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Adobe Premiere Elements is a great solution for beginners and amateurs,
providing all the tools and templates you need for simple and intermediate
video projects. Unlike Premiere Pro CC, this product does not require any
subscription and is included inside the Adobe Elements bundle, which
also offers Elements Organizer, to collect and manage your media and
metadata; and Photoshop Elements, to edit and adjust your photos.
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Premiere Elements opens with its Home Screen page, showing information,
tutorials and also specific content with the Search bar on top.
On the right you find your recent projects and all the products inside
Adobe Elements, such as Premiere Elements as Video Editor.
Premiere Elements comes with three main workspaces listed on top. You can
use Quick and Expert to create videos with your own media files collected
inside the project timeline below. In the Quick workspace this is in
Storyboard mode, whereas in the Expert one this shows a professional
environment with Video and Audio Tracks similar to Premiere Pro CC.
The different Guided workspace collects basic and advanced corrections
you can apply to your media files by following guided steps.
In this video we will see the Quick workspace only. You can learn more
about the Expert one by watching our guide!
The Quick workspace shows two options to either trim any video clip or
combine your media files to create your own video. To see all the features
inside Premiere Elements, we will go with the second option.
At this point, browse for all your videos, images and audio files to
import these into the main Quick workspace. This shows the main Preview
above, the project timeline at the bottom and several editing tools and
panels, including Organizer and Home Screen to open Elements Organizer or
come back to the Home Screen page.
Once media is imported you can realize your video by either using ready
templates from the Create button above or editing on the timeline on your
own, as we will see in this video.
The timeline uses a Storyboard view, where the final video is created by
applying several media files (or clips) sequentially in time. This makes
the video editing process very easy, but does not permit to get media
overlapped, which is indeed possible with the Expert workspace.
Visual clips show thumbnails and duration in seconds whereas audio files
are shrinked at the bottom, with their file name. You can import other
files by dragging and dropping these directly on the timeline.
Use the Preview to check the timeline content where its red marker is
placed in time. Click or drag above the clips to check the frames you
want, or just use the player to playback in real time.
On the timeline you can click and drag clips to move these in time and
right-click on these to cut, copy and paste. On the left use Rotate right
to rotate the selected clip by +90 degrees and Delete to remove it. You
can use the Undo and the Redo buttons to go through your actions history
if you make any mistake.
Click on the clip seconds to change its duration in time. You can use a
simple slide bar in case of photos and use either Smart Trim or Time
Stretch in case of videos.
With Smart Trim you can adjust the video duration by selecting the parts
to save with the blue regions you size on the new interface. Once you
finish, you can come back to the main interface with Continue Editing....
Whereas use Time Stretch to set the duration by changing the speed rate:
above 100% to increase it and make the clip shorter or below 100% to
extend it with slower speed.
The same Preview can be used to edit the basic appearance of the clip
selected from the timeline. Just click once on the Preview to show a blue
rectangle that you can use to move, scale and rotate the clip.
You can also apply advanced corrections and effects by using the buttons
on the right side. The first one opens the Adjustments panel, used to
apply corrections on either the selected clip or the entire project by
enabling the Entire Movie button on top.
Use Smart Fix, Shake Reduction and Auto Smart Tone to apply quick
corrections on color, details and tones automatically.
On the other sections, from Color to Temperature and Tint, you can
customize the visual appearance by picking any ready template or using the
sliders inside More. In this way you can adjust the media colors with Hue,
their intensity with Saturation and Vibrance, the brightness, contrast and
exposure levels and also apply color filters to the clip. Next to each
correction you can use the eye button to enable and disable it and check
the differences.
The second button opens the Tools panel with other advanced adjustments
with dedicated interfaces. We are not going to see these.
The panels inside the Edit section are dedicated to visual effects and
transitions. From the Effects panel you can choose the category above and
drag and drop the interested effect on any media to apply it. This effect
gets listed inside the Applied Effects panel with its properties and
options you can edit while checking its result on the Preview.
Besides the effect properties, you can use Motion to set the media
placement, size and inclination and Opacity to add any transparency.
Next to each effect, you can use the eye button to enable and disable it;
the Reset button to reset its properties and the bin button to remove the
effect if applied. Also in this case enable Entire Movie to manage the
effects applied to the whole project.
With Premiere Elements you can also add transitions to introduce and end
visual clips in time with special effects.
To add simple crossfade transitions just enable Fade In and Fade Out from
the down arrow button placed on the clip. To apply other visual
transitions you can drag and drop any from the Transitions panel, in
between of two media clips. You can click on it to change its duration,
placement and properties.
From the Add section you can import music samples and great text templates,
such as Motion Titles and Classic Titles by dragging and dropping these
on the timeline.
Motion Titles are special text templates that include background, motion
effects and graphics, very good if used as intros or outros. Whereas
Classic Titles are simple pieces of text under a transparent background
which is rendered in black color. You can also add these pieces of text
on other visual clips by clicking on their T icon above, adjusting
starting point and duration from the watch icon.
To correct the text properties, just select the text clip from the timeline
and open the Adjustments panel. You can set the text appearance under Text
and Style, the transitions to apply with Animation and add graphics or
other pieces of text under Shapes.
With this panel open, you can hold down the CTRL key to move, scale and
rotate the piece of text directly on the Preview. To type in, just
double-click on the text itself.
To save your project in progress go to File and then to Save As. This
will be saved in a .prel file with content, options and properties you can
reopen and edit at any time.
Whereas if you want to export the video made, just go to Export & Share.
Set the video name and destination folder at the bottom and the video
properties to use from the sections above, such as Quick Export to export
as a .mp4 HD video; Device to match several TVs and mobile templates; Disc
to burn onto any disc or ISO file and Online to pick any preset for
social websites. Choose Audio or Image to extract either the audio part or
just the current video frame shown on the Preview.
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