Auto-Analyzer



Smart tags enable you to easily find footage by quality and content (such as people, and audio). Smart tagging aids you in finding the best footage while eliminating the bad footage (such as blurry, shaky, and dark). By default, Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes as a background task on all the data present in the Organize workspace. Content analysis occurs when Adobe Premiere Elements is idle or when low-priority tasks are performed. Hence it does not interfere with normal operation of the application. You can turn off Auto-Analyzer:

  1. Click Organize > Organizer to launch the Elements Organizer.

  2. Select Edit > Preferences > Auto Analyzer Options.

  3. To turn off Auto-Analyzer, deselect Analyze All Media In Catalog Automatically.

You can perform analysis from several different areas of Adobe Premiere Elements. You can analyze content during the capture process, from the Organize workspace and Elements Organizer, and while creating an InstantMovie.

While analyzing content for smart tags, Adobe Premiere Elements also performs scene detection. Scene detection separates different scenes within a clip into separate subclips based on content changes.

You can specify which quality and content categories to analyze. Many categories, such as audio and faces, have one or more layers of subcategories to choose from as well. When an abrupt visual change is detected, Adobe Premiere Elements creates a subclip.

Smart tags appear in the Smart Tags category in the Elements Organizer. You can view these tags and select them for sorting purposes, but you cannot delete or edit them. (You can delete them from individual clips.) Click the Smart Tag button in the Keyword Tags panel in Elements Organizer to view all clips that have or have not been smart tagged.

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Auto-Analyzer window

Applying smart tags during capture

  1. In the Capture panel, select Auto-Analyzer.
  2. Click the triangle next to Analyze and specify the categories for which you want to analyze and apply tags.

    When you stop capture on a portion of video, Adobe Premiere Elements automatically opens the Auto-Analyzer window and analyzes and tags the video.

Applying Smart Tags

 In the Organize workspace, select the clips you want to analyze, right-click, and select Run Auto-Analyzer .
Note: In Elements Organizer, select the clips you want to analyze, right-click, and select Run Auto-Analyzer. To access Elements Organizer, click Organize > Organizer. In the Elements Organizer Preferences window, you can specify Auto-Analyzer filters.

Applying Smart Tags while creating an InstantMovie project

When creating an InstantMovie, Auto-Analyzer is run only on those clips that have not previously been tagged with Smart Tags.

  1. Set up an InstantMovie. (See Create an InstantMovie.)

    After you choose a theme, the Theme Properties view opens.

  2. In the Theme Properties view, Select Auto-Analyzer. All the Auto-Analyzer categories are analyzed.

    Adobe Premiere Elements uses the results of Auto-Analyzer to automatically edit your clips for the InstantMovie.