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the Expert workspace inside Premiere Elements 2018!
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In our beginner tutorial for Premiere Elements, we have seen how to use the
basic workspaces, such as the Quick workspace, to realize simple customized
videos by using a storyboard view; and the Guided one, used to apply more
advanced effects following step-by-step instructions.
The Expert workspace allows you to get a professional and complete overview
on your project, showing several Video and Audio Tracks, and comes with
more effects, transitions and specific adjustments for your audio files.
In this video we are going to see the major differences between the Quick
and the Expert workspace. The basic features of Premiere Elements do not
change between the two, but in case you need to recover some, check our
beginner tutorial video through our link in the video description.
The Expert workspace shows your project through several Video and Audio
Tracks, which are quite different than the ones seen on the Quick workspace.
Video Tracks collect all the visual clips, such as images and video frames.
Whereas Audio, Voice and Music Tracks contain all audio files and sounds
from videos. By default, you have three Video and three Audio Tracks, but
you can add others by right-clicking on a Track and going to Add Tracks...
This kind of structure is called Classic View, and can have multiple visual
clips overlapping in time, which can be text, video or image clips. When
you overlap clips, the Preview shows the clips on a higher Video Track in
front of all the clips staying on lower Video Tracks in order. So when you
have any text, you have to import it into a Video Track which stays above
all the clips that should stay behind the title.
You can manage the visibility of your clips by using the Track icon on the
left side. This disables and enables the current Track, in order to make
its visual clips transparent, or its audio clips completely muted.
Another important difference is the management of the videos containing
pieces of audio. These are shown with two clips, one representing the video
frames (under a V letter) on the Video Track, and another for the sound
part (with an A letter) inside the Audio Track. These are also joined
together, so if you move the video clip, both of its frames and audio will
be moved.
You can make video frames and audio independent by right-clicking on them
and going to Unlink Audio and Video.
The timeline also has secondary view called Audio View, specialized in
audio editing and management. All Audio Tracks are enlarged and get two
additional buttons: the Record and the Solo buttons.
The Record button is used to record audio from your microphone. On the new
dialog box, set the microphone to use on top, and click on the square to
mute or unmute the output sound from your project. Then use the Record
button to start recording, and the Stop button to stop and save the result
inside an audio clip on the Audio Track interested, and also listed inside
the Project Asset panel in the top left corner, among the imported visual
and audio files.
The second button called Solo enables just the content from the current
Audio Track, muting all the others.
With the Audio View, you also get a deciBel meter on the extreme right,
which shows the volume level from all your Audio Tracks. This should never
assume red colors, or sound will get distorted. You can limit the maximum
volume level by clicking and dragging the bar at the top.
The Expert workspace offers more advanced ways to edit and adjust the clips
inside your timeline.
To stretch and shorten clips, you can click and drag their edges as seen
inside the Quick workspace, although this brings several limitations when
you edit video and sound clips. If you shorten these, you indeed cut part
of their content. In case you need to stretch, you have to stop at the
maximum duration of the clip.
To stretch and shorten clips without editing the clip content, you can act
on the playback rate of the clips. If you right-click on a clip, and go to
Clip, Time Stretch..., you can fix the speed level by clicking and typing
the percentage you see. If this is over 100%, the clip will be fastened,
and so it will be shorter in time. If it is under 100%, the clip will be
played slower, and will be longer in time.
The Expert workspace has more options to adjust the visual and audio
clip properties.
Under Fix, you can also use Color (RGB) to correct the color levels
according to the RGB (Red-Green-Blue) Color Code. Use Gamma Correction
to adjust gamma on the picture.
As for audio clips, use Treble and Bass to adjust the level of the mid and
low frequencies of the output sound, and AudioGain to balance the
several audio sources inside the clip automatically.
Inside the Expert workspace the Effects and the Transitions panels collect
much more visual effects and transitions for your picture and video frames,
and also list sound effects and transitions under the Audio section. These
are applied on audio clips and managed as seen for visual clips.
In respect to the Quick workspace the transitions are shown differently,
with an arrow icon on a light blue background, and get stretched as much
as their duration in time is. To change their length, just double-click or
click and drag their edges as you do with the clips.
Another great feature inside the Expert workspace is the envelope line
system. These lines are graphs that are shown on visual and audio clips,
representing the evolution of a chosen property in time.
Extend the Track to show the yellow envelope lines. When you select a clip,
you can click on the property above to choose the effect or the adjustment
to change in time. By default you get Motion and Opacity, but in case you
add effects and corrections, all of these will be added.
When you choose the property, the yellow line gets updated with its current
level. You can pull it up or down to change its value directly instead of
using the Applied Effects panel on the right.
Whereas, if you want a change the property in time, you have to add points
called keyframes. Keyframes are markers that save the property level on the
instant of time it is placed. In this way, you are able to shape the
envelope graph and change the property in time according to the position
and setup of each keyframe.
To add a keyframe, place the red marker in time, and then click on Add
Keyframe on the extreme left, and repeat this for each keyframe you want to
create. After this, just click and drag each one up or down to shape the
envelope line as you like.
You can further personalize the graph by right-clicking on each keyframe
and choosing the kind of curve to apply. Use Delete to remove the keyframe
instead.
Consider that you may have to remove all the keyframes from a property if
you want to come back to a static and constant effect.
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