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Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual (313 pages)

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Table of contents

ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR

1

PREMIERE

1

Contents

3

Premiere Elements

6

New and enhanced features

7

Back up/Synchronize files

8

❖ Do one of the following:

9

Premiere Elements Editor

10

• Digital Still Camera

11

• Mobile Phones And Players

11

Use video capture device

12

Create an album

12

Troubleshooting tips

14

About the workspace

15

Create an Adobe ID

16

Sign in with your Adobe ID

16

Workspace overview

17

Customizing the workspace

18

Display and hide panels

19

Dock panels

19

Resize a panel

19

Open panel menus

20

Restore the default workspace

20

Adjust panel brightness

20

Panel overviews

21

Organize workspace

22

Edit workspace

23

Monitor panel overview

24

Info panel overview

25

Chapter 3: Projects

26

Open a project

27

Create an InstantMovie

28

Theme properties

29

Viewing a project’s files

30

Project view display options

32

Organize clips in folders

33

Find an item in a project

34

Delete a clip

35

Viewing clip properties

36

Adjust columns in List view

38

Project settings and presets

39

Check your project’s settings

40

Capture settings

41

Video Rendering settings

41

Undoing changes

42

Save a project

43

Working with scratch disks

44

Set up a scratch disk

45

Chapter 4: Capturing video

46

Capture video

49

Capture stop-motion video

55

Capturing video

56

Capture time-lapse video

57

Stop Motion preferences

58

Adding files to a project

59

• Tapeless Camcorder

60

2 Do one of the following:

62

1 Do one of the following:

62

Supported video formats

63

Supported still-image formats

63

Guidelines for adding files

64

Elements

67

Create a Photoshop file

68

Creating specialty clips

69

Working with offline files

71

Understanding aspect ratios

72

Pixel aspect ratio

73

View a project’s aspect ratio

74

5.1 audio import

76

Organizer

78

Find clips by star ratings

79

Tagging files

80

Auto-Analyzer

82

Applying Smart Tags

83

About multiple scene groups

84

About stacks

85

Creating albums

86

About smart albums

87

Create a smart album

87

Remove files from an album

87

Backup/synchronize files

88

Sceneline overview

89

Adding clips in the Sceneline

90

Creating a slide show

91

Ungroup a slide show

92

Timeline overview

95

Timeline tracks

96

Timeline tools

96

Move through the Timeline

97

Add clips to the Timeline

98

More Help topics

100

Last updated 8/12/2010

101

Select clips in the Timeline

102

Move a clip in the Timeline

102

Customize Timeline tracks

105

Rename a track

106

Group and ungroup clips

107

Link video and audio clips

107

Synchronize linked clips

108

Enable and disable clips

109

Add clip and timeline markers

110

Move and delete markers

111

Move a marker

112

Delete a timeline marker

112

Delete a clip marker

112

Clear all markers

112

Previewing movies

113

Preview in full-screen mode

115

Preview on a TV monitor

116

Background rendering

117

Render an area for preview

117

Set the area to be rendered

118

Render a preview

118

Delete preview files

119

Chapter 8: Editing clips

120

About Smart trimming

121

Automatic Smart Trim

122

Smart Trim options

122

Trim in the Timeline

125

Editing clips

127

Trim in the Preview window

128

Split clips

129

Split a clip

130

Replace footage

131

Change a clip’s speed

132

Set the duration of a clip

133

Freezing and holding frames

134

Hold a video frame

135

Working with source clips

136

SmartFix

138

Transition basics

139

Applying transitions to clips

140

Specify a default transition

141

Replace a transition

144

Preview applied transitions

144

Preview in the Monitor panel

145

Create specialty transitions

146

Adjusting transitions

148

Adjust transition duration

149

Chapter 10: Applying effects

151

Third-party effects

152

Find an effect

152

Organize effect presets

153

Applying and removing effects

154

Apply an audio effect

155

Copy and paste effects

156

Remove an effect

157

Remove all effects

157

Working with effect presets

158

Apply an effect preset

159

Create an effect preset

159

Changing effect properties

160

Reorder effects

161

Adjust effect properties

162

Adjust a clip’s position

163

Scale a clip

163

Rotate a clip

164

Adjust a clip’s anchor point

165

Adjust opacity

166

Keying out color

167

Invert or hide alpha channels

170

Effects reference

172

Brightness & Contrast

175

Channel Mixer

176

Image Control

177

Lighting Effects

177

Posterize

177

Blur and sharpen

178

Fast Blur

179

Gaussian Blur

179

Ghosting

179

Corner Pin

180

Lens Distortion

180

Polar Coordinates

181

Spherize

181

Transform

181

GPU Effects

182

Generate

183

Image control

184

Color Replace

185

Gamma Correction

185

Alpha Adjust

185

Chroma Key

186

Difference Matte effect

187

Image Matte Key effect

188

Luma Key effect

188

Non Red Key

189

Remove Matte effect

189

RGB Difference Key effect

189

NewBlue Art Effects Elements

190

Line Drawing

191

Metallic

191

Pastel Sketch

191

NewBlue Film Look

192

Perspective

193

Pixelate

194

Video Stabilizer

196

Color Emboss

197

Find Edges

197

Replicate

198

Solarize

198

Strobe Light

198

Texturize

198

Posterize Time

199

Videomerge

201

Audio effects

201

Channel Volume

202

DeNoiser

202

Dynamics

202

Swap Channels

204

Chapter 11: Animating effects

205

Display and edit keyframes

206

Add keyframes

207

Add keyframes in the Timeline

208

Copy keyframes

209

Remove keyframes

209

Adjusting keyframes

210

Specify keyframe values

211

Move keyframes

212

Add or adjust Bezier handles

213

Bezier interpolation methods

214

Animating a clip’s position

215

Adjust a clip’s motion path

216

Motion tracking effect

217

Effects Mask

220

Chapter 12: Creating titles

222

Create a still title

223

Set roll and crawl options

226

Trim titles

227

Editing and formatting text

228

Wrap text automatically

229

Set font, style, and size

229

Specify a font

230

Specify a font style

230

Change the font size

230

Change text orientation

231

Reflow paragraph text

231

About styles

232

Create a style

232

Apply a style to an object

232

3 Do any of the following:

233

Add images to titles

234

Arranging objects in titles

235

Transform objects

236

Move objects

237

Scale objects

237

Rotate objects

237

Apply color to title objects

238

Set the stroke

239

Create drop shadows

240

Designing titles for TV

241

Export a title file

242

Import a title file

242

Using soundtracks

243

Preview a soundtrack

244

Create narrations

245

Set up for narration

246

Narrate a clip

246

About audio mixing

247

SmartMix

249

Audio Meters panel overview

250

Adjust volume in the Timeline

250

Mute a clip

252

Fade volume in or out

252

Auto-play discs

253

Working with menu markers

254

Main menu markers

255

Scene markers

255

Stop markers

256

Add a stop marker

258

Find a menu or scene marker

259

Creating disc menus

260

Apply a disc menu template

261

Customize a menu template

261

Edit menu text and buttons

263

Specify text settings

264

Animate buttons

264

Previewing menus

266

Sharing from the Tasks panel

267

Using Quick Share

268

Disc burning

269

Compatibility issues for DVDs

270

Sharing for PC playback

272

General export settings

275

Video export settings

276

Audio export settings

277

Sharing to the web

278

About mobile formats

280

Sharing to videotape

281

Export to analog tape

282

Export To Tape options

283

Sharing to Video CD

284

Common settings for Sharing

284

Video settings

285

Audio settings

287

Multiplexing settings

288

About compression

291

About data rate

291

About compression keyframes

292

Archiving projects

293

Using default shortcuts

295

Customizing shortcuts

295

Remove shortcuts

296

Chapter 17: Troubleshooting

297

Capturing

298

Importing

299

Playing back and previewing

300

Display colors garbled

301

Creating a DVD

302

Chapter 18: Glossary

304

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