User Guide

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File formats you can add to projects
Your choice of footage to include in your movie is not limited to the clips that you capture.
You can also use any number of other image, video, or audio les that reside on your
computer. You only need to add them to your Adobe Premiere Elements project to begin
working with them. In some cases, added les can retain a link to the Adobe application in
which they were created so that from within Adobe Premiere Elements you can open the
le’s original application, make changes, and immediately see the results in Adobe
Premiere Elements.
Supported video les
Before you add video les that you did not capture yourself, make sure that you can view
the video outside of Adobe Premiere Elements. Usually, double-clicking a video le will
open a playback application, such as Windows Media Player. If you can playback your le
in the player application, you will be able to successfully use that le in Adobe Premiere
Elements. You can add a single le, multiple les, or an entire folder of les. You can add
video and sequence les with frame sizes up to 4000 x 4000 pixels.
You can scale EPS images in Adobe Premiere Elements to any size without them becoming
jagged, or pixelized.
Adobe Premiere Elements supports the following video and sequence formats:
• Video formats: DV AVI, MOV, MPEG/MPE/MPG, and WMV.
• Sequence le formats: BMP, Animated GIF, JPEG, PICT/PIC/PCT, TGA/ICB/VST/VDA,
TIFF, and PSD.
Note: Type 1 AVI clips must be rendered before you can preview them from your DV
camcorder. To render a Type 1 AVI clip, add it to the Timeline window in a DV project and
build a preview le of that section of the Timeline window.
Supported audio les
As with video les, you can add any stereo audio le into Adobe Premiere Elements that
you can open in another audio player, such as Windows Media Player. If you add a mono
le, Adobe Premiere Elements converts it to stereo by copying the mono channel and
placing it onto a stereo channel. You cannot add ve-, six-, or seven-channel audio les to
Adobe Premiere Elements.