Streamlined workspace

FInd everything in one place

The new Tasks panel keeps everything you need to add, edit, and share your files and project in one place. Use the Edit tab to add media, or apply themes, effects, transitions, and titles to your project. Use the Create Menus tab to create menus for your DVD or Blu-ray discs. And use the Share tab to save and share your projects for viewing in a variety of formats and to a variety of media, such as online, DVD, or mobile phone. (See Tasks panel overview.)

Intuitive Timeline

The Timeline now uses a more intuitive organization: video and audio are always grouped together. When you add a new clip above another clip in the Timeline, the audio stays with the new clip. The Narration and Soundtrack tracks remain at the bottom of the Timeline.

Apply and edit transitions and effects easily

Effects now use preset properties, so when you apply an effect to a clip in the Timeline or Sceneline, you immediately see the impact of the effect—there is no need to adjust the properties yourself. If you want to adjust the properties for effects or transitions you can simply click the Edit Effect or Edit Transition button in the Tasks panel to open the Properties view of the Tasks panel and make your changes. (See Adjust effect properties and Adjusting transitions.)

Access and manage your files using the Organizer

Add files directly from the Organizer

Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements now share the Organizer. All the videos, stills, and audio files that you open in either application appear in the Organizer in both applications. You open the Organizer by clicking the Edit tab in the Tasks panel, clicking the Media button , and then clicking Organizer. You simply drag files from the Organizer view to the Timeline or Sceneline to add them to your project. (See Add files from the Organizer.)

Manage your clips in the Organizer

Use tags in the Organizer to organize your clips in categories such as people, places, and events. Each project you create is listed in the Albums section, so you can quickly and easily find all the clips used in a specific project, without having to open the project. You can also sort the Organizer by media type, or show newest or oldest first. (See Manage clips in the Organizer.)

Share your projects with the click of a button

Find all your sharing needs in the Sharing Center

The Share tab in the Tasks panel contains everything you need to share your project. When you click the output type you want, Disk, Online, Personal Computer, Mobile Phones and Players, or Tape, the Tasks panel view changes to display all the options available. The optimal settings are automatically selected in the Presets menu, so all you need to do is click Save. Advanced options are available if you want to make adjustments. (See Sharing overview.)

Save your favorite sharing settings

Use Quick Share to save and reuse your favorite or frequent sharing settings. For example, if you frequently upload your video projects to your website, and you have a particular quality and format setting that you like to use, save and name your settings as a Quick Share; then just click it in the Quick Share section to save your project using those settings. (See Use Quick Share.)

Burn your movies to Blu-ray discs

Create menus and burn your movies to HDV Blu-ray discs using the Disk option in Share tab in Adobe Premiere Elements. (See Sharing to DVD or Blu-ray disc.)

New presets for mobile phones and players

Play your video projects on a variety of mobile phones by using the new mobile phone presets. Choose from a variety of mobile phones and player options, such as Apple® iPhone, Apple iPod, Microsoft® Zune, PocketPC, and more. All export settings are preset to make optimal playback as easy as possible.

Finesse your audio with the Audio Mixer and edit to musical beats

Mix audio to get the volume and balance just right

Use the Audio Mixer to adjust the volume, balance, or both for the different audio tracks in your project. When you have multiple tracks of audio playing at once, the audio you want to hear can get lost. Using the Audio Mixer, you can adjust the volume and balance of the different audio tracks as the audio plays, so you can make sure your audience hears what you want them to hear. For example, you can lower the volume for the Soundtrack while people are talking, and increase it again when they are silent. (See About audio mixing.)

Edit to the beat of music

Click Detect Beats in the Sceneline or Timeline to automatically add markers at the beats of your musical soundtrack. Beat detection makes it easy to synchronize slide shows or video edits to your music. (See Create musical beat markers.)

Add professional touches with new themes, animations, and effects

Enhance your movies with prearranged themes

Movie themes let you quickly add pizzazz to any video project. Simply dragging a theme to the Timeline or Sceneline adds everything you need to create a polished and consistent movie. Themes can include effects, transitions, overlays, introductions, and titles. You can edit themes to suit your design needs. (See Applying movie themes.)

Jazz up titles by animating them

Use animation presets to make the text in your titles fly, zoom, fade, and pop. (See Create animated, rolling, or crawling titles.)

Explore all the fun new effects and transitions

Choose from many new effects and transitions. For example, use the new Colorize effect to create sepia-tone clips, or convert the clip to black and white, and then colorize objects using one or two specified colors. Or, use the Old Film effect to make your film look like it was shot 50 years ago. (See NewBlue Art Effects Elements NewBlue Film Look NewBlue Motion, Stabilizer, and Preview a transition before applying it.)

Facilitate editing using new tools and features

Detect scenes by content

Use the new Scene Detect By Content command to detect different scenes from an HDV video capture or from any clip in your project. Scene detection by timecode is still the default option for DV capture. (See Use scene detection.)

Use project presets for reverse field order

New presets for hard-drive-based or Flash-memory-based camcorders (such as Sony HDR SR100) that you can access from the New Project Setup dialog box let you quickly and easily set up a project for video coming from nontape camcorders or other devices that produce video with reverse field order. (See Set field options for imported interlaced video.)