Dear all, welcome to this new tutorial dedicated to Premiere Elements 2022,
a great video editor offered by Adobe for all beginners and amateurs in
video editing! In a very short time we will see everything you need to know
to start using it straight-away!
Premiere Elements comes with the Adobe Elements bundle, among Photoshop
Elements - to manage and enhance your photos - and Organizer to manage and
categorize your photo collections. All these products are available under a
perpetual license for both Windows and MacOS.
If you are also interested in Photoshop Elements 2022, make sure to check
our dedicated video tutorial in our playlist!
As you open Premiere Elements its Home Screen opens, showing several
tutorials and articles to go through all its features. It also includes a
useful Search bar on top if you want to look for something in detail.
On the right you can reopen any existing project made (under a .PREL file
format) or go to Video Editor to start with a new one.
If you do not have much experience in video editing the Quick workspace is
the best one. Choose whether to Trim any video or Combine visual files
together to realize your own one. We will go for this second option, as
we are going to see the trimming during this tutorial.
Select any photo or video to start from. This opens the main workspace with
the preview on the center, several buttons on the right and the imported
files at the bottom.
You can add further videos, images and sound files by simply dragging and
dropping these next to the added files (or 'clips'). These together build
your video through several Storyboards placed sequentially in time without
any overlap.
Each storyboard represents a single file with proper thumbnail and duration
at the bottom - which is 5 seconds for all photos by default. More at the
bottom you get an independent row for all audio files.
With the preview on top you can check the video in progress. Click and drag
above to place the red marker and check any particular frame. Whereas use
the player above or the Space bar key to playback all in real time. Make
sure to have at least 8 GB of free RAM memory or you may get annoying lags.
At the bottom you have several useful buttons, such as Undo and Redo to
undo and redo your latest actions made; Organizer to open Adobe Organizer
and Home Screen to reopen the Home Screen page.
Once files are imported you can go to Create in the top right corner to
follow any ready template and realize your video without any effort or
experience. In this video we will see how to make a custom video with the
Storyboards and all the features inside Premiere Elements.
Click and drag any file to move it in position. Right-click on it to cut,
copy or paste it and use the buttons above to rotate by 90 degrees,
auto-reframe videos to remove black bars or remove any clip.
Click on the seconds to adjust the clip duration. On images you get a
simple slider; on videos you can choose between Smart Trim and Time
Stretch. With Smart Trim you adjust the clip duration by cutting part of
its content. Just drag the edges of all the blue borders and create others
by clicking on the camera button, selecting all the video parts to be
saved. Use Preview to check the result and then to Continue Editing... to
come back to the main interface.
Whereas choose Time Stretch to set the video duration by changing its speed
rate, making it faster (above 100%) or slower (below 100%), with the
options to Reverse the clip and maintain its audio pitch.
You can also select any clip and click once on the preview to move, scale
and rotate it directly. This won't work on auto-reframed videos.
On the right you can open the Adjustments panel to enhance the selected
clip appearance. With Smart Fix, Shake Reduction and Auto Smart Tone you
can apply automatic corrections on brightness, details and color tones.
Open Color to change the color with Hue, luminance with Lightness and color
intensity with Saturation and Vibrance. Switch to Lighting to correct
brightness, contrast and exposure levels and use Temperature and Tint to
apply great color filters.
In all these selections you can either pick any ready template or go to More
to adjust any amount precisely with the sliders. Whereas click on Reset to
revert all the changes applied.
When applying any adjustment this shows a green icon on the right. You can
expand it and click on the eye button to disable or enable it to check the
differences without losing its settings.
By default all these adjustments are applied on the selected clip. Enable
Entire Movie on top to add these to the entire video project instead.
Open the Tools panel to apply special corrections, including Pan & Zoom or
Time Remapping. We won't see these in this beginner tutorial.
Below Edit you can open the Applied Effects panel, showing all the effects
affecting the current clip. By default all videos and images include Motion
and Opacity: the first one transforms the clip by changing its position,
scale and inclination; the second one adjusts its transparency level and
adds Fade In and Fade Out transitions to introduce or end the clip by
changing its opacity level smoothly.
You can add other effects from the Effects panel, selecting the proper
category on top and dragging and dropping any kind on the clip. Once added,
this effect gets listed in the Applied Effects panel, where you can edit
its settings while checking the preview.
You can manage each effect with the buttons on the right: use the eye
button to disable or enable it; the Reset button to revert its properties
and the bin button to remove the effect from the list.
In some cases you can define masking regions to apply these effects only on
limited portions of the visual clip. At the bottom, next to Draw, you can
choose how to define such region. Use Pen to draw freehand, clicking on the
preview to fix straight segments and clicking and dragging to drop curves
by following the standard Bézier technique. As you close the region the
effect is applied only within such area.
Whereas select Circle or Rectangle to drop regular shapes that you can
move, scale and rotate by using their nodes.
On the right each region is called Selection and can be changed in feather,
opacity and expansion level. Click on Track above to apply an automated
motion tracking following the region within the selection made.
On the extreme right click on More to copy the current Selection, invert
its region or delete it.
Open the Transitions panel to browse and drop amazing visual transitions
between two clips, adjusting duration and placement. You can always change
the transition effect by dragging another on it.
Under Add you can find free audio samples and loads of text templates
divided in Motion Titles - such as animated text with background - and
Classic Titles - such as simple pieces of text without any motion.
Drag any text template to import it as an independent Storyboard or simply
select any clip and click on its T icon above to add a simple piece of
text that covers the whole clip duration - very useful if you want to
add subtitles.
On top click on the clock icon to set duration and starting point. With
the Adjustments panel apply the right text font, style, size, color and
distribution. Switch to Style to pick any ready text format, open Animation
to add motion and use Shapes to include multiple shapes and pieces of text
together.
You can hold down the CTRL (or the CMD) key to select any element and move,
scale and rotate it as you like. Double-click on any text to type inside
instead.
Open the Guided workspace to get the complete list of guided effects and
corrections you can apply with step-by-step tools and explanations. Check
them out!
With the Expert workspace you can build your own video by using a Timeline
view, which collects files within Video and Audio Tracks instead of
Storyboards. This is very useful to have multiple clips overlapping at the
same time (realizing Picture-in-Picture effects) and control the duration
of any clip or title much better. On the right you also get audio effects
and further video effects, including Crop to crop clips.
To learn more about the Expert workspace check out our dedicated video in
this playlist guide!
When your video is ready you can save it by going to File, Save As... All
Premiere Elements projects are saved in a .PREL file format.
Whereas go to Export & Share to render your video! At the bottom set video
name and destination folder and select any ready template above for TVs,
mobile devices, discs and social websites such as YouTube or Vimeo, up to
4K Ultra HD. With Audio or Image you can export just the audio content or
the current video frame shown on the preview. Whereas go to Devices, Custom
to apply your own options for the file format, video resolution, frame rate
and much more! Go to Save at the bottom to start rendering!
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