ADOBE® PREMIERE® ELEMENTS Help and tutorials September 2013 Contents What's new................................................................................................................................................... 1 What's new............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Workspace....................................................................................................................................................5 Workspace..............................................................................................................................................................................6 Importing media through Embedded Elements Organizer....................................................................................................11 Creating a video project..............................................................................................................................13 Creating a project................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Saving and backing up projects............................................................................................................................................16 Project settings and presets................................................................................................................................................. 18 Viewing a project s files........................................................................................................................................................ 22 Viewing clip properties..........................................................................................................................................................25 Undoing changes..................................................................................................................................................................28 Working with scratch disks................................................................................................................................................... 30 Creating instant movies........................................................................................................................................................ 32 Importing and adding media....................................................................................................................... 35 Adding media into Adobe Premiere Elements...................................................................................................................... 36 Add numbered image files as a singleclip............................................................................................................................ 43 5.1 audio import....................................................................................................................................................................44 Creating specialty clips.........................................................................................................................................................46 Guidelines for adding files.................................................................................................................................................... 48 Set duration for imported stillimages.................................................................................................................................... 51 Working with scratch disks................................................................................................................................................... 52 Working with offline files....................................................................................................................................................... 54 Working with aspect ratios and field options.........................................................................................................................55 Supported devices and file formats...................................................................................................................................... 59 Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements............................................................61 Importing and Exporting movies using Adobe Revel............................................................................................................ 62 Creating specialty clips.........................................................................................................................................................64 Arranging movie clips................................................................................................................................. 66 Arranging clips in the Quick viewtimeline............................................................................................................................. 67 Arranging clips in the Expert view timeline........................................................................................................................... 70 Creating a picture-in-picture overlay.....................................................................................................................................78 Grouping, linking, and disablingclips.................................................................................................................................... 80 Working with clip and timeline markers................................................................................................................................ 82 Previewing movies................................................................................................................................................................87 Editing clips.................................................................................................................................................92 Trimming clips.......................................................................................................................................................................93 Split clips.............................................................................................................................................................................101 Replace footage..................................................................................................................................................................102 Changing clip speed and duration...................................................................................................................................... 103 Freezing and holding frames.............................................................................................................................................. 105 Working with source clips................................................................................................................................................... 106 Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit........................................................................................................................ 109 Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone................................................................................................................................. 111 Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit........................................................................................................113 Adding Brightness Contrast Color - Guided Edit................................................................................................................ 115 Applying transitions and special effects....................................................................................................117 Transition basics.................................................................................................................................................................118 Applying transitions to clips................................................................................................................................................ 119 Adjusting transitions............................................................................................................................................................123 Effects basics......................................................................................................................................................................126 Finding and organizing effects............................................................................................................................................128 Working with effect presets.................................................................................................................................................129 Superimposing and transparency.......................................................................................................................................131 Reposition, scale, or rotate clipswith the Motion effect.......................................................................................................136 Pan and zoom to create video-likeeffect.............................................................................................................................139