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Table of Contents
Home Page
Getting started
Installation
Requirements
Install the software
Register
ReadMe file
Using resources
Using Help
PDF documentation
Customer support
Adobe Premiere Elements website
New features
What’s new
Getting started tutorial
Getting started tutorial
Create an Adobe Premiere Elements movie
Workspace
About the workspace
Workspace overview
Customizing the workspace
Examine or remove an alert
Panel overviews
About panels
Open panel menus
Tasks panel overview
Monitor panel overview
Timeline and Sceneline overview
Info panel overview
Projects
Project basics
About projects
Start a new blank project
Open a project
Locate missing files
Project settings and presets
About project settings and presets
Create or change project presets
Check your project’s settings
Undoing and saving changes
Undo changes incrementally
Undo any previous change
Save a project
Back up a project with Auto Save
Open a project saved by Auto Save
Working with scratch disks
About scratch disks
Types of scratch disks
Maximizing scratch disk performance
Set up a scratch disk
Capturing video
Getting ready to capture
What you need to capture video
Connect your camcorder to your computer
Prepare a project for video capture
About timecode
Capture video
Capture panel overview
Capture footage using device control
Capture without device control
Use scene detection
Capture to the Timeline
Converting analog video to digital video
Capture stop motion and time-lapse video
About stop-motion and time-lapse video
Set up for stop-motion or time-lapse capture
Capture stop-motion video
Stop and start a stop-motion capture
Capture time-lapse video
Delete the previous stop-motion or time-lapse frame
Preview a stop-motion or time-lapse movie
Importing and adding media
Adding files to a project
Common sources of project files
Supported file types for import
Activate a component
Add files from DVDs, still cameras, mobile phones, tapeless camcorders, and other devices
Add files from the Organizer
Add files from a hard drive
Add numbered still‑image files and compile them into a single clip
Guidelines for adding files
Set field options for imported interlaced video
Set duration for imported still images
Using files from Photoshop Elements
Sharing files between Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements
Create a new Photoshop file
Creating specialty clips
About specialty clips
Create a universal counting leader
Add color bars and a 1‑kHz tone
Create and add a black video clip
Create a colored matte for a background
Change the tone level of clips
Managing clips and source files
Manage clips in Project view
Manage clips in the Organizer
Rename clips and source files
Find an item in a project
Designate a clip frame as a poster frame
Delete media
Viewing and analyzing clip properties
See an overview of basic clip properties
View and analyze comprehensive file information
Customize List view properties
View details about effect properties
Working with aspect ratios
Understanding aspect ratios
Capturing or adding various aspect ratios
View a project’s aspect ratio
Adjust pixel aspect ratio for a still image or source clip
Use square‑pixel files in a D1 or DV project
Working with offline files
About offline files
Edit an offline file
Replace an offline file with a file on your computer
Arranging and previewing clips
Arranging basics
About arranging clips
Create a rough cut in the Project view
Arranging clips in the Sceneline
Sceneline overview
Adding clips in the Sceneline
Move a clip in the Sceneline
Delete a clip in the Sceneline
Creating a slide show or picture-in-picture
Create a slide show
Edit a slide show created in Photoshop Elements
Create a picture-in-picture overlay
Understanding the Timeline
Timeline overview
Timeline tools
Move through the Timeline
Zoom in or out of the Timeline time ruler
Arranging clips in the Timeline
Add clips to the Timeline
Overlay a clip in the Timeline
Place one clip above another in the Timeline
Select clips in the Timeline
Move a clip in the Timeline
Align clips by using the Snap option
Create a duplicate clip in the Timeline
Copy and paste clips in the Timeline
Delete a clip in the Timeline or Sceneline
Delete empty space between clips in the Timeline
View the duration of selected clips in the Timeline
Working with Timeline tracks
About Timeline tracks
Customize how clips display in the Timeline
Resize tracks
Add a track to the Timeline
Rename a track
Delete empty tracks from the Timeline
Grouping, linking, and disabling clips
Group and ungroup clips
Link video and audio clips
Synchronize linked clips
Enable and disable clips
Working with clip and timeline markers
About clip and timeline markers
Add clip and timeline markers
Use timeline markers for comments and web links in a movie
Move and delete markers
Go to a clip or timeline marker in the Timeline
Applying movie themes
About movie themes
Apply a movie theme
Previewing movies
Previewing a movie in the Monitor panel
Preview a movie
Preview in full-screen mode
Render an area for preview
Scroll the Timeline during preview
View safe zones in the Monitor panel
Preview on a TV monitor
Delete preview files
Editing clips
Trimming clips
About trimming and retrieving clips
Trim in the Preview window
Trim in the Monitor panel’s mini-timeline
Trim in the Timeline
Split clips
Changing clip speed, duration, and direction
Change a clip’s speed
Set the duration of a clip
Reverse the playback of a clip
Freezing and holding frames
Export a video frame
Hold a video frame
Play and then hold a frame (or hold and then play)
Working with source clips
Find the source of a clip
Remove In and Out points from a source clip
Edit a clip in its original application
Edit video frames in Photoshop Elements
Applying transitions
Transition basics
About transitions
Where to access transitions
Add transitions to the Favorites folder
Transition appearance in the Sceneline and Timeline
GPU-accelerated transitions
Applying transitions to clips
Apply transitions
Preview a transition before applying it
Preview an applied transition
Specify default transition
Create an Image Mask transition
Create a Gradient Wipe transition
Replace a transition
Adjusting transitions
Adjusting transition properties
Adjust transition alignment
Move a cut and transition together
Adjust transition duration
Set a default duration for transitions
Adjust the center point of a transition
Applying effects
Effects basics
About effects
Standard versus fixed effects
Use third-party effects
GPU‑accelerated effects
Finding and organizing effects
Find an effect
Add effects to the Favorites folder
Organize effect presets
Rename or delete a custom folder
Applying and removing effects
Apply and preview effects
View the effects applied to a clip
Copy and paste effects
Temporarily disable an effect in a video clip
Temporarily disable an effect in an audio clip
Remove an effect
Working with effect presets
Effect presets
Apply an effect preset
Create an effect preset
Adjusting effects
Properties view
Reorder effects
Adjust effect properties
Adjust color properties
Reset an effect to its default properties
Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
Superimposing and transparency
About superimposing and transparency
Adjust opacity
Keying effects
Create transparency with a color‑based keying effect
Create transparency with the Track Matte Key effect
Hide unwanted objects with a garbage matte
Invert or hide alpha channels
Selecting colors for effects and mattes
Select a color with the Eyedropper tool
Select a color with the Adobe Color Picker
Animating effects
Effect animation basics
About keyframes
Display and edit keyframes
Adding, copying, and removing keyframes
Add keyframes
Copy keyframes
Remove keyframes
Adjusting keyframes
Select keyframes
Specify keyframe values
Move keyframes
Controlling change between keyframes
Controlling change with interpolation
Control the rate of change with Bezier interpolation
Identify a keyframe’s interpolation method
Change a keyframe’s interpolation method
Animating a clip’s position
Animate a clip
Animate the Opacity and Volume fixed effects
Adjust a clip’s motion path
Effects
Adjust
Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Auto Levels
Brightness & Contrast
Channel Mixer
Extract
Image Control
Lighting Effects
Posterize
Shadow/Highlight
Blur and sharpen
Antialias
Fast Blur
Gaussian Blur
Ghosting
Sharpen
Channel
Invert
Distort
Bend
Corner Pin
Lens Distortion
Mirror
Polar Coordinates
Ripple
Spherize
Transform
Twirl
Wave Warp
GPU
About GPU effects
Page Curl
Refraction
Ripple (Circular)
Generate
Lens Flare
Image control
Black & White
Color Balance (HLS)
Color Balance (RGB)
Color Match
Color Pass and Color Replace
Gamma Correction
Tint
Keying
Alpha Adjust
Blue Screen Key
Chroma Key
Garbage Matte (Four‑Point, Eight‑Point, and Sixteen‑Point)
Green Screen Key
Non Red Key
Track Matte Key
NewBlue Art Effects Elements
Airbrush
Colorize
Line Drawing
Metallic
Pastel Sketch
NewBlue Film Look
Old Film
NewBlue Motion
Active Camera
Earthquake
Shear Energy
Zoom Blur
Perspective
Basic 3D
Bevel Alpha
Bevel Edges
Drop Shadow
Pixelate
Facet
Render
Lightning
Ramp
Stabilize
Stabilizer
Stylize
Alpha Glow
Color Emboss
Emboss
Find Edges
Mosaic
Noise
Replicate
Solarize
Strobe Light
Texturize
Time
Echo
Posterize Time
Transform
Camera View
Clip
Crop
Edge Feather
Horizontal Flip
Horizontal Hold
Roll
Vertical Flip
Vertical Hold
Gallery of video effects
Gallery of video effects
Audio effects
Balance
Bass
Channel Volume
Delay
DeNoiser
Dynamics
Fill Left, Fill Right
Highpass, Lowpass
Invert
Notch
PitchShifter
Reverb
Swap Channels
Treble
Volume
Creating titles
Creating and trimming titles
Superimposing titles
Create a still title
Animate a still title
Create animated, rolling, or crawling titles
Create a title from a template
Trim titles
Editing and formatting text
Select a title for editing
Wrap text automatically
Set font, style, and size
Set the spacing between text characters
Set the spacing between lines of text
Change text orientation
Change paragraph text alignment
Reflow paragraph text
Applying styles to text and graphics
About styles
Create a style
Apply a style to an object
Delete, duplicate, rename, or set a style
Adding shapes and images to titles
Create title shapes
Add images to titles
Restore an image to its original size or aspect ratio
Arranging objects in titles
Change stacking order
Center objects
Align and distribute objects
Transform objects
Adding color and shadows
Apply color to title objects
Gradient types
Create drop shadows
Designing titles for TV
Previewing titles on a TV monitor
Use Safe Title and Safe Action margins
Exporting and importing titles
Export a title file
Import a title file
Adding and mixing audio
Adding narrations and soundtracks
Create a narration
Replace or discard a narration
Add audio to the Soundtrack
Preview a Soundtrack clip
Create musical beat markers
Mixing audio and adjusting volume
About audio mixing
Adjust volume and mix audio in the Audio Mixer
Audio Meters panel overview
Adjust volume in the Timeline
Adjust the input level of a clip
Mute a clip
Fade volume in or out
Creating menus
About menus
Types of DVDs and Blu-ray discs
Understanding the DVD or Blu-ray disc creation process
About auto-play discs
Working with menu markers
Understanding menu markers
Add scene markers automatically
Add menu or scene markers manually
Find a menu or scene marker
Move or delete a menu or scene marker
Edit menu or scene marker attributes
Creating disc menus
About menu templates
Choose a disc menu template
Switch to a different menu template
Change the placement and size of menu items
Edit menu text and buttons
Specify text settings
About motion menus
Customize menu backgrounds
Animate buttons
Change from a menu‑based disc to an auto‑play disc
Previewing menus
Preview Disc panel overview
Preview a menu‑based DVD or Blu-ray disc
Sharing your movies
Sharing basics
Sharing overview
Use Quick Share
Activate a component for sharing
Supported file types for saving and exporting
Sharing to DVD or Blu-ray disc
About burning DVDs and Blu-ray discs
Guidelines for successful disc burning
Burn to a DVD or Blu-ray disc
Burn to a DVD folder
Sharing for hard disk playback
Share a movie for hard disk playback
Export a frame as a still image
Export clips as a sequence of still images
Export only audio
Sharing to the web
About sharing to the web
Share a movie to YouTube
Share a movie to your own website
Sharing to mobile phones and players
About mobile formats
Share a movie to a mobile device
Sharing to videotape
Share to videotape
Export To Tape options
Sharing to Video CDs
Video CD formats
Save to Video CD or Super Video CD
Common settings for sharing and exporting projects
Customize settings for sharing or exporting
Customize Advanced Share settings
Customize File > Export settings
Use Alternates and Audiences options
Compression and data-rate basics
About compression
About data rate
About compression keyframes
Archiving projects
About archived projects
Trim or copy a project
Keyboard shortcuts
Using default shortcuts
About keyboard shortcuts
Find the keyboard shortcut for a tool, button, or menu command
Customizing shortcuts
Create custom keyboard shortcuts
Remove shortcuts
Switch to a different set of shortcuts
Troubleshooting
Resources and guidelines
Resources for troubleshooting
Guidelines for troubleshooting
Capturing
DV camcorder goes into sleep mode
Video looks grainy, pixelated, or jumpy in the Capture panel
Camcorder isn’t identified in the Capture panel
Importing
Imported image looks cropped, stretched, or squeezed
Unable to import a file
Unable to import content from a DVD
Identify the contents of VOB files
Playing back and previewing
Playback of preview is jerky or slow
MPEG file plays back poorly, out of sync, too quickly, or without audio
Still images flicker during playback
Horizontal lines blur a video image
Creating a DVD
Burning takes longer than expected
Disc isn’t recognized by the burner
DVD plays on a computer but not on a TV
Can’t place more than one movie on a DVD
Encoding error occurs when burning to DVD
Fixing other disc-burning issues
Glossary
Find definitions for terms
Numerics
16:9
3GP
4:3
A
AC3
ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter)
AGP slot
aliasing
alpha channel
analog video
anti-aliasing
artifact
aspect ratio
audio lead
audio sample rate
AV-to-DV converter
AVI
B
bit depth
bitmap
Blu-ray
bluescreen
C
camcorder
capture
capture card
channel
chroma
chroma key
chrominance
Cinepak®
clip
codec
color bars
color correction
compositing
compression
current-time indicator
cut
D
D1
data rate
decode
deinterlace
digital video
digitize
dissolve
dithering
Dolby Digital
drop-frame
drop-out
dropped frames
DTV
DV
DV in
DV via USB
DV-to-AV converter
DVD
DVD formats
DVD markers
E
EBU timecode
encode
F
FCC
fields
final cut
FireWire
fps
frame
frame rate
frames per second
frequency
G
gamut
GPU
grayscale
H
HDTV
HDV
hue
I
i.LINK
IEEE 1394
image stabilizer
interframe compression
interlacing
interpolation
J
J-cut
JPEG
K
key
keyframes
keying
L
L-cut
letterbox
lossless
lossy
luminance
M
Machinima
markers
mask
matte
MIDI
mini-timeline
MJPEG
motion menu
MP3
MPEG
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-3
MPEG-4
N
native editing
neutral colors
noise
noise reduction
non-drop-frame
nonlinear editing
NTSC
NTSC color bars
NTSC RGB
O
offline editing
online editing
P
PAL
PCI slot
peak file
pixel
pixel shader
plug-in
podcasting
poster frame
preview files
printing to tape
project preset
Q
QuickTime (MOV)
R
raster
raw footage
real time
region coding
rendering
resolution
RGB
ripple edit
rolling edit
rough cut
S
S-Video
S/N
sample rate
saturation
scene detection
scene markers
Sceneline
scrubbing
SECAM
signal-to-noise ratio (S/N)
slide edit
slip edit
snow
source footage
spatial compression
splitscreen
square-pixel footage
still frame
storyboard
straight cut
streaming
striping
superimposing
T
temporal compression
timecode
timeline
transcoding
transforming
transition
transparency
trimming
tweening
U
uncompressed video
USB
V
vertex shader
video capture card
video format
VOB
W
WDM
widescreen
WMV
Z
zooming
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