.1 and the other way round. To create a 5.
89 Importing and adding media Working with offline files About offline files An offline file is a placeholder for a source file that Premiere Elements cannot currently find on your hard drive. Offline files remember information about the missing source files they represent. If an offline file appears in the Quick view/Expert view timeline, a “Media Offline” message appears in the monitor and in the Quick view/Expert view timeline. Edit an offline file 1 In the Expert view, click Project Assets.
90 Importing and adding media Here are a few ways you can share files between Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements: • Organize your photos, video clips, and audio clips in either Premiere Elements or Photoshop Elements. Find the assets using Elements Organizer in either application and add them to a project. • Capture video in Premiere Elements and open it from the Elements Organizer and create and edit still images from the video. • (Windows only) Create a slideshow in Photoshop Elements 6.
91 Chapter 5: Arranging clips Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline Expert view timeline overview The Expert view timeline graphically represents your movie project as video and audio clips arranged in vertically stacked tracks. When you capture video from a digital video device, the clips appear sequentially as they occur. The Expert view timeline uses a time ruler to display the components of your movie and their relation with each other over time.
92 Arranging clips Tip: You can specify the default number and type of tracks in new movies. Default tracks A Video 2 track B Audio 2 track C Video1 track D Audio 1 track E Narration track F Soundtrack Expert view timeline tools Use the tools at the top of the Expert view timeline to play a clip, stop playback, or change playback speed. Use the panels in the Action bar to add titles, transitions, special effects, and music.
93 Arranging clips Sometimes, you don’t want all clips to shift with each insertion. For example, when you add background music that superimposes the entire movie, you don’t want clips to shift. To shift specific clips togather, press the Alt key as you insert. At a time, you can shift specific clips simultaneously on a maximum of two tracks. These include the track receiving the insertion and the track containing the linked audio or video (if any). The affected tracks shift together, remaining aligned.
94 Arranging clips Replace a clip in the Expert View timeline To replace a clip in the middle of the Expert view timeline, without altering the length or changing the effects or overlays, use the Replace Clip command. This option is useful when editing expanded instant movies. 1 From the Project Assets panel, select the clip you want to use. 2 In the Expert view timeline, right-click/ctrl-click the clip you want to replace and choose Replace Clip From Project Assets.
95 Arranging clips • To move a clip and overlay another clip in the movie, drag the clip to the first frame you want to overlay, and then press Ctrl/Cmd. When the pointer changes to the Overlay icon, release the mouse button. • To move only one clip of a linked pair, Alt-select the clip you want to move. Drag it to the desired location. If you want to shift clips only on the target tracks, release the mouse button when the pointer changes to the Insert icon.
96 Arranging clips To create clip instances with different default In and Out points, duplicate the source clip in the Project Assets panel. If you delete a duplicate clip in the Project Assets panel, all instances of it in the Expert view timeline are deleted. 1 In the Project Assets panel, select a clip and choose Edit > Duplicate. 2 To rename the duplicate clip, select it in the Project Assets panel, and do one of the following: • Choose Clip > Rename and type a new name.
97 Arranging clips By default, track names are hidden. To view track names, resize the track header section. Resize the height of a track ? In the Expert view timeline, do one of the following: • Right-click/ctrl-click an empty track of the Expert view timeline, and choose Track Size. Then choose Small, Medium, or Large. • In the track header area of the Expert view timeline, position the pointer between two tracks so that the Height Adjustment icon appears.
98 Arranging clips Displaying thumbnail images across the duration of the clip gives you a sense of the progression of the clip. However, do not confuse the boundary between thumbnails as the actual boundary between frames. Think of the thumbnails as a storyboard or sketch of the clip’s content. ? Click the Set Video Track Display Style button or the Set Audio Track Display Style button at the left corner of the track. Each time you click, the track’s display style toggles to a different view.
99 Arranging clips Link and unlink video and audio clips You can link a video clip and an audio clip so that they act as a unit. When you select, trim, split, delete, move, or change the speed of one, you affect the other clip as well. You can temporarily override the link as needed. In the Expert view timeline, the names of linked clips are underlined and identified with a [V] for video or [A] for audio.
100 Arranging clips Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline Overview • Premiere Elements 2019 The Quick view sceneline provides a stage on which you can quickly arrange your clips into a movie. The Quick view sceneline displays images and video clips as individual thumbnails. Use the Quick view sceneline to trim a video or combine video clips, photos, titles, music, and more into a unique production. You can also add captions, transitions, and special effects to your media.
101 Arranging clips • Elements Organizer: Adds media from albums in Elements Organizer. For information about customizing your media in the quick view sceneline, see Customize your media. • Premiere Elements 2018 and earlier versions The Quick view timeline provides a stage on which you can quickly arrange your clips into a movie. It displays each clip as a series of frames that span the entire clip length. Move the slider to the right to zoom out and see your entire video.
102 Arranging clips The Add text textbox appears on your media. The Add caption text icon in the captions panel changes to the Edit . Captions icon. The captions panel also displays the Change caption duration icon and the More options icon 3 Inside the Add text textbox on your media, type the caption text. The Adjustments panel appears. 4 From the Adjustments panel, apply adjustments to the caption through the following tabs: • Text: Adjust the font, style, size, color, properties, alignment, and modes.
103 Arranging clips The color of the nearest Add transition icon changes to green while you drag a transition. After you drop the transition, the color of the Add transition icon changes to orange. Also, the Transition Adjustments dialog box opens. 3 In the Transition Adjustments dialog box, you can do the following: • In the Duration field, set the duration of the transition in seconds. The default duration is 1 second. • Click the Delete icon to delete the transition effect, if applied already.
104 Arranging clips • Sound: (Available only in video clips and music files) Use the slider to adjust the volume. • Delete: Click to delete the specific media, caption, or music file from the sceneline. • Fit To Movie: (Available only in music files) Match the length of the music (trim or play in repeat mode) with the length of the movie. Edit a video clip Click a video clip to see the Edit video clip icon.
105 Arranging clips Change image duration icon Click the Change image duration icon to see the following options: • Duration: Changes the duration of an image according to its current duration. The minimum duration value is 1 second. The maximum duration value is double the current duration of the image. For example, if the current duration is 5 seconds, you can increase it upto 10 seconds. If the current duration is 10 seconds, you can increase it upto 20 seconds.
106 Arranging clips The clip moves to its new location and all subsequent clips shift to the right. Copy and paste clips In Premiere Elements 2019, you can rearrange clips in a movie by copying and pasting them within your project. You can copy and paste multiple clips at a time. Clips that you paste are added to the end of the sceneline. In Premiere Elements 2018 and earlier releases, clips are pasted to the Video 1 or Audio 1 track at the location of the current-time indicator.
107 Arranging clips To zoom out so that the entire movie is visible in the Quick view timeline, press the Yen sign (¥) key. Make sure that the Quick view timeline is active before pressing the Yen sign (¥) key. Note: The steps described to zoom in and zoom out of the Quick view timeline also apply to the Expert view timeline. Delete a clip 1 Select a clip in the Quick view timeline.
108 Arranging clips For information on adding, moving, and deleting markers in a clip or movie, see Working with clip and timeline markers in Adobe Premiere Elements Help. Add clip and timeline markers You can add markers to a clip in the Project Assets panel, to an instance of a clip in the Expert view timeline, or to the time ruler. Markers are of two types: clip markers and timeline markers.
109 Arranging clips Insert comments, chapter information, or URL links in a timeline marker In addition to indicating important frames of a movie, timeline markers can also contain comments, chapter numbers, or URLs. You can include comments, chapter numbers, or web links only in timeline markers, not clip markers. If you import your movie into Adobe® Encore®, you can use timeline markers to specify chapter links.
110 Arranging clips You can’t move a clip marker in the Expert view timeline. Instead, open the clip in the Preview window and drag the marker in the Preview window time ruler. Delete a timeline marker 1 In the Expert view timeline, move the current-time indicator to the timeline marker. To place the current-time indicator precisely on a marker.
111 Arranging clips • To move to a timeline marker in a movie, make sure that no clips are selected in the Expert view timeline. 2 Choose either Clip > Go To Clip Marker or Timeline > Go To Timeline Marker, and choose Next, Previous, or Numbered from the menu. To help position clips at a marker, make sure that the Snap command is selected in the Timeline menu. (A check mark indicates it is selected.) Then, clips will snap to the markers as you drag them into position in the Expert view timeline.
112 Chapter 6: Editing clips Reduce noise Often in videos you would have noticed noise in the form of grains or speckles. This could be a result of low lighting or high ISO setting. Follow the below mentioned steps to apply the reduce noise effect. Use reduce noise effect to improve quality 1 Import your media file to Premiere Elements and drag-and-drop it to the timeline. 2 Choose effects from the right pane. The video effects window opens. This effect is also available in the Quick view window.
113 Editing clips Reduce noise effect 4 Optionally, you can change the quality of output from the Applied Effects > Quality drop-down. Adjust video quality 5 Render the file or export it to see results.
114 Editing clips Candid Moments If you have a video captured for an event, you have all the memories (in the form of photos and videos) in that video clip. Candid Moments automatically extracts candid photos from your raw video clip. It uses content intelligence to automatically identify and extract good quality, in focus photo moments. You can also manually add or remove candid photo moments.
115 Editing clips Auto Extract Adobe Premiere Elements analyses the clips and extracts candid moments from raw video clips. 4 The extracted candid moments are added to the right panel. Click individual thumbnails to view the extracted moments.
116 Editing clips Extracted moments The extracted moments are also marked in the timeline. Extracted moments in the timeline Manually extract candid moments After extracting the moments automatically, if there are some moments that are not yet extracted, you can extract those moments manually. 1 Move the current time indicator (CTI) in the timeline to the moment that you want to extract manually. 2 Click on the (CTI) to extract the moment.
117 Editing clips Delete extracted photos Candid Moments options Slider Drag the slider to increase or decrease the number of extracted moments. Export To Desktop Use this option to export all the extracted moments to a folder in your system. Create Slideshow Use this option to export all the extracted moments to Elements Organizer and create a slideshow. Export To Timeline Use this option to export all the extracted moments to the end of timeline.
118 Editing clips Premiere Elements 2019 Quick view 1 Launch the Smart Trim screen from the Quick Goal screen or Quick view sceneline: • If you are in the Quick Goal screen, you can directly launch the Smart Trim screen. For more information, see Quick Goal screen. • If you are in Quick view sceneline, import media through the Add Media panel. For information about Quick view sceneline, see Premiere Elements 2019 in Overview. 2 Select the video clip in the quick view sceneline.
119 Editing clips Show Presets button Three presets are displayed. Smart trim presets 5 Select a preset based on the style of your video. People This preset focuses on faces in the video clip along with other quality filters to find scenes with people. This preset is recommended for family-event videos (for example, wedding, birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas gatherings).
120 Editing clips 7 If you are not satisfied with the automatic extraction, do one of the following: • Use the slider to manage the number of extracted scenes. Drag the slider to the left to extract fewer scenes or to the right to extract more scenes. • Change the preset. • Manually extract scenes. • Remove unwanted extracted scenes. 8 Use one of the following smart trim options as required: Smart trim options Reset Click to remove all the extracted scenes.
121 Editing clips Smart Trim 3 Smart Trim automatically analyzes the clip, selects the preset based on the style of your video, and marks the best scenes. 4 Select a different preset if you don't like the results.
122 Editing clips People This preset focuses on faces in the video clip along with other quality filters to find scenes with people. This preset is recommended for family-event videos (for example, wedding, birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas gatherings). Action This preset focuses on activities in the video clip along with other quality filters to find scenes where there is medium-to-high activity or action happening.
123 Editing clips Manually extract scenes If some of your favorite scenes are not in the set of automatically extracted scenes, you can extract those scenes manually. 1 Move the CTI in the timeline to the frame that you want to extract manually. 2 Do one of the following: • Click in the timeline. • Select the Mark Manually option. 3 Drag to increase or decrease the duration of the extracted scene.
124 Editing clips Change a clip’s speed To create a fast- or slow-motion effect, change clip speed. Changing clip speed changes the clip’s duration. Speeding up a clip removes frames, thus shortening the clip duration. In the same way, slowing down a clip repeats frames and thus adds to the length of a clip. For audio clips, a change in speed also changes pitch. The Time Stretch command includes an option to maintain the original pitch of an audio clip at any speed.
125 Editing clips Unlike video, still images are not limited to the length of the original clip. You can set their duration to any length. 1 Select a clip in Project Assets panel or in the Expert view timeline. 2 Choose Clip > Time Stretch. 3 In the Time Stretch dialog box, click the Link button to unlink speed and duration. When linked, changing the duration also changes the playback speed of the clip.
126 Editing clips Split a clip You can split a clip at any frame, creating one clip that ends, and another that begins, at that frame. You can edit the two resulting clips as you would any other clips. 1 Click Add media to import the video clip that you want to split. Or, select the video clip, if it is already present, from the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. 2 (Optional) Click the Fit to Visible Timeline button or press \ to view all the frames in your video clip.
127 Editing clips A Split Clip button Alternatively, to split the clip, press Cmd/Ctrl + K or choose Timeline > Split Clip. Two new clips replace the original clip, one ending at and the other beginning from the current-time indicator line. Split layered clips You can simultaneously split two or more layered clips (clips that overlap in the Expert view timeline). 1 Switch to the Expert view timeline. 2 Click Add media to import the video clips that you want to split.
128 Editing clips A Current-time indicator 6 Split the clips by clicking the Split Clip button adjacent to the current-time indicator line. A Split Clip button Alternatively, to split the clips, press Cmd/Ctrl + K or choose Timeline > Split Clip. New clips replace the original clips, ending at and beginning from the current-time indicator line.
129 Editing clips Freeze and hold frames Export a video frame You can grab a single frame from a video clip to use as a still image in your current movie or to save as a still on your hard drive for use elsewhere. For example, you can use a still in your movie to show a character start an action, but then stop mid-action, frozen on the screen. 1 Select a clip in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
130 Editing clips 2 Click Add media to import the video clip you want to enhance. Ignore if the video clip is already present on the timeline. 3 Select the option to import media. 4 Select Guided > Adjusting Brightness+Contrast & Color. 5 To adjust your video clip, select it. Click to select the video clip. The CTI appears once the clip is selected. 6 Click the Adjust panel to adjust selected settings. 7 Click Lighting to adjust the brightness and contrast.
131 Editing clips 9 Click Color in the adjustments panel to open the Color section. You can adjust the hue, lightness, saturation, and vibrance in the Color tab. Click a thumbnail in the grid to preview the change. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer You can stabilize shaky video footage using the Shake Stabilizer option. Shake Stabilizer removes the jitter caused by camera movements, transforming shaky, handheld footage into steady, smooth shots.
132 Editing clips Shake stabilization in progress - time remaining While stabilizer is processing the frames, you can continue working on the project. 5 You can click Cancel to stop processing the frames. Click Stabilize to start processing again. Apply Shake Stabilizer from the Expert view The Expert view is the recommended view for performing shake stabilization on a video clip. You can configure the advanced options available in this view to enhance the shake removal from the clip.
133 Editing clips Shake stabilization in progress - time remaining While Shake Stabilizer is processing the frames, you can continue working on the project. 5 Click Advanced to view the available advanced options. You can select options to avoid extreme cropping or to adjust other parameters. Advanced options - Shake Stabilizer The options available in the Advanced tab are displayed. You can configure these options to fine-tune the Shake Stabilizer effect applied on your video clips.
134 Editing clips c Video Frame: Defines how the video frames should be stablilized. See Video Frame settings for more information. d Boost Stabilization: When selected, Shake Stabilizer starts again to find elements to track. When you select this option, an analyze and fix workflow on the clip is initiated. The analysis is slow but produces the best results. e Rolling Shutter Ripple: The stabilizer automatically corrects the rippling associated with stabilized rolling shutter footage.
135 Editing clips Replace footage You can replace the source footage for clips in the Available Media. Replacing the source footage for a clip links it to a new source file. When you replace footage: • Instances of the clip are retained in the Project Assets panel and the Expert view timeline, with the corresponding In and Out points. • All the applied effects are intact. However, the clip is linked to the replacement footage instead of its original footage.
136 Editing clips Edit a clip in its original application Some files contain embedded information, called a project link, which indicates the application in which they were created. Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Audition, and Adobe After Effects® create files with project links. If a file contains a project link, you can use the Edit Original command to open the file in the original application, where you can make changes as needed.
137 Editing clips Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on how to trim the unwanted frames or sections in your video. To trim unwanted frames from your video clips using this Guided edit, follow these steps: 1 This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on trimming unwanted frames or sections in your video footage. Click Back and Next to move forward or backward in the guided edit's steps.
138 Editing clips Select footage to delete The unwanted footage or section is highlighted. Click to select the footage. Press Delete key. To select multiple portions, use the Shift key. Mark and extract favorite moments A video usually has various favorite moments. Adobe Premiere Elements helps you mark and extract all your favorite moments in a video as a single collated clip or individual clips. You can use the extracted clips of favorite moments for editing or sharing.
139 Editing clips Favorite Moments 4 Select one of the following ways to mark favorite moments: Using the CTI and the Mark Moment option Locate the desired start point from where you want to mark the favorite moment, drag the CTI to that point, and click Mark Moment. You can mark multiple favorite moments in a video clip. Using the CTI and the + symbol on the timeline Drag the CTI to the frame in the video clip from where you want to mark the moment. Click the + symbol to mark the favorite moment.
140 Editing clips A Reset, Auto Mark Moments, Settings B Mark Moment C Preview D Automatically marked favorite moment E Manually marked favorite moment 5 Use the following options to fine-tune your selection of favorite moments: Merge two favorite moments Drag the end/ or start of a favorite moment to overlap it with the next or previous favorite moment in the timeline. Unmark a favorite moment Click the cross mark in the upper-right corner of the marked favorite moment. The clip is not deleted.
141 Editing clips Extract favorite moments as one clip or individual clips Place moments as combined clip on timeline Select this option to place all the favorite moments as a combined clip. You can double-click the clip and edit the favorite moments if necessary. Place as individual clips on timeline Select this option to place the favorite moments as individual clips on the timeline. Exit Favorite Moments setting is displayed on the first exit.
142 Editing clips Auto Mark Moment Settings Duration of the moment segment marked You can set the slider to increase or decrease the duration of the moment marked. Crisp marks favorite moments in the shortest duration, and Relaxed marks favorite moments with the maximum duration. Mark Moment Settings Seconds to add before and after your Marked Moment Enter the duration of seconds you want to add before or after your marked moment.
143 Editing clips In and Out points serve as a window over a clip A In point B Trimmed frames C Out point You can trim frames from either end of a clip. To trim frames from the middle of a clip, first split the clip (which creates two parts of the original clip). Then, trim the unwanted frames from the end of the first new clip or the beginning of the second. You can trim a clip in the Preview window, the Monitor panel, the Quick view timeline, or the Expert view timeline.
144 Editing clips 2 (Optional) Click the Smart Trim Options button on top. In the Smart Trim Options dialog: • Use the Quality slider to specify the Quality level. The values set here determine the trimmable sections. If you do not set the options here, default settings are used. • Use the Interest slider to specify the Interest level. The value set here determine the focus on face data and audio. Premiere Elements analyzes the clip, and highlights the sections of the clip that need trimming.
145 Editing clips Premiere Elements analyzes the clip and highlights the sections of the clip that need trimming. The Automatic Smart Trim confirmation dialog is displayed. Note: If a clip is not selected, striped patterns are used to highlight the Smart Trim sections of the clip. Smart Trim options Smart trimming uses quality factors such as brightness, blur, shaky, and contrast factors such as face, motion, and dialog as criteria to trim the clips.
146 Editing clips 6 Click the Set In Point button. This trims the unwanted material from the beginning of the second clip and shortens the clip in the Quick view timeline, leaving a gap between it and the clip before. The unwanted material is removed from the beginning of the second clip (or end of the first clip, if you chose to edit that clip). The gap created between the first and second clips is automatically closed.
147 Editing clips Remove frames from the middle of a clip in the Expert view timeline You can retain content at the beginning and end of a clip for your movie and remove content from its middle. Split the clip before the unwanted section begins, and then trim the unwanted material from the beginning of the second clip resulting from the split. 1 In the Expert view timeline, drag the current-time indicator to the frame where the unwanted section of a clip begins. The frame appears in the Monitor panel.
148 Editing clips 4 Position the pointer over the edge of the video clip you want to trim, and do one of the following: • If trimming the beginning of the clip, when the Trim-In icon appears, press Alt and drag the edge to the desired frame. (You can release the Alt key after you begin dragging.) Notice that the video stays aligned with the previous clip. • If trimming the end of the clip, when the Trim-Out icon appears, press Alt and drag the edge to the desired frame.
149 Editing clips Once a clip is in a movie, you can reopen it in the Preview window to change its In and Out points for subsequent instances. You can either regain frames previously trimmed or trim additional frames. 1 In the Project Assets panel, double-click a clip. The Preview window appears. 2 To trim the clip, do any of the following in the Preview window: • To set a new In point, either drag the In point handle or drag the current-time indicator to the desired location, and click the Set In button.
150 Chapter 7: Applying transitions Applying transitions to clips Previewing available transitions You can access available transitions in the Transitions panel (click Transitions on the Action bar). Quick view: All the available transitions appear as thumbnails in the Transitions panel. The Quick view contains a subset of the transitions available in the Expert view. Expert view: The transitions are organized into categories.
151 Applying transitions Specify a default transition The default transition is used in slide shows you create and files you import from Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. It is also used in motion backgrounds you create for DVD menus. The default transitions are Cross Dissolve for video or still images and Constant Power for audio. However, you can change these defaults. 1 In the Quick view or the Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.
152 Applying transitions 3 Drag the transition from the Transitions panel to the cut between two clips in the Expert view timeline, and release the mouse button when one of the following alignment icons appears: Start At Cut transitionStart At Cut Aligns the beginning of the transition to the beginning of the second clip. Center At Cut transitionCenter At Cut Centers the transition over the cut. End At Cut transitionEnd At Cut Aligns the end of the transition to the end of the first clip.
153 Applying transitions Replace a transition You can replace a transition by simply dropping a new transition onto the old one in the Quick view or the Expert view timeline. When you replace a transition, Premiere Elements maintains the alignment and duration of the original transition; however, it discards the settings of the original transition and instead uses the default settings of the new transition. 1 In the Quick view/Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.
154 Applying transitions Page Peel transition between two clips (left), and Cross Dissolve transition at end of clip (right) When a transition shifts from one clip to the next, it overlaps frames from both clips. The overlapped frames can either be frames previously trimmed from the clips (frames just past the In or Out point at the cut), or existing frames repeated on either side of the cut. It’s important to remember that when you trim a clip, you don’t delete frames.
155 Applying transitions To open the Transitions contextual control, double-click the a transition in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. Duration Sets the duration of the transition. The default duration is one second. Alignment Controls how the transition is aligned between clips. By default, transitions are centered between clips. Start/End Points Set the percentage of the transition that is complete at the start and end of the transition.
156 Applying transitions Adjust transition duration You can edit a transition’s duration by dragging the end of the transition in either the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. You can also use the Transition contextual control to edit the duration of a transition. ? Select the transition in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline and do one of the following: • Position the pointer over the end of the transition until the Trim-In icon or the Trim-Out icon appears.
157 Applying transitions Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit This Guided Edit is a tutorial on adding transitions between video clips. They help create a switch between two clips smoother. To add transitions between video clips using this Guided edit, follow these steps: 1 This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on adding transitions between video clips. Click Back and Next to move forward or backward in the guided edit's steps.
158 Applying transitions Specify Transitions Adjustments Create special transitions Create an Image Mask transition You can use a black-and-white bitmap image as a transition mask. The first clip replaces the black area in the image, and the second clip replaces the white areas in the image. If you use a grayscale image for the mask, pixels containing 50% or more gray convert to black, and pixels containing less than 50% gray convert to white.
159 Applying transitions Create a Gradient Wipe transition Adobe Premiere Elements can use any importable grayscale image as a gradient wipe. In a gradient wipe, the second clip fills the black area of the grayscale image and then shows through each level of gray as the transition progresses until the white area becomes transparent. When you create a Gradient Wipe transition, you can specify the softness of the transition’s edges.
160 Applying transitions Create a Luma Fade Transition effect Use this guided edit to create a cool transition effect between two video clips, two images, or an image and a video clip. This guided edit allows you to freeze a frame from your chosen media and save it as a photo, on which you can apply the gradient wipe transition effect. This effect is applied on the media during transition from one media to another.
161 Applying transitions A Transition icon B Gradient Wipe transition 8 On the Gradient Wipe Settings dialog box, click Select Image to select the image saved using the Freeze Frame dialog box. Click OK. 9 In the Transition Adjustments dialog box, change the transition properties as follows: • Set the duration of the transition between two media in the Duration field. The default is 1 second. • Click More and ensure that the selected alignment is Between clips. • Click Apply to apply the settings.
162 Chapter 8: Special effects basics Effects reference You can correct, improve, and otherwise modify your clips with the effects provided in Adobe Premiere Elements. All effects are preset with default values for settings, so when you apply an effect, it alters your clip. You can adjust and animate values as desired. This reference contains descriptions of all audio and video effects included as part of Adobe Premiere Elements.
163 Special effects basics Bevel Edges Brigh tness & Contrast Color Balance (RGB) Color Pass (Windows only) Drop Shadow Face t (Windows only) Extra ct Fast Blur Shar pen (Windows only) Crop Emb oss Gaus sian Blur Color Edge Origi Clip (Windows only) Replace (Windows only) Feather nal clip Chan nel Mixer Find Edges Hori zontal Flip Last updated 11/5/2019 Hori zontal Hold (Windows only)
164 Special effects basics Inver t Lens Distortion Light ning Mirr or Polar coordinates Mos Post Nois e Ram p Repli cate Light ing Effects aic erize Origi nal clip Lens Flare Rippl e (Windows only) Last updated 11/5/2019 Roll
165 Special effects basics Shad ow/Highlight Shar pen (Windows only) Textu Tint rize Sphe rize Trans Twirl form Verti cal Flip Verti cal Hold (Windows only) Origi nal clip Activ e Camera Earth quake Airbr ush Line Drawing Paste l Sketch Solar ize Meta llic Shea r Energy Color ize Zoo m Blur Adjust Last updated 11/5/2019 Old Film
166 Special effects basics Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Auto Levels Use Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Auto Levels to make quick global adjustments to a clip. Auto Color adjusts the contrast and color of a clip by neutralizing the midtones and placing a limit on the range of the white and black pixels. Auto Contrast adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors without introducing or removing color casts. Auto Levels automatically corrects the highlights and shadows.
167 Special effects basics Channel Mixer properties A Output channel B Input channel C Value The value to the right of each property name sets the percentage of the output channel contributed by the specified input channel. This number is a percentage ranging from -200% to 200%. The Constant (Const) properties for each output channel allow you to specify a base value to add to that output.
168 Special effects basics 2 (Optional) Drag or type a value for the channel’s constant value. This value adds a base amount of a channel to the output channel. 3 (Optional) Select Monochrome to apply the same settings to all the output channels, creating a clip that contains only gray values. 4 Click Done. Extract The Extract effect removes colors from a video clip or still image, creating a textured grayscale appearance.
169 Special effects basics Shadow/Highlight Use the Shadow/Highlight effect to brighten shadowed subjects in a clip or to reduce the highlights. This effect does not apply a global darkening or lightening of a clip, but rather it adjusts the shadows and highlights independently, based on the surrounding pixels. You can also adjust the overall contrast of a clip. The default settings are optimized to fix clips with backlighting problems.
170 Special effects basics Antialias (Windows only) The Antialias effect blends the edges between areas of highly contrasting colors. When blended, colors create intermediate shades that make transitions between dark and light areas appear more gradual.note: You cannot apply keyframes to the Antialias effect. Antialias A Antialias off B Antialias on Fast Blur Use the Fast Blur effect to specify how much to blur a clip. You can specify that the blur is horizontal, vertical, or both.
171 Special effects basics Channel Specifies which channel or channels to invert. Each group of items operates in a particular color space, inverting either the entire clip in that color space or just a single channel. RGB consists of three additive color channels: red, green, and blue. HLS consists of three calculated color channels: hue, lightness, and saturation.
172 Special effects basics Editing options for the three-way color corrector Tonal range When you preview an image using Tonal Range, the black areas (shadows), gray areas (mid tones), and the white areas (highlights) in an image are displayed. Preview impact area The areas in the image to which the changes are applied is displayed. For example, if you are correcting mid tones, the gray areas in your image that are affected is displayed.
173 Special effects basics Highlights/Midtones/Shadows Balance Magnitude Controls the intensity of the color introduced into the video. Moving the circle out from the center increases the magnitude (intensity). The intensity can be fine-tuned by moving the Balance Gain handle. Highlight/Midtones/Shadows Balance Gain Affects the relative coarseness or fineness of the Balance Magnitude and Balance Angle adjustment.
174 Special effects basics Distort Note: All the Distort options are available only on Windows. Bend (Windows only) The Bend effect distorts a clip by producing the appearance of a wave traveling both vertically and horizontally through it. You can produce a number of different wave shapes at various sizes and rates. To change the following effect properties for the horizontal dimension, the vertical dimension, or both, select the clip with the effect in the Expert view timeline.
175 Special effects basics Corner Pin A Original clip B Corner moved C Final clip Lens Distortion The Lens Distortion effect simulates a distorted lens through which the clip is viewed. Curvature Changes the curvature of the lens. Specify a negative value to make the clip concave, or a positive value to make the clip convex. Vertical and Horizontal Decentering Displaces the focal point of the lens, making the clip bend and smear. At extreme settings, the clip wraps in on itself.
176 Special effects basics Scale Width Scales width up or down as a percentage of the source clip width. Uniform Scale Scales height and width proportionately. Skew Specifies skew amount. Skew Axis The axis on which the skew is based. Changing the axis has no effect if Skew is 0. Rotation Specifies the number of complete rotations and degree that the clip rotates. Opacity Specifies the degree of transparency of the clip, in percentages.
177 Special effects basics 3 Position the edit line at the beginning of the clip. 4 Drag the small circle with an + in the center, on the Monitor window, to where you want to begin writing. 5 To animated the Brush Position, open the keyframe control and toggle the key next to the Brush Position parameter. 6 Increase the brush size from 2 to a higher value (say 10) 7 Move the CTI a few frames on the timeline to move the Write-on point to a new location.
178 Special effects basics Color Replace (Windows only) The Color Replace effect replaces all occurrences of a selected color with a new color, preserving any gray levels. Using this effect, you could change the color of an object in a clip by selecting it, and then adjusting the controls to create a different color. Replace a color 1 Apply the effect. 2 In the Project Assets panel, select the effect and click the Applied Effects button.
179 Special effects basics Alpha Adjust A Clip with alpha channel B Ignore Alpha C Invert Alpha D Mask Only Blue Screen Key and Green Screen Key (Windows only) The Blue Screen Key effect and the Green Screen Key effect create a keyhole of all clip pixels that are similar to a standard blue screen or green screen, so that they become transparent. This effect is typically used to replace a blue or green background with another clip, as in replacing a blue screen behind a TV weatherman with a weather map.
180 Special effects basics Apply the Chroma Key effect to a clip multiple times to key out multiple colors. Adjust the following Chroma key settings as needed: Similarity Broadens or reduces the range of color that will be made transparent. Higher values increase the range. Blend Blends the clip you are keying out with the underlying clip. Higher values blend more of the clip. Threshold Controls the amount of shadows in the range of color you keyed out. Higher values retain more shadows.
181 Special effects basics A still image used as a matte (left) defines transparent areas in the superimposed clip (center), revealing background clip (right). Matte Alpha Composites the clips using the alpha channel values of the image matte. Matte Luma Composites the clips using the luminance values of the image matte. Luma Key effect The Luma Key effect keys out all the regions of a layer with a specified luminance or brightness.
182 Special effects basics Cutoff Sets the opacity of nontransparent areas that the Threshold value specifies. Higher values increase transparency. Drag to the right until the opaque area reaches a satisfactory level. Defringing Removes residual green or blue screen color from the edges of the opaque areas of a clip. Choose None to disable defringing. Choose Green or Blue to remove a residual edge from green-screen or blue-screen footage, respectively.
183 Special effects basics You can create mattes in various ways: • Use the Titles view to create text or shapes (use only grayscale images if you plan to key using luma information), save the title, and then import the file as your matte. • Create a matte from any clip by using the Videomerge effect, Chroma Key, Blue Screen Key, Green Screen Key, or Non Red Key keying effect; then choose the effect’s Mask Only option.
184 Special effects basics Density Sets the sensitivity for creating lines. Slide to the far left for little to no lines. Slide to the right and the picture becomes increasingly busy with lines filling in the textures. NewBlue, Inc., www.newbluefx.com. Metallic The Metallic effect paints an image to look like it’s hammered out of metal. You can control the metal’s color, its behavior, and the amount it mixes with the original image. Color Specifies the color of the metal.
185 Special effects basics Active Camera The Active Camera effect simulates every variety of camera movement, from agitated hand-held, to jackhammer, to a gentle train ride. Horizontal Sets the range of motion along the horizontal (side to side) axis. Vertical Sets the range of motion along the vertical (up and down) axis. Crop Enlarges the picture so it doesn’t chop off at the edges from the camera movements.
186 Special effects basics NewBlue, Inc., www.newbluefx.com. NewBlue Cartoonr effect The NewBlue Cartoonr Plus effect is the latest addition to the list of effects that can be applied to movie clips in Adobe Premiere Elements Editor. The cartoon effect provides a cartoon-like feel to movie clips on which it is applied. Using this effect, you can create a cartoon-like movie out of a live-motion movie clip. The effect can be customized using its various parameters.DensityControls how many lines to draw.
187 Special effects basics (+) if it is not visible on the layer (the center of the highlight does not intersect the clip) and a green plus sign (+) if the highlight is visible. You must render a preview before the Specular Highlight effect becomes visible in the Monitor panel. Preview Draws a wireframe outline of the three-dimensional clip.
188 Special effects basics Lightning The Lightning effect creates lightning bolts and other electrical effects, including a Jacob’s Ladder effect (an effect that depicts a small lightning bolt bridging two metal spikes, often seen in Frankenstein movies) between two specified points in a clip. The Lightning effect is automatically animated without keyframes across the clip’s time range. Start Point, End Point Specify where the lightning begins and ends.
189 Special effects basics Random Seed Specifies a starting point for randomizing the lightning effects you have specified. Because random movement of the lightning may interfere with another clip or layer, typing another value for the Random Seed starts the randomizing at a different point, changing the movement of the lightning bolt. Blending Mode Specifies how the lightning is added to the layer. Adobe Premiere Elements support layer blend modes that change the way layers react with each other.
190 Special effects basics Stylize Alpha Glow The Alpha Glow effect adds color around the edges of a masked alpha channel. You can specify that a single color either fades out or changes to a second color as it moves away from the edge. Glow Controls how far the color extends from the alpha channel edge. Higher settings produce larger glows (and can cause very slow processing before playback or export). Brightness Controls the initial opacity of the glow. Start Color Shows the current glow color.
191 Special effects basics Mosaic The Mosaic effect fills a layer with solid color rectangles. It is useful for creating a highly pixelated clip. Horizontal/Vertical Blocks Specifies the number of mosaic divisions in each direction. Sharp Colors Gives each tile the color of the pixel in its center in the unaffected clip. Otherwise, the tiles are given the average color of the corresponding region in the unaffected clip. Noise The Noise effect randomly changes pixel values throughout the clip.
192 Special effects basics Random Seed Randomizes the way lightning effect works. Texturize The Texturize effect gives a clip the appearance of having the texture of another clip. For example, you could make the clip of a tree appear as if it had the texture of bricks, and control the depth of the texture and the apparent light source.Texture LayerSelect the source of the texture to be used from the list of video tracks in the pop-up menu.
193 Special effects basics Posterize Time The Posterize Time effect changes the frame rate of a clip to one you choose. You can use it to slow a 30-fps clip to 24 fps, for example, to give it the look of film, slow it to 18 fps to simulate the jerkiness of old home movies, or slow it even further to give it a strobe effect. Transform Camera View (Windows only) The Camera View effect distorts a clip by simulating a camera viewing the subject from different angles.
194 Special effects basics Horizontal Flip The Horizontal Flip effect reverses each frame in a clip from left to right; however, the clip still plays in a forward direction. Horizontal Hold (Windows only) The Horizontal Hold effect skews the frames to the left or to the right; the effect is similar to the horizontal hold setting on a TV. Drag the slider to control the clip’s slant. Roll The Roll effect rolls a clip to the left or to the right, or up or down, as if the clip were on a cylinder.
195 Special effects basics Bass The Bass effect lets you increase or decrease lower frequencies (200 Hz and below). Boost specifies the number of decibels by which to increase the lower frequencies. AudioGain Audio gain helps in normalizing audio, by either raising or lowering it to match other audio sources. Channel Volume The Channel Volume effect lets you independently control the volume of each channel in a stereo clip or track.
196 Special effects basics Fill Left, Fill Right The Fill Left effect duplicates the left channel information of the audio clip and places it in the right channel, discarding the original clip’s right channel information. The Fill Right effect duplicates the right channel information and places it in the left channel, discarding the existing left channel information.
197 Special effects basics Hum Frequency Sets the cut frequency for the tone eliminator. If you know the frequency (such as 60-Hz electric hum), select it. If you don't know the frequency, perform the following steps: 1 Turn the Hum Cut slider to the far left so that it magnifies the tone. 2 Turn Hum Frequency control to find the spot where the tone that you want to remove is at its loudest.
198 Special effects basics Notch The Notch effect removes frequencies that are near the specified center. The Center control specifies the frequency to be removed. If you are removing power-line hum, type a value that matches the power-line frequency used by the electrical system where the clip was recorded. For example, in North America and Japan, type 60 Hz, and in most other countries, type 50 Hz. PitchShifter (Windows only) The PitchShifter effect adjusts the pitch of the incoming signal.
199 Special effects basics Volume Use the Volume effect in place of the Fixed Volume effect if you want to render Volume before other Standard effects. The Volume effect creates an envelope for a clip so that you can increase the audio level without clipping. Clipping occurs when the signal exceeds the dynamic range that’s acceptable for your hardware, often resulting in distorted audio. Positive values indicate an increase in volume; negative values indicate a decrease in volume.
200 Special effects basics To select non-consecutive clips, Ctrl-click/Cmd-click each clip. To select consecutive clips, click in the Project Assets panel, and drag a marquee around the selected clips. 4 Drag the audio effect to the clip’s soundtrack in the Expert view timeline. 5 To preview the audio effect, double-click the clip in the Project Assets panel and the click the Play button in the Preview window. Note: Audio playback controls are available only if the selected clip contains audio.
201 Special effects basics 6 Click the Applied Effects panel to make it active. 7 Choose Edit > Paste. You can also access the Edit > Copy And Edit > Paste commands by right-click/ctrl-click. Copy and paste all effects 1 In the Expert view timeline, select the clip that contains the effects you want to copy. 2 Choose Edit > Copy. This copies all the clip attributes. 3 In the Expert view timeline, select the clips for which you want to receive the copied effects.
202 Special effects basics 3 Select Remove Effects. 4 Select one of the following options: • Audio Effects • Video Effects • All Effects Temporarily disable an effect in a clip You can disable a video or audio effect so that you can preview the movie without the effect applied. 1 Select a clip to preview in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. 2 Click Applied Effects to display the Applied Effects panel. 3 Click the eye icon next to the effect.
203 Special effects basics 1. Click Add media to import the video clip that you want to work with. Ignore if the video clip is already present on the timeline. 2. Select the option to import media and choose your clip. 3. Click Guided > Make a Black & White Video with Color Pop. The Guided Editing message is displayed. You can collapse/expand info window. Click Next to go to the next step in the guided edit. 4.
204 Special effects basics Your color pop video is now ready. Click Play to view it. Time remapping - Guided edit The Guided mode offers a set of built-in Guided Edits, which take you sequentially through a series of steps to help you perform a specific editing task. This guided approach helps you easily learn Adobe Premiere Elements and turn your video clips into professionally edited movies. To learn about other guided edits, see Guided mode.
205 Special effects basics 9. Click Done to watch your video with the time remapping effect. Note: The time remapping effect only applies to the video while the audio will play at the same rate. This means that a large change in clip speed may result in the audio going out of sync. Effects basics Video tutorial About effects After you’ve assembled a movie (arranging, deleting, and trimming clips), you can add polish to it by applying effects to clips.
206 Special effects basics Note: If a project contains effects not included with Premiere Elements, and you want to open it in Premiere Elements on another computer, you must install those same effects on the other computer. When you open a project that has references to missing effects, Premiere Elements removes the corresponding effects from the project. Virtual Studio Technology (VST) effects let you add interesting qualities to audio clips.
207 Special effects basics Apply an effect preset If you apply a preset to a clip, and the preset contains properties for an effect that is already applied to the clip, the clip is modified using the following rules: • If the effect preset contains a fixed effect (Motion, Opacity, or Volume), applying the preset replaces the existing effect properties. • If the effect preset contains a standard (non-fixed) effect, the effect is added to the bottom of the list of effects.
208 Special effects basics For example, the Blur And Sharpen category contains effects that alter the clarity or focus of an image, such as Fast Blur and Sharpen. Effects panel ? Click Effects on the Action bar, and do one of the following in the Effects panel: • In the search box, type the name of the effect that you are looking for. The list displays all effects with names that match the letters and spaces you type. (Clear the text box to see all of the effect categories.
209 Special effects basics Add media to Premiere Elements 3 Once imported, the media file gets added to the Project Assets bin. 4 Drag-and-drop the media file from the Project Assets bin to the track Video 1 in the timeline. 5 Add the same media file to the Video 2 track in the timeline. 6 Select the file on the track Video 1 and open the Applied Effects panel from the right pane. 7 Move the Scale slider to adjust the scale and fill the bars. Increase the value until the bars are completely filled.
210 Special effects basics A Applied effects panel B Effects panel 9 Select Gaussian Blur, and drag-and-drop it onto your media on the Video 1 track. 10 Use the Blurriness slider to adjust the effect. Note: Recommended blurriness value is 30. This works best for most media. Adjust blur using the slider 11 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.
211 Special effects basics Export and share Create a time-lapse - Guided edit Time-lapse is a technique whereby the frames are captured at a high frame rate and when played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image may be captured at 1 frame per second, but then played back at 40 frames per second; the result is an apparent 40 times speed increase.
212 Special effects basics You can create a time-lapse video using photos and videos. For best results use sequence of photos or video clips from the same event. For information about the requirements to shoot a time-lapse video including the hardware requirement and shooting specifications, see Best practices to create a time-lapse video To create a time-lapse video, follow these steps: 1 Select Guided > Fun Edits > Create Time-lapse video. 2 In the Project Assets bin, create new folder.
213 Special effects basics 13 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. Export and share your project Best practices to create a time-lapse video Time-lapse videos are videos which when played back at normal speed, the time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. With time-lapse effect the mundane or subtle scenes look very dramatic.
214 Special effects basics • TIme-lapse video shot at sunset Video • A time-lapse video shot at a busy tourist attraction Video • Time-lapse shows a busy highway Video Create a time-lapse video A time lapse movie can be created from a sequence of still images or videos that show the passage of time. The content may be shot over a period of few minutes, hours, days, or even weeks and then the speed increased by a high margin to create a time-lapse movie.
215 Special effects basics When the focusing is set to manual, focus one-third of the distance into the scene behind the foreground. This will provide good depth-of-field. Post processing and creating the time-lapse movie using Premiere Elements To learn how to post process your images and videos and create a time-lapse movie using Premiere Elements, see Create a time-lapse - Guided edit.
216 Chapter 9: Applying special effects Animated Sky - Guided edit This guided edit helps you bring life to still images by animating the sky and making your photos look lively. Note that this edit is only available for photos and not videos. 1 Select Guided > Fun Edits > Animated Sky. 2 Click Add Media to add a photo. Select the appropriate import option and import media.
217 Applying special effects Add media to Premiere Elements 3 Once imported, the media file gets added to the Project Assets bin. 4 Drag-and-drop the media file in the Video 2 track in the timeline at the playhead position. 5 On the right panel, click the graphics icon. This opens the video background options. Drag the selected video and drop it on the Video 1 track in the timeline. Below is an example of 01_Cloud and 02_Firework applied to an image.
218 Applying special effects Note: Make sure that the background video is aligned to the photo on video 2 track. 6 Drag the edge of the photo to cover the background. 7 Click the effects icon on the right pane to open video effects. Drag-and-drop the ultra key effect onto the photo on the Video 2 track in the timeline. Video effects 8 In the Applied Effects panel, select the Key Color eye dropper. Hover it over the preview screen and select the sky color to make it transparent.
219 Applying special effects 9 To trim the clip, click the right edge of the photo on Video 1 track and drag it to match the duration of the background video. 10 The sky in your photo is now animated. Press play to view the results. 11 Click Done to finish the project and exit the Guided Edit mode. 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.
220 Applying special effects Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect Using the pan and zoom tool in Adobe Premiere Elements, you can create video-like effects from images or movie clips. For movie clips, the effect works best when there is minimal movement of objects within the clip. When working with the pan and zoom tool, you select objects and the order in which they are panned and zoomed into.
221 Applying special effects If a picture has not been analyzed previously, the following focus frames appear when you click the pan and zoom tool icon: Focus frame A Resize handlers B Focus frame C Frame Number D Delete focus frame E Pan duration F Zoom options for focus frames Pan and zoom tool: Timeline and thumbnail view A Timeline B Focus frame marker C Thumbnail view D CTI (Current time indicator) • A focus frame on the complete image. • A focus frame at the center of the image.
222 Applying special effects Note: Ensure that you click the frame hint only once. Double-clicking a frame hint adds two focus frames. Modifying focus frames Move focus frames 1 Select the focus frame. 2 Move the cursor over the boundary of the focus frame until the pan (hand) icon appears. 3 Drag to move the focus frame on top of the required object.
223 Applying special effects 3 In Hold Time, scrub the time duration to the required value. Change hold time Alternatively, you can change the hold time by horizontally dragging the right side marker of a focus frame in the timeline. Preview pan and zoom effect ? Click Play Output to preview pan and zoom effect in the preview panel. Alternatively, scrub the CTI to manually preview the effect. Change default settings 1 In the pan and zoom tool, click Settings.
224 Applying special effects You can work with focus frames in videos the same way that you work with focus frames for images. However, only those options that are relevant to movie clips appear in the pan and zoom tool. Transparency and superimposing About superimposing and transparency Superimposing describes the process of overlaying and combining multiple images. Video clips are completely opaque by default, but superimposing them requires transparency.
225 Applying special effects Separated Red, Green, and Blue color channels (left); the alpha channel or mask (center), and all channels viewed together (right) Matte A file or channel that defines the transparent areas of a clip. The matte determines the level of transparency in the resulting image. In Premiere Elements, you use mattes in conjunction with the Track Matte Key.
226 Applying special effects Creating transparency in the Expert view timeline To fade a clip in or out over time, animate its opacity. If you simply want to fade to black, click the Fade In or Fade Out option in the Applied Effects panel. You can also create transparency by using keying effects. Keying out color To make specific areas in a clip transparent, apply a keying effect based on color, matte, or alpha channel. Pixels that match the specified key become transparent.
227 Applying special effects Videomerge effect A Foreground clip with colored background B Background automatically made transparent with Videomerge effect C Background clip that will show through transparency D Combined clips Note: On Mac OS, the Videomerge dialog is not displayed when you drag a clip with a solid background. To apply Videomerge on Mac OS, drag the clip to the Monitor panel, and then select the Videomerge option. You can also apply Videomerge from the Effects panel.
228 Applying special effects 8 For Matte, choose the video track that contains the matte. 9 Adjust options as needed: Composite Using Select Matte Alpha to composite using the values in the alpha channel of the track matte. Select Matte Luma to composite using the image’s luminance values instead. Reverse Inverts the values of the track matte. Tip: To retain the original colors in the superimposed clip, use a grayscale image for the matte.
229 Applying special effects 2 Choose File > Interpret Footage, specify Alpha Channel options as needed, and click OK. Ignore Alpha Channel Ignores the alpha channel included with the clip. Invert Alpha Channel Reverses the light and dark areas of the alpha channel, which reverses the transparent and opaque areas of the clip. Tip: If you have difficulty identifying which parts of a clip are transparent, temporarily add a bright color matte on a track below the image you are keying.
230 Applying special effects Applied Effects panel with the Motion effect selected, and the Monitor panel with a clip handle selected for scaling. Use a clip at its original size Clips you import into Premiere Elements are scaled to fit the frame size of your project. If you want to use a clip at its original dimensions, do the following: 1 Select the clip in the Project Assets panel. 2 Choose Clip > Video Options. 3 Deselect Scale To Frame Size.
231 Applying special effects The Apply an Effects Mask to your Video Guided Edit is available only in the Expert view. 1 Click Expert, and then click Guided. From the list of Guided Edits, select Apply an Effects Mask to your Video. Select the Guided Edit 2 Click Add Media to import the video clips to which you want to apply an Effects Mask. Add Media option 3 Select a media source. For example, select Files and Folders if the video clips are on your hard drive.
232 Applying special effects 4 Select the files you want to import and click Open. 5 All the imported clips are stored in the Project Assets bin. Drag-and-drop a clip from the Project Assets bin to the timeline on the Video 1 track. 6 Right-click the video clip in the timeline and select Effects Mask > Apply. Note: You can later edit the applied Effects Mask using the Effects Mask > Edit option. 7 Move the mask or the selected area or drag the corner handles to adjust the size of the mask.
233 Applying special effects Move the selected area 8 Click Effects on the Action bar. Select an effect and drag-and-drop it in the Monitor panel. Add an effect 9 Click No as you do not want to apply the effect to the entire clip and create an Adjustment layer. 10 You have added an effect to the specific part of the video. Click Play to view the results. Change the effect parameters from the Applied Effects panel.
234 Applying special effects Edit effect parameters The Effects Mask is applied to the video. Effect mask applied Adjust temperature and tint Use the Temperature And Tint controls in the Adjust panel to introduce warmth or coldness to your image. You can also control the amount of green and red tones in your image. Use the Temperature slider controls to increase or decrease the amount of orange or blue tone. Increasing the amount of orange introduces warmth to your image.
235 Applying special effects To adjust the temperature and tint of your clip: 1 Select the clip in the Quick view/Expert view timeline and position the current-time indicator on top of the selected clip. 2 Click the Adjust button on the right of the Monitor panel. 3 In the Adjust panel, click the triangle on the left of the Temperature And Tint control. 4 Under the Temperature tab, select the desired shade of orange or blue. Use the slider controls increase or decrease the temperature or tint.
236 Applying special effects 5 Drag-and-drop the same media on Track 2, exactly above the media on Track 1 in the timeline. 6 Click the Graphics icon in the right panel. Graphics icon 7 From the Graphics > Video Overlays panel, select and drag one or more matte over clips and drop it on Track 3, exactly above the Track 2 media. Note: On Track 3 itself, you can add multiple overlay clips one after another to get different effects. 8 Click the Effects icon in the right panel.
237 Applying special effects 9 From the Effects > Video panel > Keying category, drag the Track Matte Key effect, and drop it on the media on Track 2. 10 In the Applied Effects panel > Track Matte Key section, do the following: • Select Matte as Video 3. • Select Composite Using as Matte Luma. 11 To use additional effects, click the Effects icon in the right panel. 12 From the Effects > Video panel > Blur & Sharpen category, drag the Fast Blur effect and drop it on the media on Track 1.
238 Applying special effects 16 To see the rendered output, click Play. Create a picture-in-picture overlay You can place one video clip in a small frame over a background video clip that covers the entire screen. This effect is called a picture-in-picture overlay. Note: For information about superimposing one clip over another by creating transparent backgrounds, see About superimposing and transparency.
239 Applying special effects • From Windows Explorer, drag a clip or image on to the background clip in the Monitor panel, and select Picture In Picture. • From the Project Assets panel, drag a clip or image on to the background clip in the Monitor panel, and select Picture In Picture 3 To adjust the position of the superimposed clip, drag it to the desired location in the Monitor panel.
240 Applying special effects • Color/Lighting/Other effects: You can adjust these attributes of the adjustment layer. For example, click Color to adjust the Hue, Lightness, Saturation, and Vibrance. Click any effect under Color > Hue to experiment with various types of hues available. Click More to adjust the sliders to increase or decrease the intensity of a particular effect attribute. 6 Click Applied Effects on the Adjust panel to view the effects that have been applied.
241 Applying special effects Using blending modes You can select the way in which Premiere Elements blends, or superimposes, a clip on a track in a Timeline with the clip or clips on lower tracks. In a Timeline, place a clip on a track higher than a track where another clip is located. Premiere Elements superimposes, or blends, the clip in the higher track over the clip in the lower track. Select the clip in the higher track, and select the Applied Effects panel.
242 Applying special effects Blending mode descriptions In the following descriptions, these terms are used: • The source color is the color of the layer to which the blend mode is applied. • The underlying color is the color of the composited layers below the source layer in the Timeline panel. • The result color is the output of the blending operation; the color of the composite. Normal The result color is the source color. This mode ignores the underlying color. Normal is the default mode.
243 Applying special effects than 50% gray, the result color is darker than the underlying color, as if burned. A layer with pure black or white becomes markedly darker or lighter, but does not become pure black or white. Hard Light Multiplies or screens the input color channel value, depending on the original source color. The result is similar to shining a harsh spotlight on the layer.
244 Applying special effects Adding Title to your movie This Guided Edit is a tutorial on adding titles to your video clip. Also, this guided edit teaches you how to choose different fonts, colors, and how to animate your titles. To add titles in your video clips using this Guided edit, follow these steps: 1 This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on adding title to your video clips. Click Back and Next to move forward or backward in the guided edit's steps.
245 Applying special effects Choose and Add Styles Click the desired style to apply it to the text. 10 You can animate your text. To add an animation, click the desired animation and select Apply. Removing haze Remove haze, fog, or smog from a video. You can now remove the dampening effect that environmental or atmospheric conditions have on your videos, particularly videos of landscapes. Using the Haze Removal filter, you can reduce the masking effect that haze, fog, or smog creates.
246 Applying special effects Haze Removal effect in Expert View You can also search for the effect by typing Haze Removal in the search box. 3 The video is processed, and the effect of haze or fog is reduced. You can repeat step 2 to further apply the effect on more videos. You can also choose Applied Effects > Haze Removal and use the Haze Reduction and Sensitivity sliders to achieve the desired level of haze reduction manually. Uncheck the Auto Haze Removal check box to use the sliders.
247 Applying special effects Auto haze removal 1 Open a video in Premiere Elements, in the Quick or Expert mode and apply the Haze Removal effect on it. 2 Select Haze Removal from the Applied Effects tab. 3 Select Auto Haze Removal that calculates the amount of haze reduction automatically depending upon the amount of haze in the video. Note: After selecting Auto Haze Removal, the Haze Reduction slider is disabled.
248 Applying special effects Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit This Guided Edit is a tutorial on creating a picture in picture. You can place a graphic or video on top of a background video. To create a picture in picture using this Guided edit, follow these steps: 1 This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on placing a graphic or video over top of a background video. Click Back and Next to move forward or backward in the guided edit's steps.
249 Applying special effects 6 Open a file explorer window and drag-and-drop the video you want to appear in the foreground. 7 Select the Picture in Picture option. 8 Enter the duration in the Picture in Picture dialog box. You can increase or decrease the duration of the picture in picture effect. Configure Picture in Picture duration 9 Adjust the position of the overlay, drag the desired location in the Monitor panel.
250 Applying special effects Use the Split toning effect to tint the highlights in your image with a particular color and the shadows with a different color. You can achieve best results, if the highlights and shadows in your image are of opposite colors.Use the Hue and Saturation control sliders to adjust the hue and saturation for both highlights and shadows. For more information, see Split toning. Add FilmLooks effects You can use the FilmLooks effects to add cinematic looks to your movies.
251 Chapter 10: Special audio effects Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements About audio mixing Mixing audio involves adjusting volume levels so that they maintain a good range within each clip, and then adjusting them in proportion to other clips used in the movie.
252 Special audio effects Ideally, you should mix the volume for one track from beginning to end before moving on to the next track. Same for mixing balance. 1 (Optional) Choose Edit > Preferences > Audio / Adobe Premiere Elements 13 > Preferences > Audio, and set a value between 1 and 2000 milliseconds for Minimum Time Interval Thinning to limit keyframes to intervals larger than that value. If you don’t want to hear audio while you scrub audio, deselect Play Audio While Scrubbing.
253 Special audio effects Change Smart Mix preferences To change SmartMix options, select Edit > Preferences > Audio / Adobe Premiere Elements 13 > Preferences > Audio. You can change the following options: Track Default Criteria Specify the type of track. The available options are: Foreground, Background, and Disable. When you create a track, by default, it is a Background track. Merge Pause Of Specify the threshold, in seconds.
254 Special audio effects Mute a clip 1 Do one of the following in the Expert view timeline: • If the clip is linked to video, Alt-click the audio track of the clip in the Expert view timeline to select just the audio portion. • If the clip is not linked to video, click the clip to select it. 2 Choose Clip > Enable. (When you disable a clip, the check mark disappears next to the option in the clip menu, and the clip name dims in the track.
255 Special audio effects Music Scores 4 The scores are displayed under the music score category selected in the previous step. Click the preview button to hear the score before applying it to the video clip. Download Music Score Note: Right-click and select Download Now to download the music score. Click here to read more about downloading music scores/online content. 5 Click to select the music score you want to apply to the video clip. Drag-and-drop it on the timeline on the intended video.
256 Special audio effects Score Property 7 Click Play or press Spacebar key to listen to the music score after applying it on the video clip. Repositioning the music score The music score is a dynamic component and can be repositioned and adjusted dynamically. You can perform the following actions while repositioning the music score: Trim the score You can trim the duration of the music score. Select the beginning/end of the music score and trim it using the trim handles.
257 Special audio effects Download Size Click Download in background to move the download progress dialog box to the background. This enables you to continue working on the video-editing tasks while the content gets downloaded in the background. Create narrations Create a narration For best results, confirm that your microphone is working correctly with your computer and Premiere Elements before narrating a clip.
258 Special audio effects 3 In the Record Voice Narration window, click the Mic Source button and select your sound device from the menu. 4 For best results, turn off your computer speakers to prevent feedback. To monitor sound while you narrate, plug headphones into your computer and deselect Mute Audio While Recording. Note: If your speakers are turned on, move as close to the microphone as possible, and keep the microphone as far away from the speakers as possible to prevent feedback.
259 Special audio effects Add an audio soundtrack To complement the sounds embedded in video clips and any narration you record, add audio clips to the Soundtrack track visible in Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. At times, you must scroll down the audio portion of the Expert view timeline to see the Soundtrack. These clips typically contain background music or recordings of environmental sound. 1 If necessary, add the desired audio files to your project.
260 Special audio effects Beat markers appear as blue lines in a separate area called the Beat Track. There must be at least one beat marker in the movie for the beat track to appear. You cannot add media to the beat track. 1 Add an audio clip, or a video clip that includes audio, to the soundtrack in the Expert view timeline. 2 Right-click/ctrl-click the audio clip and choose the Beat Detect option in the context menu. 3 In the Beat Detect Settings dialog box, specify settings as desired, and click OK.
261 Special audio effects SmartSound Express Track dialog If you are using SmartSound any time after the first installation, an update dialog appears asking you to install any latest updates. Click Update Now to update the plug-in, or click Update Later if you want to postpone installing the update. These updates are not necessary for using SmartSound with Premiere Elements. 3 Select a file that you want to use in Adobe Premiere Elements. Click the Play button to preview the sound.
262 Special audio effects Music Remix Remix is enabled by default in Music track in the Quick and the Expert view. To remix an audio clip, do the following: 1 Insert a clip onto an audio track in Quick mode or a music track in Expert mode. Note: For better results, use audio clips with more instrumentals and less vocals. Audio track in Quick mode Music track in Expert mode 2 Resize the clip by dragging the remix handles. Note: The remix handles are different from the trim handles .
263 Special audio effects Preparing the clip for remixing ? Remixing the clip: In this step the prospective segments are identified (based on the desired output duration) and stitched together. Remixing the clip Note: While remixing, the application tries to change the length of the music to be as close to the target duration as possible while still attempting to sound natural. It removes or loops certain parts of music resulting in the output music being exactly same as the target duration.
264 Special audio effects Remix settings Do one of the following to open the Remix settings context menu: • Double click any remixed audio clip in the Music track. • Click the icon in the remixed audio clip in the Music track. Audio Segments: The audio segments parameter helps in deciding whether to favor shorter segments with more transitions or longer segments with fewer transitions. If there are frequent changes in the track, then shorter segments with more transitions provide a better output.
265 Special audio effects Remix preferences Note: The Music Remix feature works on music clips and cannot be used on Music Scores (downloaded from Music panel), Instant Movie, smart trim, favorite moment trimming, or Video collage outputs. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit Video footages or pictures in a video clip convey a story or idea. But, adding narration or voiceovers add a personal touch or amplify the story-telling potential of the video clip.
266 Special audio effects 4 Select Guided > Adding Narration to your movie 5 Attach a microphone (input source) to add narration to your movie, click next. 6 Select the Default Device. In the Audio Hardware section of preferences, click ASIO Settings. Select the input tab and choose your input device. 7 To add narration to your movie, move the CTI to the point where you want the narration to begin. Open the Tools panel from the action bar. Choose Narration. 8 Press Record to start the recording.
267 Special audio effects Music Scores Note: If there is a blue line displayed on the music score, download the clip to preview it. Right-click and select Download Now to download the music score. 7 Click to select the music score you want to apply to the video clip. Drag-and-drop it on the timeline on the intended video. The Score Property contextual pop-up menu is displayed.
268 Chapter 11: Movie titles Creating titles You have two categories of titles available to you that you can include in your movies. You can choose from Classic Titles and Motion Titles. With Classic Titles you can select and add individual components as per your requirements. Motion Titles provide you with the convenience of customizable templates. This article discusses Classic Titles. To work with motion titles, see Motion Titles.
269 Movie titles 2 With the superimposed clip or the black video clip selected, select New Item from the Panel options menu and choose Title. Adobe Premiere Elements places default text in the Monitor panel, in title-editing mode. 3 Do either of the following: • To add horizontal type, double-click the default text, and type to replace it. • To add vertical type, click and hold the Type Tool button. Then choose Vertical Type Tool. Click in the Monitor panel, and type your title.
270 Movie titles Use Roll/Crawl options to change a rolling title to a crawling title or vice versa, specify the direction of a crawl, and set the timing of movement. A rolling title is commonly used for production credits. Create a rolling or crawling title 1 Do one of the following: • To create a rolling title, choose Text > Roll/Crawl Options > Roll. • To create a crawling title, choose Text > Roll/Crawl Options > Crawl. 2 Create the text and graphic objects for the title.
271 Movie titles Ease-In Specifies the number of frames that the title rolls or crawls at a slowly increasing speed until the title reaches the playback speed. Ease-Out Specifies the number of frames that the title rolls or crawls at a slowly decreasing speed until the roll or crawl completes. Postroll Specifies the number of frames that play after the roll or crawl completes. Crawl Left and Crawl Right Specify the direction in which a crawl moves.
272 Movie titles 3 (Optional) Click the Download In Background button to let the content download in the background while you continue to work in Adobe Premiere Elements. When you drag a Title template from the Title And Text panel on to a clip, Adobe Premiere Elements downloads the online content for the template. It then applies the downloaded content to the template.The blue bar on the top right corner on the content indicates the content is not downloaded.
273 Movie titles Shape tools A Rectangle B Ellipse C Rounded Rectangle D Line 1 If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel. 2 In the Monitor panel, select a shape tool. 3 Do any of the following: • Shift-drag to constrain the shape’s aspect ratio. • Alt-drag to draw from the center of the shape. • Shift+Alt-drag to constrain the aspect ratio and draw from the center. • Drag diagonally across the corner points to flip the shape diagonally as you draw.
274 Movie titles Place an image in a text box When you place an image in a text box, the image flows with the text as though it were a text character. It can have the same attributes as other characters, such as strokes. 1 If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel. 2 In the Adjust panel, click either the Horizontal Type Tool or the Vertical Type Tool. 3 In the Monitor panel, click to create a text box where you want to insert the image.
275 Movie titles The Color Properties dialog box A Color picker B Color spectrum C Gradient stop controls You can save a combination of color properties as a style. Styles appear as thumbnails in the Style tab of the Adjust panel. You can easily click them to apply them to objects. Using styles helps you maintain consistency across multiple titles in a project. Set the fill You can use the Color Properties dialog box to set an object’s fill.
276 Movie titles • To set the color to 100% white, click the white box. • To set the color to 100% black, click the black box. • To set the hue, click the color you want in the rectangular color spectrum, and then specify the exact color by clicking in the color picker above the spectrum. • To set the color numerically, set the R, G, and B values by dragging the value or clicking and entering a number.
277 Movie titles The beginning and ending gradient colors are displayed, respectively, in the left and right boxes, or color stops. Select a color stop prior to choosing its color. Drag the color stops to adjust the transition smoothness between the colors. The Angle option (available for Linear Gradient only) specifies the angle of the gradient. The Reverse option reverses the color spots.
278 Movie titles • In the Expert view timeline, you may need to use the scroll bars along the right side to see a title on the Video track to which the title has been applied. The title-editing tools appear and the tool changes to the Type tool. The Project Assets panel changes to display text options, where you can specify options for the text in your title. 2 Do one of the following in the Monitor panel: • To move the insertion point, click between characters or use the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys.
279 Movie titles 2 In the Monitor panel, select the text and do one of the following: • In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, choose a font from the Font menu. Specify a font style Many fonts include built-in variations, such as bold, italic, and narrow fonts. The specific variations depend on the font. 1 If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel. 2 In the Monitor panel, select the text.
280 Movie titles Motion Titles Bring your movie titles to life with ready-to-use and customizable motion titles. Motion title templates are preloaded with animated graphics, stylized text, and background styles. While Classic Titles are also customizable, Motion Titles provide you with the convenience of customizable templates. These templates come with popular predefined layouts and components that you would otherwise need to create individually.
281 Movie titles • Customize the text, graphics, and background to your liking. When you place the motion title onto the timeline, it opens up in the edit mode and the Motion Titles Adjustments panel displays the Text section. Note: For future editing, you could double-click the clip or right-click and select the Edit option.
282 Movie titles Click Text, Graphics, or Background to see how you can start customizing. • Text 1. Select a text component on the Monitor, to start editing it. 2. Type in the text that you want displayed in the component you selected. Use the Style, Format, and Animation panels to further customize your text. Note: There is a limit of 40 characters in motion titles. 3. Click and select a style from the options available to you in the Style panel. Premiere Elements applies the new style. 4.
283 Movie titles • Background 1 Select the background component of the template to start editing it. 2 Change the background for your motion title by selecting one of the options in the Background section. You could choose from any one of the following: • Transparent: Set the background of the motion title to be transparent. • Background Image: Use the template background image, if available as part of the selected template.
284 Movie titles You can also move, scale, or transform the Motion Title as a whole, if required. Ensure that you are not in the Motion Title edit mode to be able to modify the title as a single component. Note: You cannot trim motion titles or edit a motion title after splitting it. Editing is also disabled for time-stretched clips. You can find the original version of the motion title clip that was trimmed in Project Assets.
285 Movie titles Change stacking order When you create objects that overlap each other, you can control their stacking order by using the Arrange command. 1 If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel. 2 Select the object you want to move. 3 Do one of the following: • Right-click/ctrl-click on the object and choose Arrange. • Choose Text > Arrange. 4 Choose one of the following: Bring To Front Brings the object to the top of the stacking order.
286 Movie titles 3 Do one of the following: • Right-click/ctrl-click any of the objects selected, and choose Align Objects. • Choose Text > Align Objects. 4 Select the type of alignment you want. Distribute objects 1 If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel. 2 In the Monitor panel, Shift-click three or more objects or drag a marquee over them.
287 Movie titles Scale objects 1 If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel. 2 In the Monitor panel, select one or more objects. 3 Do one of the following: • To scale the width, drag the object’s left or right bounding box handles. • To scale the height, drag the object’s top or bottom bounding box handles. • To constrain the object’s proportions, press Shift as you drag the corner and bounding box handles.
288 Movie titles Safe title and safe action margins A Safe title margin B Safe action margin Display or hide safe margins ? While adding text or editing a title, do one of the following: • In the Monitor panel, right-click/ctrl-click and choose View > Safe Title Margin, Safe Action Margin, or Text Baselines. • Choose Text > View > Safe Title Margin, Safe Action Margin, or Text Baselines. A margin is displayed if a check mark appears next to its menu item.
289 Movie titles You can save a combination of color properties and font characteristics as a style that you can then apply to any text or shape element in your title. You can save any number of styles. Thumbnails of the styles appear in the Style tab in the Adjust panel panel when the Monitor panel is in title-editing mode. Your custom styles appear among those provided so you can quickly apply your custom styles across projects.
290 Movie titles Select the Guided Edit 2 Click Add Media to import clips. 3 Select a media source. For example, select Files and Folders if the video clips are on your computer's hard drive.
291 Movie titles 4 Select the files and folders you want to import and click Open (Win) or Import (Mac). Hold the command key or use shift to select multiple files. 5 All the clips you import are stored in the Project Assets bin. Drag and drop these to Video 1 track on the timeline. Drag video clip to Video 1 track 6 Add a Black Video to the timeline. Click Project Assets > Panel Options > New Item > Black Video.
292 Movie titles Add the Black Video to the track above the video clip 8 Extend the duration of the Black Video so that it lasts for at least ten seconds for the effect to be displayed. 9 Click Titles & Text on the Action bar. Drag-and-drop a title from the list to the Video 3 track. For best results, use the Default title. Select a title 10 Expand the duration of the title (Video 3 track) to match the duration of the Black Video (Video 2 track). Click Next after you have adjusted the duration.
293 Movie titles Adjust the font and position of the title 13 Click Effects on the Action bar. 14 Select the Track Matte Key effect from the Keying category. Drag-and-drop the effect on the Black Video (Video track 2) on the timeline. Track matte key 15 In the Track Matte Key in Applied effects, do the following: a Select Video 3 from the Matte drop-down menu. b Select the Reverse option.
294 Movie titles 16 You can add the video in different shapes in the Title Adjust panel. 17 Click the Play button in the source monitor to view the applied Guided Edit. Click Render to improve the quality.
295 Chapter 12: Disc menus Creating disc menus About menu templates You can create a menu-based DVD or Blu-ray Disc by using one of the predesigned menu templates included with Premiere Elements. All templates include a Main Menu 1 button and a Scenes Menu 1 button. The menu buttons are automatically linked with menu and scene markers in the Expert view timeline. The main menu contains a minimum of two buttons: one to play the movie, the other to display a scenes menu.
296 Disc menus Every _ Minutes Places scene markers at the interval you specify. (This option is available only when the movie contains several minutes of footage.) Total Markers Spaces your markers evenly across the entire range of clips in the Timeline. Note: If you choose not to add markers automatically at this time, you can add them later. Premiere Elements updates menus dynamically, adding main menu marker buttons, or scenes menus and buttons if you add markers. 4 Click Continue.
297 Disc menus Play Plays media in the thumbnail. The icon changes from the Play button to the Pause button. Click the Pause button to stop the playback and set the In point of the background. Use Still Frame Sets the current frame in the video clip as a still background image. Drag the timecode to set the frame. Apply Default Transition Before Loop Adds the transition you’ve set as the default each time the video starts from the beginning.
298 Disc menus Edit menu text and buttons After you select the template, you can change menu text or the appearance of any of the main menu or scene buttons. You can also delete any button. Because the buttons are linked to the markers, deleting a button deletes the marker that generated it. 1 At the bottom of the Disc Layout panel, click the thumbnail of the menu you want to change.
299 Disc menus Note: The duration you set for a motion menu button applies to all motion menu buttons on the disc. Switch to a different menu template If you decide you don’t like your choice of disc menus, you can easily change to a different template. You will lose any changes you made to menu titles, non-marker button names (Play button or Scenes button), and text settings (font, color, style, and so on).
300 Disc menus Main menu markers Main menu markers divide the video into separate movies. Buttons on the main menu link to main menu markers. You manually place main menu markers to indicate the beginning of each movie that you want listed on the main menu of your disc. If the main menu template you select contains extra buttons (buttons other than the Play Movie or Scenes buttons), those buttons link to the main menu markers.
301 Disc menus Add scene markers automatically The Generate Menu Markers command places scene markers for you. Sometimes you can save time if you let Premiere Elements initially place scene markers, which you can clean up later as necessary. You get the best results when each scene in your movie is a separate clip. In adiition, all the clips you want marked are on the Video 1 track.
302 Disc menus To quickly place a marker, you can also drag a marker from the Add Menu Marker button to the desired location in the time ruler. 3 In the Menu Marker dialog box, type a name for the marker in the box. Text in this box doesn’t wrap, so to place text on multiple lines, press Ctrl+Enter for each new line. Keep the name of the marker short so that it fits in the menu and doesn’t overlap another button. (You can adjust the name later, after you select a template.
303 Disc menus You can delete individual markers or clear all markers from the Expert view timeline at once. If you have edited your movie since you first selected menu templates. You may find it is easier to delete all the markers rather than drag them to new positions. Note: If you have already selected a template, deleting a marker also deletes the button associated with the marker from the main menu or scenes menu.
304 Disc menus Types of discs and menu options About auto-play and menu-based discs Using Premiere Elements and your disc burner, you can create discs: auto-play without menus or menu-based. The first step in creating a disc is deciding on the type you want to create. If you want an auto-play disc, you can simply create your movie, export it to a disc format, and burn it to disc. If, however, you want to create a menu-based disc, add menus to your movie using Premiere Elements menu templates.
305 Disc menus Previewing menus Preview Disc panel overview It’s always a good idea to preview a disc before you burn it. The Preview Disc panel contains controls that mimic those on a DVD or Blu-ray player’s remote control. By using these controls, you can test each button on the menus and view the video to which they link. You can preview a disc in a window or full-screen.
306 Chapter 13: Sharing and exporting your movies Export and share your videos Note: Direct Facebook sharing is no longer available, but you can save your creations on computer and share them separately. For more details about this issue and workaround, see Unable to upload photos and videos to Facebook. Sharing your movies is now simpler and easier than before. The Export & Share (previously called Publish +Share) panel contains everything you need, to save and share your finished project.
307 Sharing and exporting your movies Export and share • Click Export & Share and then click the tab for the desired media type. Choose from Quick Export, Devices, Disc, Online, Audio, and Image. The options and settings for the selected media category are displayed. • Select an output type for the specified media category.
308 Sharing and exporting your movies • Change the recommended settings, if need be. You can choose to change the settings to suit your need. Based on your desired output, you can select a resolution of your choice, and then the formats for that resolution. For some of the formats you can also specify Quality, and Frame Rate among other options. Click Custom>Advanced Settings to create customized export settings, or select an already created custom preset from the Presets drop-down list.
309 Sharing and exporting your movies Codec: H264 Resolution: 640x480 Frame rate: 30 Field order: None (Progressive) Devices The video you edit in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline is not available as an independent video file until you export, or share, it to a video format. After export, you can play it back on your computer, in other media player or editing programs, and move it to other computers.
310 Sharing and exporting your movies When a disc burn operation is unsuccessful due to a hardware failure, Premiere Elements creates and saves an ISO image. You can then burn the ISO image to a disc, at a convenient time. See disc burning guidelines for tips on burning discs. Online Premiere Elements enables you to export your movie in formats suitable for delivery through the Internet. Using the Export & Share panel, you can upload your video directly to the web.
311 Sharing and exporting your movies Share a movie for playback on a personal computer The video you edit in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline is not available as an independent video file until you export, or share, it to a video format. After export, you can play it back on your computer, in other media player or editing programs, and move it to other computers. MPEG and MPEG2 presets are suitable for AVCHDquality export. 1 In the Export & Share panel, go to Devices > Computer.
312 Sharing and exporting your movies • If using the Expert view timeline, drag the current-time indicator to the frame you want to export. For best results, pick a frame without too much motion. 2 (Optional) Deinterlace the frame to greatly increase the quality of the exported image: In the Expert view timeline, select the containing clip. Then choose Clip > Video Options > Field Options. Select Deinterlace, and click OK.
313 Sharing and exporting your movies note: To set the sequence numbering, type a numbered filename. To specify the number of digits in the filename, determine the digits required to number the frames, and add additional zeroes as required. For example, if you want to export 20 frames with a filename containing five digits, type Car000 for the first filename (the remaining files are automatically named Car00001, Car00002, ..., Car00020).
314 Sharing and exporting your movies good at maintaining excellent quality. Compressing video reduces its file size and data transfer rate, facilitating smooth playback and reducing storage requirements. A variety of codecs are available; no single codec is the best for all situations. For example, the best codec for compressing cartoon animation is generally not effective for compressing live-action video.
315 Sharing and exporting your movies Playing back from a handheld device The data rate is very important due to the relatively small size, capacity, and lesser speed of handheld devices. The data rate can range from 8 to 90 kilobits per second, depending upon the device. You can choose preset QuickTime export options in Premiere Elements to export a file optimized for playback on a handheld device.
316 Sharing and exporting your movies Customize Advanced Share settings When you share a file using one of the options in the Publish And Share panel, you can customize options and save custom presets in the Export Settings dialog box. 1 In the Export & Share panel, select Devices, Audio or Image as per your requirements. 2 Click Custom and then click Advanced Settings.
317 Sharing and exporting your movies CBR Constant Bitrate (CBR) keeps the data rate of the exported file constant within a fixed limit you specify. Since the complex sections are held to the same bitrate as the simple, they are more likely to show the quality-degrading artifacts of compression.
318 Sharing and exporting your movies Interleave Specifies how often audio information is inserted among the video frames in the exported file. See your capture card documentation for the recommended setting. A value of 1 frame means that when a frame is played back, the audio for the duration of that frame is loaded into RAM so that it can play until the next frame appears.
319 Sharing and exporting your movies 4 Paste the serial number into the ID box on the website. 5 Select your Country/Region and product; and then click Submit. The activation website displays an unlock key. 6 Copy the unlock key, paste it in the Activating Component dialog box, and then click OK.
