Hello, welcome to this new tutorial dedicated to Premiere Elements, one of
the best video editors for beginners and amateurs! This is included in
the Adobe Elements bundle and it is available under a perpetual license
for both Windows and MacOS, without any subscription plan!
When opening Premiere Elements its Home Screen page opens with tips,
tutorials and useful articles. On top use the Search bar to look for a
specific topic and on the right get your latest projects made under a .prel
file format. You can also open Adobe Organizer - to collect and manage
your photos - and Photoshop Elements, to edit your photos as you like.
Click on Video Editor to start with a new project on Premiere.
Make sure to catch our video to learn more about Photoshop Elements!
If you are just starting with video editing you can begin from the Quick
workspace. This shows two options, such as trimming a video or combine
multiple media files together to make your own video. In this case browse
for images, videos and sound files to import.
Once done the main interface opens showing the main preview, several
features on the right and all the files imported at the bottom. You can
import other files by dragging and dropping these on the project. Premiere
Elements does not support any dark theme at the moment.
All visual files are placed sequentially in time without any gap. Each is
indeed a storyboard showing a useful thumbnail and its duration at the
bottom. Pictures have a default duration of 5 seconds.
Whereas audio files are collected within a dedicated row at the bottom.
You can go to Create in the top right corner to make a video in no time
by picking any template. In this video we are going to see how to make a
custom video by editing the Storyboards.
To preview your project in progress click and drag above to place the
marker and either use the player or the Spacebar key to playback.
At the bottom click on Undo-Redo to undo and redo your actions, on
Organizer to open Adobe Organizer and on Home Screen to get the previous
Home Screen page.
Click and drag any clip to move it and right-click on it to cut, copy or
paste it. Click on the clip to select it and use the buttons above to
rotate by 90 degrees; to remove black bars with Auto Reframe or remove the
clip in definitely.
To adjust the clip duration click on its seconds. On images you get a
slider you can adjust; on videos you can select between Smart Trim and
Time Stretch.
With Smart Trim you adjust the video duration by cutting part of its
content. Select what to save by extending the blue borders or creating
others with the camera button. All parts left out will be cut. Make sure
to check the result with Preview and apply all with Continue Editing...
With Time Stretch you adjust the clip duration by changing its playback
speed. Select a speed rate above 100% to make the video faster and shorter
and below 100% to make it slower and longer in time. You can also Reverse
the video playback and keep the original audio pitch.
You can also edit the current clip by clicking once on the preview. Click
and drag the clip to move it, use its nodes to scale it and drag from
outside to rotate it.
On the right you get several panels to correct and enhance the clip
appearance. Open the Adjustments panel to apply several color corrections.
With Smart Fix, Shake Reduction and Auto Smart Tone adjust brightness,
color tones and reduce video shakes automatically. Then use the other
features to enhance the clip in detail, by picking any ready template or
going to More to get precise sliders. Click on Reset to revert the
adjustment to its default setup.
With Color change color with Hue, luminance with Lightness and color
intensity with Saturation. Switch to Lighting to adjust Brightness,
Contrast and Exposure levels in detail and open Temperature and Tint to
apply amazing color filters to the clip.
Each active adjustment shows an eye icon to turn OFF-ON the effect and a
green light when its panel is closed. If you want to apply any adjustment
to the entire project make sure to enable Entire Movie on top.
Open the Tools panel to make corrections such as Pan & Zoom and Time
Remapping. We won't see these in this beginner tutorial.
Under Edit you can open the Applied Effects panel to manage all the
effects applied to the selected clip. By default videos and images show
Motion and Opacity in order to adjust the clip position, size and
inclination or set its transparency level or add fade in-out transitions.
Open the Effects panel to enhance the clip appearance by applying other
effects on the clip. Select the category on top and drag and drop any
effect. Come back to the Applied Effects panel to adjust any property
while checking the preview.
On the right side click on the eye button to disable and enable any effect;
the Reset button to return to the default properties and the bin button to
remove the effect from the list.
All these effects are applied on the entire clip unless you define any
selected region with the Draw button. Next to it select between a freehand
Pen, a circle or a rectangle and draw on the preview. With the Pen click
to fix straight segments and click and drag to define curves, closing the
region by clicking on the first node. Once the region is closed you can
see the effect applied only within it.
All these regions can be moved, reshaped and rotated with the blue nodes
on the preview.
On the right adjust the properties for each region such as feather, opacity
and expansion. You can also click on Track to move the selected region by
following any motion within it.
From the three dots button you can copy, invert or delete the region made.
With Transitions you can pick and drag visual transitions to apply between
clips, adjusting duration and placement in time. You can change the
transition effect by dragging another on it.
On Add you can import audio samples and text templates in your project!
There are two kinds of titles from the category above: the static Classic
Titles and the Motion Titles that include animation.
These text templates are imported as independent storyboards. If you want
to add text overlapping clips you can click on the T icon above and type on
the preview. You can adjust the text duration, starting point and fade
transitions as you like at the bottom.
When you select any text the Adjustment panel shows its options including
text font, style, color and distribution. Switch to Style to pick and
apply any style and to Animation to add motion when making text appear
and disappear.
With Shapes you can add shapes or other pieces of text within the same
object or storyboard. You can always manage these objects by holding down
the CTRL (or CMD) key to select the right element to move, scale and
rotate it. Double-click within any text box to type inside.
You can switch to the Guided workspace to apply advanced corrections and
effects on your videos through guided step-by-step instructions. We won't
see this in this beginner tutorial.
Open the Expert workspace to move from a storyboard project to a Timeline
view made by video and audio tracks. This allows you to get multiple videos
or images overlapped and have an immediate control on the clips duration
versus the text titles.
To learn more about the Expert workspace do not lose our dedicated video
in our channel.
To save your project go to File, Save As. This saves your current progress
in a .prel file that you can reopen any time.
To render the final video go to Export & Shape. Set the video name and where
to save it at the bottom and select any template for desktop, TV, mobile
devices or social media including YT, Vimeo, Facebook and Instagram.
Select Audio or Image to render the audio part or save the frame shown on
the preview as image.
To save the video with custom options choose Devices, Custom and go to
Advanced Settings to set file format, video resolution up to 4K, frame
rate, audio sample rate and much more. Go to Save to render your video!
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