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Windows XP® Adobe® Premiere® Elements 2.0 Feature Highlights Create videos like Presenting Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, with everything you need to create videos that thrill your a famous director friends and family. The perfect combination of superior control, ease of use, and reliability, Premiere and amaze your Elements automates tedious tasks so you can be creative more quickly. Import video clips from all of family and friends your digital video devices, then experiment with hundreds of professional transitions and effects to grab your audience. Burn your videos to DVD, complete with custom menus for that personal touch, or output them for the Web, VHS and Microsoft Mobile Media players to wow your audience anywhere. Top Features in Adobe Action! Premiere Elements 2.0 Whether you’re brand new to moviemaking or have just outgrown the limitations of most home • Automatic USB/FireWire video editing software, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it easy to produce great results, with DV video transfer (page 1) its intuitive interface, automated tasks, and superior editing capabilities, combined to bring you an • Media Downloader for exceptionally high level of creative control. easy transfer of all media (page 2) • Adaptable DVD Rely on one-click transfer Templates with Motion Menus (page 8) Getting your video footage into • Support for all of your your computer is a snap with video devices (page 2) Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. • Flexible, easy-to-use Simply plug your DV camcorder workspace (page 3) into your computer—using an • Powerful time-variable IEEE 1394 (FireWire, i.LINK) effects and transitions (page 5) connection—to instantly • Effect and transition begin the one-step process of previews (page 5) transferring your video direct • Context-sensitive to the Timeline. You can also Properties panel (page 5) • Project Archiver (page 4) transfer over USB with newer • Professional quality DV camcorders that support graphic titles and rolling “DV via USB.” Adobe Premiere credits (page 6) • Professional-quality Dolby Elements 2.0 automatically finds sound (page 7) all the footage on your tape, • Preview on TV (page 4) separates your clips into scenes, and presents them in order, ready for editing. Saving time on tasks like video transfer means you can For those already familiar concentrate instead on the fun of with Premiere Elements: creating your video. Transfer video direct to the Timeline in one simple step with the advanced control of the Capture panel. New in 2.0 • Go from DV camcorder to DVD— Enhanced in 2.0 With the combination of automated transfer of your video to the Timeline, gapless editing, and automatic DVD creation, you can easily go from your DV camcorder to a finished DVD in just a few clicks! 2 • Enjoy automatic scene detection— Easily find any point Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 is smart. While capturing your on a DV camcorder video, the application watches for the moments on the tape where you stopped and restarted tape when you only recording, and uses those breaks to determine the size of each scene. When the transfer is want to transfer that section—the complete, you are ready for editing, with no need to manually break your footage into Capture panel separate clips. controls can • Bridge timecode gaps automatically—It’s common to shoot video, review it, and return to where remotely operate your DV camcorder. you left off to start recording again. In the process, you end up creating a gap between the older and newer footage. Unlike most applications, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 understands how real people shoot video, and “looks ahead” to see if there is more footage to transfer. No more aborted transfers or manual restarts, and faster editing as a result. • Capture direct to the Timeline—Why should you have to manually drag scenes to an editing space after capture? With Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, you don’t—as your video transfers from your DV camcorder, your clips are automatically arranged on the Timeline in the order you shot them. Go from camcorder to editing, with no additional preparation required. With capture direct to the Timeline, you can get from raw video to finished movie faster and more easily. Transfer DV via USB Supported Formats Premiere Elements 2.0 keeps you ahead of the pack, with full DV-quality video transfer over USB2 Premiere Elements 2.0 supports the import of for newer DV camcorders that support DV-via-USB, and of course you can still use FireWire for most multimedia file other camcorders. Visit www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/main.html for information about new formats, including: cameras with USB Video Class/USB 2.0 high speed transfer support. Video • 3GP (mobile phones) • ASF Import video from non-DV devices • AVI • DV • DVD (.vob) Use the new Media Downloader to easily • MOD (JVC Everio) transfer video from the widest variety of • MPEG-1 • MPEG-2 non-DV devices: • MPEG-4 • QuickTime • VHS—via DV camcorder or AV/DV • Windows Media converter. Audio • AIFF • DVD—from DVD camcorders, set top • AVI • Dolby (AC3) recorders or discs not protected by CSS • MP3 • QuickTime encryption or Dolby professional audio • WAV encoding. • WMA • Digital still cameras— Still Graphics with video capture • BMP in MPEG1, 3GP, ASF, MPEG4, AVI, or • JPEG • PSD MOV. • TIFF • Mobile phones—in 3GP, ASF, or MPEG4. • Video hybrid devices—such as the Panasonic D-Snap, Sanyo Xacti and JVC Everio. Build a richer video story with all the footage you have available, no matter the source. Keep your tools at your fingertips with a self-adjusting, task-driven workspace The Premiere Elements 2.0 window is made up of a set of interlocking panels instead of free-floating The navigation bar gives you quick access to the palettes. As you adjust the size of one panel, the others panel arrangements that best suit each step of the automatically adjust to fill in the space or get out of moviemaking process. the way. Need to zoom in on the action? Increase the monitor preview size and watch the other panels automatically adjust around it. You’ll never lose sight of a panel because it can’t get lost behind others. Use the navigation bar buttons to quickly switch panel arrangements to suit the natural workflow of video production—moving you easily from transfer to editing and adding special effects, creating titles and DVD menus, and burning your DVD or exporting to formats perfect for Web streaming or e-mail. Plus, individual tool cursors intelligently change to give you instant feedback on the task at hand, and the context-sensitive Properties panel always provides the right options for whatever element you select. C D A B The new Premiere Elements 2.0 workspace makes creating your next movie easier and more fun. A. Find the right effect or transition more easily with visual previews in the Transition and Effects panel. B. Drag at the border of any two panels and let the self-adjusting workspace resize the others automatically. C. Switch between task-oriented panel arrangements with one click in the navigation bar. D. Easily adjust the options for any element in the context-sensitive Properties panel. Cut! Once you’ve shot your video and transferred the clips to the Timeline, it’s time to edit your video. One click of the Edit button arranges the panels and tools you’ll need for easy editing. Enjoy no-fuss, gapless editing Whenever you trim, rearrange, or delete scenes, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 automatically shifts the video clips to fill in any gaps, saving you the time and tedium of readjusting your footage. See you changes in realtime, all the time No more waiting for footage to render—with realtime editing, you see the changes as you make them. Preview your edits and effects without any laborious rendering delay. Preview live on TV See your finished video as your audience will, and feel confident you’ve captured your vision. Enjoy Easy Editing no-render realtime previewing of your video Adobe Premiere editing, titling and DVD menu creation, on any Elements 2.0 makes it TV connected via USB or FireWire. Make sure it simple to create your A video, with context will look the way you want, long before burning the sensitive feedback completed video to DVD. in the Monitor (A), the new fast access Split Clip button (B), Take control of still images cursors that indicate Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it even easier to direction and size of edit (C) and live tips create dynamic multimedia slide shows and in the status line (D) . movie projects with comprehensive still image control. All of the same editing power and control you enjoy with video clips can be easily applied to still image sequences as well. Fade audio and video in or out with a simple right-click or with B the new Properties panel. Rotate stills 90 degrees in either direction, and change the duration for multiple still images on the Timeline at once. C Switch images on the beat of your audio tracks, and easily apply advanced pan-and-zoom effects. You can send photos and slide shows from Photoshop Elements 4.0 directly to the Premiere Elements 2.0 Timeline, and even select a group of images in the D Media panel and create an advanced slide show A Find edit points more easily—the Monitor displays the changing border with a simple menu command. With Premiere between clips as you drag the edit point in the Timeline. Elements 2.0, it’s easy to make your photos the B Fine tune effects on any part of a single clip, by splitting it into two parts with the new Split Clip button.