There are four basic methods for adding media to your projects: capturing from tape or live sources, importing files from other types of storage, adding from the Organizer, or recording from a microphone. Capturing typically involves recording video and audio directly to a hard drive from either a videotape playing in real time, or a live audio or video source. Importing typically involves copying video, audio, or still images to a hard drive location from memory cards, thumb drives, DVDs, CDs, or other hard drive locations. When you use the Organizer, you simply drag the files from the Organizer to the Timeline or Sceneline. Recording is used only for recording narrations.

When you add media files to your project, they are added to both the Project view and the Organizer view. Each file is represented by a thumbnail, called a clip. Clips, whether they contain audio, video, or still images, are the building blocks of your movies.

In the Media view, you can use the Organizer to find, add, view, and organize files for use in both Adobe Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements. In the Get Media view, various buttons let you access audio, video, and still image files from the following places:

• DVDs, CDs, digital cameras, mobile phones, hard drive camcorders, and card readers

• DV camcorders, HDV camcorders, video tapes, audio tapes, computer microphones, and webcams

• Files and folders on your hard disk

• Internet sites

• Stop motion capture from a digital camcorder or existing video clip