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Writer: Jan Ozer Editor: Connie Jeung-Mills Development Editor: Stephen Nathans-Kelly Copyeditor: Anne Marie Walker Production Editors: Katerina Malone, Cory Borman Keystroker: John Cruise Compositor: David Van Ness Indexer: Jack Lewis Cover design: Eddie Yuen Interior design: Mimi Heft Printed and bound in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-0-321-88372-8 ISBN-10: 0-321-88372-1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WHAT’S ON THE DISC Here is an overview of the contents of the Classroom in a Book disc The Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Classroom in a Book disc includes the lesson files that you’ll need to complete the exercises in this book, as well as other content to help you learn more about Adobe Premiere Elements 11 and use it with greater efficiency and ease. 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CONTENTS WHAT’S ON THE DISC iii GETTING STARTED 1 About Classroom in a Book ................................. 1 Prerequisites ............................................... 2 Installing Adobe Premiere Elements 11 ..................... 3 Copying the Classroom in a Book files ....................... 4 Additional resources . 4 1 THE WORLD OF DIGITAL VIDEO 6 How Adobe Premiere Elements fits into video production . 8 The Adobe Premiere Elements workspace ................... 9 Working in the Organizer .................................. 11 What’s new in Adobe Premiere Elements 11 ................ 23 Review questions and answers ............................ 27 2 GETTING READY TO EDIT 28 Setting your startup preferences .......................... 30 Setting up a new project .................................. 31 Working with project preferences ......................... 40 Customizing the Workspace ............................... 43 Review questions and answers ............................ 45 3 VIDEO CAPTURE AND IMPORT 46 Capturing video with Adobe Premiere Elements ........... 48 Capture interfaces ........................................ 49 Using the Video Importer ................................. 50 Capturing tape-based or live video ........................ 55 Capturing with the Capture panel . 59 iv CONTENTS Importing content from your hard drive .................. 64 Review questions and answers ............................ 93 4 ORGANIZING YOUR CONTENT 66 Getting started ........................................... 68 Viewing the completed movie before you start ............ 68 Working in the Project Assets panel ....................... 69 Tagging in the Organizer .................................. 75 Review questions and answers ............................ 93 5 EDITING VIDEO 94 Getting started ........................................... 96 Viewing the completed movie before you start ............ 96 Working in the Monitor panel .............................. 97 Editing in Quick view .................................... 101 Using the Split Clip tool in Quick view .................... 107 Working in Expert view .................................. 109 Editing in Expert view ................................... 111 Using the Split Clip tool in Expert view ................... 119 Working in Smart Trim mode ............................ 122 Review questions and answers .......................... 127 6 WORKING WITH EFFECTS 128 Getting started .......................................... 130 Viewing the completed movie before you start ........... 130 Using effects ............................................ 131 Working with Smart Fix .................................. 135 Perfecting your clips .................................... 137 Fixing backlighted video ................................ 143 Copying effects from one clip to another ................. 146 Working with Time Remapping .......................... 149 Changing playback speed ............................... 157 Creating a Pan & Zoom effect ............................ 158 ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 11 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK v Working with keyframes ................................. 163 Creating a Picture-in-Picture overlay ..................... 171 Compositing two clips using Videomerge ................ 173 Exploring on your own .................................