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iii Contents Chapter 1: What's new What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Chapter 2: Workspace Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Audio View . . . .
iv ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS Contents Change clip speed and duration Freeze and hold frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
v ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS Contents Applying styles to text and graphics Adding a video in the title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Chapter 9: Mixing audio Music Remix . . . . . . . . . .
1 Chapter 1: What's new What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 15 Your life is full of family activities and special events—and you shoot videos to capture them all. Adobe Premiere Elements 15 simplifies the organizing and editing so you can have fun creating and sharing great-looking movies. Find clips fast, add style with effects and music, and share on disc, HDTV, Facebook, and YouTube. Adobe Premiere Elements includes Elements Organizer, which helps you organize your assets.
2 What's new For more information, see Creating video collage. Haze Removal Hazy landscapes? Make every shot look sharp in seconds! Cut through the haze and fog in your videos with the Haze Removal feature in Adobe Premiere Elements 15. Take landscape videos without having to worry about the haze on even a clear day - select the video and process it with the Auto Haze Removal feature. For more enhancements, including varying levels of sensitivity to haze, try it manually.
3 What's new For more information, see Haze Removal . Music Remix Remix music to the perfect length! Remix any audio clip or mp3 file to match the length of your video. Just drag the trimming handles, and your audio clip is automatically adjusted to your target duration. Adobe Premiere Elements 15 creates a natural sound, so you never lose the soul of your audio. For more information, see Music Remix.
4 What's new Adjustment Layer Guided Edit Easily create a signature look! This guided edit helps you to apply same adjustments or effects to multiple clips in one go and create similar effects across these clips. To use this guided edit, go to Guided mode > Video Adjustments > Add an Adjustment Layer. For more information, see Adding an Adjustment Layer - Guided Edit . Touch-based editing Organizer and Quick Edit mode are now touch-friendly! Edit and organize videos with your fingertips.
5 What's new For more information, see Guided mode . Face Detection Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements 15 Identify faces (close-up, single face, and group) in a clip with the help of the Face filter. The Face filter is enabled by default and enhances several workflows, such as Favorite Moments trimming and Video Story workflow, to give you much better output. You can disable the Face filter from Auto Analyzer Options under Preferences.
6 What's new For more information, see . Favorite Moment Trimming Favorite Moments with favorite people Now with Face Detection, Favorite Moments automatically finds the people in your videos and brings them front and center in fun, quick movies. With the Face filter enabled, the Favorite Motions trimming workflow now generates output that focuses on the movements as well as on People and give priority to close-ups and single/multiple faces. For more information, see .
7 Chapter 2: Workspace Tools The Tools panel 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. You can choose Smart Trim to let Premiere Elements automatically edit your footage for a crisper video. Video tools Favorite Moments A video usually has various favorite moments.
8 Workspace When working with the pan and zoom tool, you select objects and the order in which they are panned and zoomed into. Adobe Premiere Elements provides you with customization options using which you can apply the effect according to your requirements. For more information, see . Smart Trim Smart trimming enables you to trim the low-quality sections of a video file. Smart trim can be done manually and automatically. You can trim clips from the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
9 Workspace When you want to focus on audio tracks, click Shift+A). Show Audio View at the top of the Expert view timeline (or press The Audio view enables or disables audio functionalities for users who are focussed on audio such that all the tools are handy and available to use, with minimum impact to the timeline. In Audio View, all audio tracks appear expanded while the video tracks are collapsed.
10 Workspace Solo track playback Click Solotrack to play a particular track without having to remove clips that overlap the track. When you select Solo for a particular track, the other tracks are muted and will not feature in the output. Note: Enable Solo track for multiple tracks if you want to play them simultaneously. Display style for video and audio tracks Select a display style for video and audio tracks that best suit you, from the right-click menu options.
11 Workspace Disable audio and video tracks You can now choose to disable specific audio, video, voice, and music tracks by clicking the corresponding toggle icons. Tracks that are disabled will not be present in the final output that you create using the Export and share your videospanel. Video and audio categories For easier access, the Tools, , and that are available to you from the action bar, are now categorized into video and audio categories.
12 Workspace Workspace The Adobe Premiere Elements workspace presents an easy-to-use interface for video enthusiasts. It organizes features into Quick and Expert views based on their complexity. Also available to you is the Guided view and the elive tab for additional resources. Quick The Quick view aggregates basic features that enthusiasts commonly use to quickly edit video footage and share with others.
13 Workspace Drop Files Here: Click Drop Files Here on the timeline to open the Add Media panel. Select an option of your choice to add media to the timeline. Drop Title: Click Drop Title on the timeline to open the Text and Titles panel. Select a title of your choice and drop it onto the timeline to get started. Record Narration: Click Record Narration to launch the narration recorder. When recording is complete, the narration is dropped onto the track.
14 Workspace The Expert view timeline uses a time ruler to display the components of your movie and their relationship to each other over time. You can trim and add scenes, indicate important frames with markers, add transitions, and control how clips are blended or superimposed. The right-click options for the timeline are organized into easily accessible categories. Compared to the Quick view, the Expert view timeline has more tracks.
15 Workspace Click Video Editor to create a new project, with default settings, in the workspace. To open an existing project, click the arrow next to Video Editor. Access the Elements Organizer to organize, tag, and perform basic editing tasks on your media before importing them into Adobe Premiere Elements. Customize launch options By default, the Welcome screen opens when you launch Adobe Premiere Elements for the first time.
16 Workspace Start screen The Premiere Elements start screen makes it easier for you to initiate popular workflows. You have three new options to start creating your videos. Hover your mouse over the options to learn more about it. Click one of the options to start creating your video. Add Media Use the Add Media panel to add media files from sources, such as video cameras, flip, webcams, digital still cameras, mobile phones, and folders on your hard disk.
17 Workspace 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. Learn video editing Use Guided edits to perform video-editing tasks with ease.
18 Workspace Action bar The Action bar contains the following options: Undo Reverses the action performed. Redo Repeats the action performed. Organizer Opens Elements Organizer to let you organize and manage your media files. Tool bar All the editing controls and tools in Premiere Elements are grouped in the right panel and categorized in three categories based on their functionality: Fix Adjust Lets you adjust the inherent properties of your clip, for example color and lighting.
19 Workspace Effects Shows special effects and presets you can apply to clips in your movie. To edit a special effect after applying it, click Applied Effects to modify the properties in the Applied Effects panel. Compared to the Quick view, the Expert view provides more effects that are organized under various categories. For more information, see . Transitions Provides transitions you can use between your movie clips.
20 Chapter 3: Creating a video project Creating video collage Collages are creative way to share your memories and tell the story at once. Photo Collages are the most popular creations in this category and we are now bringing you Video Collage in Premiere Elements. However, it is not limited to video memories - you can use your photos and videos to create fun and animated video collages. Choose from a list of templates and quickly put together your memories to share with your family and friends.
21 Creating a video project 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 to see the preview. grids and Rotate effect. Hover the mouse over a template to see the name of the effect, click 3 Add media, that you want to use in your video collage, to Media bin.
22 Creating a video project 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.
23 Creating a video project A Preview video B Preview image 5 Customize the video collage by using contextual controls. Note: The default effect on an image is pan & zoom.
24 Creating a video project 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.
25 Creating a video project 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.
26 Creating a video project 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. Do not delete this file.
27 Creating a video project 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. Export a Video Collage Once you have finalized your video collage, the next step is to share your creation. There are a couple of ways to export and share your video collage.
28 Creating a video project View available project presets and settings When you create a project, you can view the default preset and settings by clicking the Change Settings button in the New Project dialog. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically adjusts your project settings based on the type of media you import. To view available project presets and settings: 1 In Adobe Premiere Elements, select File > New > Project. 2 Click Change Settings.
29 Creating a video project Create a video story You can use your photos and videos to create an impactful story of a life event. The Video Story option from the Create menu helps you present your photos and videos of an event (for example, a wedding) in a story format through a structured step-by-step workflow. You are guided through a sequence of organizing your assets in chapters and adding narration, captions, music, and other elements.
30 Creating a video project • Click Exit to quit the Video Story workflow and return to the application workspace. Note: Close and relaunch the application if you want to view the tips again. 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.
31 Creating a video project 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.
32 Creating a video project For a quick editing to hide, delete, and overall view of the organization of clips in various chapters, switch to Overview from the top pane. Preview Chapter: You can click play in the Story Chapters pane to preview a chapter. For more information, read the section Preview a chapter. If your video story inlcudes image assets, Premiere Elements automatically uses Pan and Zoom for these assets.
33 Creating a video project • 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. • Remove videos and photos: Click the delete icon to remove a photo or video from the chapter. • Add Chapter: Click Add Chapter on the Action bar to add a chapter to the video story. 12 Click Preview Movie to preview the video story you have created.
34 Creating a video project Click Add/Edit caption to add or edit the captions. 4 Alternatively, in the previous step, click Add Narration to 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.
35 Creating a video project • 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. Back up a project with Auto Save To revisit editing decisions or recover from a crash, enable the Auto Save option.
36 Creating a video project When you start a new project, Adobe Premiere Elements applies a project preset to it. A project preset is a collection of preconfigured project settings. You can use the default project preset of the television standard for the Adobe Premiere Elements version installed on your computer. NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) is the television standard for the Americas, the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
37 Creating a video project Change settings for an existing project After you create a project, you can only make minor display-related changes to the project settings. Note: You cannot change the Editing mode and the format of Preview files after you create a project. 1 Choose Edit > Project Settings > General. 2 In the Project Settings dialog box, specify project settings for General, Capture, and Video Rendering. 3 Click OK.
38 Creating a video project Fields Specifies the field dominance, or the order in which the two interlaced fields of each frame are drawn. Display Format (video) Specifies the way time appears throughout the project. The time display options correspond to standards for editing video and motion-picture film. For DV NTSC video, choose 30-fps Drop-Frame Timecode. For DV PAL video, choose 25-fps Timecode.
39 Creating a video project Project Assets panel overview The Project Assets panel lets you preview source material for your projects. Select the Expert view and then click Project Assets. You can view the contents of a project using the list view or the grid view. Use the panel options menu to switch between the views. The grid view displays a snapshot of the video you imported into the project. The Project Assets panel indicates files that you use in the Expert view timeline with a green icon.
40 Creating a video project Find an item in a project Right-click an item in the Expert view timeline, and select Reveal In Project. To find an item on the hard drive, right-click the clip, choose Properties, and note the path at the top of the Properties panel. 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.
41 Creating a video project Undo changes incrementally If you change your mind about an edit or effect, Adobe Premiere Elements provides several ways to undo your work. You can undo only those actions that alter video content; for example, you can undo an edit, but you cannot undo scrolling a panel. • To undo or redo the most recent change, choose Edit > Undo. (You can sequentially undo a series of recent changes.
42 Creating a video project 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.
43 Creating a video project • 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.
44 Creating a video project 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.
45 Creating a video project 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. In Premiere Elements, you can place each type of scratch file onto its own disk. For example, you copy video to one disk and audio to another.
46 Creating a video project Customize List view properties You can customize the List view to display only the information you want to see. You can also rename columns, add columns of your own, rearrange columns, and change the width of columns. Specify which properties appear in List view The Name property appears by default, and displays the clip name on disk. You cannot remove the Name property using the Edit Columns dialog box. You can change the name the clip uses inside the project.
47 Creating a video project • To sort columns in ascending or descending order, click their heading. • To rearrange columns, right-click/ctrl-click and choose Edit Columns, select a column name, and click Move Up, or Move Down. Note: Adobe Premiere Elements locks some column attributes. You can’t locate or change these attributes in the Edit Columns dialog box. For example, you can change the names of columns you added, but not the names of columns built in Adobe Premiere Elements.
48 Creating a video project • To change the quality of the playback, right-click/ctrl-click inside the monitor panel. Select Playback Quality > Highest. The CPU usage and RAM consumption of your computer increases when you change the setting to Highest. • To pause the preview, click the Pause button, or press the spacebar. • To control the speed of the preview, drag the shuttle slider to the right. The clip plays faster the further you drag the shuttle slider.
49 Creating a video project Right-click/ctrl-click in the Monitor panel, and choose Safe Margins. A check mark next to the name indicates the safe zone margins are on. The standard action- and title-safe margins are 10% and 20%, respectively. However, you can change the dimensions of the safe zones in the Project Settings dialog box. Preview in full-screen mode To see the greatest detail in a clip or movie, preview it in full-screen mode.
50 Creating a video project 2 Click the Pause, Frame Back, or Frame Forward buttons. Exit full-screen mode 1 To display the control bar, move the pointer to the bottom of the screen. 2 To the right of the control bar, click Exit. Preview on a TV monitor You can preview the movie on a TV or video monitor by using many camcorders or analog-digital converters (digitizers). The Project Settings dialog box contains options for previewing through a DV device.
51 Creating a video project note: Realtime Playback plays previews instantly in fully rendered final quality. With render-free editing, you can review editing decisions as you make them and experiment more freely. For best playback frame rates, use a Pentium® 4, 3-GHz system or better. 3 In the Export section, for External Device, choose whether to export to the specified device. This option doesn’t affect playback.
52 Creating a video project If you render the movie, Adobe Premiere Elements creates preview files and saves them on your hard disk. Once rendered, Adobe Premiere Elements doesn’t process the tracks and effects again and can play the preview files directly. Similarly, preview files can save time when you export the movie because Adobe Premiere Elements can use the information stored in the preview files rather than render again.
53 Chapter 4: Importing and adding media Supported devices and file formats Verify whether Adobe Premiere Elements supports the file format and the device from which you import the file. Supported devices For a list of supported devices, see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/873/cpsid_87347.html. Supported file types for import In addition to capturing footage, you can import image, video, and audio files. You can add files from folders on your computer, accessory hard drives, and mobile phones.
54 Importing and adding media • JPEG® (.jpg, .jpe, .jpeg, .gif) • Pixar Picture (.pxr) • Portable Network Graphic (.png) • RAW (.raw, .raf, .crw, .cr2, .mrw, .nef, .orf, .dng) Supported audio formats • Advanced Audio Coding (.aac) • Dolby® AC-3 (.ac3) • Macintosh® Audio AIFF (.aif, .aiff) • MP3® Audio (.mp3) • MPEG® Audio (.mpeg, .mpg, .mpa, .mpe, .m2a) • QuickTime (.mov,.m4a) • Windows Media (.wma) - Windows only • Windows WAVE (.wav) note: Dolby AC-3 is imported as a stand-alone.
55 Importing and adding media To add new media into Adobe Premiere Elements, click Add Media and select any of the following options: Add media from Embedded Elements Organizer Add media from the albums in Elements Organizer. Drag video and images to the Quick view/Expert view timeline or the Project Assets panel, from Elements Organizer. Add media from files and folders Import videos, photos, and audio files from your computer’s hard drive.
56 Importing and adding media • Choose File > Add Media From > Files And Folders. 3 Locate and select the first image in the sequence. Right-click on the Project Assets panel and select Get Media from > Files and Folders. Select the Numbered Stills check box and click Open. Adobe Premiere Elements interprets all of the numbered files as a single sequence. Note: For information on changing the duration of images, see “Set duration for imported images” in Help.
57 Importing and adding media Note: If you don’t intend to use all the files you add, you can delete them from the Project Assets panel. Deleting files from the panel doesn’t delete them from your hard drive. Import from Flip, AVCHD, cameras, phones, or removable drives Many types of devices other than webcams and WDM devices record and store video. Using the video importer, you can import video clips from tapeless camcorders, FLIP and AVCDHD camera, removable memory devices, and mobile devices.
58 Importing and adding media • To specify a different location, click Browse (Windows)/Choose (Mac OS) and choose a folder. Alternatively, click Make New Folder (Windows)/New Folder(Mac OS) to create and name a new folder. 7 Select a naming convention for the downloaded files using the Presets menu. Filename Retains the filenames the camcorder assigns. Folder Name - Number If your folder name is Wedding Pics, the clips are assigned the names Wedding Pics-001, Wedding Pics-002, and so on.
59 Importing and adding media 5 Click the Capture button. 6 Specify a name for the captured video. 7 To specify a location for the video, do one of the following: • To save files to the default Adobe folder, leave the location as it appears in the dialog box. • To specify a different location, click the button next to the Save to textbox and choose a folder. Alternatively, click New Folder (Windows)/New Folder(Mac OS) to create and name a new folder. 8 Click Add Media and select Files And Folders.
60 Importing and adding media Render these files before you can preview them from your DV camcorder. To render a Type 1 AVI clip, add it to the Quick view/Expert view timeline. Build a preview file of that section of the Quick view/Expert view timeline by pressing Enter. If the clip must be rendered, a red line appears above the clip in the Quick view/Expert view timeline. DVD file protection If the DVD is a motion-picture disc that uses copy protection, you cannot add the files.
61 Importing and adding media You can also add animations, which are saved as a sequence of numbered still-image files. When adding still-image files, consider the following: Photoshop Elements files Adobe Premiere Elements works well with images and video templates you create in Photoshop Elements. JPEG files If you are having trouble importing JPEG files to Adobe Premiere Elements, open them in Photoshop Elements and resave them. Then try to import them again.
62 Importing and adding media You generate Specialty clips by using panel options in the Project Assets panel. They reside in the Project Assets panel along with your added clips. You can create universal counting leaders, color bars, a 1-kHz tone, black video, and colored backgrounds for your project. Use Specialty clips for calibration of your video or simply as footage. Add color bars and a 1-kHz tone You use the color bars and 1-kHz tone clips in tandem at the beginning of a video.
63 Importing and adding media • Highlight the value control and type a number to increase or decrease volume. Positive numbers increase it. Negative numbers decrease it. • The Normalize option adjusts the peak amplitude in the selected clips to the user-specified value. For example, this option adjusts the gain of a clip with a peak amplitude of -6 dB to +6 dB. Ensure that Normalize All Peaks To is set to 0.0 dB. 5.1 audio import Adobe Premiere Elements facilitates importing and playing clips with 5.
64 Importing and adding media Place On Top, And Apply Videomerge If there is an empty track above Video 1/Audio 1, the selected clip is inserted on that track and mapped to the corresponding track's channel type. If there is no empty track, a new track is created matching the channel type of the selected clip. Adobe Premiere Elements places the video on the CTI, in a track above the existing video and applies Videomerge effect on the new video. The underlying and the top videos can be seen.
65 Importing and adding media Understanding aspect ratios The aspect ratio specifies the ratio of width to height. Video frames have an aspect ratio (frame aspect ratio) as do the pixels that make up the frame (pixel aspect ratio). Some video camcorders can record various frame aspect ratios, and the NTSC and PAL video standards use different pixel aspect ratios. If an image of a circle appears oval-shaped, there can be a mismatch between the aspect ratios of the image and your project.
66 Importing and adding media If you display rectangular pixels on a square-pixel monitor, images appear distorted, for example, circles distort into ovals. However, when displayed on a broadcast monitor, the images appear correctly proportioned because broadcast monitors use rectangular pixels. Premiere Elements exports clips of various pixel aspect ratios without distortion. It automatically adjusts the pixel aspect ratio of your project to the pixel aspect ratio of the clips.
67 Importing and adding media 4 In the Pixel Aspect Ratio section, select Use Pixel Aspect Ratio From File to use the original ratio of the file. Alternatively, choose one of the following from the Conform To menu: Square Pixels Uses a 1.0 pixel aspect ratio. Use this setting if your source clip has a 640 x 480 or 648 x 486 frame size. You can also use this setting if the file was exported from an application that supports only square pixels. D1/DV NTSC Uses a 0.9 pixel aspect ratio.
68 Importing and adding media Ordinarily, interlacing isn’t apparent to a viewer. However, each field captures the subject at a different time. Due to the time difference, playing a clip in slow-motion or creating a freeze frame makes the two fields discernible. You observe the same behavior when you export a frame as a still image. To avoid this situation, you can deinterlace the image. Deinterlacing eliminates one field and either duplicates or interpolates the lines of the remaining field.
69 Importing and adding media Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are designed to work together, whether you purchase the products separately or bundled in one package. These programs seamlessly combine digital photography and video editing, letting you create exciting video projects. The two programs support many of the same file types, which makes the transfer of most files between them easy and efficient.
70 Importing and adding media 3 Choose Edit > Locate Media. 4 Locate and select the actual source file, and click Select. Note: If you selected more than one offline file, the Attach Which Media dialog box appears in turn for each file you selected. Pay attention to the offline filename in the title bar of the dialog box so that you relink the correct source file to each offline file.
71 Chapter 5: Arranging movie clips Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline Quick view timeline overview 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. Move the slider to the left to zoom in and see a clip in more detail.
72 Arranging movie clips The new clip appears in front of the one on which you dropped it, and subsequent clips shift to the right. Insert a clip after another in the Quick view timeline 1 In the Quick view timeline, select the clip after which you want to insert the new clip. 2 Drag the clip from Windows Explorer (Finder in Mac OS) to the Monitor panel or the Quick view timeline. The new clip appears to the right of the selected clip, and subsequent clips shift to the right.
73 Arranging movie clips • To zoom in or out as you add a clip, drag a clip to the Quick view timeline. Hold down the mouse button, and press the semicolon (;) key to increase the zoom factor. Press the Minus (–) key to decrease the zoom factor. • To zoom in on the Quick view timeline, drag the Zoom slider to the right, or click the Zoom In button. • To zoom out of the Quick view timeline, drag the Zoom slider to the left, or click the Zoom Out button.
74 Arranging movie clips Tracks in the Expert view timeline Tracks let you layer video or audio and add compositing effects, picture-in-picture effects, overlay titles, soundtracks, and more. With multiple audio tracks, you can add a narration to one track and background music to another track. The final movie combines all the video and audio tracks. By default, the Expert view timeline contains three tracks for video (or images) and audio, a narration track, and a sound track.
75 Arranging movie clips • Click the time display (at the bottom of the Monitor panel), type a valid time, and then press Enter. (You need not type leading zeros, colons, or semicolons. However, Adobe Premiere Elements interprets numbers under 100 as frames.) You can use the Home or End keys on the keyboard to skip between the beginning and end of the movie. The Page Up and Page Down keys move the current-time indicator to the previous and next clips respectively.
76 Arranging movie clips Place one clip above another in the Expert view timeline You can place one clip above another without replacing a section of the lower clip as is done with an overlay. You can use clips stacked in this way, for example, with various keying effects. 1 In the Expert view timeline, drag the current-time indicator to a location above a video clip where you want to overlay another clip. 2 Shift-drag a clip from the Project Assets panel, and drop it on to the Monitor panel.
77 Arranging movie clips Move a clip in the Expert view timeline You can easily rearrange clips in the Expert view timeline by dragging. By using the same techniques you use to add a clip, you can choose to insert or overlay clips when you move them. • To move a clip and insert it so all tracks shift after insertion, drag the clip to the desired location. When the pointer changes to the Insert icon, release the mouse button.
78 Arranging movie clips Delete empty space between clips in the Expert view timeline You can quickly delete empty space between clips in the Expert view timeline by using the Delete And Close Gap command. Alternatively, press the Delete or Backspace key. Both techniques shift adjacent clips over to fill the gap. In the Expert view timeline, do one of the following: • Right-click the empty space, and choose Delete And Close Gap.
79 Arranging movie clips Add a track to the Expert view timeline 1 Choose Timeline > Add Tracks. 2 In the Add Tracks dialog box, type the number of tracks you want to add in the Add field for video or audio tracks. 3 To specify the placement of added tracks, choose an option from the Placement pop-up menu for each type of track added, and click OK. Resize tracks Tracks have three preset sizes: Small, Medium, and Large.
80 Arranging movie clips Customize how clips display in the Expert view timeline You can display clips in the Expert view timeline in different ways, depending on your preference or the task at hand. You can choose to display a thumbnail image at the beginning of the clip. Alternatively, you can display a thumbnail image at the head and tail or along the entire duration of the clip (default view). For an audio track, you can choose to display or hide the audio waveform of the audio contents.
81 Arranging movie clips Note: If the superimposed clip is longer than the background clip, it appears over successive clips in the Quick view timeline for its entire duration. The clip also appears superimposed over those clips during playback. Create a picture-in-picture overlay in the Expert view 1 Place the CTI on the clip in the Expert view timeline that you want to use as the background clip. The selected clip appears in the Monitor panel.
82 Arranging movie clips The video and audio remain linked. When you drag the video portion in the Expert view timeline, the linked audio moves with it, and vice versa. For this reason, audio/video pairs are called linked clips. In the Expert view timeline, the names of linked clips are underlined and identified with a [V] for video or [A] for audio. All editing tasks (such as moving, trimming, or changing the clip speed) act on both parts of a linked clip.
83 Arranging movie clips Even if you unlink the clips, Adobe Premiere Elements keeps track of the offset, and displays it again if you relink them. You can have Adobe Premiere Elements automatically resynchronize the clips. Depending on the clips, you can choose between two methods of synchronizing. In the Expert view timeline, right-click/ctrl-click the offset number of the clip you want to move. The clip you right-click/ctrl-click moves or adjusts to align with the other clip, which remains in place.
84 Arranging movie clips Note: 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.
85 Arranging movie 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.
86 Arranging movie clips 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. Either zoom in completely on the time ruler so you can see its exact location or choose Timeline > Go To Timeline Marker, and choose Next, Previous, or Numbered from the menu. 2 Choose Timeline > Clear Timeline Marker, and choose an option from the menu.
87 Chapter 6: Editing clips 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. Shake Stabilizer is available in both Quick and Expert views. However, for best results, use Shake Stabilizer from the Expert view.
88 Editing clips 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. 1 Click the Expert tab to switch to the Expert view.
89 Editing clips 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. 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. a Motion: Controls the intended result for the footage.
90 Editing clips 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. Automatic Reduction is the default. Use Enhanced Reduction if the footage contains larger ripples.
91 Editing clips Trim clips Try the latest Premiere Elements|Explore Elements product suite About trimming and retrieving clips When you build a movie, you rarely use an entire clip. To define the frames you want to use, set In and Out points. The In point is the first frame of the clip you want to use. The Out point is the last frame of the clip you want to use. Setting In and Out points does not delete frames from the hard drive. Instead, it isolates the portion you want included in the movie.
92 Editing clips Manual Smart Trim 1 To enable Smart Trim, click Tools on the Action bar and then select Smart Trim from the Tools panel. By default, Manual Smart Trim Mode is enabled. Note: When you are in the manual Smart Trim mode, you see the message, Smart Trim Mode: Trim or Delete The Highlighted Sections, above the Monitor panel. You also see the Smart Trim Options button. 2 (Optional) Click the Smart Trim Options button on top.
93 Editing clips Automatic Smart Trim 1 To enable automatic Smart Trim, click Tools on the Action bar and then select Smart Trim from the Tools panel. 2 Click the Smart Trim Options button above the Monitor panel. 3 In the Smart Trim Options dialog, select Automatic. 4 (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.
94 Editing clips Remove frames from the middle of a clip You can retain material at the beginning and end of a clip for your movie, but remove material from its middle. Split the clip right before the unwanted section begins, to create two clips. Then, trim the unwanted material from the beginning of the second clip. 1 In the Quick view timeline, select the clip containing unwanted material. The clip appears in the Monitor panel.
95 Editing clips Trim clips in the Expert view timeline 1 Position the pointer over the edge of the clip you want to trim until the correct icon appears: • Trim-In icon • Trim-Out icon to trim the beginning of a clip. to trim the end of a clip. 2 Drag the edge to the desired frame. The Monitor panel displays the frames as you drag, also showing the frame from the adjacent clip (if any). Subsequent clips in the track shift in time to compensate for the edit, but their durations remain unchanged.
96 Editing clips • An L-cut, or video lead, in which video starts before linked audio, or audio continues after the video. 1 In the Expert view timeline, select the clip. 2 If the clip is adjacent to another, Alt-drag the audio portion down to a separate track so there is empty space next to it. 3 (Optional) Move the current-time indicator to the video frame you want to trim, and make sure Snap is enabled with a check mark. (If it isn’t, choose Timeline > Snap.
97 Editing clips • To step back or forward one frame, click the Step Back button or the Step Forward button. • Scrubbing the Timecode. Trim a clip in the Preview window You can trim a clip in the Preview window before placing it in the Expert view timeline. Trimming in the Preview window does not affect instances of the clip that are already in the Expert view timeline or the Quick view timeline.
98 Editing clips The two resulting clips, when combined, represent the original clip. The resulting clips are full versions of the original clip, but with the In or Out points changed to match the location marked by the tool. You can select and delete these clips. Note: If you want to change effect settings over time, you don’t have to split the clip. You can apply keyframes to a single clip instead.
99 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.
100 Editing clips 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. Note: When you increase the speed beyond a certain limit, the duration changes even if you have unlinked speed and duration. 4 Type a new duration, and click OK. Reverse the playback of a clip Reversing a clip plays the clip backward, Out point to In point.
101 Editing clips 4 Do one of the following: • To export the frame as a still image file, click Export. In the Export Frame dialog box, give the image file a name and location, and click Save. • To insert the frame as a still image directly into the movie at the current-time indicator, click Insert In Movie. Play and then hold a frame (or hold and then play) • To make the video start out as a still image and then begin to play, click Tools in the Action bar and select the Freeze Frame option.
102 Editing clips 8 Click a thumbnail in the grid of the adjustments panel to preview the change in brightness. Similarly, select Contrast and Exposure tab and click a thumbnail to adjust the same. Click More and drag the sliders for more precise adjustment. Note: Click Auto Levels and Auto Contrast to automatically adjust the brightness and contrast in the clip. 9 Click Color in the adjustments panel to open the Color section.
103 Editing clips To apply the Auto Smart Tone to a video clip, follow these steps: 1 Import your video clip to the timeline. 2 In the Adjust bar, select Adjust > Auto Smart Tone. 3 Select Apply to apply the auto smart tone to the video clip automatically. It analyzes the clip and divided it into visually similar scenes and a default correction is applied automatically.
104 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. 2 Click Add media to import the video clip you want trim.
105 Editing clips The unwanted footage or section is highlighted. Click to select the footage. Press Delete key. To select multiple portions, use the Shift key. 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.
106 Editing clips 7 Enter the Transitions Adjustments to specify how you want to play the transition. Specify the duration of the transition and select the alignment to place the transition. Working with source clips Find the source of a clip After working with a clip in the Expert view timeline, you may decide to use another instance of its source in another part of the movie. Premiere Elements can quickly find the source of any clip in a movie and automatically select it in the Project Assets panel.
107 Editing clips 2 Choose Clip > Clear Clip Marker, and choose an option from the menu: • In And Out resets both the In and Out points. • In resets the In point only. • Out resets the Out point only. Tip: You can also clear an In or Out point from a source clip (not the version in the Expert view timeline) by Alt-clicking the Set In Point button or the Set Out Point button, respectively, in the Preview window.
108 Editing clips SmartFix Adobe Premiere Elements 11 enables auto correction of quality problems in video files that have smart tags associated to them. When you add such clips to the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline, the SmartFix dialog is displayed. Click Yes to confirm the correction of clips.
109 Chapter 7: Applying transitions and special effects Apply an Effects Mask to your video The Apply an Effects Mask to your Video Guided Edit helps you add an effect to specific areas in your video clip. You can add Effects Masks in many creative ways to produce a dramatic effect. Effects Masks also help you blur a person's face to protect the person's identity. The Blur effect and the Mosaic effect are commonly used for this purpose.
110 Applying transitions and special effects 3 Select a media source. For example, select Files and Folders if the video clips are on your hard drive. 4 Select the files you want to import and click Open.
111 Applying transitions and special effects 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. 8 Click Effects on the Action bar.
112 Applying transitions and special effects The Effects Mask is applied to the video. 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. The Favorite Moments feature is available in both Quick and Expert views.
113 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
114 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
115 Applying transitions and special effects 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. If you want to change this setting later, you can use the settings dialog.
116 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
117 Applying transitions and special effects A First clip with trimmed frames at end B Movie containing both clips and transition C Second clip with trimmed frames at beginning A First clip showing last frame repeated B Movie containing both clips and transition C Second clip showing first frame repeated To see if a transition is single-sided or double-sided and if it has repeated frames, double-click it in the Quick view/Expert view timeline, and view its properties in the Transition contextual control.
118 Applying transitions and special effects Adjust transition alignment You can change the alignment of a transition placed between two clips in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline using the Transition contextual control. A transition need not be centered or strictly aligned with a cut. You can drag the transition to reposition it over a cut as desired. The Transition contextual control also contains options to specify alignment.
119 Applying transitions and special effects Set a default duration for transitions The default duration for transitions is initially set to 30 frames for video and 1 second for audio. You can change the default duration to a value that better suits your movies. Although the new setting has no effect on transitions already placed in the movie, all transitions you subsequently place will default to this value. 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General / Adobe Premiere Elements 11 > Preferences > General.
120 Applying transitions and special effects Expert view: The transitions are organized into categories. You can narrow a search for transitions by choosing a transition type, such as Dissolve, from the Category menu. You can also search for a transition by typing its name in the search box. The Expert view has more transitions compared to the Quick view. Video transitions have animated thumbnail previews that show how they affect clips. Select a transition to set its thumbnail in motion.
121 Applying transitions and special effects 3 (Optional) Modify the properties of the clip, for example duration. Click More to further customize the transition and preview your changes. Apply a single-sided transition in the Quick view timeline 1 In the Quick view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel is displayed. 2 From the Transitions panel, select the transition you want to apply.
122 Applying transitions and special effects • If the clip is adjacent to another clip, Ctrl-drag the transition to the edge of the desired clip. Apply a default transition in the Expert view timeline 1 Do one of the following: • To select non-consecutive clips, Shift-click each clip. • To select consecutive clips, click in the Project Assets panel, and drag a marquee around the selected clips. • To select all the clips, press Ctrl-A.
123 Applying transitions and special effects View transitions in the Quick view timeline and Expert view timeline In the Quick view timeline, a transition appears as a rectangle on the clips. In the Expert view timeline, a transition appears just above the cut between two clips, or just above the In or Out point of a single clip.
124 Applying transitions and special effects Original clip Last updated 10/4/2016
125 Applying transitions and special effects Original clip Polar coordinates Last updated 10/4/2016
126 Applying transitions and special effects Original clip Last updated 10/4/2016
127 Applying transitions and special effects Original clip Adjust 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.
128 Applying transitions and special effects Brightness & Contrast The Brightness & Contrast effect adjusts the brightness and contrast of the entire clip. The value 0.0 indicates that no change is made. Using the Brightness & Contrast effect is the easiest way to make simple adjustments to the tonal range of the clip. It adjusts all pixel values in the clip at once—highlights, shadows, and midtones. Brightness & Contrast does not work on individual color channels.
129 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
130 Applying transitions and special effects 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. Control the clip’s appearance by specifying the range of gray levels to convert to white or black. Specify Extract settings 1 Apply the effect.
131 Applying transitions and special effects Highlight Amount Darkens the highlights in the clip. This control is active only if you deselect Auto Amounts. Temporal Smoothing Specifies the range of adjacent frames that Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes in order to determine the amount of correction needed for each frame, relative to its surrounding frames.
132 Applying transitions and special effects 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. Fast Blur blurs areas more quickly than Gaussian Blur. Gaussian Blur The Gaussian Blur effect blurs and softens the clip and eliminates noise. You can specify that the blur is horizontal, vertical, or both. (Gaussian refers to the bell-shaped curve that is generated by mapping the color values of the affected pixels.
133 Applying transitions and special effects AutoTone and Vibrance The AutoTone effect uses automatic Adobe Premiere Elements settings for exposure, brightness, contrast, blacks, and whites. You can choose to use the default settings or edit the parameters after applying the effect to a clip. Note: While AutoTone parameters are applied automatically to each frame, set the Vibrance value manually. Vibrance prevents over saturation of colors as full saturation values are reached.
134 Applying transitions and special effects A Hue Angle B Balance Magnitude C Balance Gain D Balance Angle Highlights/Midtones/Shadows Hue Angle Rotates the color toward a target color. The default value is 0. Negative values rotate the outer circumference of the color wheel to the left and positive values rotate the color wheel to the right. Highlights/Midtones/Shadows Balance Magnitude Controls the intensity of the color introduced into the video.
135 Applying transitions and special effects The HSL tuner effects enables you to provide a movie-type look to your video. Split Tone Use the color balance adjustment to tone the shadows and highlights of your image in two different colors. 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.
136 Applying transitions and special effects Intensity Specifies the height of the wave. Rate Specifies the frequency of the wave. To produce a wave only vertically or horizontally, move the Rate slider all the way to the left for the direction you do not want. Width Specifies the wave width. Corner Pin The Corner Pin effect distorts a clip by changing the position of any of its four corners.
137 Applying transitions and special effects Transform The Transform effect applies two-dimensional geometric transformations to a clip. Use the Transform effect to skew a clip along any axis. Apply the Transform effect instead of using a clip’s fixed effects if you want to render anchor point, position, scale, or opacity settings before other Standard effects are rendered. Anchor Point Specifies the point, in an x,y coordinate, around which the clip will be scaled or skewed.
138 Applying transitions and special effects Blend With Original Specifies the degree to which the effect will be blended with the source clip. Write-on Creates the effect of text being hand-written on the screen. The key to this effect is animating the position of the Writeon effect, by creating keyframes in the Effect Controls panel. It is recommended that you use this effect for videos only. You may experience severe performance degradation if this effect is used on still images or synthetic clips.
139 Applying transitions and special effects 2 In the Project Assets panel, select the clip with the effect and click the Applied Effects button. Then click the Setup button to the right of the effect name in the Applied Effects panel. 3 In the Color Pass Settings dialog box, select the color you want to preserve by clicking a color in the Clip Sample area on the left (the pointer becomes an eyedropper), or by clicking the Color swatch and selecting a color in the Color Picker dialog box.
140 Applying transitions and special effects Note: This effect ignores or inverts the alpha channel of only a single instance of a clip. To adjust the alpha channel of every instance of the clip, you need to use the Interpret Footage command. Ignore Alpha Ignores the alpha channel of the clip. Invert Alpha Reverses the transparency and opaque areas of the clip. Mask Only Displays only the alpha channel.
141 Applying transitions and special effects A Original clip B Blue color keyed out C Clip on second track D Final composite clip 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.
142 Applying transitions and special effects Image Matte Key effect The Image Matte Key determines transparent areas based on a matte image’s alpha channel or brightness values. To get the most predictable results, choose a grayscale image for your image matte, unless you want to alter colors in the clip. Any color in the image matte removes the same level of color from the clip you are keying.
143 Applying transitions and special effects The following Non Red Key settings are adjusted in the Applied Effects panel: Threshold Sets the levels of blue or green that determine transparent areas in the clip. Dragging the Threshold slider to the left increases the amount of transparency. Use the Mask Only option to view the black (transparent) areas as you move the Threshold slider. Cutoff Sets the opacity of nontransparent areas that the Threshold value specifies. Higher values increase transparency.
144 Applying transitions and special effects Track Matte Key The Track Matte Key reveals one clip (background clip) through another (superimposed clip), using a third file as a matte that creates transparent areas in the superimposed clip. This effect requires two clips and a matte, each placed on its own track. White areas in the matte are opaque in the superimposed clip, preventing underlying clips from showing through. Black areas in the matte are transparent, and gray areas are partially transparent.
145 Applying transitions and special effects Line Drawing The Line Drawing effect converts an image into a series of dots and lines drawn against a plain-colored background. Paper Sets the background color. Use the eyedropper to select a color directly from the image, or click the color swatch to choose a color from the Color Picker. Ink Sets the pen color used for drawing the lines. Use the eyedropper or color swatch to choose a color. Density Sets the sensitivity for creating lines.
146 Applying transitions and special effects NewBlue Motion Effects Elements 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.
147 Applying transitions and special effects Blend Sets the amount of blur to mix with the nonblurred image. With Blend set all the way to the left, the blur disappears. Drag to the right to increase the percentage of blur until the original picture is completely replaced by the blurred image. Center Sets the origin of the zoom. NewBlue, Inc., www.newbluefx.com.
148 Applying transitions and special effects Distance To Image Specifies the clip’s distance from the viewer. As the distance gets larger, the clip recedes. Specular Highlight Adds a glint of light that reflects off the surface of the rotated layer, as though an overhead light were shining on the surface.
149 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
150 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
151 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
152 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
153 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
154 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
155 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
156 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
157 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
158 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
159 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
160 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
161 Applying transitions and special effects 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. Click Tools from the Action bar and select the Time Remapping tool from the tools panel. 5. Move the CTI to the point where you want to change the speed of your clip. 6. Click Add TimeZone on the Action bar. 7. Drag the handles on the sides of the zone to adjust your TimeZone selection. 8. Move the slider to select a play speed.
162 Applying transitions and special effects To learn about other guided edits, see Guided mode . Black and white videos with selective coloring This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on how to enhance your videos to display in black and white while you selectively retain one or more colors. Note: This Guided Edit works only in the Expert mode. To create a video with color pop using this Guided edit, follow these steps: 1. Click Add media to import the video clip that you want to work with.
163 Applying transitions and special effects Your color pop video is now ready. Click Play to view it. Group 4.png More Help topics Guided mode Transparency and superimposing Try the latest Premiere Elements|Explore Elements product suite 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.
164 Applying transitions and special effects Mask Sometimes used as another word for alpha channel; also describes the process of modifying an alpha channel. 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. Keying Defining transparent areas with a particular color (color key) or brightness value (luminance key).
165 Applying transitions and special effects • In the Expert view timeline, choose Opacity > Opacity from the pop-up menu just above the clip. (You may need to zoom in to see this menu.) Click the Selection tool, position it over the clip’s Opacity graph, and when the pointer becomes a double-arrow icon, drag the Opacity graph up or down. 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.
166 Applying transitions and special effects 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. Create transparency with a keying effect To create transparency wherever a specific color occurs in a clip, apply a color-based keying effect.
167 Applying transitions and special effects Hide unwanted objects with a garbage matte Sometimes a color-based keying effect properly removes a background, but undesired objects still appear, such as a microphone or cable. Use a garbage matte keying effect to mask out those objects. Garbage mattes work well for areas that have clearly defined boundaries but no uniform color to key. Garbage mattes also work well to clean up unwanted artifacts that a color-based keying effect left behind.
168 Applying transitions and special effects 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. For example, an effect can alter the exposure or color of footage, manipulate sound, distort images, or add an artistic feel. All effects are preset to default settings so you can see the results of the effect as soon as you apply it.
169 Applying transitions and special effects Virtual Studio Technology (VST) effects let you add interesting qualities to audio clips. If you own third-party VST effects, you can apply and edit them just like standard audio and video effects. Premiere Elements detects any compatible VST plug-ins that you have installed and adds them to the Effects panel. Some third-party VST effects provide unique control interfaces. The control layout and processed audio are the responsibilities of the plug-in developer.
170 Applying transitions and special effects Apply and preview effects When you apply an effect to a clip, it is set to default values and is active for the duration of the clip. After you apply an effect, you can adjust its properties using the Applied Effects panel. You can make an effect start and stop at specific times, or adjust the values of the effect over time by using keyframes.
171 Applying transitions and special effects Note: Each audio effect includes a bypass option that lets you turn the effect on or off as specified by the keyframes that you set. Copy and paste effects You can copy and paste one or more effects from one clip (source clip) to another (target clip), or copy all effect values (including keyframes for effects) from one clip to another.
172 Applying transitions and special effects View keyframes in copied effects If the target clip is shorter than the source clip, keyframes are pasted beyond the target clip’s Out point. To view the keyframes, select the clip in the Expert view timeline and do one of the following: • In the Project Assets panel, select the clips for which you received the copied effects, and deselect Pin To Clip.
173 Applying transitions and special effects View the effects applied to a clip All clips in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline automatically have the fixed effects (Motion, Opacity, Volume, and Balance) applied to them. These fixed effects appear in the clip instance in the Expert view timeline and in the Applied Effects panel. All of the standard effects that you add to a clip appear in the order in which you add them.
174 Applying transitions and special effects 9 Adjust the position of the overlay, drag the desired location in the Monitor panel. 10 Resize the handle on the corner of the video clip or graphic and drag it to adjust its size or rotate the overlay. Click Done. Adding sound effects to a video You can enhance your video with sound effects. It allows you to make a creative point or emphasizing a certain portion of the video clip or movie. These effecs are added to the video background.
175 Applying transitions and special effects Color Effects Create tints of varying color and intensity. Drop Shadows Create either static or animated shadows. Shadow presets have suffixes that indicate the direction that the shadow is cast or the direction that it moves. For example, LL indicates that the shadow is cast to the lower left. For moving shadows, the appendix is hyphenated. Therefore, LR-LL indicates that the shadow moves from the lower right to the lower left.
176 Applying transitions and special effects when you saved the preset, this option adds the keyframe at 1 second from the In point of the target clip, and adds all other keyframes relative to that position without any scaling. Anchor To Out Point Positions the preset’s last keyframe at the same distance from the target clip’s Out point as it was from the original clip’s Out point.
177 Applying transitions and special effects 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. Apply an Image Mask transition 1 In the Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar.
178 Applying transitions and special effects 5 Locate and select the image file you want to use in the transition, and click Open. The image appears in the Gradient Wipe Settings dialog box. 6 Adjust the softness of the transition’s edges by dragging the Softness slider. As you drag the slider to the right, the first clip increasingly shows through the second clip. Click OK. 7 Adjust the properties of the transition, if necessary, using the Transitions contextual control and click Done.
179 Applying transitions and special effects Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on adding scores to your clips. A score here refers to an audio track that you can drag-and-drop to a video in the timeline. Follow these steps to add scores to your video: 1 This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on adding scores between video clips. 2 Click Add media to import the video clip you add scores to. Ignore if the video clip is already present on the timeline.
180 Applying transitions and special effects • Fit Entire Video: Click Fit Entire Video to add the score to the entire video clip. The score sound plays throughout the video clip. Click Done. Adding music scores to video clips You can add music scores to video clips and enhance the musical atmosphere of the video. You can choose from various royalty-free music scores in Adobe Premiere Elements. A music score here refers to an audio track that you can apply to a video in the timeline.
181 Applying transitions and special effects 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. 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.
182 Applying transitions and special effects 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.
183 Applying transitions and special effects 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. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect Try the latest Premiere Elements|Explore Elements product suite Using the pan and zoom tool in Adobe Premiere Elements, you can create video-like effects from images or movie clips.
184 Applying transitions and special effects The Pan and Zoom tool follows the 'Z' pattern while detecting and creating sequences for recognized faces. Select Reverse Automatic Panning Direction option in the settings dialog box to follow the 'S' pattern. You need to reset and re-apply the setting for changes to take place for already applied frames. Adding focus frames Before you apply the pan and zoom effect, you identify the objects in the image that you want to pan or zoom into using focus frames.
185 Applying transitions and special effects • A focus frame at the center of the image. In the Pan and Zoom tool, click New Frame to add Focus frames to the media. Add focus frames manually Do one of the following: • Double-click the object or area on which you want to add a focus frame. • Select the frame after which you want the new focus frame to appear, and click New Frame. The new focus frame appears in the center of the view area.
186 Applying transitions and special effects Resize focus frames Do one of the following: • Select the focus frame, and move your mouse over any of the corners until the resize (double-sided arrow) icon appears. Drag to resize the frame. • To zoom incrementally, select the focus frame and move your mouse over the focus frame. Click the “+” or “-” zoom controls to incrementally change the size of the frame. Delete focus frames Move the mouse over the focus frame.
187 Applying transitions and special effects 2 Customize the pan, and hold duration values based on your requirements. Use zoom to accurately position focus frames The zoom options in the pan and zoom toolbar help reduce the size of a focus frame beyond what is possible in the normal view. For example, the focus frame in normal view is now reduced to a size beyond which it can be reduced no further. However, the size is still not small enough for the object on which you want to focus.
188 Applying transitions and special effects 4 You can further edit or enhance the adjustment layer from the Adjust/Applied Effects panel. 5 Click Adjust on the Adjust panel. In the Adjust panel, click Entire Movie to edit the adjustment layers applied on the entire clip. • Smart Fix: Click Smart Fix to automatically fix your video footage. Smart Fix analyzes and fixes your video footage to make it look better. • Auto Smart Tone: Click Entire movie.
189 Applying transitions and special effects Resize an adjustment layer You can resize the duration of an adjustment layer. To resize an adjustment layer: 1 Click the adjustment layer in the Timeline display area 2 Drag the anchor point in the center of the screen to reposition the adjustment layer, and then drag the edge of the clip to scale it down.
190 Applying transitions and special effects Complex category Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix. These blend modes perform different operations on the source and underlying colors depending on whether one of the colors is lighter than 50% gray. Difference category Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Divide. These blend modes create colors based on the differences between the values of the source color and the underlying color.
191 Applying transitions and special effects Lighter Color Each result pixel is the color of lighter of the source color value and the corresponding underlying color value. Lighter Color is similar to Lighten, but Lighter Color does not operate on individual color channels. Overlay Multiplies or screens the input color channel values, depending on whether or not the underlying color is lighter than 50% gray. The result preserves highlights and shadows in the underlying layer.
192 Applying transitions and special effects Luminosity Result color has hue and saturation of the underlying color, and luminosity of the source color. This mode is the opposite of the Color mode. Add FilmLooks effects You can use the FilmLooks effects to add cinematic looks to your movies. To make your video resemble a Hollywoodstyle movie, add an effect under the FilmLooks category from the Effects panel. The FilmLooks category is available both in the Quick view and the Expert view.
193 Applying transitions and special effects 7 To add custom text, select the default text and type in your desired text. Double-click to select the text if the text is not selected. 8 Double-click the text panel to open it. You can adjust the font, style, size, and color in the Adjustments panel. 9 There are various pre-defined styles you can select from. Click the Style tab in the Adjustments bar. Click the desired style to apply it to the text. 10 You can animate your text.
194 Applying transitions and special effects Use the Tint slider control to add more red or green tone to your image. 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.
195 Applying transitions and special effects • To scale height and width independently, expand the Motion effect in the Applied Effects panel, deselect Constrain Proportions, and then drag any clip handle in the Monitor panel. Alternatively, expand the Motion effect in the Applied Effects panel and drag the Scale Height and Scale Width sliders. note: Scaling video and low-resolution images over 100% can make them look blocky or pixelated.
196 Chapter 8: Creating titles Creating titles Try the latest Premiere Elements|Explore Elements product suite 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.
197 Creating titles • To add a title without underlying video, select the first clip in the Expert view timeline. In the Project Assets panel, select New Item from the Panel options and choose Black Video. In the Expert view timeline, drag the new black video clip to the beginning of the movie. 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.
198 Creating 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. 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. Use the Monitor panel's scroll bar to view offscreen areas of the title.
199 Creating 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.
200 Creating 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.
201 Creating titles Create shaped objects for titles You can use the drawing tools in the Monitor panel to create a variety of shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses, and lines. After you draw a shape, you can apply a style to it, and change the fill and stroke attributes. 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.
202 Creating titles Note: Images acquired with a digital still camera tend to be much larger than a video project’s screen size. To resize an image without distorting it, Shift-drag the image’s corner handle or use the Text > Transform > Scale command. 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.
203 Creating titles 4 Choose one of the following: Bring To Front Brings the object to the top of the stacking order. Bring Forward Switches the object with the object directly in front of it. Send To Back Moves the object to the bottom of the stacking order. Send Backward Switches the object with the object directly behind it. note: If your text or shape elements are densely stacked, it may be difficult to select an element within the stack.
204 Creating titles 2 In the Monitor panel, Shift-click three or more objects or drag a marquee over them. 3 Do one of the following: • Right-click/ctrl-click any of the objects selected, and choose Distribute Objects. • Choose Text > Distribute Objects. 4 Select the type of distribution you want. Transform objects You have full flexibility in adjusting an object’s position, rotation, scale, and opacity—attributes collectively referred to as transform properties.
205 Creating titles • To scale and constrain the aspect ratio, press Shift as you drag the object’s corner points. • To scale from the center, Alt-drag the object’s corner points. • To set scale values in terms of percentages, choose Text > Transform > Scale, or right-click/ctrl-click the object and choose Transform > Scale. Specify the values you want, and click OK. Note: Dragging the bounding box handles of a text object created with the Type or Vertical Type tool changes its font size.
206 Creating titles Set the fill You can use the Color Properties dialog box to set an object’s fill. An object’s fill property defines the area within the contours of the object. The property defines the space inside a graphic object or within the outline of each character of a text object. Note: The Fill box in the Color Properties dialog box is enabled only if you‘ve applied a preset style from the Style tab in the Adjust panel to the object. These styles contain fills and strokes, which you can edit.
207 Creating titles 8 Do any of the following to set the color: • To make the stroke transparent, click the No Color box. • 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 box above the spectrum.
208 Creating titles Distance Specifies the number of pixels that the shadow is offset from the object. Softness Specifies how blurry or sharp the shadow appears. More Help topics About styles Select a title for editing Create shaped objects for 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.
209 Creating titles • Pick a template and drag it onto the timeline. Select a category of your choice from Motion Titles, pick a theme, and then a template. Click the play button to watch a preview of the template before you use it. Drag the selected template to the timeline. After you place a motion title on the timeline, you can start Customize the text, graphic, or background components of your titleit to suit your preferences.
210 Creating 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.
211 Creating titles You can choose to resize the text component using your mouse pointer and dragging the corners of the component. Reposition the text component by dragging it with the mouse pointer, to the desired position. Note: To change the size of the text, ensure that you select the component and type the desired value in the size field of the Format tab. Resizing the component using the mouse pointer may result in the text getting truncated.
212 Creating titles • Freeze Frame: Premiere Elements picks the frame from your video that corresponds with the start of the title clip. This frame is then used as the background for your title clip. To select a new frame, drag your motion title to the desired position and enter into the Motion Title edit mode. Then select the background image and in the background tab, under freeze frame, click Refresh Frame. • Color Matte: Use a solid color as the background for your title clip.
213 Creating titles This Guided Edit is a tutorial on adding narration to your video clip. To add narration to your video clips using this Guided edit, follow these steps: 1 This Guided Edit is a walkthrough on adding narration to your video clips. Click Back and Next to move forward or backward in the guided edit's steps. 2 Click Add media to import the video clip you add scores to. Ignore if the video clip is already present on the timeline. 3 Select the option to import media.
214 Creating titles 3 Locate and select a title and click Open. More Help topics Supported file types for import Supported file types for saving and exporting Editing and formatting text Select a title for editing Before you can edit a title, you must select it in the Monitor panel. 1 Do one of the following: • In the Quick view timeline, select the title clip or the clip on which the title is superimposed. In the Monitor panel, click the clip to select it, and then double-click the text to edit.
215 Creating titles A Font options B Font style options Note: You can quickly apply a favorite set of attributes (color, shadow, and so on) to any object by using the Styles section of the Adjust panel. Specify a 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 and do one of the following: • In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, choose a font from the Font menu.
216 Creating titles 3 In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, do one of the following: • To align text with the left side of the box, click Left Align Text. • To center the text in the box, click Center Text. • To align text on the right side in the box, click Right Align Text. Change text orientation 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 text object.
217 Creating titles 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.
218 Creating 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.
219 Creating titles 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.
220 Creating 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. 6 Add a Black Video to the timeline. Click Project Assets > Panel Options > New Item > Black Video. 7 Drag the Black Video and drop it on the Video 2 track to place it directly above your clip on the Video 1 track.
221 Creating titles 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. 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. 11 Double-click the title on the monitor and type your title.
222 Creating titles 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. 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. 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.
223 Creating titles Last updated 10/4/2016
224 Chapter 9: Mixing audio Music Remix The Music Remix feature in Premiere Elements allows you to easily increase or decrease the length of an audio clip to match the desired duration without losing the continuity of the audio content. The Remix tool analyzes your song files, identifying hundreds of loops, transitions, and important segments, and then allows you to quickly remix to any duration.
225 Mixing audio 2 Resize the clip by dragging the remix handles. Note: The remix handles are different from the trim handles . When you drag the remix handles from either side of the audio clip, the audio is remixed to the new duration. Remixing consists of two parts: Preparing the clip for remixing: In this step, the application scans the audio clip to identify the segments or parts that can be stitched together later to create the output sequence for desired duration.
226 Mixing audio While remixing a clip, a Remix folder gets created in the Project Assets panel with the newly created remixed audio clip. The remixed audio clip can then be used anywhere on the timeline as a regular audio clip. Note: The remixed audio clip present in the Remix folder is the original output from the algorithm and that on the timeline is the Time stretched version to match exact duration.
227 Mixing audio Shorter Results in shorter segments, but in more transitions. This option is suited for songs that changes from beginning to end to minimize abrupt changes in dynamics or tempo. Longer Looks for the longest passages and smallest number of segments to minimize transitions. Fit Entire Video: This option, if selected, changes the length of the music clip to match the length of the video on the timeline. It extends/shortens the length from the right side of the clip.
228 Mixing audio 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.
229 Mixing audio 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. Descriptions of the options appear in the Beat Detect Settings dialog box, beside the light bulb icon . Beat markers appear in the Expert view timeline, corresponding to the beats in the soundtrack.
230 Mixing audio 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. 4 Click Send to export the file to the Project Assets panel.
231 Mixing audio 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. 5 Speak into the microphone at a conversational volume, and raise or lower the Input Volume Level slider until your loudest words light up the orange part of the meters. 6 Click the Record button. 7 Near the top of the Record Voice Narration window, a timer appears next to Start Recording In.
232 Mixing audio 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. For example, you might first adjust the volume of a narration clip so that there is little variance between its softest and loudest sections; then raise the narration’s overall volume so that it is clearly audible over background sounds or music included in other clips.
233 Mixing audio To mute a track while mixing, click Mute. This option does not mute the track permanently—only while mixing. SmartMix Sometimes the background music is loud and the dialogs in a clip are not audible. To ensure that the dialogs are easily heard, the volume of the background music must be lowered. SmartMix enables automatic adjustment of the volume of the background music.
234 Mixing audio 4 Drag up or down to adjust the level uniformly. Drag any existing keyframes to move them. As you drag, the decibel level is displayed. A positive number indicates an increase in volume; a negative number indicates a decrease. Adjust the input level of clips If the original volume of the clip is too high or low, change the input level, or gain, before adjusting to the output levels.
235 Chapter 10: Creating 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 Blu-ray 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.
236 Creating disc menus Menu-based with several movie selections These are best for presenting a set of individual movies that you don’t want to combine into a single movie. For example, in a wedding disc, you might want to present the preparations, the ceremony, and the reception as separate movies. Each will have its own button on the main menu.
237 Creating disc menus A Next button leads to duplicate menu B Previous button returns user to Main Menu 1 Scene markers Scene markers divide a movie into separate scenes. Scene buttons on the main menu link to different scenes in your movie. They appear on scene menus one after another (not grouped by movie). Use scene markers (without stop markers) when you want the movie to play from start to finish. You can also use scene markers when you want your viewer to be able to jump ahead to specific scenes.
238 Creating disc menus Every _ Minutes Places scene markers at the interval you specify. (This option is only available when the movie contains several minutes of footage.) Total Markers Spaces the number of markers you specify evenly across the entire range of clips in the Expert view timeline. 5 If the Expert view timeline contains existing markers that you no longer want, select Clear Existing Menu Markers.
239 Creating disc menus 2 In the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline, select Markers > Menu Marker > Set Menu Marker. 3 In the Menu Marker dialog box, select Stop Marker from the Marker Type menu. 4 Click OK. The marker is added to the Quick view timeline. In the Expert view timeline, the marker is added below the time ruler.
240 Creating disc menus Edit menu or scene marker attributes After you place a marker, you can change its name, type (scene, main menu, or stop), and the thumbnail image displayed in a thumbnail button on a menu. The marker names become the button names in the main menu or scenes menu. Some menu buttons include thumbnail images of the video to which they are linked. By default, the thumbnail displays the frame visible at the marker. You can change the marker to better suit the content.
241 Creating disc menus A menu can include sound and motion. Some templates contain drop zones, where you can drag and drop a still image or video to personalize the menu background. If you drop a video or image on a template that does not contain a drop zone, the dropped video or still image replaces the entire menu background. A video can serve as a moving backdrop to a menu or provide all the visual elements of the menu, except for the button highlighting.
242 Creating disc menus 2 Click Download Now to download selected template. Click Download All to download all Menu templates. 3 Click the Download in background button to download the contents in background as you continue to work in Adobe Premiere Elements. Note: The Blue bar on top right corner on the content indicates the content is not downloaded. Internet access is required to download contents.
243 Creating disc menus • To move a menu item, select the item and drag it. Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the item in any direction. 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.
244 Creating disc menus Specify text settings You can change text properties for menu titles and buttons, including font, size, style, and color. 1 At the bottom of the Disc Layout panel, click the thumbnail of the menu you want to change. 2 Select a menu title or button text. 3 Do any of the following in the Properties panel: • Choose a font from the Change Text Font menu. (You may have to select the triangle next to Text to see the text attribute options.
245 Creating disc menus Note: Although an auto-play disc does not contain menus that link to the marker, existing menu and scene markers in the project can be useful. The Next and Previous buttons on a DVD or Blu-ray player’s remote control skip ahead or back to main menu markers and scene markers. Stop markers are ignored. In the Adjust panel, click Auto-Play. The menus are removed from the Adjust panel and the markers are as chapter points in an auto-play disc.
246 Chapter 11: Saving and sharing your movies Common settings for sharing Customize settings for sharing Regardless of the file type you choose for sharing, the presets (default settings) are adequate for most applications and produce high-quality results. However, you can change them if you have specific requirements not addressed by the presets. You can specify custom settings when sharing using the Computer or Mobile Phones And Players options.
247 Saving and sharing your movies Video settings The following options are available in the Video panel of the Export Settings dialog box (you see these when you share a project using the Computer or Mobile Phones And Players options). Not all options are available for all presets. Export Video Exports the video tracks. Deselect to prevent exporting video tracks. Export Audio Exports the audio tracks. Deselect to prevent exporting audio tracks.
248 Saving and sharing your movies M Frames Specifies the number of B frames (bi-directional frames) between consecutive I frames (intra-frames) and P frames (predicted frames). This option is available only for MPEG formats. N Frames Specifies the number of frames between I frames (intra-frames). This value must be a multiple of the M frames value. This option is available only for MPEG formats.
249 Saving and sharing your movies Bitrate Mode Specifies whether the codec achieves a constant or variable bitrate in the exported file. Constant 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.
250 Saving and sharing your movies Export and share your videos 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. You can save your project for viewing on the web, mobile phone, computer, DVD, Blu-ray disc, and more. The Export & Share option includes all the available export formats in a single panel.
251 Saving and sharing your movies • Disc: DVD, Blu-ray, AVCHD • Online: Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube • Audio: Track, Custom • Image: Frame, Custom To learn more about output types, click one of the media categories: Quick Export Devices Disc Online Audio Image Premiere Elements displays the settings for the output type that you select. Based on the format of your source clip, a list of recommended settings is displayed. This recommended setting is selected, by default.
252 Saving and sharing your movies • Type the File Name and select a location for the output. Click Save. For Online sharing, click Begin Sharing after you select your options. Premiere Elements, creates the output and saves it to the location you specified. Click one of the media categories to learn more about the available export formats. Quick Export Devices Disc Online Audio Image Quick Export The Quick Export option is the easiest way to export your videos.
253 Saving and sharing your movies Disc Select a specific media format from the Disc category. The options available to you are DVD, Blu-ray, and AVCHD. Depending on the complexity and length of the project and your computer speed, encoding (compressing) video and audio for a disc can take hours. If you plan to burn multiple discs with the same content and quality, you can save time by burning them in the same session, which compresses the project only once.
254 Saving and sharing your movies You can export any frame or still-image clip as a still-image file. The frame is exported from the current time position in the Expert view timeline or the Monitor panel. Following the export, the frame appears in the Project Assets panel. You can also export a clip or movie as a sequence of still images, with each frame as a separate still-image file. Navigate to Advanced Setting and select the Export As Sequence option.
255 Saving and sharing your movies • MPEG-4 (.mp4) • QuickTime (.mov) • Windows Waveform (.wav) • Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff) Note: Premiere Elements can import Dolby AC-3 audio in a stand-alone .ac3 file with .vob (DVD) or .mod (SD-based camcorder) files, but it exports the audio from it as Dolby Digital Stereo only. Note: Use Mp3 or AAC for audio-only exports for podcasts. More Help topics Supported file types for import Archiving projects Archive a project 1 Choose File > Project Archiver.
256 Saving and sharing your movies Copy Project Creates a folder containing a new project file, and full copies of all the media that appear in the Project Assets panel in the original project, whether or not any of them were used in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline. Unlike Archive Project, Copy Project does save all rendered preview files. Use this option to aggregate copies of all files belonging to a project into a single folder.
257 Saving and sharing your movies If you intend to create a DVD or record to tape, codec compatibility is irrelevant. Your audience only needs to have the hardware necessary to play back the file. About data rate With some video codecs, you can specify the data rate, which controls the amount of video information that is processed each second during playback.
258 Saving and sharing your movies About compression keyframes Compression keyframes are different from the keyframes that you use to control track or clip properties, such as audio volume or clip rotation. When you export a movie, Premiere Elements automatically places compression keyframes at regular intervals in the movie. During compression, these keyframes are stored as complete frames. The frames between the keyframes are called intermediate frames.
259 Saving and sharing your movies Supported audio formats for export • Adaptive multi-rate compression (.amr) • Advanced Audio Coding (.aac) • Microsoft AVI (.avi) - Windows only • Mp3® Audio (.mp3) • MPEG-4 (.mp4) • QuickTime (.mov) • Windows Waveform (.wav) • Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff) Note: Premiere Elements can import Dolby AC-3 audio in a stand-alone .ac3 file with .vob (DVD) or .mod (SD-based camcorder) files, but it exports the audio from it as Dolby Digital Stereo only.
260 Chapter 12: Keyboard shortcuts 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.
261 Keyboard shortcuts Using default shortcuts About keyboard shortcuts For many tasks, using keyboard shortcuts is quicker than using a mouse. Premiere Elements provides a default set of keyboard shortcuts that you can view and modify by using the Edit > Keyboard Customization command. Find the keyboard shortcut for a tool, button, or menu command Do one of the following: • For a tool or button, hold the pointer over the tool or button until its tool tip appears.
262 Chapter 13: Glossary Glossary 3GP Third generation platform. A file format for video recorded by mobile phones. 16:9 The aspect ratio of widescreen TV. AC3 See Dolby Digital . ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) The hardware that converts an analog audio or video signal into a digital signal that you can process with a computer. AGP slot Accelerated graphics port slot. A connector on a computer’s motherboard for use with a GPU card. See GPU .
263 Glossary Blu-ray An optical disc format that has five times the storage capacity of DVDs. It can store 25GB on a single-layer disc or 50GB on a dual-layer disc. It gets its name from the blue-violet laser it uses (as opposed to the red laser used by other optical discs). bluescreen See keying . camcorder A digital video camera—that is, a device that records sequences of continuous pictures and generates a signal for display or transfer of video footage.
264 Glossary digital video Video that consists of a binary signal, encoded as a series of zeroes and ones. All data that a computer processes must be digital, so analog video must first be converted to digital video before it can be edited on a computer. See also analog video , AV-to-DV converter , and DV-to-AV converter . digitize To convert analog video or audio to digital form. dissolve A fade from one clip into another.
265 Glossary final cut The final video production, assembled from high-quality clips, and ready for export to the selected delivery media. Compare to rough cut . FireWire The Apple® Computer trade name for IEEE 1394 . fps Frames per second; the standard for measuring the rate of video playback. At 15 fps and lower, the human eye can detect individual frames, causing video to appear jerky.
266 Glossary keyframes Start and end points for animated effects. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically generates the frames between keyframes to create smooth movement. See also interpolation and tweening . keying Replacing part of one TV image with video from another image. Also called blue screen. See also chroma key . L-cut An edit in which the video ends before the audio, which acts as a subtle transition from one scene to the next.
267 Glossary MPEG-4 Builds on previous MPEG standards, adding support for streaming video and improved compression schemes. Often used for video podcasting. native editing Refers to editing originally captured clips, both DV and HDV, at their original, uncompressed quality. neutral colors The range of grays, from black to white, that have no color. For neutral color areas, RGB values are equal. noise Distortions of an audio or video signal, usually caused by interference.
268 Glossary printing to tape Recording a digital video file to videotape. project preset A predefined set of values that can be used for project settings. QuickTime (MOV) Apple Computer's format for video, sound, and 3D media. raster A grid of pixels forming the image on a TV or computer screen. raw footage Original, unedited film or video footage that has not been modified. real time Instantaneous processing of data.
269 Glossary source footage Raw, unedited video that has been recorded by a camera. spatial compression A compression method that reduces the data contained within a single video frame by identifying areas of similar color and eliminating the redundancy. See also codec . splitscreen A special effect that displays two or more scenes simultaneously on different parts of the screen. square-pixel footage Footage that has a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio, typically analog video.
270 Glossary video format A standard that determines the way a video signal is recorded on videotape. Standards include DV, 8- mm, Beta, and VHS. VOB DVD Video Object. The VOB format is commonly used to distribute movies on DVDs; video, audio, title streams, and menu contents are combined in a single file. The video stream is typically MPEG-2.
