The following options are available in the General panel of the Export Settings dialog box (you see these when you export using the File > Export command):

File Type

Specifies the kind of file to export.

Compile Settings

These options vary depending on the file type you choose. The following advanced settings options are available for animated GIF or GIF sequences:

Dithering

Simulates colors that are not available in the web‑safe color palette used by web browsers. Dithering simulates unavailable colors by using patterns that intersperse pixels from available colors. Dithered colors may look coarse and grainy, but dithering generally improves the apparent color range and the appearance of gradations. Deselect this option to replace unavailable colors with the next closest color in the palette; this may cause abrupt color transitions.

Transparency menu

Includes the following options: None creates the movie in an opaque rectangle. Hard converts one color into a transparent area. Color specifies the color. Soft converts one color into a transparent area and softens the edges.

Looping

Specifies that an animated GIF plays continuously without stopping. Deselect this option if you want the animated GIF to play only once and then stop. This option is not available for a GIF sequence.

Range

Specifies the range of time to export. Work Area Bar exports the frame range indicated by the work area markers. If you are exporting clips from the Monitor panel and In and Out points are marked, you can select In to Out to export the marked range only.

Export Video

Exports the video tracks. Deselect to prevent exporting video tracks.

Export Audio

Exports the audio tracks. Deselect to prevent exporting audio tracks.

Add To Project When Finished

Adds the exported file to the Project view of the Task panel after exporting is complete.

Beep When Finished

Specifies that an alert sound plays when exporting is complete.

Embedding Options

Contains the following options: Project includes in the exported file the information necessary to use the Edit Original command. When a file contains this information, you can open and edit the original project from within another Adobe Premiere Elements project or from another application that supports the command. None specifies that the information is not included. This option is available only for DV and WAV formats and is on by default.

The following options are available in the Video panel of the Export Settings dialog box (you see these when you export using the File > Export command):

Compressor

Specifies the appropriate codec for your TV standard.

Color Depth

Specifies the color depth, the number of colors to include in video that you export. This menu may not be available if the selected compressor supports only one color depth.

Frame Size

Specifies the dimensions, in pixels, for video frames you export. Choose 4:3 Aspect to constrain the frame size to the 4:3 aspect ratio used by conventional TV. Some codecs support specific frame sizes. Increasing the frame size displays more detail, but uses more disk space and requires more processing during playback, which can cause poor playback on slower computers.

Frame Rate

Specifies the number of frames per second for video you export. Some codecs support a specific set of frame rates. Increasing the frame rate may produce smoother motion (depending on the original frame rates of the source clips) but uses more disk space.

Pixel Aspect Ratio

Specifies the pixel aspect ratio of the exported file. If you are exporting to DV AVI, choose any of the four D1/DV NTSC or DV PAL ratios, depending on the TV standard of your geographical region. Otherwise, choose the option that matches your source video or that conforms to your destination. For instance, because Animated GIFs will most likely be viewed on a computer screen, which displays pixels in squares, the 1.0 aspect ratio is most appropriate. When the pixel aspect ratio (displayed in parentheses) doesn’t match 1.0, the output type uses rectangular pixels, which is the case for DV AVI ratios.

Quality

Specifies the picture quality of and disk space used by exported video. If you are using the same codec to capture and export, and you’ve rendered previews of a video, you can save rendering time by matching the export quality setting with your original capture quality setting. Increasing quality above the original capture quality does not increase quality, but may result in longer rendering times.

Note: The quality slider is not available for all codecs.

Limit Data Rate To _ K/Sec

Specifies an upper limit on the amount of video data produced by the exported video when it is played back. (This option may not be available for the selected compressor.)

Note: In some codecs, quality and data rate are interrelated, so that adjusting one option automatically alters the other.

Recompress

Ensures that Adobe Premiere Elements exports a video file that is under the data rate you specified. Always compresses every frame even if it is already within the data rate. Maintain Data Rate preserves quality by compressing only the frames that are above the specified data rate. Recompressing previously compressed frames may degrade picture quality. Deselect Recompress to prevent current compression settings from being applied to clips that were not altered when you edited them into the program.

The following options are available in the General panel of the Export Settings dialog box (you see these when you export using the File > Export command):

The following options are available in the Keyframe and Rendering panel of the Export Movie Settings dialog box.

Bit Depth

Specifies a bit depth for your exported movie. Use Project Setting uses the settings specified by the project. 8‑bit forces the bit depth to 8‑bit. Maximum uses the maximum bit depth available for the selected codec.

Fields

No Fields (Progressive Scan) is the equivalent of progressive scan, the correct setting for computer display and motion‑picture film. Choose Upper Field First or Lower Field First (the default) when exporting video for an interlaced medium such as NTSC, PAL, or SECAM. DV footage is generally Lower Field First.

Deinterlace Video Footage

Deinterlaces the footage. Select this option if the video content is interlaced and you are exporting to a non-interlaced medium, such as motion‑picture film or progressive scan video. Deinterlacing can also make it easier to apply high‑quality effects in another program, such as Adobe After Effects. If the video content does not have fields, don’t select this option; instead select No Fields (Progressive Scan) from the Fields option.

Optimize Stills

Saves disk space when exporting still images. Deselect this option only if the exported video file exhibits playback problems when displaying the still images.

Keyframe Every _ Frames

Specifies the number of frames after which the codec will create a keyframe when exporting video.

Add Keyframes At Markers

Creates keyframes only where markers exist in the Timeline. For this to work, markers must exist in the Timeline.

Add Keyframes At Edits

Creates a keyframe at edit points in the Timeline.

Some codecs do not provide control over keyframes. In such codecs, the above options will not be available.

The following options are available in the Audio panel of the Export Settings dialog box (you see these when you export using the File > Export command):

Compressor

Specifies the codec for Adobe Premiere Elements to apply when compressing audio. The codecs available depend on the file type you specified in the General panel in the Export Settings dialog box. Some file types and capture cards support only uncompressed audio, which has the highest quality, but uses more disk space. Check with your capture card’s documentation before choosing an audio codec.

Sample Rate

Specifies the rate for export. Choose a higher rate for better audio quality in an exported file, or choose a lower rate to reduce processing time and disk‑space requirements. CD quality is 44.1 kHz. Resampling, setting a different rate than the original audio, also requires additional processing time. Avoid resampling by capturing audio at the final rate.

Sample Type

Specifies the bit depth for export. Choose a higher bit depth and stereo for better quality, or choose a lower bit depth and mono to reduce processing time and disk‑space requirements. CD quality is 16‑bit stereo.

Channels

Specifies how many audio channels are in the exported file. By default, stereo provides two channels of audio; mono provides one. If you choose to export a stereo track as mono, the audio will be downmixed.

Interleave

Specifies how often audio information is inserted among the video frames in the exported file. See your capture card documentation for the recommended setting. A value of 1 frame means that when a frame is played back, the audio for the duration of that frame is loaded into RAM so that it can play until the next frame appears. If the audio breaks up when playing, the interleave value may be causing the computer to process audio more frequently than it can handle. Increasing the value lets Adobe Premiere Elements store longer audio segments that need to be processed less often, although higher interleave values require more RAM. Most current hard disks operate best with 1/2‑ to 1‑second interleaves.