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Workspace and workflow
Last updated 11/5/2019
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.
Audio Hardware preferences
In the Audio Hardware pane of the Preferences dialog box, you specify the computer audio device and settings,
including the ASIO settings (Windows only), or buffer size setting (Mac OS only) that Premiere Elements uses for
recording audio.
Output Mapping You can specify the target speaker in your computer sound system for each supported audio channel.
Auto Save preferences
Automatically Save Projects By default, Premiere Elements automatically saves your project every 15 minutes and
retains the last five versions of the project file on the hard disk.
You can revert to a previously saved version at any time. Archiving many iterations of a project consumes relatively little
disk space because project files are much smaller than source video files. It’s best to save project files to the same drive
as your application. Archived files are saved in the Premiere Pro Auto-Save folder.
Automatically Save Every Automatically save Projects, and type the number of minutes you would like between saves.
Maximum Project Versions Enter the number of versions of a project file you want to save. For example, if you type 10,
Premiere Elements saves the ten most recent versions.
Note:
When you specify auto-save to occur at regular intervals, Premiere Elements auto-saves a project on detecting changes to
the project file.
The auto-save occurs irrespective of whether you manually save the changes to the project or not. Earlier, Premiere
Elements would not execute auto-save if you manually saved within the interval setting. If the system goes idle for a period
beyond the interval setting, Premiere Elements forces an auto-save.
Capture preferences
Controls how Premiere Elements transfers video and audio directly from a deck or camera. (None of the other project
settings options affect capturing.) The contents of this panel depend on the editing mode. If you’re capturing DV
footage, use the default DV capture settings. When DV/IEEE 1394 Capture is the selected capture format, no options
are available because the options are automatically set to the IEEE 1394 standard. Additional capture formats and
options appear if you install other software, such as software included with a capture card certified to be compatible
with Premiere Elements.
Note:
For P2 DVCPRO 50 and P2 DVCPRO HD projects, the Capture Format setting is not relevant, because the assets are
captured and recorded directly to the P2 card as digital files by the camera.