Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

8 LESSON 1 The World of Digital Video

How Adobe Premiere Elements

fi ts into video production

All video producers are diff erent, and each will use Adobe Premiere Elements dif-

ferently. At a high level, however, all producers will use Adobe Premiere Elements

to import and organize footage (video, stills, and audio)—whether from a cam-

corder, digital camera, or other source—and then edit the clips into a cohesive

movie.

From a video perspective, such editing will include both trimming away unwanted

sections of your source clips, correcting exposure and adjusting color as needed,

and then applying transitions and special eff ects and adding titles. On the audio

front, perhaps you’ll add a narration to your productions, or a background music

track. Once your movie is complete, you may create menus for recording to DVD

and/or Blu-ray Discs, and then output the movie for sharing with others via disc

(such as DVD or Blu-ray) and/or fi le-based output.

Adobe Premiere Elements facilitates this workfl ow with a simple three-panel inter-

face with custom workspaces for each of the four production steps: clip acquisition

and organization, editing, creating disc menus, and sharing.  is chapter will intro-

duce you to the Adobe Premiere Elements interface and these four workspaces.

You undoubtedly purchased Adobe Premiere Elements to start producing movies

as soon as possible. Taking a few moments now for this overview will not only get

you up and running in Adobe Premiere Elements more quickly, it will also help you

understand how this book is organized, and where to fi nd the content that details

the operations you’ll be pursuing in future projects.

The Adobe Premiere Elements workspace

When you start Adobe Premiere Elements, a Welcome screen appears. From here,

you can choose to create an InstantMovie, open a project, or create a new project.

On the left, the Welcome screen will display the status of your Photoshop.com

Membership, and provide access to your Account Details, your Shared Gallery, and

Adobe Premiere ElementsTutorials.  e large center screen will also contain infor-

mation about tutorials available to Plus Members on Photoshop.com.

ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 7 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK 9

1 Start Adobe Premiere Elements and click the Open Project button in the

Welcome screen, then select the Open folder. If Adobe Premiere Elements is

already open, choose File > Open Project.

2 Let’s open the fi nal project in the book, to show you what you’ll be working

towards. Navigate to your Lesson12 folder and select the project fi le Lesson12_

Start.prel. Click the Open button to open your project. If a dialog appears asking

for the location of rendered fi les, click the Skip Previews button.  e Adobe

Premiere Elements work area appears, with the Organize workspace selected in

the Tasks panel. Note that your Organize workspace will probably look diff erent

than that shown in the fi gure, especially if you’ve edited with Adobe Premiere

Elements on this computer before.

BA

C

A. Monitor panel.

B. Tasks panel (Organize

workspace selected.

Note that your Organize

workspace may contain

diff erent items). C. My

Project panel (Sceneline

selected).