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Contents
Chapter 1: What's new
What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
What's new in Elements Organizer 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Chapter 2: Workspace
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Audio View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 3: Creating a video project
Create a video story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Saving and backing up projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Project settings and presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Viewing a project’s files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Undoing changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Viewing clip properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Working with scratch disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Previewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating instant movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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Chapter 4: Importing and adding media
Supported devices and file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Adding media into Adobe Premiere Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Guidelines for adding files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating specialty clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.1 audio import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Set duration for imported still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Working with offline files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Working with aspect ratios and field options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 5: Arranging movie clips
Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Arranging clips in the Expert view timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Creating a picture-in-picture overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Grouping, linking, and disabling clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Working with clip and timeline markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 6: Editing clips
Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Trimming clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Split clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Replace footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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Changing clip speed and duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Freezing and holding frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Working with source clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 7: Applying transitions and special effects
Apply an Effects Mask to your video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Mark and extract favorite moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Transition basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Adjusting transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Applying transitions to clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Time remapping - Guided edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Effects reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Superimposing and transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Effects basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Applying and removing effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Adding sound effects to a video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Working with effect presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Add a Split Tone Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Create a Vignetting effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Create special transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Finding and organizing effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Adding music scores to video clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Pan and zoom to create video-like effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Applying effects using Adjustment layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Add an HSL Tuner effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Add FilmLooks effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Adding Title to your movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Adjust temperature and tint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Reposition, scale, or rotate clipswith the Motion effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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Chapter 8: Creating titles
Creating titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Adding shapes and images to titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Arranging objects in titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Adding color and shadows to titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Motion Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Exporting and importing titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Editing and formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Designing titles for TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
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Applying styles to text and graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Adding a video in the title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Chapter 9: Mixing audio
Using soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Create narrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Mixing audio and adjusting volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Chapter 10: Creating disc menus
Types of discs and menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Working with menu markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Creating disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Previewing menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Chapter 11: Saving and sharing your movies
Export and share your videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Supported file types for saving and exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Archiving projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Compression and data-rate basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Supported file types for saving and exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Common settings for sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
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Chapter 12: Keyboard shortcuts
Customizing shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Using default shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Chapter 13: Glossary
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
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Chapter 1: What's new
What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
Adobe Premiere Elements 14 ships with new features and enhancements that help you create amazing movies with ease.
Read on for a quick introduction to what's new, changed, or deprecated and find quick links to resources offering more
information.
Adobe Premiere Elements includes Elements Organizer, which helps you organize your assets. For information about
new features in Elements Organizer, see What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 14.
Single launch point for Premiere Elements, Photoshop Elements, and Elements Organizer
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
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You can now launch your favorite applications from the same screen. The product Welcome screen now includes
options to launch all three products - Premiere Elements, Photoshop Elements, and Elements Organizer. A link to the
trial version is available for any product that is not installed on your computer.
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For more information about the Start screen and the Premiere Elements workspace, see Wo rk s pa c e.
Create fun video titles with Motion Titles
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
You now have the convenience of using ready-to-use and customizable motion titles to enhance your videos. Motio
title templates are preloaded with animated graphics, stylized text, and background styles. Motion Titles are available
as customizable templates with popular predefined layouts and components. You save all the time creating elaborate
animation and graphics for your titles by simply using the rich templates available to you.
Add a Motion Title and customize it in quick easy-to-follow steps.
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For more information, see Motion Titles.
Export and share your videos
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
Use the new Export & Share panel to easily share your videos. Whatever the format you want to share your finished
project in, all are now accesssible from the same panel. And if you are not sure what the most suitable format should
be, you can now use the Quick Export option and let Premiere Elements decide the most appropriate format.
Premiere Elements also displays a set of recommended settings according to your input format. You can also watch a
preview before you complete the export.
You can save your project for viewing on the web, mobile phone, computer, DVD, and Blu-ray disc, among others.
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For more information, see Export and share your videos.
Work in the Audio View
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
Wh en edi tin g your vi deo s, y ou may, at time s, w ant to fo cus on the audio clips in you r projec t. With the new Audio View,
editing audio tracks for your clips is easier and more accessible. While your timeline remains intact, you can focus your
efforts on enahncing the audio portions of your project.
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For more information, see Audio View.
Guided Edits for time remapping and selective coloring
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
Enhance your videos with ease with two new guided edits.
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• Create a slow or fast motion effect Use the guided edit for the Time Remapping tool to add dramatic effects to your
video.
• Create videos in black and white with color pop Enhance your videos to display in black and white while you
lectively retain one or more colors. This guided edit helps you create videos with selective colored elements that
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pop out in a black and white clip.
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For more information, see and .
Video Story in Elements Organizer
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
You now have one more convenient option for creating a video story. With the current product release, it is possible to
launch the video story workflow right from the Elements Organizer user interface.
To begin creating your video story from Elements Organizer:
1 Select the assets you want to use in the video story.
2 Click Create > Video Story. This action launches Premiere Elements. You can then edit and refine your video story,
and share it.
For more information, see (Elements article).
Hardware acceleration
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14
Hardware acceleration is now enabled for rendering, playback, and export on computers that have Intel HD Graphics
2000 and newer. If required, you can choose to disable hardware acceleration.
For more information, see General preferences .
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Other enhancements
• Premiere Elements start screen options: The Premiere Elements Start screennow makes it easier for you to
initiate popular workflows. The revamped start screen includes three new options to start creating your vide
over your mouse over the options to read more about it.
H
os.
• Workflow initiation from Quick view timeline: The Quickview timeline includes new invocation points to
get you started with your video creation process. Click any one of the invocation points like Drop Title, Record
N
arration, and Drop Audio Clip, to launch the desired workflows.
• Auto Analyzer: Auto-Analyzer , in Premiere Elements, automatically detects and tags clips when analyzing
media. The preferences for Auto-Analyzer have been moved from Elements Organizer to Premiere Elements.
• Right-click options for the timeline: For ease of access, the options available when you right-click the
timeline, have now been categorized.
• Scene Detect: The Scene Detect feature has been enhanced to increase the accuracy of scene detection when
you capture clips with Premiere Elements.
Removed features
The following features are no longer available in Adobe Premiere Elements 14:
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• The Adaptive Multi-Rate Compression (.amr) audio file format is no longer supported.
What's new in Elements Organizer 14
The extensive new enhancements in Elements Organizer 14 combine powerful features with an intuitive interface,
taking your media management and editing experience to a new level.
Elements Organizer now groups together similar-looking faces, mak
photographs and to organize and view your photos based on the people in them.
Elements Organizer 14 analyzes the date and time information to take the work out of arranging and viewing your
memo
ries by events. Thus, it is easier than ever before to mark and find your media files based on events such as
birthday parties, mother’s day, father’s day, or family vacations.
The improved Places view lets you browse your media files fa
view your media files right there on the map at the tagged location.
ing it easier for you to tag people in your
ster by location and time. The new Pinned tab lets you
And, a new onboarding experience and a new intuitive, visual in
to start using Elements Organizer.
In short, Elements Organizer 14 helps you do more things, more easily.
terface for importing your files make it easier for you
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Powerful and easier people recognition
It is now even easier and faster to tag people in your photos. You no more have to select the faces individually in the
Media view and tag them.
Elements Organizer now automatically groups similar faces for you during import. Once you have finished importing,
faces of all people who have not yet been named are displayed in the new UnNamed tab of the People view. You just
click once to tag friends and family members for an entire batch of photos.
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The Named tab of the People room displays the profiles of all the people whom you have already named. In the Named
tab you can also rename the tags, confirm the tag names and view all Photos and faces in which they appear for each
person.
For more information, see .
Enhanced and more intuitive Places feature
All your media files with GPS information are now automatically tagged and displayed in the Pinned tab of the Places
view. So, if your camera supports GPS tracking, your media files are automatically displayed in the Pinned tab as soon
as you have imported them.
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If a media file does not have GPS data, it is displayed in the UnPinned tab, where you can add location information for
the file. Once you have added this information, the file is displayed in the Pinned tab.
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In the Pinned tab, you can click any file to view its details.
You can fine-tune the location once you have tagged your media files. You can also replace the location tag with a
custom name to better identify the location or to personalize the location tag (for example, change a location name to
“My home”).
For more information, see
More flexibility in managing event information
The Events view now provides a more detailed view of how events are tagged to your media files and makes it easier for
you to tag events.
The Events view includes two tabs: Named and Suggested.
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The media files are organized by date and time. You can increase or decrease the number of tracks displayed in the tab
by moving the slider.
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The Suggested tab is similar to the Smart Events view in the previous release, but provides you finer control and a better
view of media files.
The Named tab displays your files organized by events, providing an easy way for you to view your memories organized
by the events in your life.
For more information, see .
New onboarding and import experience
The new "Import in Bulk" feature of Elements Organizer 14 provides a visual, intuitive interface and makes it easy for
you to import a large number of media files at one go.
The feature is launched automatically when you open Elements Organizer 14 for the first time or when you create a
new catalog.
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For more information, see .
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Other enhancements
Elements Organizer 14 includes more enhancements such as performance improvements, support for European date
format, ability to create a video story from with in Organizer, and various bug fixes.
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Chapter 2: Workspace
Workspace
The Adobe Premiere Elements workspace presents an easy-to-use interface for video enthusiasts. It organizes features
into Quick and Expert views based on their complexity. Also available to you is the Guided view and the elive tab for
additional resources.
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Quick
The Quick view aggregates basic features that enthusiasts commonly use to quickly edit video footage and share with
others. It optimizes common tasks that you perform with clips, such as editing clips, creating menus for DVDs and Bluray discs, and sharing movies.
Use the Quick view options to add titles, effects, and transitions, background music, and graphics to your clips. Pan or
zoom your clip, if necessary, or use Smart Trim for a crisper video. Use Instant Movie to automate movie creation steps.
Quick view timeline
The Quick view timeline contains the following tracks:
• Video: Edit your video clips and images in this track
• Titles: Add text titles to your clips here
• Sound: Add background music and other sounds to your movie
• Narration: Include recorded narrations for your movie here
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The Quick view timeline displays each clip as a series of frames that span the entire clip length. You can trim unwanted
portions within individual frames and rearrange them. You can also swap the position of a clip with another to make a
coherent movie sequence.
Workflow initiation
The Quickview timeline includes invocation points to get you started with your video creation process. Click any one
of the invocation points to launch the desired workflow.
Drop Title: Click Drop Title on the timeline to open the Text and Titles panel. Select a title of your choice and drop it
onto the timeline to get started.
Record Narration: Click Record Narration to launch the narration recorder. When recording is complete, the narration
is dropped onto the track.
Drop Audio Clips: Click Drop Audio Clips to open the Music panel. Select an audio clip of your choice and drop it
onto the track.
The invocation points continue to be available for the entire editing process. Use them as per your convenience and
create great videos quickly.
For more information on using the Quick view timeline, see Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline.
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Guided
The Guided view helps you edit movies by guiding you sequentially through a series of steps.
The Guided view provides instructions on how to perform various tasks in both Quick and Expert views. To start
exploring and using the available Guided Edits, click the Quick tab or the Expert tab and then click the Guided tab.
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For more information, See Guided mode.
Expert
The Expert view includes advanced features and tools, such as Audio Mixer and Time Stretch, that professionals use to
perform intricate video editing tasks.
In addition to the panels available in the Quick view, the Expert view contains the Project assets panel.
This panel contains the media files you import into your Premiere Elements project. Use the panel options to organize
the files as a list or in a grid. The grid view displays a thumbnail for each file. If you add any media asset to the timeline,
a green icon appears below the thumbnail for the asset.
Expert view timeline
For more advanced editing, use the Expert view timeline. The Expert view timeline graphically represents your movie
project as video and audio clips arranged in vertically stacked tracks. When you capture video from a digital video
device, the clips appear sequentially as they occur.
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The Expert view timeline uses a time ruler to display the components of your movie and their relationship to each other
over time. You can trim and add scenes, indicate important frames with markers, add transitions, and control how clips
are blended or superimposed. The right-click options for the timeline are organized into easily accessible categories.
Compared to the Quick view, the Expert view timeline has more tracks.
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For more information on using the Expert view timeline, see Arranging clips in the Expert view timeline.
eLive
The eLive tab helps access a stream of resources right from your workspace to get creative ideas for your videos and
become more proficient with Adobe Premiere Elements.
Welcome screen
When you first launch Adobe Premiere Elements, the Welcome screen is displayed. The product Welcome screen
includes options to launch all three products - Premiere Elements, Photoshop Elements, and Elements Organizer. A
link to the trial version is available if any of the products is not installed on your computer.
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Click Video Editor to open an existing project or create a project in the workspace.
Access the Elements Organizer to organize, tag, and perform basic editing tasks on your media before importing them
nto Adobe Premiere Elements.
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Customize launch options
By default, the Welcome screen opens when you launch Adobe Premiere Elements for the first time.
Click the Settings button on the Title bar to specify the window or application that you want displayed on subsequent
la
unches of Adobe Premiere Elements.
Select one of the following launch options:
• Welcome Screen: Launches the Welcome screen each time you open Adobe Premiere Elements. This option is
led by default.
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• Organizer: If you use Elements Organizer to organize your media before editing them in Adobe Premiere Elements,
choose this option.
• Video Editor: Select this option if you want the Adobe Premiere Elements workspace to open every time you launch
Adobe Premiere Elements.
Once inside the Premiere Elements workspace, you have se veral options to get started with your video project. All your
ols and features are organized into eaily accessible panels and UI elements. Learn about the various options available
to
to you.
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Start screen Add Media panel Action bar Adjust panel
Applied Effects panel Create panel Export & Share panel
Start screen
The Premiere Elements start screen makes it easier for you to initiate popular workflows. You have three new options
to start creating your videos. Hover your mouse over the options to learn more about it.
Click one of the options to start creating your video.
Add Media
Use the Add Media panel to add media files from sources, such as video cameras, flip, webcams, digital still cameras,
mobile phones, and folders on your hard disk.
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Create a template based movie
Use readily-available templates and start creating stunning videos. Clicking Create a template based movie, opens the
Create drop-down list. Select Video Story or Instant Movie to invoke the desired creation workflow.
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Tell your story using titles
Enhance your movies with ready-to-use and customizable motion titles. Start by including motion title templates that
are preloaded with animated graphic presets, text, and background styles that can all be edited to suit your
requirements.
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Clicking Tell your story using titles opens the Motion Titles selection panel from the action bar. Select and drag a
template of your choice and start creating your movie.
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Learn video editing
Use Guided edits to perform video-editing tasks with ease. From trimming unwanted footage to animating graphics in
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our video clips, guided edits help you enhance your video clips. Clicking Learn video editing opens the Guided Edit
launch panel. Pick the desired creation workflow and start creating your movie.
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Add Media panel
The Add Media panel lets you add media files from various sources to the Quick view timeline so you can rearrange
and edit them.
Use the Add Media panel to add media files from sources, such as video cameras, flip, webcams, digital still cameras,
mobile phones, and folders on your hard disk.
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The Action bar contains options that provide easy access to common features you use for editing tasks. Use the options
to add titles, transitions, special effects, graphics, music, and markers to your clips.
Premiere Elements features the Frequently used panel for Transitions, Titles & Text, Effects, and Music. Use this panel
to access the effects that you use most often.
The Action bar contains the following options:
Organizer
Opens Elements Organizer to let you organize and manage your media files.
Tools
Provides options that let you add cool effects to your video. For example, use Time Remapping and Smart Mix to add
sophisticated motion effects to your video. You can choose Smart Trim to let Premiere Elements automatically edit your
footage for a crisper video. For more information, see
To o ls .
Trans iti ons
Provides transitions you can use between your movie clips. The Transition contextual control appears automatically
when you apply a transition for the first time. Use it to modify the transition properties. To open the Transition
contextual control later, double-click the transition. The Expert view provides more transition effects compared to the
Quick view. For more information, see
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Titles & Text
Contains pre-formatted title templates you can use in your movie. The Title contextual control appears automatically
when you apply a title to your movie for the first time. Use it to modify the title properties. To open the Title contextual
control later, double-click the title. The Expert view provides more title templates compared to the Quick view. For
more information, see
Creating titles.
Effects
Shows special effects and presets you can apply to clips in your movie. To edit a special effect after applying it, click
Applied Effects to modify the properties in the Applied Effects panel. Compared to the Quick view, the Expert view
provides more effects that are organized under various categories. For more information, see
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Music
Lets you add theme music to your movie. You can select multiple music clips from here, and they are played in the order
selected.
Graphics
Spruce up your videos with graphic elements, such as clip art and callouts (thought bubbles or speech balloons) that
you can add to portions in your video clips.
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Adjust panel
The Adjust panel lets you adjust the inherent properties of your clip, for example color and lighting. You can also use
the Smart Fix tool to enhance the quality of your video footage.
To display the Adjust panel, select the clip and then click Adjust on the right. If you add a title to your clip, use the
Adjust panel to alter its properties, if required.
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Applied Effects panel
The Applied Effects panel lets you view the properties of effects already applied to your clip. The panel provides various
options that enable you to modify the applied effects.
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To display the Applied Effects panel, select the clip to which effects are applied, and click Applied Effects on the right.
Create panel
• Video Stor y: Create a structured story of your life events and spice it up with a magical touch.
• Instant Movie: Automatically guides you through the movie creation process. It lets you quickly select movie
templates and edit clips. Instant Movie also lets you add theme-based effects, titles, transitions, and audio to your
movie. You can change settings as desired.
For more information see Create a video storyand Creating instant movies.
Export & Share panel
Use the Export & Share panel to save and share (export) your finished project.
The Export & Share (previously called Publish +Share) panel contains everything you need, to save and share your
f
inished project. You can save your project for viewing on the web, mobile phone, computer, DVD, and Blu-ray disc,
among others. The Export & Share option includes all the available export formats in a single panel. Individual tabs on
the Export & Share panel represent the various media options that you can choose from.
For more information, see Export and share your videos.
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The Tools panel provides options that let you add cool effects to your video. For example, use Time Remapping and
Smart Mix to add sophisticated motion effects to your video. You can choose Smart Trim to let Premiere Elements
automatically edit your footage for a crisper video.
Video tools
Favorite Moments
A video usually has various favorite moments. Adobe Premiere Elements helps you mark and extract all your favorite
moments in a video as a single collated clip or individual clips. You can use the extracted clips of favorite moments for
editing or sharing.
For more information, see .
Freeze Frame
Grab a single frame from a video clip to use as a still image in your current movie or to save as a still on your hard drive
for use elsewhere. For example, you can use a still in your movie to show a character start an action, but then stop midaction, frozen on the screen.
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For more information, see Freezing and holding frames.
Motion Tracking
Motion Tracking gives you the ability to track moving objects in a video clip. You can attach clipart like still images,
graphics, or video clips to these objects.
For more information, see Apply motion tracking in video clips .
Movie menu
You can create a menu-based DVD or Blu-ray Disc by using one of the predesigned menu templates included with
Premiere Elements. A menu can include sound and motion. Some templates contain drop zones, where you can drag
and drop a still image or video to personalize the menu background.
For more information, see Creating disc menus.
Pan & Zoom
Using the pan and zoom tool in Adobe Premiere Elements, you can create video-like effects from images or movie clips.
For movie clips, the effect works best when there is minimal movement of objects within the clip.
When working with the pan and zoom tool, you select objects and the order in which they are panned and zoomed
into. Adobe Premiere Elements provides you with customization options using which you can apply the effect
according to your requirements.
For more information, see .
Smart Trim
Smart trimming enables you to trim the low-quality sections of a video file. Smart trim can be done manually and
automatically. You can trim clips from the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
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For more information, see About Smart trimming.
Time Remapping
Add a slow or fast motion effect to your videos for that wow factor. For more information, see .
Audio tools
Audio Mixer
Use the Audio Mixer to adjust audio balance and volume for different tracks in your project. You can adjust the balance
and level of audio contained within your video clips, and within soundtrack and narration audio.
For more information, see Adjust volume and mix audio in the Audio Mixer.
Narration
You can choose to record a narrative for your video from within Premiere Elements. Using your computer’s
microphone, you can narrate clips while previewing them in the Monitor panel. Your narration is then added to the
Narration soundtrack visible in either the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
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For more information, see Create narrations.
Smart Mix
SmartMix enables automatic adjustment of the volume of the background music. For best results, place dialog clips on
the Audio 1 track or the Narration track (Foreground tracks) and music on the Soundtrack track (Background tracks).
Premiere Elements analyzes clips on all Foreground tracks for dialogs. Keyframes are then smartly/automatically
created to lower the volume level to ensure that the dialog in the Foreground track is audible. SmartMix adjustments
apply to all audio clips on the Expert view timeline, not just on the selected clip. When you use SmartMix on an audio
track, keyframes you applied previously on the Soundtrack are deleted.
For more information, see SmartMix.
Audio View
When editing your videos, you may need to work with the audio tracks to enhance the experience. Editing audio tracks
for your clips is now easier and more accessible. With the Audio View, you can focus on editing your audio tracks while
your timeline remains intact. For easier access, the
categorized into video and audio categories.
When you want to focus on audio tracks, click Show Audio View at the top of the Expert view timeline (or type
Shift+A).
To o ls , , and that are available to you from the action bar, are now
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In Audio View, all audio tracks appear expanded while the video tracks are collapsed. This means that it is now easier
to focus on editing your audio tracks while your timeline remains intact.
Master volume
The master volume control appears on the right side of the track. Move the slider on the master control, to reduce or
increase the volume of the entire project.
Note: You cannot keyframe these controls.
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Audio recording
Click Add Narration to directly record onto a track. The Narration dialog is displayed and the recorded clip is placed
on the target track.
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