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Adobe Premiere Elements

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Table of Contents

Starting and Working with Projects

1 About working with projects

2 Starting a new project 2 Opening an existing project 3 Locating missing les 3 Working with palettes and windows

Capturing Video and Adding Files

4 Preparing your system for capture 5 Connecting your DV camcorder to your computer 5 Guidelines for connecting other sources 6 Capturing video 9 Troubleshooting DV capture problems 10 File formats you can add to projects

Editing Movies

11 About editing a movie 12 Working with the Monitor window 13 Working with the Timeline window 16 Adding clips to a movie 22 Trimming frames from a clip 26 Copying, pasting, moving, and deleting clips 32 Changing clip speed

Creating DVDs

34 About creating DVDs 35 Working with DVD markers 40 Creating menu-based DVDs 45 Creating an auto-play DVD 45 Previewing a DVD 46 About burning a DVD 47 Burning a DVD

Exporting Movies

48 Recording your movie to videotape

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50 Exporting video for hard disk playback

Starting and Working with Projects

About working with projects

A project is a single Adobe Premiere Elements le that combines everything you need to create a movie, including video, audio, effects, and titles. A project stores only references to the source les that you capture or import, so you’ll want to avoid moving, renaming, or deleting your source les in Windows®.

Workspace buttons in the task bar

After you start a project, you can work through each stage by clicking the task bar buttons labeled Capture, Edit, Effects, Titles, DVD, and Export. When you click these buttons, the content of the How To palette changes to reect your current task. Likewise, the workspace changes as follows:

Capture Opens the Capture window, which lets you preview, navigate, and capture footage from a tape in your DV camcorder.

Edit Opens the Media, Timeline, and Monitor windows, which respectively let you organize, edit, and preview clips.

Effects Opens the Effects window, which lets you apply a wide range of video and audio effects to clips in the Timeline window.

Titles Opens the Adobe Title Designer, which lets you create and edit titles using a variety of background templates and text styles as a starting point.

DVD Opens the DVD Layout window, from which you can apply menu templates, and preview and burn DVDs.

Export Opens a menu with options that let you share movies on videotape or in common le formats, such as QuickTime and Windows Media.

If you rearrange a default workspace, Adobe Premiere Elements stores your changes. You can restore a default at any time.

Starting a new project

In most cases, you can start a project simply by selecting New Project from the welcome screen or File menu. The default project settings reect the standard video format for your region: NTSC for North America and Japan; PAL for Europe. You rarely need to change these settings.

If your source footage is in a very unusual format, such as widescreen, you need to change the preset used for new projects. Presets determine the video and audio format of a project, including video frame rate and aspect ratio, and audio sample rate and bit depth. You can’t change these settings after starting a project, so verify the format of your source footage before changing project presets.

Note: Capture cards certied as compatible with Adobe Premiere Elements may install their own optimized presets when you install the software that comes with the card.

To start a new project:

1 Do one of the following:

• Start Adobe Premiere Elements, and click New Project.

• In Adobe Premiere Elements, choose File > New > Project. 2 Specify the project name and saved location, and click OK.

Note: By default, the folder for a saved project also stores rendered previews, conformed audio les, and captured audio and video. These les are very large, so you should save them to your largest, fastest hard drive. To store these les separately from projects, choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks.

To change the preset used for new projects:

1 Do one of the following to access the welcome screen:

• Start Adobe Premiere Elements.

• In Adobe Premiere Elements, choose File > Close.

2 Click Setup, and then select a preset from the list of Available Presets. 3 Click Save as Default.

Opening an existing project

You can open only one project at a time. However, you can add media from one project to another.

To open an existing Adobe Premiere Elements project:

Do one of the following:

• Start Adobe Premiere Elements, and click the project name in the welcome screen. (If the project isn’t recent, click Open Project, select the le, and click Open.)

• In Adobe Premiere Elements, choose File > Open Project, select the project le, and click Open.

• In Windows, double-click the project le.

Locating missing les

Adobe Premiere Elements doesn’t store original source les in a project—it references the le name and location of each source le when you import it. If you later move, rename, or delete a source le in Windows, Adobe Premiere Elements opens the Where Is The File dialog box when you next open the project.

Note: After you create the nal movie, you can delete source les if you do not plan to use them in a project again.

To locate missing source les:

In the Where Is The File dialog box, choose one of the following options:

Display Only Exact Name Matches Displays only the les that match the name of the missing le when the project was last closed. If you know that the le name has changed, deselect this option.

Select Replaces the missing le with the selected original or replacement le.

Find Starts the Windows XP® Search feature.

Skip Previews Skips missing preview les so you aren’t asked to nd them.

Skip Replaces the missing le with an ofine le, a blank placeholder for related clips in

the Media and Timeline windows.

Skip All Replaces all missing clips with ofine les without asking you for conrmation.

To replace an ofine le, use the Locate Media command.

Working with palettes and windows

In Adobe Premiere Elements, the workspace contains both palettes and windows. When displayed, the How To, History, and Info palettes always oat above windows. You can also combine these palettes to organize the workspace.

While palettes provide helpful information about the current task, you perform tasks primarily in windows. Three named windows form the main work area in Adobe Premiere Elements:

Media window Lets you organize all media clips that you add to a project. To add a clip to a movie, drag the clip to the Timeline window.

Monitor window Includes Clip and Timeline views. Use the Clip view to see an individual video or audio clip; use the Timeline view to see the overall movie you’re editing in the Timeline window.

Timeline window Lets you assemble and edit video and audio clips on multiple tracks. Changes you make in this window appear in the Timeline view of the Monitor window.

Adobe Premiere Elements also provides specialized windows for tasks such as capturing video, applying effects, creating titles, and laying out DVD menus.

Capturing Video and Adding Files

Preparing your system for capture

Adobe Premiere Elements includes all of the tools necessary to acquire the footage from your DV camcorder so that you can begin assembling your movie. The process, called capturing, is easy; you simply connect your DV camcorder to your computer, and then enable the Capture command in Adobe Premiere Elements.

However, before you capture, it is important to make sure that your system is set up appropriately for working with digital video. Following are some general guidelines for ensuring a DV-capable system:

Note: Adobe Premiere Elements supports capture only from video camcorders, not digital still-image cameras. To use photos from digital cameras, you need to transfer the footage to your hard disk, and then add them to your project.

• Make sure that your computer has an IEEE 1394 (also known as FireWire or iLink) port. This port may either be built into your computer or available on a PCI or PC card (often referred to as a capture card) that you install yourself. A majority of computers manufactured in the last two years include onboard IEEE 1394 cards.

• Make sure that your hard disk is fast enough to capture and play back digital video. The speed at which digital video les transfer information, called the data transfer rate (often shortened to data rate), is 3.6 MB-per-second. The data transfer rate of your hard disk should meet or exceed this rate. To achieve this rate, your hard disk must be able to operate at 7200 rpm. Most hard disks manufactured in the last ve years have this capability. To conrm the rate or rpm speed of your hard disk, see your computer or hard disk documentation.

• Make sure that you have sufcient disk space for the captured footage. Five minutes of digital video occupies about one gigabyte of hard disk space. Though the Capture window in Adobe Premiere Elements indicates the duration of footage that you can capture based on the remaining space on your hard disk, be certain beforehand that you will have sufcient space.

• Make sure that you periodically defragment your hard disk. Writing to a fragmented disk can cause disruptions in your hard disk’s write speed, causing you to lose, or drop, frames as you capture. You can use the defragmentation utility included with Windows XP, located in Start > All Programs (or Programs if you are using the Classic Mode display) > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.

Connecting your DV camcorder to your computer

To capture DV video, connect your DV camcorder to your computer by using an IEEE 1394 cable and IEEE 1394 ports. If your computer does not have a built-in IEEE 1394 port, you can purchase an IEEE 1394 card separately (see your computer’s documentation for more information). If your DV camcorder does not include an IEEE 1394 cable, you can purchase one at any computer, camera, or consumer electronics outlet.

Connecting to the IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i.Link) port on the computer

Some DV camcorders require that you use the power adapter to activate the IEEE 1394 port. Other camcorders may go into a sleep or other inactive mode if left in camera mode without being activated for a period of time. To ensure the camcorder doesn’t go into these inactive modes, connect your camcorder to its power adapter when setting it up for capture.

Guidelines for connecting other sources

Before DV camcorders were widely manufactured, most people used camcorders that recorded video onto VHS or 8mm tapes, among other tape formats. These formats are called analog formats, and the video recorded and stored on them is called analog video.

To use video from analog sources in your Adobe Premiere Elements project, you must rst convert the footage to digital data, or digitize it, because Adobe Premiere Elements only accepts direct input from digital sources. To digitize your footage, you can use either your DV camcorder or a standalone device that performs analog-to-digital conversion. You can perform a successful conversion by using one of the following methods:

• Use your DV camcorder to output a digital signal on-the-y from an analog input. Connect the analog source to input jacks on your DV camcorder and connect the DV camcorder to the computer. Not all DV camcorders support this method. See your camcorder documentation for more information.

• Use your DV camcorder to record footage from your analog source. Connect your analog source’s output to the analog inputs on your DV camcorder. Then, just record your analog footage to DV tape. When you are nished recording, Adobe Premiere Elements can then capture the footage from the DV camcorder. This is a very common procedure. See your camcorder documentation for more details on recording from analog sources.

• Use an analog-to-digital converter to bridge the connection between your analog source and the computer. Connect the analog source to the converter and connect the converter to your computer. Adobe Premiere Elements will then capture the digitized footage. Analog-to-digital converters are available in many larger consumer electronics stores.

Note: If you capture using an analog-to-digital converter, you may have to capture without using device control.

Capturing video

Use the Capture window to monitor the video and access all of the capture commands. This window includes a video preview area, recording controls, a disk-space indicator, and a timecode display. From the Capture window menu, accessed when you click the More button, you can view and edit your current capture settings. You open the Capture window by clicking the Capture button in the task bar. You can also open it from the welcome screen, which appears when the application opens.

A B C

Capture window

A Status area B Preview area C Capture menu D Device controls

Capturing video with device control

You can perform all of your capturing work within the Capture window, which contains buttons that you use to directly control your camcorder—a method called device control. Device control provides a convenient way to locate and capture scenes.

B C D E F H I J KG

Capture window playback controls

A Capture B Previous Scene C Next Scene D Rewind E Step Back (Left) F. Play

G Shuttle H Step Forward (Right) I Fast Forward J Pause K Stop

To operate Capture window controls by using the keyboard, see the tool tips in the Capture window.

If you are capturing select scenes from the tape, as opposed to capturing the entire tape, capture at least three seconds of additional footage (called handles) at both the beginning and end of the capture to ensure a margin of error during capture. Handles also allow for cleaner transitions and more exibility when you trim your clips.

To capture video:

1 Connect the DV camcorder to your computer by using an IEEE 1394 connection. The

connection point on your camcorder may be marked DV IN/OUT, i.Link, or IEEE 1394.

Note: Some camcorders have a USB port for transfer of data. Do not use this port for capture.

2 Turn the camcorder on and set it to the playback mode, which may be labeled either VTR or VCR. Don’t set the camcorder to a recording mode, such as Camera or Movie.

3 Do one of the following:

• Start Adobe Premiere Elements and click the Capture button in the Welcome To Adobe Premiere Elements dialog box to open the Capture window within a new project.

• Open a new or existing project, and then click the Capture button in the task bar.

4 In the Capture window, click the More button and choose Capture Settings. Make sure that the Capture Format menu shows your DV camcorder and that the text to the right of the menu reads “Capture module installed.”

5 Click the More button and select or deselect Scene Detect and Capture To Timeline.

6 Use the Capture window controls or the Current Position Timecode display to locate the

scene you want to capture. To use the Current Position Timecode, drag the display or click it and enter the timecode you want.

7 To begin capture, click Capture. If you are using Scene Capture, quickly advance to the next or previous scenes by clicking the Next Scene button or the Previous Scene button .

Note: Activating any application window other than the Capture window will stop the capture. If you want the capture to continue without interruption, do not try to access any other window.

8 To end the capture before the tape reaches its end, click Stop Capture. If you chose to use Scene Detect, you can also use the Next and Previous Scene buttons at this point to move to the respective scene.

9 If you chose not to use Scene Detect and you only captured a segment of your video, you can repeat this procedure to locate and capture another segment of video.

10 When you are nished capturing, close the Capture window.

Capturing clips without using device control

If you do not have a device that can be controlled by Adobe Premiere Elements, you can capture video manually. You can manually operate both the playback device controls and the Capture window controls in Adobe Premiere Elements.

To capture a clip with a noncontrollable device:

1 Make sure that the deck or camcorder is properly connected to your computer.

2 Click the Capture button in the task bar.

3 (Optional) Click the More button and select the options you want.

4 Use the controls on the deck or camcorder to move the videotape to a point several

seconds before the frame where you want to begin capturing.

5 Press the Play button on the deck or camcorder, and then click Capture in the Capture window.

6 When you see the point where you want to stop recording, wait a few seconds to provide room for editing, and then click Stop Capture to stop recording.

Using the default scene detection option

By default, the Adobe Premiere Elements uses scene detection when capturing clips. Scene Detect analyzes video for scene breaks indicated by the tape’s time/date stamp. DV camcorders add a time/date stamp to the tape each time you press Record. With Scene Detect active, Adobe Premiere Elements captures a separate clip at each scene break it detects, and then it places each scene in the Media window. You can deactivate Scene Detect if you want to capture an entire tape without breaking it into separate clips.

To activate or deactivate Scene Detect:

In the Capture window, click the More menu and choose Scene Detect. A check mark indicates that the feature is activated.

Automatically capturing directly to the Timeline window

By default, when Adobe Premiere Elements completes a capture, it places the captured clips on the Timeline window in the order they were captured. This feature is especially convenient because it creates a timeline that duplicates the order of the clips on your tape and makes it easier to locate and delete unwanted clips. This feature is also useful if you record scenes in roughly the order you want them to remain. You can deactivate this feature if you plan to place clips in a wholly different order than they were on the original tape.

To activate or deactivate Capture To Timeline:

In the Capture window, click the More menu and choose Capture To Timeline. A check mark indicates that the feature is activated. All captured clips will also reside in the Media window.

Navigating to a specic timecode

Timecode represents the location of the frames in a video. Camcorders record timecode onto tape. The timecode is based on the number of frames per second (fps) that the camcorder records and the number of frames per second that the video displays upon playback. Digital video has a standard frame rate that is either 29.97 fps for NTSC video (the U.S. television standard) or 25 fps (the European television standard). Timecode describes location in the format of hours;minutes;seconds;frames. For example, 01;20;15;10 species that the displayed frame is located 1hour, 20 minutes, 15 seconds, and ten frames into the scene.

As you view video in the Capture window, the Current Position Timecode display shows you exactly where the current frame is located in the scene. You can use this display to view your timecode and to manually navigate to a specic frame.

Note: If you have any blank gaps in your tape, the camcorder’s timecode counter will reset to zero.

To navigate to a timecode:

Do one of the following:

• Click the timecode value and enter the timecode.

• Drag the timecode values to locate a particular frame.

Troubleshooting DV capture problems

If you run into problems while capturing DV footage, refer to the DV capture topics in Adobe Premiere Elements Help or the documentation for your camcorder, deck, or capture card; or check the Adobe website (www.adobe.com) for technical support.

Following are some common issues (along with solutions) that you may encounter when capturing DV footage.

Your DV camcorder goes into sleep mode Close and then reopen the Capture window; or close the Capture window, turn the camcorder off and on, and then reopen the Capture window. You can disable sleep mode on many camcorders by connecting the camcorder to AC power and ejecting the tape.

The video looks grainy, pixelated, or jumpy in the Capture or Monitor window If you have met the minimum requirements for the data transfer rate of your hard disk, don’t be concerned with this preview. Adobe Premiere Elements captures and stores video at full quality.

The video image does not appear in the Capture window Make sure that the options are set correctly, that your DV camcorder is playing, and that your IEEE 1394 connections are secure. To ensure that Adobe Premiere Elements can see the DV camcorder, quit Adobe Premiere Elements (leave the DV camcorder on), and then restart Adobe Premiere Elements. Open the Capture window, click the Play button , and click in the capture preview area.

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.

Editing Movies

About editing a movie

Typically when editing a movie, you’ll initially create a rough cut—a complete yet relatively crude version of the movie. You arrange the scenes of your movie in the Timeline window. The Timeline window uses tracks and a time ruler to display the components of your movie and their relationship to each other over time. It contains two default tracks for video and still images, and two default tracks for audio. You can add additional tracks at any time. Tracks let you layer your video or audio. You can place video or still images, such as titles, on top of each other (superimposing), or add music to play in the background of your soundtrack. The nal movie combines all the video and audio tracks together.

Using the Timeline window, you place clips in the order you want them viewed. You can trim and add scenes, indicate important frames with markers, add transitions, and control how clips blend or superimpose.

A B C D

Timeline window

A Selection tool B Razor tool C Time Stretch tool D Time ruler

E Video tracks F Audio tracks

Working with the Monitor window

You view individual clips or the assembled movie in the Monitor window. The full duration of a clip or movie is represented graphically by the time ruler in the Monitor window. A blue triangle called the current-time indicator marks the location of the current frame within the clip or movie. Depending upon whether you are viewing an individual clip or a movie, the ruler may also display markers and indicate the In and Out points of a clip.

The Monitor window contains two different views: the Clip view and the Timeline view.

Clip view Lets you play a single clip, set clip markers, and trim a clip by setting In and Out points. The In and Out points dene the portion of the clip that will appear in the movie. When you view a clip in the Clip view, you can view the entire clip—all the frames placed in the movie, as well as its trimmed frames. The Clip view of the Monitor window is independent of the Timeline window. The current-time indicator in the Clip view is not linked to the current-time indicator in the Timeline window.

Timeline view Lets you play or view the movie assembled in the Timeline window, set markers, and locate specic frames while editing. The Timeline view and the Timeline window work in tandem. For example, as you move the current-time indicator in the Timeline window, the Timeline view of the Monitor window displays the frames.

Adjusting the zoom level of the Monitor window time ruler

You can change the zoom level of the time ruler in the Monitor window so that you can see the ruler in more or less detail. Just above the time ruler is a thin navigation bar. The navigation bar controls both the zoom level of the ruler and the portion of you ruler you view. When fully extended, you can see the entire time ruler. Using the navigation bar does not affect the zoom level of the displayed clip or movie.

Drag the end of the navigation bar left in the Monitor window to zoom in or right to zoom out.

To zoom in or out of the Monitor window time ruler:

Do one of the following:

• To zoom in on time ruler, drag either end of the navigation bar towards the center.

• To zoom out on time ruler, drag either end of the navigation bar out towards the edge of the ruler.

To view a different area of the time ruler, drag the middle of the navigation bar to scroll the ruler right or left. When zoomed in, you may not see the slider shift position, but you will see the ruler scroll as you drag right or left.

Working with the Timeline window

You arrange the clips of your movie in the Timeline window. Adobe Premiere Elements lets you customize the Timeline window for your project. You can zoom in and out of the Timeline window, change how the clips appear in the tracks, and resize the tracks and the header area.

Moving through a movie in the Timeline window

The Timeline window’s current-time indicator , a blue triangle in the time ruler, corresponds with the frame displayed in the Monitor window’s Timeline view. A vertical line extends from this current-time indicator through all the tracks. The time display in the upper left corner indicates the current time using the timecode format hours;minutes; seconds;frames (for NTSC format video) or hours:minutes:seconds:frames (for PAL format video).

A B

Time navigation controls in the Timeline window

A Time display showing position of current-time indicator B Current-time indicator

To position the current-time indicator in the Timeline window:

Do any of the following:

• Drag the current-time indicator .

• Click the time ruler where you want to position the current-time indicator.

• Press Shift while dragging the current-time indicator to snap it to the edge of the closest clip or marker.

• Drag the time display (just above the left edge of the time ruler) to the desired time value.

• Click the time display (just above the left edge of the time ruler), type a valid time, and then press Enter. (You don’t need to type leading zeros, colons, or semicolons. However, be aware that Adobe Premiere Elements interprets numbers under 100 as frames.)

• In the Timeline view of the Monitor window, use any playback control.

You can use the Home or End keys on the keyboard to skip back to the beginning or ahead to the end of the movie. In addition, the Right or Left Arrow keys on the keyboard move the current-time indicator forward or back a frame, while pressing Shift+Right Arrow or Shift+Left Arrow moves it in increments of ve frames.

Adjusting the zoom level of the Timeline window

The zoom controls in the Timeline window let you change the scale of the time ruler and view the tracks in more or less detail.

A B C

Timeline window zoom controls

A Zoom-Out button B Zoom slider C Zoom-In button

To display the Timeline window in more detail:

Drag the Zoom slider to the right, or click the Zoom In button .

To display more of the movie in the Timeline window:

Drag the Zoom slider to the left, or click the Zoom Out button .

To zoom out so that the entire length of the movie is visible in the Timeline window, make sure that the Timeline window active; then press the Backslash key (\) on the keyboard. You can also zoom in and out by pressing the Plus (+) or Minus (-) keys on the keyboard (not the numeric keypad).

Customizing track views

You can display clips in the Timeline window in different ways, depending on your preference or the task at hand. You can choose to display a thumbnail image at just the beginning of the clip, at the head and tail of the clip, or along the entire duration of the clip. For an audio track, you can choose to display or hide the audio waveform of the audio contents.

Set Display Style buttons control track display options in Timeline window.

Displaying thumbnail images across the duration of the clip gives you a sense of the progression of the clip. However, do not confuse the boundary between thumbnails as the actual boundary between frames. Think of the thumbnails as a storyboard or sketch of the clip’s content.

To select a track’s display style:

Click the Set Display Style (video) or (audio) button at the left corner of the track. Each time you click, the track’s display style toggles to a different view.

Resizing tracks

Tracks have three preset sizes, Small, Medium, and Large. The Large view is helpful for viewing the clip thumbnails and adjusting effects such as the opacity or volume of a clip. You can also resize tracks manually and resize the width of the track header area to accommodate long track names. In addition, if your movie contains more tracks than can t on screen at one time, you can adjust the relative proportion of visible video and audio tracks to favor the tracks you need to see.

To resize the height of a track:

Do one of the following:

• Click the More button in the Timeline window and choose Track Size, and then choose either Small, Medium, or Large.

• In the track header area of the Timeline window, position the pointer between two tracks so that the Height Adjustment icon appears; then drag up or down to resize the track below (for video) or the track above (for audio).

Changing track height in Timeline window

Note: To resize either all video or all audio tracks at the same time, hold Shift while resizing a video or audio track.

To resize the track header section of the Timeline window:

Position the pointer over the right edge of the track header (where track names are listed) so that the Resize icon appears, and then drag the right edge. (The icons at the top of the track header limit its minimum width. The maximum width is about double the minimum width.)

To change the proportion of video and audio tracks visible in the Timeline window:

1 Either in the track header area on the left or between the scroll bars on the right, position

the pointer between the Video 1 and Audio 1 tracks.

2 When the Split Track icon , appears, drag up or down.

Adding clips to a movie

By default, when you capture video, Adobe Premiere Elements adds the video automatically to the Timeline window. You can also drag video, still images, or audio clips from the Media window directly to the desired track and location in the Timeline window, or you can use the Create Slideshow command to place a group of clips into a movie. You place video and still images on the video tracks and audio clips on audio tracks. When you drag video les that include audio (called linked clips) to a track in the Timeline window, the video and audio components appear separately in the appropriate type of tracks.

By default, when you add a clip to a movie, Adobe Premiere Elements inserts it into the movie, automatically shifting adjacent clips over. By using keyboard modiers, you can override the default behavior when adding or moving clips. For example, pressing the Ctrl key lets you overlay the clip, replacing existing frames with those in the clip.

About video that includes a soundtrack (linked clips)

Most video includes a soundtrack. In the Media window, clips that contain both video and audio appear as a single item. When you add the clip to a movie, the video and audio appear on separate tracks. However, the video and audio remain linked—when you drag the video portion in the Timeline window, the linked audio moves with it, and vice versa. For this reason, audio/video pairs are called linked clips. In the Timeline window, the names of linked clips are underlined and identied with a [V] for video or [A] for audio.

Linked clips share same name with either [V] or [A] appended and are underlined.

All editing tasks (such as moving, trimming, or changing the clip speed) act on both parts of a linked clip. You can temporarily override the link by pressing the Alt key when you initiate editing tasks. You can also place the video or audio portion separately.

Inserting clips into a movie

When you insert a clip into the Timeline window, adjacent clips on all tracks shift as necessary to accommodate the new clip. By shifting all clips together, the audio and video of the existing clips remain in sync.

There are times, however, when you don’t want all clips to shift with each insertion, for example, if you’ve added background music or a video that is to superimpose the entire movie. In such instances, press the Alt key as you insert to shift the clips on a maximum of two tracks: the track receiving the insertion and the track containing its linked audio or video (if any). In this way, when you add a clip to a track containing linked audio or video, the affected tracks shift together, remaining aligned, while clips on other tracks are unaffected.

Clips after default insertion (top), and after Alt-drag insertion to target track (bottom). Notice second audio track unaffected by Alt-drag insertion.

To insert a clip into a movie, shifting all tracks:

Do one of the following:

• Drag the clip from the Media window or Clip view of the Monitor window to the desired location in the Timeline window. When the pointer changes to the Insert icon , release the mouse.

• Move the current-time indicator to the desired location in the Timeline window, select the clip in the Media window, and then choose Clip > Insert.

To insert a clip into a movie, shifting clips only on the target and linked tracks:

Alt-drag the clip from the Media window or Clip view to the desired location in the Timeline window. When the pointer changes to the Insert icon , release the mouse.

If you drag a clip into the blank space above the topmost video track (for video) or below the lowest audio track (for audio), Adobe Premiere Elements creates a new track for the clip. If the clip contains both audio and video, it creates both a new video and new audio track.

Overlaying clips in a movie

The easiest way to replace a portion of a video is to overlay it with other footage. When you overlay a clip, the clip you add replaces any existing frames starting at the location you designate. If the new clip is 40 frames long, it overlays 40 frames of the existing clip. The frames following the overlay, if any, remain in the same location in the track. Overlays do not change the length of the movie unless the overlay extends beyond the end of the movie.

Clips before an overlay edit (top) and after an overlay edit (bottom)

To overlay a clip in the movie:

Do one of the following:

• Ctrl-drag the clip from the Media window or Clip view of the Monitor window to the rst frame you want to overlay. When the pointer changes to the Overlay icon , release the mouse.

• Move the current-time indicator to the rst frame you want to overlay, select the clip in the Media window, then choose Clip > Overlay.

Creating a slideshow or movie automatically

You can create a slideshow or assemble a rough cut of a movie automatically by using the Create Slideshow command. This command places still images, video, or audio from the Media window into the Timeline window on either the Video 1 or Audio 1 track. If you set the Media window to its Icon view, you can use it like a storyboard and arrange the images or clips in the order you want them to appear in the slideshow or movie. The Create Slideshow command can add them either as you arranged them or in the order you select them.

To control the placement of the slides or clips, you can add unnumbered markers to the Timeline window and choose the option to place the media at those points. This feature is especially useful for matching slides to the beats of a music track.

In the Media window, arrange images or clips as you want them to appear in the slideshow or movie.

This command can automatically apply the default transition to the cut between clips. Initially, the default transitions are Cross Dissolve for video and Constant Power for audio. You can set the default to any transition you want in the Effects window.

Note: The Create Slideshow command can add clips only at the same level in the Media window; it can’t add clips within different folders at the same time.

To add clips using Create Slideshow:

1 (Optional) If you want the media placed at specic points in the movie, add unnumbered

markers to the Timeline window.

2 (Optional) In the Media window, open the folder containing the clips or images, click the Icon button at the bottom of the Media window, and then arrange the media in the order you want it to appear in the movie or slideshow.

3 Select the clips you want to add to the movie either by Ctrl-clicking them or by dragging a selection marquee around them. If you didn’t arrange the clips in order in step 1, select them in the order you want them placed.

4 In the Media window, click the Create Slideshow button at the bottom of the window.

5 In the Create Slideshow dialog box, choose the Ordering option, which determines how to

place the slides or clips:

• Sort Order adds clips in the order they’re arranged in the Media window: from top to bottom in the List view or from left to right, top to bottom in the Icon view.

• Selection Order adds clips according to the order in which you selected them in the Media window.

6 (Video clips only) For Media, choose how you want to place the clips: with both the video and audio, the video only, or the audio only.

7 (Optional) If you’ve used unnumbered markers to indicate where you want the media placed, select Place Images/Clips At Unnumbered Markers.

8 Choose the other options in the Create Slideshow dialog box as appropriate, and then click OK.

Create Slideshow options

The Create Slideshow dialog box provides the following options:

Ordering Species the method used to arrange of the clips when they are added to the movie. Sort Order adds clips in the order they’re listed in the Media window: from top to bottom in List view or from left to right, top to bottom in Icon view. Selection Order adds clips according to the order in which you selected them in the Media window.

Media Species how to place video that contains a soundtrack: video and audio, video only, or audio only.

Place Images/Clips At Unnumbered Markers Places images or clips at unnumbered timeline markers. Choosing At Unnumbered Markers makes the Transitions options unavailable.

Note: The Create Slideshow command always places media on the Video 1 and Audio 1 tracks.

Image Duration Species the duration of any still images. A pop-up menu lets you set the units to frames or seconds.

Apply Default Transition Places the default transition (initially set to Cross Dissolve) at

each edit (cut).

Transition Duration Species the duration of the transitions when Apply Default Transition is selected. A pop-up menu lets you set the units to frames or seconds.

Changing the default transition used for Create Slideshow command

The Create Slideshow command optionally applies transitions between each clip it places. Initially, the default transitions are Cross Dissolve for video or still images and Constant Power for audio. You can change the default to any transition you want. Changing the default transition doesn’t affect transitions already applied to a movie.

Note: The default transition is an application setting, not a project setting. When you change the default transition, you change the default used for all projects.

To change the default transition:

1 Click the Effects button on the task bar. Adobe Premiere Elements displays the

Effects workspace.

2 In the Effects window, expand the Video Transitions or Audio Transitions folder.

3 Expand the folder containing the transition you want to use, and select the transition that

you want to make the default.

4 Click the More button, and choose Set Selected As Default Transition. A red outline marks the icon of the default transition.

Adding only the audio or video portion of a linked clip to a movie

When you drag video that includes a soundtrack to the Timeline window, Adobe Premiere Elements automatically places the audio and video components on separate tracks. It maintains a link between the tracks so that the content remains in sync. If you want to add only the audio or the video, you can use the Take Video/Take Audio toggle button in the Clip view of the Monitor window to designate which portion of the clip you want to place.

To place audio or video only:

1 Open a clip in the Monitor window’s Clip view.

2 In the bottom right of the Monitor window, click the Take Video/Take Audio button

repeatedly until it displays the appropriate icon:

• Take Video And Audio icon sets clip to include both video and audio.

• Take Video icon sets clip to include only video.

• Take Audio icon sets clip to include only audio.

3 Add the clip to the movie by using one of the following techniques:

• To insert a clip into a movie, shifting aside clips on other tracks as well, drag the clip to the desired location in the Timeline window.

• To insert the clip, shifting clips only in the target and linked tracks, Alt-drag the clip to the desired location in the Timeline window.

• To overlay a clip in the movie, Ctrl-drag the clip to the rst frame you want to overlay.

• To create a new track for the clip, drag the clip into the blank space above the topmost video track.

Zooming into the Timeline window as you insert a clip

When you zoom in on the Timeline window, Adobe Premiere Elements magnies the Timeline window around the current-time indicator. However, you can also zoom in as you add a clip to the Timeline window, magnifying the location around the pointer rather than the current-time indicator. This technique lets you better see the placement of the insertion before you release the mouse.

To zoom in or out of Timeline window while inserting:

Drag a clip to the Timeline window. Continue to hold down the mouse button and press the Plus (+) key to increase the zoom factor or press the Minus (-) key to decrease it. Hold down the mouse button until you have zoomed as far as you want to go.

Adding, renaming, and deleting tracks

Adobe Premiere Elements automatically inserts a new track if you drag and release a clip above the topmost video track or below the bottommost audio track. However, at times you may want to insert and name tracks before you begin adding clips. You can add or delete tracks at any time and specify a custom name for each one. Each movie can contain up to 99 video and 99 audio tracks. A movie must contain at least one of each type of track (although the track can be empty). In the Timeline window, new video tracks appear above existing video tracks, and new audio tracks appear below existing audio tracks.

To add tracks:

1 With the Timeline window active, choose Timeline > Add Tracks.

2 In the Add Tracks dialog box, type the number of tracks you want to add in the Add eld

for video or audio tracks.

3 To specify the placement of added tracks, choose an option from the Placement pop-up menu for each type of track added.

4 Click OK.

To rename a track:

1 Right-click the track’s name (for example, Video 1) in the Timeline window, and choose Rename.

2 Type a new name for the track, and press Enter.

To delete empty tracks:

With the Timeline window active, choose Timeline > Delete Empty Tracks.

Trimming frames from a clip

There are several ways to build a movie, but all of them involve selecting the portions of source clips you want to include. You rarely use an entire clip. In and Out points dene the rst and last frame of the clip. Setting In and Out points does not actually delete frames, but instead marks what portion of the clip you want included in the movie. They serve as a window over the entire clip. You can move them as needed and regain the frames you trim.

A DB C

In and Out points serve as a window over a clip

A Trimmed frames B In point C Out point D Trimmed frames

You always trim from either end of a clip. To trim frames from the middle of a clip, you must rst split the clip (which creates two instances of the original clip), and then trim the unwanted frames from the ends of each. You can set In and Out points and trim clips in several ways, by using buttons in the Monitor window, menu commands, or simply by dragging the ends of a clip in the Timeline window.

Trimming frames from either end of a clip in the Timeline window

You can remove or regain trimmed frames from either end of a clip by dragging the clip’s edge in the Timeline window. To help you locate the precise frame you want, the Timeline view of the Monitor window displays the changing In or Out point of the clip as you drag. If a clip has another clip immediately adjacent to the edge you’re trimming, the Monitor window displays the frames of both clips side-by-side. Subsequent clips in the Timeline window shift as you drag the clip’s edge. When trimming frames, empty space adjacent to the edge you trim shifts in time just as a clip would.

A pop-up window displays the number of frames you are trimming as you trim them. This window displays a negative value if you drag the edge toward the beginning of the movie and a positive number if you drag toward the end of the movie. You can tell whether you have trimmed a clip by looking for a small gray triangle in the top corner at either end of the clip in the Timeline window. The triangle indicates you have not trimmed that edge.

Timeline window during (above) and after (below) trimming. Gray triangle in corner of clip disappears when you trim.

For linked clips (video that includes a soundtrack), dragging the edge of one, changes the In or Out points of both clips. Sometimes you want to trim linked clips independently in order to create split edits (also known as L-cuts and J-cuts). Pressing Alt when you trim allows you set the In and Out points of the video and audio separately.

To change a clip’s In and Out points in the Timeline window:

1 In the Timeline window, click the Selection tool .

To trim only one clip of a linked pair, Alt-select the clip to temporarily unlink them. Select them again to move them as a unit.

2 Position the pointer over the edge of the clip you want to trim until the correct icon appears:

• Trim-In icon to trim the beginning of a clip.

• Trim-Out icon to trim the end of a clip.

3 Drag the edge to the desired frame. Notice that the Monitor window displays the frames as you drag, showing the frame from the adjacent clip (if any). Subsequent clips in the track shift in time to compensate for the edit, but their durations remain unchanged.

Trimming frames from either end of a clip in the Monitor window

If you view a clip in the Monitor window before placing it in the Timeline window, you can trim frames from either end of the clip. The Set In and Set Out buttons mark the start and end frames of the clip. Once a clip is in a movie, you can reopen it in the Clip view to change its In and Out points, either regaining frames previously trimmed or trimming additional frames.

To trim frames from the beginning or end of a clip in the Clip view:

1 Double-click the video clip in the Media window or in the Timeline window to open the clip

in the Monitor window.

2 In the Clip view of the Monitor window, do one of the following:

• Locate the frame you want to be the rst frame of the clip, and click the Set In button (or choose Marker > Set Clip Marker > In).

• Locate the frame you want to be the last frame of the clip, and click the Set Out button (or choose Marker > Set Clip Marker > Out).

Trimming frames from linked audio and video separately

At times, you may want the audio to begin before the video or to extend after the video into the next clip (or vice versa). Trimming linked audio and video separately is called a split edit. Usually, when you split edit one clip, it requires that you split edit the adjacent clip so they don’t overlap each other.

You can create two kinds of split edits:

• A J-cut, or audio lead, in which audio starts before linked video.

• An L-cut, in which audio continues after linked video.

Two kinds of split edits

A. J-cut B. L-cut

To extend the audio before or after linked video:

1 In the Timeline window, click the Selection tool .

2 Drag the audio clip down to a separate track so it is not adjacent to other clips.

3 (Optional) Move the current-time indicator to the video frame to which you want to trim,

and make sure Snap is turned on in the Timeline menu. (A check mark indicates it is on.)

4 Position the pointer over the edge of the video clip you want to trim, and do one of the following:

• If trimming the beginning of the clip, when the Trim-In icon appears, press Alt and drag the edge to the desired frame. (You can release the Alt key once you begin dragging.) Notice that the video stays aligned with the previous clip.

• If trimming the end of the clip, when the Trim-Out icon appears, press Alt and drag the edge to the desired frame. (You can release the Alt key once you begin dragging.) Notice that subsequent clips in the track shift left.

Alt-dragging a clip temporarily unlinks the clips. When you want to move or edit them together, select them again.

5 If you need to trim an adjacent clip so its audio doesn’t overlap with the linked clips you just trimmed, repeat step 4 on the adjacent audio clip.

Note: If the audio and video get out of sync in step 5 (a red number appears next to the clip name in the track), right-click the number on the audio clip (not the video clip), and choose Move Into Sync.

Retrieving trimmed frames

When you trim frames from a clip, you’re actually just setting an In or Out point, which indicates the portion of the original clip that you want in the movie. All trimmed frames remain available. You can regain any frames you trim by resetting the In or Out points again in either the Timeline window or the Clip view of the Monitor window.

It is important to note that when a clip is already placed in a movie, you cannot move the In or Out point past the edge of an adjacent clip. You must make room for the frames before resetting the In or Out point. The one exception is when dragging the Out point in the Timeline window, which pushes adjacent clips over to make room for the previously trimmed frames.

If you’ve trimmed frames from the source clip (the original clip in the Media window, not an instance of the clip in the Timeline window), you can clear the In and Out points by using a command in the Marker menu. However, changes you make to the source clip do not affect instances of the clip that you’ve already placed in the Timeline window.

To retrieve frames in the Timeline window:

1 In the Timeline window, click the Selection tool .

2 If moving the In point, make sure that you have sufcient blank frames to the left of the

clip to accommodate the previously trimmed frames.

3 Position the pointer over the edge of the clip you want to trim until the correct icon appears:

• Trim-In icon to retrieve frames from the beginning of a clip.

• Trim-Out icon to retrieve frames from the end of a clip.

4 Drag the edge to the desired frame.

Note: To change the In or Out point of only one track of a linked clip, press Alt as you drag. You do not need to hold down the Alt key once you start to drag.

To retrieve frames in the Clip view:

1 If the clip is in the Timeline window, make sure that you have sufcient blank frames

adjacent to the In or Out point you are changing.

2 Double-click the video clip in the Media window or Timeline window to open the clip in the Monitor window.

3 In the Clip view of the Monitor window, do one of the following:

• Move to the frame you want to be the rst frame of the clip, and click the Set In button (or choose Marker > Set Clip Marker > In).

• Move to the frame you want to be the last frame of the clip, and then click the Set Out button (or choose Marker > Set Clip Marker > Out).

• Drag the In or Out point marker in the Clip view time ruler to the desired frame.

To remove In and Out points from a source clip:

1 Double-click the source clip in the Media window to open it in the Monitor window.

2 Choose Marker > Clear Clip Marker, and choose an option in the submenu:

• In and Out resets both the In and Out point.

• In resets the In point only.

• Out resets the Out point only

You can also clear an In or Out point from a source clip (not the version in the Timeline window) by Alt-clicking the Set In button or the Set Out button respectively in the Clip view of the Monitor window.

Changing clip duration numerically

The duration of a video or audio clip is the length of time it plays from its rst frame (In point) to its last frame (Out point). The initial duration of a clip is the same as it was when the clip was imported or captured. Most often, you change a clip’s duration by trimming frames from either end. But you can also trim the end of a clip by designating a specic duration.

To set the duration of a clip to a specied amount:

1 In the Timeline window or Media window, select a clip.

2 Choose Clip > Time Stretch.

3 In the Time Stretch dialog box, click the Link button to unlink speed and duration.

When linked, changing the duration also changes the playback speed of the clip.

4 Type a new duration, and click OK.

Copying, pasting, moving, and deleting clips

Once you’ve created your rough cut, you may need to rearrange clips, copy and paste scenes, and delete other clips.

Selecting clips in the Timeline window

Adobe Premiere Elements provides several techniques that let you select individual clips, a range of clips, or only the audio or video portion of a linked clip.

To select one or more clips:

Using the Selection tool , do any of the following:

• To select a single clip, click the clip in the Timeline window. If the clip is linked or grouped, clicking one clip selects the other linked or grouped clips.

• To select only the audio or video portion of linked clips, Alt-click the desired clip.

• To select a single clip within a group, Alt-click the desired clip.

• To select multiple clips, Shift-click each clip you want to select. (Shift-click a selected clip to deselect it.)

• To select sequential clips, drag a rectangle (marquee selection) that includes the clips you want to select.

• To add a range of clips to the current selection, Shift-drag a marquee around the clips.

Selecting a range of clips by dragging a marquee

Rearranging clips in the Timeline window

You can easily rearrange clips in the Timeline window by dragging. By using the same techniques you use to add a clip, you can choose to insert or overlay clips when you move them.

To move a clip and insert it so all tracks shift after insertion:

In the Timeline window, drag the clip to the desired location. When the pointer changes to the Insert icon , release the mouse.

To move a clip, close the gap behind it, and shift only clips on destination tracks:

In the Timeline window, drag the clip to the desired location, and then press Alt. When the Rearrange icon appears, release the mouse.

To move a clip and overlay another clip in the movie:

In the Timeline window, drag the clip to the rst frame you want to overlay, and then press Ctrl. When the pointer changes to the Overlay icon , release the mouse.

To move only one clip of a linked pair:

1 In the Timeline window, Alt-select the clip you want to move.

2 Drag it to the desired location, and do one of the following:

• To shift clips only on the target tracks, release the mouse when the pointer changes to the Insert icon .

• To overlay another clip, press the Ctrl key, and when the pointer changes to the Overlay icon , release the mouse.

Copying and pasting clips

You can rearrange clips in a movie by copying and pasting. You can copy and paste multiple clips at a time, and either insert them between existing clips or overlay existing frames. The clips maintain their relative spacing in time. Unless you’ve copied clips on multiple tracks, Adobe Premiere Elements always pastes clips to the Video 1 or Audio 1 track at the location of the current-time indicator.

Pasting and inserting (middle), pasting and overlaying (below)

To copy and paste one or more clips:

1 Select one or more clips in the movie, or to select only the audio or video of linked clips,

Alt-click the desired clip.

2 Choose Edit > Copy.

3 In the Timeline window, position the current-time indicator at the point you want to paste.

4 Do one of the following:

• To overlay the clips and replace existing footage on the track, choose Edit > Paste.

• To insert the pasted clips and shift existing footage, choose Edit > Paste Insert.

Duplicating clips in Media window

Each time you drag a source clip from the Media window to the Timeline window, you create a clip instance, which shares the source clip’s default In and Out points. If you delete the source clip in the Media window, all instances of it in the Timeline window are deleted. To create clip instances with different default In and Out points, you must duplicate the source clip in the Media window. As with source clips, if you delete a duplicate clip in the Media window, all instances of it in the Timeline window are deleted.

To create a duplicate clip:

1 In the Media window, select a clip and choose Edit > Duplicate.

2 To rename the duplicate clip, select it, choose Clip > Rename, and type a new name.

You can also create a duplicate clip by copying and pasting or Ctrl-dragging a clip in the Media window.

Finding the duration of several clips

The Info palette shows you the total duration of multiple clips selected in either the Media window or the Timeline window. This information is often useful when editing a movie. For example, you may want to nd music to t a scene or replace a few clips with different footage. If you select clips in the Media window, the Info palette displays the total duration of all the clips you select. If you select clips in the Timeline window, the Info palette displays the total duration spanned by the clips, from the In point of the rst selected clip to the Out point of the last selected clip. If the clips are not contiguous in the tracks, the duration my be longer than the total duration of the clips themselves.

Duration of multiple clips in Timeline window includes total time spanned by selected clips.

To view the total duration of selected clips:

1 Make sure that the Info palette is visible. If not visible, choose Window > Info.

2 In either the Media window or Timeline window, select the desired clips. The Info palette

displays the number of items selected and the total duration of those items.

You can view the duration of a single clip in a tool tip by positioning the cursor over a clip in the Timeline window.

Deleting space between clips

You can quickly delete empty space between clips in the Timeline window by using the Ripple Delete command or the Backspace key. Both techniques shift adjacent clips over to ll the gap.

Ripple Delete shifts all subsequent clips over.

To delete empty space between clips:

Do one of the following:

• Right-click the empty space, and choose Ripple Delete.

• Select the space you want to delete, and press the Backspace key.

Note: If the gap is small and difcult to select, move the current-time indicator to the gap and click the Zoom In button .

Deleting a clip from a movie

You can remove an entire clip from a movie in two ways:

• Ripple deletion removes frames from the movie and closes the resulting gap, shifting subsequent clips over.

• Clearing removes the clip from the movie and leaves a gap of the same duration as the frames you remove.

Ripple deletion removes frames, shifting adjacent clips over to ll in gap (middle). Clearing removes frames, leaving a gap (bottom).

Note: Deleting a clip from a movie does not delete it from the project. The clip is still available in the Media window.

To remove a clip and close the resulting gap (ripple delete):

To remove entire clips, select one or more clips in the movie, and choose Edit > Ripple Delete, or press the Backspace key.

To delete a single clip of a linked pair, Alt-select the clip you want to delete, and then choose Edit > Ripple Delete, or press the Backspace key.

To remove clips and leave a gap:

To remove entire clips, select one or more clips in the movie, and choose Edit > Clear.

Snapping clips to other clips, markers, or the current-time indicator

To make it easier to align clips with one another or with particular points in time, you can activate the Snap option. When you move a clip with the Snap option selected, it automatically aligns with, or snaps to, the edge of another clip, a marker, the start and end of the time ruler, or the current-time indicator. Snapping also helps to ensure that you don’t inadvertently perform an insert or overlay edit when dragging. As you drag clips, a pop-up window displays the distance, in frames, that you have moved them (a negative number indicates you’ve moved them toward the beginning of the movie).

To enable and disable the Snap option:

Choose Timeline > Snap. A check mark indicates that the option is enabled.

Splitting a clip

At times you may want to apply different effects to different parts of a clip, for example, to speed up one scene or play it in reverse. You can split a clip in a movie by using the Razor tool . Splitting a clip creates a new and separate instance of the original clip, and if linked to another clip, a new instance of the linked clip as well. The resulting clips are full versions of the original clip, but with the In or Out point changed to match the location marked by the Razor tool.

The Razor tool splits clips into separate clips.

To split a single clip or multiple clips:

1 In the Timeline window, click the Razor tool , and then do one of the following:

• To split a single clip or linked clips, click the point in the track where you want to split the clip or clips.

• To split only the video or audio portion of a linked clip, Alt-click the point in the track where you want to split the clip.

• To split the clips across all tracks, Shift-click the point in the track where you want to split the clips.

For a precise edit, use the Monitor window to locate where you want to split the clip. Then position the Razor tool over the current-time indicator and click as described above, or to split the clips across all tracks, choose Timeline > Razor At Current Time Indicator.

Re-aligning linked clips

Adobe Premiere Elements automatically places video and its soundtrack on separate tracks in the Timeline window but links the clips so that they remain in sync as you trim or move them. If you Alt-drag one of the clips out of sync, Adobe Premiere Elements displays the number of frames they’ve been offset next to the clip name in the Timeline window. Even if you unlink the clips, Adobe Premiere Elements keeps track of the offset, displaying it again if you relink them. You can have Adobe Premiere Elements automatically resynchronize the clips. Depending on the clips, you can choose between two methods of synchronizing.

• Move Into Sync shifts the video or audio clip to synchronize them. Adjacent clips are overwritten as necessary to accommodate the shifting clips. If you have trimmed either clip, Adobe Premiere Elements aligns them as originally shot, which means that their In or Out points may not match.

• Slip Into Sync performs a slip edit to synchronize the video and audio. A slip edit maintains the position and duration of the clips in the tracks. It uses the trimmed frames as needed to shift the content of the clips until aligned as originally shot. The distance between the In and Out points and their location in the tracks remains the same; but where those In and Out point are positioned in the original clip shifts. This option is available only if the chosen clip contains a sufcient number of trimmed frames to compensate for the offset.

Audio offset to right (top), audio slipped into sync (middle), audio moved into sync (bottom)

To automatically synchronize clips that were moved out of sync:

1 In the Timeline window, right-click the offset number of the clip you want to move or adjust.

2 Choose either Move Into Sync or Slip Into Sync from the context menu that appears. The

clip you right-click moves or adjusts to align with the other clip, which remains in place.

Finding the source of a clip

If you want to work on the original source clip, Adobe Premiere Elements can quickly nd the source of any clip in a movie and automatically select it in the Media window.

To select the original source le of a clip:

Right-click a clip in the Timeline window, and choose Reveal In Media.

Changing clip speed

To emphasize a scene or add comedic touch, many editors slow down a clip, speed it up, set it in reverse, or simply freeze a frame. Adobe Premiere Elements makes these techniques easy to perform by providing the Time Stretch tool, the Time Stretch command, and the Frame Hold video option. You apply these effects to an entire clip, so it is important to rst isolate the scene you want to affect. If the scene is part of a larger clip, you need to rst split the clip so that the scene is a clip unto itself.

Rarely is the volume of each clip the same. You can quickly adjust clip volume directly on the audio track in the Timeline.

Changing a clip’s speed

Changing clip speed changes the clip’s duration. Speeding up a clip removes frames, thus shortening the clip duration. In the same way, slowing down a clip repeats frames and thus adds to the length of a clip. For audio clips, a change in speed also changes pitch. The Time Stretch command includes an option to maintain the original pitch of an audio clip at any speed.

Note: When you change the speed of a clip containing interlaced elds, you may need to adjust how Adobe Premiere Elements treats the elds, especially when the speed drops below 100% of the original speed.

To change a clip’s speed by using the Time Stretch tool:

1 If you plan to slow down the clip, drag it to the end of the movie, so you can stretch it

without bumping into an adjacent clip.

2 Click the Time Stretch tool in the top-left corner of the Timeline window.

3 Position the pointer over the edge of the clip you want to change until the correct

icon appears:

• Time Stretch In icon to time stretch the clip to the right of the pointer.

• Time Stretch Out icon to time stretch the clip to the left of the pointer.

4 Drag the edge of the clip, increasing its length to slow it down, or shortening it to speed it

up. (When slowing down a clip, you cannot stretch it past the edge of an adjacent clip.)

Changing clip speed by using the Time Stretch tool

Because you cannot stretch a clip past the edge of an adjacent clip, it is sometimes easier to drag the clip to the end of the movie and adjust it there. When you are satised with its speed, simply drag it back into position in the movie.

5 Preview your changes, and then make adjustments as necessary.

6 If you moved the clip in step 1, click the Selection tool, and then drag the clip back into

place in the movie.

To change a clip’s speed by using the Time Stretch command:

1 If you plan to slow down a clip that has another clip on its right in the Timeline window,

drag it to the end of the movie in the Timeline window so you can stretch it without bumping into an adjacent clip.

2 Select the clip in the Timeline window.

Note: If you haven’t yet added the clip to the Timeline window, you can select it in the Media window instead.

3 Choose Clip > Time Stretch.

4 In the Time Stretch dialog box, type a percentage for Speed. A value less the 100% slows

the clip down; a value greater than 100% increases its speed.

5 (Optional) To keep the pitch of an audio clip unchanged, select Maintain Audio Pitch.

6 Click OK.

7 Preview your changes, and then make adjustments as necessary.

8 If you moved the clip in step 1, drag it back into place in the movie.

Creating DVDs

About creating DVDs

DVDs are a great way to share your video with family and friends. You can create auto-play DVDs or menu-based DVDs in Adobe Premiere Elements. Auto-play DVDs begin playing when inserted into a DVD player, where as menu-based DVDs initially display a menu, so your viewers can select what they want to view. Menu-based DVDs let you break long videos into either scenes or separate movies.

Understanding the types of DVDs you can create

The rst step in creating a DVD is deciding on the type of DVD you want to create.

Auto-play DVD These DVDs work best for short movies that you always want to view from start to nish. Auto-play DVDs contain no menus and are the easiest to create—you simply export the movie to a DVD. You can add DVD markers to auto-play DVDs. Markers let you skip forward or back through the movie by using the Next and Previous buttons on a DVD player’s remote control.

Menu-based DVD with scene selection submenu These DVDs are best for long movies that play well from start to nish, but that also contain scenes that you might want to access from a submenu. On the main menu, you can choose to play the movie or go to a scene selection submenu. The scene selection submenu lets you navigate to scenes within the movie. You generally set up the project so that a scene plays to the end of the movie; however, this is not a requirement.

Menu-based DVD with movie selections These DVDs are best for video that you don’t want to combine into a single movie. Using Main Menu and Stop markers, you can divide the video in the Timeline window into individual movies, or a movie and a slideshow. When you build the DVD, each movie corresponds to either the Play Movie or Main buttons on the main menu. For example, in a wedding DVD, you might want the preparations, the ceremony, and the reception each as separate movies.

Understanding the relationship between DVD markers and templates

You create a DVD with menus by using the Adobe Premiere Elements menu templates. The templates are predesigned menus that come in a variety of themes and styles. The buttons on the templates automatically link to DVD markers placed in the movie. Adobe Premiere Elements creates the menus dynamically based on the markers you’ve placed, adding additional menus if needed. You normally add DVD markers in the Timeline window before you select a DVD template, but you can add, move, or delete DVD markers after choosing template as well. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically adjusts the DVD menus to match the markers.

Working with DVD markers

Once you have nished editing your movie, you can add DVD markers to mark movies, chapters, scenes, and stop points in the DVD. Adobe Premiere Elements creates the DVD menus based on the DVD markers.

Note: Do not confuse DVD markers with clip markers and timeline markers. Although they all mark locations within the clip or movie, Adobe Premiere Elements uses DVD markers to link buttons on DVD menus. Clip markers and timeline markers help you position and trim clips.

Understanding which DVD markers to use

The type of DVD markers you add to the Timeline window depends on how you want your viewers to access the video. In general, use these guidelines:

• Use Main Menu Markers (and Stop Markers) to divide the video into separate movies. Button on the main menu link to Main Menu Markers.

• Use Scene Markers (without Stop Markers) when you want the movie to play from start to nish, and also want your viewer to be able to jump ahead to specic scenes. Scene buttons link to Scene Markers and appear on scene submenus one after another (not grouped by movie).

• Use Stop Markers to designate the end of a movie. When the DVD player reaches a Stop Marker, it returns back to the Main Menu. Once you add a Stop Marker to the Timeline window, a DVD player will no longer play the movie from start to nish. Therefore, you generally add Stop Markers only if you’ve divided your video into separate movies, and don’t need to play the clips in the Timeline window from beginning to end.

Note: You can use both Main Menu Markers and Scene Markers in a movie. However, you must remember that once the DVD player encounters a Stop Marker, it returns to the Main Menu, not the menu from which it was called.

A BC D

Relationship between DVD markers and the menu templates

A Media Start B Stop Marker C Main Menu Marker D Scene Marker

Understanding DVD Main Menu Markers

You manually place DVD Main Menu Markers to indicate the beginning of each movie that you want listed on the main menu of your DVD. If the Main Menu template you select contains extra buttons (buttons other than the Play Movie or Scenes buttons), those buttons will link to the Main Menu Markers and play from each marker until reaching a Stop Marker or the end of the media in the Timeline window. If the main menu does not contain enough Main Menu Marker buttons, Adobe Premiere Elements duplicates the main menu and adds a Next button on the primary main menu. If you have no Main Menu Markers in your movie, Adobe Premiere Elements omits the buttons in the main menu.

Important: The Play button on the main menu automatically links to the starting point of the time ruler, so you don’t need to place a Main Menu Marker there.

A B

Duplicate menus created when movie contains more Main Menu Markers than buttons on template

A Next button leads to duplicate menu B Previous button returns user to main menu

Understanding Scene Markers

You can add DVD Scene Markers automatically or manually where desired. Adobe Premiere Elements uses Scene Markers to create a scene submenu, which is accessible from the Scenes button on the DVD main menu. If you have no Scene Markers in the Timeline window, Adobe Premiere Elements omits the Scenes button and the scenes submenu.

Scene Markers map directly to buttons on Scenes submenu.

Adding Scene Markers automatically

The Auto-Generate DVD Markers command places DVD Scene Markers for you. It gives you three placement options: at each scene, at a specied interval, or at an interval determined by the number of markers you specify. When placing at each scene, the command sets a Scene Marker at the edit point (cut) between each clip on the Video 1 track. You get the best results when each scene in your movie is a separate clip, and all the clips you want marked are on the Video 1 track. When your movie consists of multiple clips that overlay each other or includes a slideshow consisting of numerous images, you may prefer to place Scene Markers manually or place them at set intervals. Sometimes you can save time if you let Adobe Premiere Elements initially place Scene Markers, which you can later clean up as necessary.

If you do not like the placement of a DVD marker you can simply drag it in the time ruler to a different location. DVD markers are not tied to the video. If you later edit the video, you may need to move the markers or regenerate them so that they match the new edit points.

Sample movie with automatically placed Scene Marker

Automatically placed Scene Markers do not have names, so the buttons on the Scene submenu remain as named in the template. To customize the buttons, you can either name the markers after they are placed or rename the buttons after you select the template.

To automatically add Scene Markers:

1 Click the Timeline window to make it the active window.

2 Choose Marker > Auto-Generate DVD Markers.

3 In the Automatically Set DVD Scene Markers dialog box, select how you want the

markers placed, entering a value if required:

• At Each Scene places a Scene Marker at each edit point (cut) between clips on the Video 1 track.

• Every _ Minutes places Scene Markers at the interval you specify. (This option is only available when the movie contains several minutes of footage.)

• Total Markers places the number of markers you specify evenly spaced across the entire range of clips in the Timeline window.

4 If the Timeline window contains existing DVD markers that you no longer want, select Clear Existing DVD Markers. (When you clear the markers, you clear the marker names and thumbnail offsets associated with each one.)

5 Click OK. Adobe Premiere Elements adds Scene Markers to the Timeline window underneath the time ruler.

Adding DVD markers manually

When you manually add markers, you can name them as you place them. The name you choose appears as the label for a button in the main menu or scenes menu.

On some templates, the menu buttons include thumbnail images of the video to which they are linked. By default, the thumbnail displays the frame visible at the position of the marker. However, the default frame does not necessarily represent the best frame for a button. In the DVD Marker dialog box, you can change the frame a thumbnail displays. For example, for the button representing a scene of a day at the beach, you might want to change the button image to a close-up of the kids splashing in the water rather than the frame marked by the DVD marker. Choosing a thumbnail for a button does not change the start point of the video to which the button is linked. Because you may not know now what type of menu you’ll choose and whether it will contain thumbnail images, you can always change the thumbnail after you choose the menu.

To manually add a Main Menu Marker or Scene Marker:

1 In the Timeline window, move the current-time indicator to the location where you want to

set the marker.

Note: The Play button on each main menu template automatically links to the start point of the time ruler. You needn’t place a marker there unless you want it listed in the Scenes menu.

2 In the Timeline window, click the Set DVD Marker button (just left of the time ruler).

To quickly place a marker, you can also drag a marker from the Set DVD Marker button to the desired location in the time ruler.

3 Type a name for the marker in the DVD Marker dialog box. Keep the name short so that it will t in the menu and not overlap another button. (You can adjust the name later as well, once you’ve selected the desired template.)

4 In the Marker Type menu, select the type of marker you want to set.

5 (Optional) Drag the Thumbnail Offset timecode as necessary to select the image you

want displayed in the button thumbnail in the menu. When you create the DVD, if you choose a menu with thumbnail images, the image you select will display in the menu. (This thumbnail is for the menu display only; the video linked to the button starts at the marker location.)

Dragging the Thumbnail Offset timecode

6 Click OK. Adobe Premiere Elements adds the marker to the Timeline window underneath

the time ruler. A Main Menu Marker is blue; a Scene Marker is green.

To add a Stop Marker:

1 In the Timeline window, move the current-time indicator to the end of the video or scene.

2 Click the Set DVD Marker button (just left of the time ruler).

3 In the DVD Marker dialog box, select Stop Marker from the Marker Type menu and click

OK. Adobe Premiere Elements adds the red Stop Marker to the Timeline window underneath the time ruler.

Moving DVD markers

Whether you placed a marker automatically or manually, you can move DVD markers simply by dragging.

To move a DVD marker:

1 If the Timeline window is not visible, click the Edit button in the task bar.

2 In the Timeline window, drag the DVD marker you want to move to the desired scene

or movie.

Renaming DVD markers, changing their type, and choosing a thumbnail

After you place a DVD marker, you can change its name, its type (Scene, Main Menu, or Stop), and the thumbnail image displayed in a thumbnail button on a menu. The marker names become the button names in the main menu or scenes submenu.

To edit a DVD marker:

1 In the Timeline window, double-click the DVD marker you want to edit. Adobe Premiere

Elements displays the DVD Marker dialog box.

2 Do any of the following to change the desired properties, and then click OK:

• Type a name for the marker. This name appears as the label for the button in the main menu or scenes menu. Keep the name short so that it will t in the menu and not overlap another button. (You can adjust the name later as well, once you’ve selected the desired template.)

• Select the type of marker you want to set in the Marker Type menu.

• Drag the Thumbnail Offset timecode as necessary to select the image you want displayed in the button thumbnail in the menu. When you create the DVD, if you choose a menu with thumbnail images, the image you select will display in the menu. (This thumbnail is for the menu display only; the video linked to the button starts at the marker location.)

Deleting DVD markers

You can delete individual DVD markers or clear all markers from the Timeline window at once. If you have edited your movie since you rst selected DVD menu templates, you may nd it is easier to delete all the markers at once, rather than drag them to new positions.

Note: If you have already selected a DVD template, deleting a DVD marker also deletes the button associated with the marker from the main menu or scenes submenu.

To delete a DVD marker by using the menu command:

1 In the Timeline window, position the current-time indicator over the DVD marker that you

want to delete. You may need to zoom into the time ruler to better position the marker.

2 Choose Marker > Clear DVD Marker > DVD Marker At Current Time Indicator (CTI).

You can also delete a marker by double-clicking it in the Timeline window. Then in the DVD Marker dialog box, click the Delete button, and click OK.

To clear the Timeline window of all DVD markers:

With the Timeline window active, choose Marker > Clear DVD Marker > All DVD Markers.

Creating menu-based DVDs

You create a menu-based DVD by using the predesigned menu templates included in Adobe Premiere Elements. Each template includes a main menu and scene selection submenu. The templates automatically link menu buttons with DVD markers in the Timeline window.

In the templates, the main menus contain a minimum of two buttons: one to play the movie, the other to display a scene-selection submenu. The main menus in some templates also contain additional buttons designed to jump to other movies marked in the Timeline window. The scene selection submenus generally contain buttons with both an identifying label and a thumbnail image from the scene. (The thumbnail on the menu displays a still image from the video, not the video itself.)

Main menu (left) and Scene Selection submenu (right)

Choosing menu templates for the DVD

Once you have set the DVD markers for your DVD, you are ready to select the DVD menu template. When choosing a template, don’t worry if the menu doesn’t have enough menu buttons to match each DVD marker in the movie. Adobe Premiere Elements creates additional menus as needed. Once you select a template, the button text on the menus changes to the names you’ve given the DVD markers. If you added the markers automatically or haven’t named the markers, you can name them after you select the template, as well as change the title of the menu. Without marker names, the buttons remain as named in the template.

You normally add DVD markers before you select a DVD template, but it isn’t required. You can add, move, or delete DVD markers after choosing a template. Adobe Premiere Elements dynamically adjusts the DVD menus to match the markers, adding or deleting buttons as necessary.

Note: If the Timeline window does not contain any DVD markers, the rst time you select a DVD menu template, Adobe Premiere Elements asks you if you want to add DVD Scene Markers automatically.

To choose a DVD menu template:

1 Click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 In the DVD Templates dialog box, select Apply A Template For A DVD With Menus.

3 From the Theme menu, choose a theme that contains menu designs you like.

4 Scroll through the templates until you nd the template that best matches your project. If

you have used Main Menu Markers, look for a template with a main menu that contains more than just the play movie and scene selection buttons. (Main menus are on the left.)

5 Select the desired template, and click OK. Adobe Premiere Elements links the buttons to the DVD markers in the Timeline window and inserts the DVD marker names for the button text.

6 If Adobe Premiere Elements asks if you want to add DVD Scene Markers automatically, click either No or Yes. If you click Yes, select how you want the markers placed in the Automatically Set DVD Scene Markers dialog box, and click OK:

• At Each Scene places a Scene Marker at each edit point (cut) between clips on the Video 1 track.

• Every _ Minutes places Scene Markers at the interval you specify. (This option is only available when the movie contains several minutes of footage.)

• Total Markers places the number of markers you specify evenly spaced across the entire range of clips in the Timeline window.

Note: If you choose not to add markers automatically at this time, you can add them later. Adobe Premiere Elements updates DVD menus dynamically, adding Main Marker buttons or Scenes Submenus and buttons if you add DVD markers.

7 Click the small version of the menu in the bottom of the DVD Layout window to view a menu. If necessary use the scroll bar to scroll to the menu you want to view or resize the window to view more side-by-side.

8 (Optional) After you choose a template in the DVD Layout window, you can customize the

menu, preview the DVD, or burn the DVD.

Customizing the menu template for your project

You can change the menu titles, the button text, and the button thumbnail in the DVD Layout window. When you change button text, you change the name of the DVD marker to which it is linked as well. It is important to not make the button text or title text too long, otherwise the buttons could overlap. In some templates, the buttons are adjacent to each other, restricting the length of the button text.

To change button text or the thumbnail in a menu:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 At the bottom of the DVD Layout window, click the small version of the menu you want to

change. Adobe Premiere Elements displays a larger version of the menu in the window.

3 Double-click the button you want to change in the menu.

4 In the DVD Marker dialog box, do either of the following actions, and then click OK:

• Type a new name for the marker (and the button in the menu). Keep the name short so that it will t in the menu and not overlap another button.

• Drag the Thumbnail Offset timecode as necessary to select the image you want displayed in the button thumbnail in the menu. (This thumbnail is for the menu display only; the video linked to the button starts at the marker location.)

To check for overlapping buttons, click the More button in the DVD Layout window, and choose Show Overlapping Menu Buttons. Adobe Premiere Elements outlines any overlapping buttons in red.

To change menu titles:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 At the bottom of the DVD Layout window, click the small version of the menu you want

to change.

3 Double-click the menu title.

4 In the Change Text dialog box, type the new text, and click OK.

Deleting a button on a menu

After you select the DVD template, you can delete any of the Main Marker or Scene buttons. Because the buttons are tied directly to the DVD markers, deleting a button requires deleting the marker that generated it. You can access the DVD Marker dialog box directly from the menu, which allows you to delete the marker and button at the same time. Once you delete the marker, Adobe Premiere Elements removes the button from the menu.

To delete a button from a menu displayed in the DVD Layout window:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 At the bottom of the DVD Layout window, click the small version of the menu containing

the button you want to delete.

3 Double-click the button you want to delete.

4 In the DVD Marker dialog box, click Delete. Adobe Premiere Elements deletes the marker

from the Timeline window and deletes the button from the DVD menu.

Making sure buttons don’t overlap

If you’ve given a DVD marker a long name, the button text, which is taken from the marker, may run into the boundary of another button. In templates where the buttons are immediately adjacent to each other, overlapping can easily occur. If you notice that the button text appears to encroach on another button or Adobe Premiere Elements warns you that buttons overlap, you can display the overlapping buttons in the DVD layout window. To correct the overlap, simply double-click the button and type a shorter name for the DVD marker.

DVD Layout window with Show Overlapping Menu Buttons option selected

To display the boundaries of overlapping buttons:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 Click the More button in the DVD Layout window, and choose Show Overlapping Menu

Buttons. Adobe Premiere Elements outlines any overlapping buttons in red.

Switching to different DVD menu templates

If you decide you do not like your choice of DVD menu, you can easily change to a different template. While you will lose any changes you made to the menu titles, changes you made to button text is not lost. (When you edit button text, you actually change the name of the DVD marker, and the new marker name is used when generating the new menus.)

To switch to a different DVD menu template:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 Click Change Template.

3 In the DVD Templates dialog box, choose a theme from the Theme menu.

4 Select the desired template, and click OK. Adobe Premiere Elements displays the new

menus in the DVD Layout window.

Changing from a menu-based DVD to an auto-play DVD (or vice versa)

If you decide you do not want to use menus in a DVD, you can reset the DVD option to create an auto-play DVD. In the same way, you can switch to a menu-based DVD at any time.

Note: Although an auto-play DVD does not contain menus that link to the DVD marker, existing DVD markers in the project can be useful. The Next and Previous buttons on a DVD player’s remote control skip ahead or back to Main Menu Markers and Scene Markers. Stop Markers are ignored.

To change to an auto-play DVD:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 Click Change Template.

3 In the DVD Templates dialog box, select Auto-play DVD With No Menus, and click OK.

To change to a menu-based DVD:

1 If the DVD Layout window is not displayed, click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 Click Change Template.

3 In the DVD Templates dialog box, select Apply A Template For A DVD With Menus.

4 From the Theme menu, choose a theme that contains menu designs you like.

5 Select the desired template, and click OK. Adobe Premiere Elements links the buttons to

the markers in the Timeline window and replaces the button text with the marker names.

Creating an auto-play DVD

An auto-play DVD contains no menus. Instead, it plays automatically when you insert the DVD into a DVD player. Although it has no menus, you can set DVD markers so that the Next and Previous buttons on the DVD remote control jump to specic points in the movie. Because an auto-play DVD does not distinguish between Main Menu Markers and Scene Markers, you can add either for use by the Next and Previous buttons.

Note: Auto-play DVDs ignore Stop Markers.

To create an auto-play DVD:

1 Click the DVD button in the task bar.

2 In the DVD Templates dialog box, select Auto-play DVD With No Menus, and click OK.

Adobe Premiere Elements displays the DVD Layout window.

3 To preview the DVD and test your markers, click Preview DVD, and use the Previous Scene button , the Next Scene button , and the Play button .

4 Click Burn DVD.

Previewing a DVD

It is always a good idea to preview a DVD before you burn it. The Preview DVD window contains controls that mimic those on a DVD remote control. By using these controls, you can test each button on the menus and view the video to which they link.

A B C D E F G H I

Preview DVD navigation controls

A Previous Scene B Next Scene C Rewind D Skip back a frame E Play/Pause

F Skip forward a frame G Fast forward H Button navigation arrows and Enter button

I Return to main menu

About burning a DVD

If a compatible DVD burner is connected to your computer, you can create a DVD directly from Adobe Premiere Elements. You can play the DVDs that you create in either a TV DVD player or a computer DVD player. Adobe Premiere Elements creates DVDs that conform to DVD-video format. (It does not create data or audio DVDs.)

Supported media

Adobe Premiere Elements supports single-layer, 4.7 GB discs of the following type: DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW. (If you have a dual-layer recordable DVD drive, you must use single-layer DVD+R or DVD+RW discs.) Choose the media supported by both your DVD burner and the DVD player on which you plan to play the DVD. Unfortunately, not all DVD burners and DVD players support all types of DVDs. For example, many TV DVD players recognize DVD+R discs, but not all.

If your DVD burner is not compatible with Adobe Premiere Elements, you can burn the project to a folder, which allows you to use the software included with the burner to burn the nal DVD.

Understanding video compression for DVDs

The DVD-video format requires MPEG2 compression. To maintain maximum quality, Adobe Premiere Elements compresses the movie only as much as necessary to t it on the DVD. The shorter your movie, the less compression required, and the higher the quality of the video on the DVD.

Compressing video and audio for use on a DVD is very time-consuming, even on high-end, dedicated systems. The time required varies depending upon the speed of the computer processor, the amount of available memory, and the complexity and length of a project. A standard video project of 60 minutes may take from 4 to 6 hours to burn. Many DVD producers leave a project to burn overnight rather than wait and watch for a project to complete.

Creating DVDs for playing elsewhere in the world

If you are sharing your DVD with someone from a different country, you may need to burn the DVD using a different television standard. In most of the world, DV devices (from camcorders to TV monitors) conform to one of two television standards: NTSC or PAL. The standard varies depending on the region. Most DVD players can play only DVDs that match their television standard. The television standard in Japan and North America is NTSC, while most of Europe and the Mid-East uses the PAL standard.

Adobe Premiere Elements can create both NTSC and PAL DVDs. While you get the best results when the project settings, the video, and the DVD you burn all conform to the same television standard, you can easily convert a project when you burn the DVD. In this way, you can create DVDs appropriate for your region as well as for other parts of the world. Choosing a television standard is an option in the DVD dialog box.

Burning a DVD

Once you have previewed your DVD and are satised that it is complete, you are ready to burn the project to a DVD disc. Make sure that the DVD disc you’ve selected is compatible with both your DVD burner and with the DVD player in which you plan to play the DVD. Also, be aware that you must have enough available hard disk space to accommodate the complete compressed DVD les, as well as any scratch les created during export. (You can verify the space needed once you open the Burn DVD dialog box; it displays the space requirement for your project.)

Depending on the complexity and length of the project and your computer, compressing video and audio for a DVD can take hours. If you plan to burn several DVDs, you can save time by burning them in the same session. In this way, you compress the project only once.

Note: If your DVD burner isn’t compatible, you can burn the project to a folder instead. Then, using the software utility included with the DVD burner, you can subsequently burn the nal DVD.

Exporting Movies

Recording your movie to videotape

You can record your edited movie onto tape from directly within Adobe Premiere Elements. If you are recording to a DV camcorder, you can conveniently and precisely control your camcorder’s record functionality directly from your computer by using device control, which is built in to Adobe Premiere Elements. If you want to record to an analog medium, such as a VHS or beta tape, you can record from Adobe Premiere Elements by connecting your analog source to the computer by using an analog-to-digital converter, also called an AV DV converter. In this scenario, you must control the camcorder yourself by manually enabling record on your analog device, and then playing your movie from Adobe Premiere Elements.

Exporting to tape

Exporting your movie to tape is a good way to prepare it for easy presentation, as well as a good way to archive your movies without using hard disk space. Unlike footage burned to DVD, you can recapture the footage that you store on DV tape, as well as append new footage to the tape.

To export to tape:

1 Connect the DV device (camcorder, deck, or analog-to-digital converter) to your computer

by using an IEEE 1394 connection. If you are using an analog source, connect that source to the analog-to-digital converter.

2 Turn on the camcorder and set it to VTR (or VCR) mode. If the Digital Video Device dialog box appears, close it.

3 Start Adobe Premiere Elements and open your project.

To give your recording deck additional time before your video starts and after it ends, add black frames before and after the movie in the Timeline window. In addition, if you plan to have a postproduction facility duplicate your videotapes, add a minimum of 30 seconds of color bars and tone at the beginning of your program to aid in video and audio calibration.

4 Make sure that your video recording device is on, that a blank or appendable tape is in the device, and that the tape’s record protection tab is in a position that allows recording. If necessary, cue the tape to the location where you want to begin recording. Make sure that you have sufcient tape, or are recording at an optimal speed, in order to record your entire movie.

5 Click and hold the Export button in the task bar, and then choose To Tape.

6 In the Export to Tape dialog box, select options as desired. For information on available

options, see “Export To Tape options” on page 218.

7 Do one of the following to begin recording:

• If you are using a DV camcorder or other device that Adobe Premiere Elements can control, click Record.

• If you are using an analog device that is connected to the computer by an analog to-digital converter, rst enable record on your analog device, and then click Record.

8 If the movie contains unrendered clips, the rendering begins at this point. Once all the clips are rendered, the export begins.

9 When you are nished recording, click Stop and close the dialog box.

Export To Tape options

The following options are available in the Export To Tape dialog box. These options work only if you are recording to a DV camcorder that allows device control.

Activate Recording Device Lets Adobe Premiere Elements control your DV device.

Assemble at Timecode Indicates the place on your DV tape that you want the recording

to begin, if you have a tape that already has timecode recorded, or striped, on it. You stripe a tape by rst recording only black video before you record your footage. You record black video usually by recording with the lens cap on. If your tape is not striped, leave this option unselected to have recording begin at the location where you have cued the tape.

Delay Movie Start by n quarter frames Species the number of quarter-frames that you want to delay the movie so that you can synchronize it with the DV device recording start time. Some devices need a delay between the time they receive the record command and the time the movie starts playing from the computer. Experiment with this setting if you are experiencing delays between the time you enable record and the time your DV device begins recording.

Preroll by n frames Species the number of frames that you want Adobe Premiere Elements to back up on the recording deck before the specied timecode. Specify enough frames for the deck to reach a constant tape speed. For many decks, 5 seconds or 150 frames is sufcient.

Abort After n Dropped Frames Species the maximum number of dropped frames you want to allow before Adobe Premiere Elements aborts the recording. If you choose this option, you generally want to type a very low number because dropped frames will cause jerky playback and are indicative of a hard drive or transfer problem.

Report Dropped Frames Species that Adobe Premiere Elements displays the number of dropped frames.

Note: If you want to use device control but it’s unavailable, click Cancel, choose Edit > Preferences, click Device Control, make sure that your device is set up properly in the Device Control options, and then click OK. Then try recording to tape again.

Exporting video for hard disk playback

The video you edit in the Timeline window is not available as an independent video le until you export it. After export, you can play it in other video playback or editing programs and move it to other disks or platforms. You can also export from the Monitor window, and you can specify a range of frames to export.

Exporting a movie for hard disk playback generally creates les with data rates and le sizes that exceed the requirements for successful Internet, VCD, or handheld device playback.

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