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spine=.72” Technology/Multimedia Editing Software ™ Learn to use the Making Everything Easier! video-editing program made for hobbyists like you! Open the book and find: Premiere Home movies of today are nothing like the shaky, unedited • How to use Premiere Elements ones your parents or grandparents used to show. With with different media formats ® Premiere Elements, you can create professional-looking • How to apply transitions between movies and upload them to YouTube or put them on scenes Elements 8 DVDs to share. Here’s how to turn your PC into a movie • How to create Web-friendly video Premiere production studio and create videos that wow your family files ® and friends! 8 Elements • Secrets for improving and • For movie newbies — learn moviemaking basics and how to set repairing images up your production studio • Tips on making movies for the • Dive right in — set up Premiere Elements, learn its features, and iPod® and iPhone® import clips from your digital camcorder • How to take advantage of • The moviemaker’s canvas — work with the Timeline and SmartSound® Sceneline to import and organize clips and make edits • A glossary of moviemaking terms • Sound secrets — find out how to record better sound quality and acronyms when you’re shooting video • Ten tips for making better movies • Movie music — add audio transitions and learn to mix audio tracks • The fancy stuff — create compositing effects with blue screens, customize special effects, and add titles Learn to: • It’s a wrap — customize a DVD menu and choose the right file • Navigate around the tools, menus, panels, format Go to Dummies.com® buttons, and options for videos, step-by-step examples, • Share your creations — export your movies for iPods and mobile how-to articles, or to shop! • Import video, create clips, and join clips devices, upload them to YouTube, or burn DVDs and Blu-ray discs together • Add music and special effects • Put your movies on YouTube®, Blu-ray discs, or mobile phones $29.99 US / $35.99 CN / £21.99 UK Keith Underdahl has produced professional marketing and kiosk videos ISBN 978-0-470-45318-6 and also enjoys hobby moviemaking. 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Premiere® Elements 8 FOR DUMmIES‰ by Keith Underdahl Premiere® Elements 8 For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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ISBN: 978-0-470-45318-6 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 About the Author Keith Underdahl is a professional video producer residing in Oregon. He works for high-tech fi rms shooting and editing industrial video and produces live Webcast video training sessions for international audiences. At various points in his career, Keith has also served as a program manager, graphic designer, software developer, Web designer, teacher, motorcycle road tester, soccer offi cial, aircraft mechanic, sailor, burger fl ipper, and lawn mower. Keith Underdahl has written numerous books, including Microsoft Windows Movie Maker For Dummies, Macworld Final Cut Pro 2 Bible (coauthor), Digital Video For Dummies (3rd and 4th Editions), Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies, 50 Fast Windows XP Techniques, Wi-Fi Home Networking — Just the Steps For Dummies, and Mac OS X Leopard — Just the Steps For Dummies. Author’s Acknowledgments So many people helped me complete this project that I hardly know where to begin. First and foremost I wish to thank my family for allowing me to work two full-time jobs as I completed this updated edition Premiere Elements 8 For Dummies. My wife, Christa, has been my entire support staff, head cheer- leader, creative advisor, and inspiration throughout my entire writing career. She was the one who urged me to start writing for a small motorcycle maga- zine in 1995, and that endeavor has led to so many great adventures and chal- lenges in the years since. I owe everything to Christa. My undying gratitude also goes out to my two very favorite movie subjects, Soren and Cole Underdahl. Not only do my boys take direction well, but they are also incredibly intelligent and look great on camera! I also received help both on-screen and behind the scenes from Ryan Holbrook, as well as James Singleton and his band, Komakazies. I wish I could take full credit for the quality and content of Premiere Elements 8 For Dummies, but many other kind folks contributed to this work to make it what it is. I’d like to thank Amy Fandrei for giving me the opportunity to give Premiere Elements 8 For Dummies a much needed update, my project editor Rebecca Huehls, my technical editor Dennis Cohen, my copy editor Debbye Butler, and the many other folks at Wiley who toiled to make this one of the best references on Adobe Premiere Elements to be found. I had help from some industry people, including Andy Marken and many fi ne folks at Adobe who invited me to help develop this excellent video-editing tool. I’ve been on the user side of Adobe software for a long time, and I am honored to contribute to their testing and development programs as well. Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments at http://dummies.custhelp.com. 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