Operation Manual

76 LESSON 4 Organizing Your Content
your clips with a place or an event, but not a person, primarily because face
recognition—a great feature that the Organizer uses to automate the process of
people tagging your still images—is not available for video.
e star ratings system allows you to review and rate all your clips on a scale
from 1 to 5; you can later search for only those clips that you rated 4 or higher, for
example—an easy way to find high-quality clips and eliminate poor-quality clips.
Keyword tags allow you to tag a clip by person, location, event, or other tags and
includes customizable categories.
When you run the Auto-Analyzer on a clip, Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes
the video to detect scenes based on content and rates the content qualitatively, a
process known as Smart Tagging. is allows you to hunt for scenes with faces and
identify scenes that are out of focus, shaky, underexposed, or overexposed. Using
this qualitative data, Adobe Premiere Elements then categorizes all clips as high,
medium, or low quality. is serves a valuable triage function that you can later
use to search for the best clips for your movie. is analysis is also used for features
like Smart Trimming, which you’ll learn in Lesson 5, and Smart Fix, as discussed in
Lesson 6.
For example, if you shot an hour of video on your last vacation, Smart Tagging
allows you to identify medium-quality-and-higher clips containing faces (presum-
ably family members) and produce a movie containing only these clips. What
would literally take you hours to accomplish manually, Smart Tagging can produce
in a few moments.
Using all these tags in any combination, you can hunt for clips to manually add to
your projects or create an InstantMovie, which is a professional-looking edited
movie complete with titles, soundtrack, effects, and transitions. You’ll create an
InstantMovie in the last exercise in this lesson.
Tagging clips in the Organizer
Let’s dive into tagging clips in the Organizer, starting with Places and Events. If
you’ve been following along, your Organizer should just have the content loaded
from the Lesson04 folder. To ensure that we’re all looking at the same thing, let’s
reload that content.
1 On the bottom-left corner of the Organizer, click the Show button (
) to open
the panel. e Show button toggles to the Hide button (
).
2 If necessary, click the disclosure triangle next to My Folders to reveal that
content. en click Lesson04. If Lesson04 isn’t there, return to the “Working
in the Project Assets panel” exercise and load the content as described. en
return to this exercise; the Lesson04 folder should be there.