Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

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The Organizer and Tagging panel

 e Organizer has two panels, the Organizer shown in the previous section, and

the Tagging panel, which you can open by double-clicking a clip in the Organizer,

or by clicking the Tagging button (

) in the Organizer. You can perform many

activities in both panels, but the Tagging panel is generally better for manually

tagging and applying Smart Tagging to clips.  e Organizer is better for fi nding

clips to include in a project. For this reason, this exercise will detail how to perform

manual and Smart Tagging in the Tagging panel, then search for clips using those

tags in the Organizer.

Let’s start with a brief description of tagging, which you perform in one or more of

three ways, via star ratings (1–5), applying keyword tags, and using Smart Tags. At

a high level, all tags allow you to more easily fi nd the clips to include in a particular

movie. For example, if you review and rate all of your clips on a scale of 1–5, you

can later search for only clips that you rated 4 or above, an easy way to fi nd high-

quality clips and eliminate poor-quality clips.

Keyword tags allow you to tag a clip by person, location, event, or other tag, with

customizable categories. For example, in this exercise, you’ll apply several keyword

tags to the clips from this project, and then search for clips containing these key-

word tags.

60 LESSON 4 Organizing Your Content

Finally, when you perform Smart Tagging on a clip, Adobe Premiere Elements ana-

lyzes the video to detect scenes based upon content; hunt for scenes with faces; and

identify scenes that are out of focus, shaky, underexposed, or overexposed. Using

this qualitative data, Adobe Premiere Elements then categorizes all clips as high-,

medium-, or low-quality.  is serves a valuable triage function that you can later

use to search for the best clips for your movie.

For example, if you shot an hour of video on your last vacation, Smart Tagging

allows you to identify medium-quality and higher clips containing faces (presum-

ably family members), and produce a movie containing only these clips. What

would literally take you hours to accomplish manually, Smart Tagging can produce

in a few moments.

Using all these tags in any combination, you can hunt for clips to manually produce

into a movie, or create an InstantMovie, which is a professional-looking edited

movie, complete with titles, soundtrack, eff ects, and transitions, that you’ll create

using a fast and simple step-by-step process.

Tagging clips in the Tagging panel

Let’s open and explore operations in the Tagging panel.

1 In the Organizer, double-click the clip LunchTime.avi. Adobe Premiere

Elements opens the Tagging panel. In this view, you can preview the clip using

the playback controls.

A I B

H C DEFG

A. Back to Grid View. B. Preview area. C. Rewind. D. Step back (left arrow key).

E. Play/Pause Toggle (spacebar). F. Step forward (right arrow key).

G. Fast-Forward H. Current-time indicator. I. Docking header.

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2 Click Play to play the video fi le, and use the playback controls to fast-forward,

rewind, and otherwise experiment with these controls.

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Note: Three keyboard shortcuts apply to all Adobe Premiere Elements preview and playback

panels: Click the spacebar to start and stop clip playback, and use the arrow keys to navigate frame

by frame forwards (right arrow) and backwards (left arrow).

3 In the upper left of the Tagging panel, click the Back to Grid View button.

Adobe Premiere Elements displays all clips currently in the Organizer in a

Browser panel.  is is the view that’s most convenient for creating and applying

keyword tags, applying Smart Tags, and creating Albums for backing up your

clips.

Browser panel

Working with star ratings

Follow these procedures to apply and delete star ratings, and to search for clips

based upon the star ratings. Ratings range from 1 (on the extreme left) to 5 (on the

extreme right).

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Note: Double-

clicking any clip in

Browser view will return

the Tagging panel to

Preview view where you

can play the clip.

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Note: You can

position the Tagging

panel anywhere on

screen by grabbing the

Docking header and

moving the panel to the

new location. You can

also resize the panel by

grabbing and dragging

any edge to the desired

size.