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newest Adobe Premiere Elements 2019!
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Premiere Elements is a great video editing product used to create your own
videos and slideshows by using powerful tools, templates, amazing
adjustments and effects through a simple user interface. In respect to
Adobe Premiere Pro, you can get this product without any subscription plan.
When opening Premiere Elements, the Home Screen page opens showing
useful tips, tutorials and news. On top use the Search bar to get any help and
information on a particular theme. At the bottom you can start with any
recent project or any of your Adobe Element products you have installed.
Click on Organizer to open Adobe Organizer, a freeware used to manage your
photos and metadata with ratings, information and people. Click on Photo
Editor to open Adobe Photoshop Elements and on Video Editor to open
Premiere Elements.
To know more about Photoshop Elements check out our guide through the link
inside the video description.
Premiere Elements comes with three main workspaces listed on top: Quick,
Guided and Expert. The Quick workspace is the easiest interface using
a Storyboard view, very simple to use and to work with. The Guided
workspace has several professional tools and effects applicable step by
step. The Expert workspace is the most advanced interface very close to
Premiere Pro, using Video and Audio Tracks.
In this video we are going to see just the Quick workspace. Check out our
dedicated video to know more about the Expert workspace!
At first the Quick workspace comes with two options: trimming a video clip
or creating a movie using your own media files.
The first option allows you to cut and trim a single video clip in order to
use or export as you finish. Once you browse for your video clip, this
is imported inside a very simple interface, made by the preview on top and
the timeline at the bottom, representing the whole video.
The preview shows the video content where the red marker is. Place it by
clicking on the grey line above or click and drag it to check the several
frames in sequence. Use the player buttons to playback and pause the video.
The timeline is also the place where you edit and trim the video before
exporting it. At first you have a single blue region selecting a limited
portion of the whole video content. You can click and drag its edges
trim the video content and select the parts to save and export.
You can also create other independent regions by placing the marker and
using the plus button below it. To delete any region, just use the cross
button in the top right corner.
You can see the results of your modifications by using the Preview button
at the bottom. If this is good, use the Export button to export the video
or Continue Editing... to import the video into a Premiere project.
If you choose to put your media clips together into a custom video, browse
for any picture, video or sound file and edit these through the main Quick
workspace. Here you get the Preview on the center, several editing tools
on the right, the project Timeline at the bottom with your media files and,
below it, several useful buttons such as Organizer to open Adobe Organizer
and Home Screen to come back to the Home Screen page.
In this workspace you can create your own video in two ways. You can pick
any ready template from the Create button or build it on your own piece by
piece. To understand how Premiere works, we won't use any ready templates
in this video.
In this workspace the Timeline uses a Storyboard view, where your final
video is created by putting media clips in sequence. At first you have
just a single Storyboard representing the media file you have imported. To
add other videos, pictures or sound files just go to Add Media or drag and
drop these from any folder into the Timeline directly.
Pictures and videos imported inside the project are represented through
their thumbnail and their duration in seconds at the bottom; whereas all
sound files are collected at the bottom with their file name.
Use the Preview to check your video in progress where the red marker is
placed in time. You can playback and pause with the player below, adjusting
quality inside Settings, Playback quality.
Now let's see how to edit your media clips inside the Timeline.
To change the sequence of your media clips just click and move one through
time. To cut, copy and paste a clip, right-click on it. To rotate a clip
by 90 degrees just click on it and use the rotate button on the left.
To remove and delete a clip, use the bin button instead. You can use
CTRL+Z to undo any action if you make any mistake. Also use the Undo and
the Redo buttons at the bottom to undo and redo.
To trim visual clips in time click on the seconds display. In case of
pictures you get a slide bar you can use to change duration; in case of
videos you can choose between Smart Trim and Time Stretch.
Smart Trim is the dedicated interface used to trim and cut the video clips
through blue regions, as seen at the beginning of this video. Once you
have finished, you can use Continue Editing... to return to your main
project with the media clip edited this way.
Time Stretch edits the clip duration by changing its playback or speed
rate. Set below 100% to slow it and make it longer, or above 100% to play
it faster.
The Preview can also be used to edit the clip appearance. If you select a
clip and click on the preview, a blue rectangle appears with several nodes
on it. Click and drag it to move the clip, use its blue nodes to scale it
and drag outside the corners to rotate around the center called anchor
point, that you can place where you like.
Premiere Elements collects several tools to correct, enhance and adjust
your media clips inside Fix, Edit and Add on the right.
Click on the first button to open the Adjustments panel, showing all the
corrections available for the selected visual clip from the Timeline.
The first three adjustments, from Smart Fix to Auto Smart Tone correct the
clip automatically once you click on the Apply button.
The other adjustments provide several ready templates and automatic
corrections by using the Auto button. You can also use More to customize
each property by using the slide bars. Use the eye icon above to enable
and disable the current adjustment to check its effect on the clip.
At the bottom use Reset to reset the adjustment levels.
Each adjustment corrects a specific property of the clip appearance.
Color acts on the color clips, changing them with Hue, correcting
brightness and Lightness and color intensity with Saturation or Vibrance.
Use Lighting to correct Brightness, Contrast and Exposure level, and go
to Temperature and Tint to apply smooth color filters. Adjusted clips also
get a dedicated icon in the top left corner of their thumbnail.
In addition, you can turn on the Entire Movie button on top to apply the
adjustments on the whole video project inside the Timeline.
The second button under Fix collects the Tools, with the dedicated
options and interfaces to enhance and edit the selected media clip, such
as Smart Trim. Check these out!
The Edit section is used to apply effects and transitions on visual clips.
Inside Applied Effects you can check all the effects applied on the
selected clip or on the whole project if you enable the Entire Movie
button. By default each picture or video has two basic effects: Motion and
Opacity. Motion adjusts the clip position, scale and inclination with
Rotation; Opacity sets its transparency level.
To apply other visual effects just open the Effects panel. Here you find
all the visual effects available inside the software according to the
category chosen on top. Select the effect interested and drag and drop it
on the clip to add it. This will be listed inside the Applied Effects
panel with its name and its full set of options inside.
As you apply multiple effects, all these are applied in order, from top to
bottom. You can change their effect by clicking and dragging one up or down.
Clips with extra effects applied show an fx icon in the top left corner.
You can manage each effect by using its buttons on the right side. Use the
eye icon to enable or disable the effect; the Reset button to reset its
settings and the Bin button to remove the effect from the list.
Inside the Edit section you also have the Transitions list. These are
special effects used to introduce a clip or to end it in a cool way.
The simplest ones are the Fade In and the Fade Out transitions, increasing
or decreasing the clip opacity gradually. These can be applied from the
Opacity effect options or directly on the clip from its down arrow button.
However, these fade transitions affect just one clip per time. To apply
transitions between two clips, just drag and drop any from the Transitions
panel to the dedicated icon in between, adjusting duration and alignment.
Use the Preview to check the transition. You can change its effect by
dropping another transition on it.
To remove the transition, just open its options to use the bin button.
You can add pieces of text and music samples by dragging and dropping
these from the Add section into the Timeline. In particular you have two
categories of titles: the Classic Titles and the Motion Titles.
Classic Titles are pieces of text with animations and shapes under a
transparent background. You can import these in two possible ways.
If you drag and drop these into the Timeline, these are treated just like
the media clips we have seen so far, with the transparent background
rendered in black color.
If you select a clip and click on the plus button above, you create a
Classic Title armed to such media clip, very useful in case you create
subtitles. You can adjust its starting point and duration by clicking on
its watch icon on the left and add any fade transition on the right.
Use the Adjustments panel to manage and customize text. Under Text adjust
the font family, size, style and its distribution; under Style pick a
ready template to use; and go to Animation to apply fade in or fade out
transitions on the title. Select any from the list and go to Apply at
the bottom. Use Remove to remove the animation.
Under Shapes you can draw shapes or add other pieces of text on the same
title clip.
When the Adjustments panel is open on the title, you can use the Preview
to type in and move, scale or rotate text while holding down the CTRL key.
In respect to Classic Titles, the Motion Titles are ready templates made
by pieces of text, graphics and background with special transitions on it.
You can edit, move, scale and rotate these as seen for the Classic Titles.
Now, let's see how to save and export your project!
Go to File, Save As to save your project as a .prel file, with all its
settings, properties and effects applied.
To render and export your project into a video, go to Export & Share in
the top right corner. At the bottom, set the video name and where to save
it. On top, choose the video template: use Quick Export to render as
standard .mp4 HD video; go to Devices to pick a ready template for your
computers, TVs and Mobile, setting Resolution, Format and Quality. Choose
Disc to burn onto a disc or ISO file and go to Online to render and upload
to YouTube or Vimeo. Use Audio and Image to render just the audio part or
save a single frame or gif file from the project. To start rendering, just
go to Save.
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