Operation Manual

68 LESSON 4 Organizing Your Content
Getting started
Before you start working with the footage, let’s review a final version of the movie
you’ll be creating. Make sure that you have correctly copied the Lesson04 folder
from the DVD in the back of this book onto your computer’s hard drive. See
“Copying the Classroom in a Book files” in the “Getting Started” section at the
beginning of this book.
1 Launch Adobe Premiere Elements. If it is already open, choose Help > Welcome
Screen in the Adobe Premiere Elements main menu to return to the Welcome
screen.
2 In the Welcome screen, click Video Editor, select Existing Project, and click the
Open folder.
3 In the Open Project dialog, navigate to the Lesson04 folder you copied to
your hard drive. Within that folder, select the file Lesson04_Start_Win.prel
(Windows) or Lesson04_Start_Mac.prel (Mac OS) and then click Open.
If a dialog appears asking for the location of rendered files, click the Skip
Previews button.
Your project file opens.
4 Choose Window > Restore Workspace to ensure that you start the lesson with
the default panel layout.
Viewing the completed
movie before you start
To see what you’ll be creating in this lesson, you can take a look at the completed
movie. You must be in Expert view to open the Project Assets panel to view the
movie; if you are not, click Expert on the top of the Monitor panel (
) to enter
that view.
1 On the upper-left side of the Adobe Premiere Elements interface, click the
Project Assets button (
) to open that panel. Locate the file Lesson04_
Movie.mov (which should be the only file), and then double-click it to open the
video into the preview window.