Operation Manual

72 LESSON 4 Organizing Your Content
5 From the Project Assets panel menu, choose New Item to view the new items
that you can create from this menu. We’ll cover titles in Lesson 8. Bars and Tone
is a vestigial concept that is useful for analog projects but has little application
for most digital video-based projects. Creating black video and color mattes are
useful when you need colored or black backgrounds for titles or other movie
elements. Select any of these items and Adobe Premiere Elements will open a
format-specific dialog for creating the content and inserting it into the Project
Assets panel.
6 Double-click Video 1.mp4 in the Videos folder of the Project Assets panel to
open it in the preview window. (If necessary, click and drag the bottom-right
corner of the Project Assets panel to make the preview window visible.) e
preview window lets you play your content using VCR-like controls before you
add it to your project. You can also trim frames from the start and end of the
video before adding it to your project. Although you can also trim frames in the
timeline, you may prefer to do this in the preview window.
7 Let’s trim some frames from the clip. In the Preview window, drag the
current-time indicator to the right until the timecode beneath the video reads
00;00;00;09 (see figure on following page), which is nine frames in from the start
of the clip and the point at which you can just start to see flames beneath the
Space Shuttle’s solid rocket boosters. Note that you can also use the left and
right arrow keys on your keyboard for precise positioning of the current-time
indicator.
8 Click the Set In icon to set the In point, or press the letter I on your keyboard.
In essence, you’ve told Adobe Premiere Elements to ignore the first nine frames
when you add the clip to the project and start at frame 10. Of course, the edit
is nondestructive, so you haven’t actually deleted any frames from the video file
on your disk. You can always undo this later and show the frames that you just
trimmed.
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Note: On Windows,
you can also create a
Universal Counting
Leader, a vestigial
feature typically used
only when writing video
back to analog tape.